LET YOUR INTUITION GUIDE YOUR NUTRITION PLAN

I decided to bring my daily meditation from my living room into the yoga studio, at which I practice. What a concept! This only works when I attend the first class of the morning aside from the very early class that actually has meditation built into the end of class. On rare occasions, I can attend this session but most of the class bolts before meditation leaving a few of us along with the teacher.

When I arrive early to class to meditate, at first I am alone. Gradually, other students begin to stroll in. The chatter begins. It doesn't take me long to tune out the babble and focus on my breath.

What is my point? If you can become still and focus inward, you can create an awareness of what truly works for you in the nutrition department. The "non- diet" and "intuitive eating" movement has helped individuals move away from "diets" to conscious eating. It would stand to reason that the concept of quieting the mind goes hand and hand with intuitive eating, in order to give you the strength and confidence to trust yourself. Studies show that people who adhered to nutrition "plan" for a length of time, made this plan "their own." They may have synthesized it from many sources, but created their own plan.

From one of my clients, "What works for me personally is my own personal blend of different approaches and coming up with my own recipe. Since each of us is unique, someone else's approach may not be the "entire" answer for us. Life is trial and error and our needs change over time. Finding a center still point in my opinion is key in determining for myself what works best for me in any given moment." This comes from an individual who meditates an hour each day-one who is striving to balance between resistance and her own discoveries along different paths.

Psychics are an industry unto their own. People don't hesitate to spend gobs of money to get their fortune told. If you listen to your own breath, you can become your own psychic. You can learn to trust yourself and follow through with your own plan.

When you follow someone else's plan and it doesn't work for you, you then blame the diet and then yourself. Diets create yet another trauma in ones life, and most people don't need to work through additional trauma. Only you know best for you.

"What do you see when you look in the mirror?
Is it a vision of yourself or someone you can't seem to recognize staring back at you?
Is your image fading into some semblance of a past Vision or is the Mirror beckoning you inside
Offering an embrace which you cannot turn from
And you cannot Refuse"

---The Vampires Kiss Reincarnate

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