Spiritual Fitness

So, yet another post about food and health!    Hey, we eat three times a day with, say about an hour, for each meal.  That’s 3 hours out of everyday we are choosing to nurish ourselves or “weigh” ourselves down (no pun intended) and a lot of thought and focus to what we’re eating.  I think if we could only change our mindsets from “what can I eat” to “how can I FEED myself today” then there would be a significant difference of what we choose to put in our bodies!  Obviously, the later quote has an attitude of a MUCH bigger picture whereas the first is about what is “good” now. 

A while back I wrote a post called Honest Fitness.  I spoke about my accomplishments in that day with exercise but I think at this point most importantly, food.  Did you know 80% of your journey to getting healthy relies on what you eat??  I had NO idea.  Food has probably one of the biggest obsicles in my life when it comes to health.  When I was in high school I was anorexic, after I left that I gained about 80 lbs.  DRAMATIC changes with what position food played in my life.  First, I hated it, then I loved it…either way, I was obsessed with it and putting way to much emphasis toward food.  I believe both ends of these ‘food confusions’ are eating disorders.  Whether we’re obsessed with it by not eating it, or obsessed by eating too much.  We’ve always heard that saying “to much of one thing is never good…”, but the only One thing I know that’s been good to me and for me through all of this is God.  People, I have turned every direction; gone down every street; searched every corner and nothing will release you and help you know yourself more in what you are, than God.  So what is it that made food jump to drastic places in my life?  The fact is, it wasn’t the food.

We are a living physical manifestation of what is happening in our hearts and our spirits.  Find out where something deeply went wrong in your life and you will probably find an emotional root to deal with.  Mine for food?  When I was young, my dad left.  My parents got divorced, I had a pit fall with no father in my life, and I gained weight/went anorexic/gained weight again.  It sounds so typical and blaming to surfacely find something that happened in your life and link it to who you are today and what you are today – but to be honest, it has everything to do with who and what you are today.  Go back to the root, go back to the spirit, go back to God.  God will direct you in which direction to go for this point in your life (I don’t think you get to choose  )  Going back is not for blame, I believe blame is a lazy way of dealing with your problems because then you don’t have to take resposibility for them or do anything about it.  (Taking responsibility does not mean your are taking the blame (there’s that word again   ), it means you are accepting that whatever has happened, you and God can clean it up from here and move on.)  Responsibility means so more blame, just moving forward.

Hope this helps you reach the spiritual side of our health and bleeds into all of the other areas of our lives. 

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