by Gregg Sanderson
I am confused.
One of my favorite quotations, from Richard Bach’s Illusions, is
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.”
I see it working well in the world of New Thought, but when it comes to diet and eating habits, we seem to have forgotten that thoughts become things.
We’re all Spiritual beings, each having our own human experience as we discover that basic Truth. Whatever you believe becomes true for you and manifests in your personal reality.
To create prosperity, you focus on being prosperous, not on lack and limitation. For relationships you focus on love and harmony, not emptiness and need. A primary truth is that you create more of whatever gets your attention.
So, if you direct your attention toward lack, you get more lack. If you place your attention on your aches and pains, you get more aches and pains. You argue for your limitation and, sure enough, it’s yours.
Yet nobody thinks of that where food is concerned.
If you really believe eating sugar will kill you, you’ll end up dead.
If you really believe eating sugar WON’T kill you, you’ll end up dead.
But your taste buds will die happy.
If you really believe if you eat vegetables you’ll sit at the right hand of God, you’ll sit at the right hand of God…
If you really believe if you eat barbecue ribs, you’ll sit at the right hand of God, you’ll sit at the right hand of God.
That is, if you believe there is a God, and if It has a right hand, and if you have a tush.
I’m kidding, of course, but is it any more absurd than some arguments for limitation I’ve heard (and invented):
“Meat stays in your system for days and rots.”
“Meat stays in my system for days, and gives me a steady infusion of protein.”
Some folks are under the impression that those whose dietary habits are different from theirs are somehow more Spiritual.
Those who eschew meat are no less Spiritual than carnivores who wait in line for their Big Mac, although they usually don’t weigh as much. Same goes for the “Macaphiles” who have attached different beliefs to their culinary intake, and possibly achieve a greater variety of healing opportunities.
If you should imagine that quoting the Bible might lead you to a more Spiritual diet, consider this: When the Prodigal Son returned, they did not slay the fatted broccoli; the multitude was not fed with loaves and watercress; and the prayer doesn’t say, “Give us this day our daily carrot.”
And yet, another multitude survived 40 days and 40 nights on matzos and manna.
Personally, like the Hindu Holy Men, I don’t have to eat at all. I derive my nourishment from the Prana. I breathe in the life-giving force that surrounds me. Y’can’t get much more Spiritual than that.
I reward my Spirituality with a king-sized hot fudge sundae The moral of this story is,
“Eat what you truly believe is good for you, and a little bit of the rest, just in case you’re wrong.”
Bon appetit!
Gregg Sanderson has a rare view of the metaphysical universe. He traveled the road from Christian Science through Judaism, Agnosticism, Atheism, Living Love, Psychic Development, Spiritualism, Teaching of the Inner Christ, all the way to the International Centers for Spiritual Living where he is a licensed practitioner. He is the author of What Ever Happened To Happily Ever After? and Split Happens – Easing the Pain of Divorce. Gregg’s latest book is Spirit With A Smile — The World According to BOB (www.Transformation-Publishing.com) gregg@spiritwithasmile.com.