Healing by Diet

[Angeleyes]

Martin,
The book, "The Choice" by Bernadette Bohan, an Irishwoman, tells her story of how she changed her diet the second time she got cancer, in an effort to improve her chances of recovering from the disease while also having medical treatment. She also tells how she no longer needed to wear her glasses and her arthritis also healed. After she healed others began to ask her how she healed and looked so well and as she showed them the word spread and she ended up giving workshops and writing two books one on her life story and the other on the programme she used successfully, giving details of where she got the things she used.
I suppose I started writing about her because I wanted to show that even if we don't know how to change ourselves, we can change our diet and that will help us improve and as we become healthier we may find it easier to do more of what we want and love. Then as I wrote I realised that by changing her diet she really made a very big change to her previous lifestyle. Anyway I hope this is of benefit to others also.
Alice

[Maria]

I would add that even if we don't know how to change ourselves, we can change just one thing and that starts the process to a whole new us.

For her it was diet, for someone else it might be work, or religion, or relationships, or location, or anything. Remember the definition of insanity.....doing the same things and expecting different results?

Thanks for the reminder Alice that external things can bring internal changes

Peace,

Maria

[Martin Brofman]

For me it was about changing my mental diet. On the food level I was eating pork sausage, pepperoni pizza, coca-cola... You get the idea.

But I was releasing thought processes that left me with stress, and activities that left me stressed, and that worked for me. Doing what made me happy and stopping what made me unhappy. Working with the economics of happiness. Looking at the investment in time I was making with various activities, and the returns of happiness or unhappiness that were the result.

[Angeleyes]

That makes so much sense, Martin. As a person who has chosen to be stressed (God, that hurts like hell to admit) I can see I still fill my day doing things that I'm not happy doing. Although I have turned down quite a few requests to do things that I had previously done out of obligation. It has been hard for me to pluck up the courage to say no, yet each time I was pleasantly surprised that the other person accepted my refusal easily and was still speaking to me calmly. So when I say no to doing what I don't want to do something wonderful always happens.
Am now trying to pluck up the courage and finances to do something that I have wanted to do for a almost 3 years now.
Alice

[Maria]

Saying "no" can be and empowering and freeing thing. As an experiment I spent the month of February this year just practicing my "nos." I told a few close friends I was doing this and they even helped me by asking me for things just so I could say no. It felt great! I found myself looking for opportunities to say no, and in the end my daughter said I got a little out of hand because I was having so much fun I started saying no even before she asked for something....ha!

What you are talking about now Alice, is saying "yes" to something you want, which for me is still a bit difficult. Especially when it requires a large expense or a major change in my daily patterns. Hmmmm...maybe I'll designate July the month of saying "yes."

Peace,

Maria