Emotional Junk Food Diet

It occurred to me recently that we are all raised on an emotional junk food diet. Let me explain: how many people you know were raised on pure unconditional love and joy, free of any "emotional junk food" such as blame, shame, teasing etc? Not many, right? Actually, I am not sure I know even one such person. The codes of behaviors that have been passed down generations all involved behaving a certain way to conform to these norms. Once you do that, you start loosing the innate innocence you were born with. Why do I call it emotional junk food? Because of what it does to your body. It is an addictive energy that is not for your highest and best unless used sparingly and appropriately. Anger for example, rushes energy to our arms and face, making us ready to fight the saber tooth tiger (ready to pounce on us at every street corner.) Fear rushes energy down to our legs making us ready to run away. We need to have an exchange of energy with the adults around us in order to grow and develop. Just what kind of energy we are accustomed to take in and give in return depends on the familial and societal culture we were raised in as they give us examples we then decided to take on as our own. I have seen children as young as four, punish themselves by sitting in their "time out" corner after doing something that went against what they understood as the rules of their family. The children would punish themselves much more harshly than warranted by the situation. I hear adults' unawaredly self punish by speaking about themselves "Oh, that was dumb of me" or gossiping or judging others. It is so ingrained in us from a tender age that we never think twice about doing it. We believe it is normal to judge, compare and criticize. We believe we should behave a certain way, look a certain way and eat certain foods. When we stray from these self imposed (learned or inherited) norms we punish ourselves so that we can get back in line and be acceptable again.

By doing so, we produce a chemical reaction in our bodies which is not in our best interest. Thoughts are energy. They are so real, that when we test the muscle resistance of someone, it is enough to have a few people think deprecating thoughts about that person for their muscle to go weak. Think of the havoc and depletion of energy we create in ourselves and in the ones around us when we continually reinforce that deprecating energy in ourselves.

I would like to put forth the hypothesis that we are so accustomed to these energies that we seek them and exchange them with others. Depending on the culture or family you were raised in, you are more used for example to making self deprecating jokes, being cynical, being dominating or depressed than you are to being completely loving towards yourself and others, completely accepting of what is and being in a state of wonder.

It is a bit like a little child which has been raised on empty calories, burgers, fries and coke: their little body is used to extract energy from these foods and they might get very sick if we suddenly changed their entire diet to whole organic raw leafy greens. Organic farmers know very well that you cannot convert a fruit orchard used to pesticides into an organic one from one day to the next. It needs to be done over a period of a few years, gradually weaning the trees so that they get accustomed to being without poisons, synthetic fertilizers and develop a natural resistance to bugs. Luckily we adapt faster than trees! If transforming yourself is what you are truly after, and you are willing to let go of all of what you believe you are and what you believe the world is… transformation can be easy fun and profound. There are nowadays-energetic methods, including Theta Healing, which allow you to transform deeply imbedded patterns and habits instantly. For example someone who believes "life is hard" or "the love of money is the root of all evil" would create hardship and lack. As soon as this group of patterns is transformed, life starts supporting you with grace and ease. It is always a good idea to bring along in this journey a good mentor or coach with whom you feel at ease, who will not try to impose upon you their own beliefs and will help you discover your own truth beyond your belief system.

The most important first step is to realize that you are in fact addicted to this "junk energy" diet and that you seek it. Our bodies are more used to process it than they are accustomed to process unconditional love or pure joy. So there is really nothing wrong with you if you shy away from love at first and sneak in a little self deprecating thoughts, or work yourself up in an upset. Our bodies seek the energy food that they are used to eat. If you start berating yourself for having said something nasty, you only reinforce the junk food diet you are seeking to avoid. Forgiveness goes a long way as well as developing habits of self-love and true gratitude. Little by little your body will get used to more and more of the higher frequency energy of love, forgiveness and joy and it will be easier to let go of the emotional energy junk food. As you clean up your emotional body, by the way, do not be surprised if your consumption of solid food changes as well. You will naturally start eating healthier, both on the emotional level as well as with actual foods.