Shawn Phillips and Ken Wilber – Fuel For Life: 10 Strategies for Nutritional Freedom

This is what makes it so special. Shawn’s approach so refreshing. For He believes that eating right starts with a basic understanding of nutrition, which enables us to feel how food affects our bodies on a psychological, emotional, and physical level. and Even Spiritual level. File Size: 38.75MB

Shawn Phillips and Ken Wilber – Fuel For Life: 10 Strategies for Nutritional Freedom

Shawn Phillips and Ken Wilber Talk about the most important:and Food is one of the most overlooked components of integral living. and nutrition. Let’s face it: it’s hard to eat right. There are many dieting trends. and There are many follies in the culture. It can be difficult for people to get straight answers on what they should do. and Do not put unnecessary calories into your body.

And yet there is a very real nutrition crisis in the world—particularly in the U.S., where 49 out of 50 states have an obesity rate exceeding 20% of the general population (stay healthy, Colorado!). Our culture has been very poor at addressing this problem. Consider, for For example, nutrition is not taught in any of the nation’s medical schools. Our population is becoming more obese. and Even worse, mainstream society continues to ignore our essential nutritional needs.

This is what makes it so special. Shawn’s approach so refreshing. For He believes that eating right starts with a basic understanding of nutrition, which enables us to feel how food affects our bodies on a psychological, emotional, and physical level. and even spiritual level. Once we have completed some groundwork to help stabilize the relationship between our eating habits and our lives, it is time to start working on our actual day.-To-day lifestyle can find much more traction—and yield much greater benefit—than ever before possible.

It might seem fascinating that Shawn Frames the issue of food and nourishment as “nutritional freedom”. But that is exactly what it is—freedom to make the very best and most informed decisions possible. Our approach to nutrition can be described as a kind of “freedom” It offers much-Needed break “diets” and Similar restrictive language. After all, integral living is not about limiting or taking anything away from our lives—quite the contrary, it’s about enhancing our lives, increasing our awareness, and maximizing our happiness. It’s about making ourselves healthy in every aspect of our lives—and To be healthy, you must have a healthy diet. and Happiness is a way of living a happy life. To a certain extent, we do. This is crazy and The only way to control a chaotic world is through what we put in it. We have complete control over what we eat. and Freedom is defined as the ability to choose. And at this time in history, we have more options than ever before—we can purchase halibut in Colorado, we can find strawberries in the middle of winter, and The local market offers a wide range of delicious foods from around the globe. When it comes down to our relationship with food, we often have fewer options than we realize. I can go to a supermarket. and I am free to put anything I want into the basket—but what I end up walking out with is subject to a countless variety of unconscious patterns, habits, and Influences, which limit my freedom to make decisions that are in my best interest, my time, and my own best interests, and It’s time to go again.

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For one, our relationship with food is extremely emotional—perhaps more so than any other relationship in our lives. Our nourishment is not only important but also very important. and Our emotional state can be influenced by food, but we also have the ability to use food to change, or even avoid, our emotions. and Our emotions are often augmented by negative feedback loops, which can keep us stuck in bad moods. and bad habits. As Shawn Too often, we live for food, rather than eating to live, as the saying goes. Our parents often reward us with cookies and candy that makes these unconscious patterns even worse. and When we were young, we often received treats that we didn’t like. This can cause a negative emotional relationship with food. Because they are often preconditioned, these conditioned responses can be extremely difficult to understand.-Verbal in their origins

Our eating habits are also influenced by cultures. Our appetites, palates, and dining customs are all dramatically influenced by the people around us—our families, our friends and neighbors, our ethnicity, our nationality, our religion, and So on. There are many interpretations of “health”, and There are many meanings-Food processing and Nutrition, all of which influence our overall relationship to food. For example, consider the reaction many in the Tea Party have had to Michelle Obama’s Healthy Food education campaign, perceiving it as an attempt to actually restrict their freedom by telling people what they should and shouldn’t eat—when of course, she is trying hard to expand our freedom by educating the population and They can make better decisions. (This would be comically ironic if it weren’t for (The epidemic of morbidity and obesity currently afflicting the United States. These cultural attitudes have a profound impact on our eating habits.-Fried Twinkie is a symbol of American nutritional freedom.

We have then the socio-economic pressures bearing down upon our daily nutrition choices—including the price of healthy vs. unhealthy food; the health and Treatment of livestock, the use of pesticides and poisons and Artificial hormones; the almost ubiquitous infusions of high fructose Corn Syrup into everything we eat; and the time constraints many people face when it comes to preparing healthy meals, especially in two.-Income families); the amazing conveniences of fast-food; the thousands upon thousands of ad impressions which are both whispered and We hear it every day: the Food Lobbies, who are tirelessly trying to tip the economic scales towards corporations like Sysco and PepsiCo. and DuPont…. There are many other companies that DuPont can be found on the Internet. and As the invisible hand continues to discover new opportunities, we can continue on. and There are many innovative ways to shovel even more and more garbage into our mouths.

Each of these dimensions—psychological, cultural, and social—are affecting our daily nutrition choices, often preventing us from getting the energy we need and Malnourishment is a major problem for millions of people and obesity. No matter what we think, our nutritional freedoms are being limited on all sides. This is where the key lies: you must have the freedom to make healthy choices. for Take care of yourself and It is better to be informed than not.

Awareness is the key to everything. Which is exactly what this dialogue has to offer—ten easy ways to increase your awareness of your relationship with food, which will dramatically increase your freedom to make healthier choices, thereby increasing your overall energy, vitality, and Well-Being in all aspects of your life.