Busy keeps us so locked up in trying to "make something" out of your lives that we forget to live. We lose the essence of who YHWH created us to be. He fitted us uniquely with gifts and talents and natural abilities. Natural inclinations. As they say, look at most 5 year olds and you see the "true" person they "could" become. However, pile worldly standards of ambition and other people's standards and options of "who" you are to be and that "5 year old essence" is lost. Sometimes if you are not attune to His voice, gone forever.
I spent 35 years of my life fighting, "my life!" My design. Who I was created to be. My natural urges, whispers. I aspired for the other person's dream of my life! Made choices that I was "supposed" to make due to outside pressure and standards. Not what was organic to me. I did it spiritually, mentally, and physically. And anyone who really knows me, knows I always look to the "physical" for the "spiritual" lesson, as Elohim knows I/we need to "see" things first to understand His deeper meanings in the unseen world... so here goes.
When I was 16 years old I stopped eating red meat and pork. At the time it wasn't for any religious reason... it just made me "feel" bad. I wanted to become a vegetarian then; however, no one in my life was a vegetarian so I didn't know "how" to make it work (BTW, I wasn't blessed with the best culinary skills or affinity for it.), so learning something new was going to take work and at 16 I wasn't up for that challenge. I was also scared by my mother that I wasn't going to eat enough protein and my body would get sick and start to eat itself. Lovely image, I know but true nevertheless. So I fell into what was learned, comfortable and acceptable by my circle of friends, family and peers.
Fast forward 15 plus years... I'm a new mom trying to get her body back and I happen upon a fitness training company that trains you and supplies you with a one size fit's all "meal plan." I follow it to the letter (I'm a naturally disciplined person) and lose 35 pounds and look great. But on the inside my body is showing signs that it's not great. I develop IBS symptoms and my skin starts to breakout like I'm a teenager. Something is WRONG; however, my body looks good, so I ignore the signs and say let's start to train for a figure show! Let's do more, more, more of the same eating (body building/figure show diet) and my insides revolt. I feel horrible. And my body keeps breaking down! I'm strong but my joints just can't hold the load. I run 5 miles! My cardio is on and poppin'. I've got a runners high for 2 hours and then I CRASH for 3 days. I get sick and feel terrible. And then because that's what "society" tells me I need to do to get "fit" and look good! I do it to myself all over again! And the cycle continues...
January of 2012... the beginning of the beginning for me. Cleansed my body and started working with a doctor who understood one size does not fit all!!! Had a conversation about blood type being essential to understanding what foods should and shouldn't go into your mouth... this conversation immediately caused me to remember a book I bought when I was pregnant with my first son, Eat Right 4 Your Baby, by Dr. Peter D'Adamo. I remember really loving the book when I was pregnant and eating more of a plant based diet (even buying the "regular" Blood Type Book for my father-in-love) and then putting it up on the shelf after I gave birth. Dismissing it and falling back into comfortable habits. That one-size-fits-all way of life!
Almost 20 years ago my body was telling me what to do! Whispering to get out of my own way. Stop listening to the masses. Do what is organic. Eat mainly a plant based diet! Well, let's say I finally listened and I'm no longer a massive meat eater, pumping iron to achieve the body I want. I'm mainly a vegetarian/pescetarian (very limited dairy sources) who practices yoga 4-5 days a week, who lifts "light" weights and only WALKS briskly for her cardio exercise.
I can only imagine how wonderful and complete my life would have been had I listened to YHVH the first time at 16; however, I'm grateful for coming to this knowledge at 35. Truly my life has never felt this BALANCED in all my life! Now to listen to those WHISPERS all the time. Transfer the physical lesson to the mental and spiritual!
MUST READS:
The Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster
Eat Right 4 Your Type by Dr. Peter D'Adamo
Live Right 4 Your Type by Dr. Peter D'Adamo
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