Who is the most difficult person to face in your life?

It is not your parent, nor your teacher, boss or anyone else in this world. It is You.

Countless people who have tried the living foods diet reported a similar feeling of increased mental clarity, heightened meditation and spiritual experiences. Years and years after adopting this eating style, these people are still experiencing the same. Perhaps it is more than a coincidence or simply a temporary euphoric stage.

What is the one most toughest thing about doing raw foods? Some may say discipline, some say social/peer pressure, some (those who survive long enough to find out) say emotions. Many people fell back to old eating habits because going back is easier - while change is never easy.

The co-relation between raw foods and emotions is that - raw foods bares your emotions. When there are no more digestive stupors and mental fogs, what are we left with? Nothing else except the Real You.

Let me introduce the most important person in your life to you now - You, as in the Real You. Say hello, make friends with yourself, become best friends with yourself, and love yourself.

I remember when I first discovered my Best Friend ie. myself, I was in a lost and confused state. Growing up the conventional way, I had been programmed by society together with the masses, to never be at peace with myself.

Why do I say that? Look around us - education teaches us to understand financial tools, how to build impressive skyscrapers and predict economic trends. It never taught us eating grilled meat can cause cancer or food additives can cause attention deficit disorders. We never knew we are making ourselves, one another and Mother Earth so sick with our actions.

We did not learn how to understand ourselves or how to live life the fulfilling way. After we grow up, we join big corporates or aspire to belong to some prestigious institution so that we can endlessly pursue that big buck, the recognition and sense of belonging in society.

Our most common education ground became the media - which tells us to ‘buy, buy and buy more, because you are not pretty/handsome enough, not fit enough, not clever enough, etc!’

How can we be conditioned by these messages to accept and love ourselves fully? How can we be best friends with ourselves? How can we even face ourselves in the first place?

And so when a raw foods lifestyle reduces the toxic overload, lessens the digestive burden and nourishes the body with the most appropriate nutrients from Mother Nature, the body thrives and the spirit sings.

That voice is You. This tune that is coming out of your head, whether in the form of a peaceful buzz, a compassionate gesture, or a joyful dance, is the Real You.

But, this can come across as disturbing or unsettling. For me, it was plain scary. It scared me so much in the past that I fell right back to the old me, in order to gain acceptance into society again, to not be alone and to gain approval.

In other words, I did not know the real me and I could not deal with being with myself. See how a four-letter word can stop anything - ‘fear’ can literally paralyze the greatest dreams and prevent our maximum potential. Simply by inducing inertia, ie non-action.

Over the last 2 years, the journey of living foods and self discovery has been nothing short of spectacular. After taking another plunge forward again, I did not look back because every waking day is filled with gratitude - I am so grateful that I went forth in spite of fear. There are so many discoveries about life, love and joy everyday that now, it became scary not to be able to experience life this way. I absolutely cannot imagine living life any way other than now!

And the reason I am trying so hard to capture all these indescribable content on words is because, I want to reach You too. You who are reading this now, I want to make all these skills, knowledge and everything which I know, available to You! It is living foods which gave me this incredible gift and I would like You to have it too.

It is OK to be yourself, whatever you do, you look, sound or feel. No matter what you have done or not done before, said or not said before, it is alright! Nobody is perfect and everybody makes mistakes.

Whatever doubts and fears planted in us are not supposed to be here in the first place. Those could be a result of inferior conditioning, which came from other people. Other people have no business of running our lives; their responsibility is over their own.

There is no way a person can react negatively or cause hurt if he/she is in tune with the true heart and acting according to it. Deep down inside, the real You is simply pure Love.

The happiness of knowing the real you and becoming Best Friends with yourself is like an amazing never ending joy ride. For me, the trees look alive, flowers never prettier, food so much tastier and love so much deeper now. Sadness brings strong learning, anger becomes like a neighbor - who is still there but never dwelling in my house.

And soon after some time, you may become a person where negative, judgmental comments and inferior conditioning simply rolls off your back!

I now have a reply for anyone who asks me “Why are you so happy for no reason?”. My reply is “Because happiness belongs to Me and nobody nor nothing else can take it away!”

If you are happy for a reason, then something or somebody can always rob you from it. But if it is given by Yourself, then you will stay in this state, and you can share your joy among loved ones! Love, joy and laughter are dangerously contagious, try it and see.

Like what I always say - “It is All About the Food, And Then Its Not About the Food”.
When is the best time to try experiencing a life on living foods? Now!

Love and Laughter For You Today
Linda
2009 Copyright, Linda Loo

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