How I lost weight through meditation

As I was standing in the checkout line at the Target with my daughter, I looked around me. There was a display behind me with donuts, in front of me shelves of mini cupcakes and iced cookies, and next to me chocolate bars and candy. "Wow, I thought, we are really setup to fail aren't we?"

In the book, What If We Get It Right? by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, there's a quote that hit me like a ton of bricks, "People in the US spend the least on food and the most on healthcare." Isn't that fascinating that most of us are consuming cheap food filled with preservatives, but then we spend a ton of money on pharmaceuticals and doctors. This has become normal in our society.

In the book, The Last Supper by Sam Kass, he says the following, "In the United States, 89 percent of the food produced by the twenty largest food companies is considered unhealthy. As a result, one in three Americans is overweight or obese, and 136 million people are either diabetic or prediabetic—almost 40 percent of our population. These health issues are not incidental: They are symptoms of a food system that prioritizes volume, convenience, and profit over nutrition and well-being."

Two things here:

1. Our food system and the corporations that produce our food are clearly messed up

2. We are also buying the food that's unhealthy for us

Humans are definitely choosing the wrong foods because they are cheaper and convenient. However, I think it's a lot deeper than that. Instead of focusing on our own mental health and wellbeing, people are turning to cheap food, pharmaceuticals, and alcohol in order to repress emotions. I believe all of this stems from our emotions and a disconnection to spirituality and our own wellbeing.

Why do I think this? The last three years as I was practicing meditation and researching spirituality, I started to become more at peace, I stopped feeling anxious, and interestingly I started to eat healthier. This was something I did not expect but happened over time. I also started to notice an aversion to beef, which was something very unexpected. Thus, I believe that as we heal our emotional traumas and focus on higher vibrational emotions like gratitude, peace, and self-love, our bodies start to crave healthier food. What's weird is that I didn't actually try to eat healthier or lose weight, it just happened.

When we start to meditate, it causes us to quiet our minds and pay more attention to details. It creates an awareness. I started to pay attention to what made me feel good and what didn't. I also noticed that foods with additives were addicting and foods without additives didn't create an addicting feeling in my brain. For example if I ate cheap chocolate I wanted more but if I ate one piece of higher quality organic chocolate, I didn't feel like I needed more.

In regards to beef, what's interesting is that I used to be a big burger and steak eater. This aversion to beef was just something that happened over time as I continued meditating. When I looked at beef at the grocery store, it started to make me nauseous. I would have fleeting thoughts of how strange it was that humans were eating other mammals. It also smelled unappetizing as well. I eventually stopped buying beef but I still eat chicken and fish. What I recently found out in my research into climate change is that the consumption of beef on our planet is responsible for 18-20% of greenhouse gas and 30% of methane emissions. Essentially, humanity is hurting ourselves with our beef consumption. I actually think that as we evolve, we naturally stop craving beef. I have a theory that this will happen to more humans in the next couple decades.

This was fascinating to me that there seemed to be a link between meditating, my emotions, what the spiritual community calls my vibration, and my food intake. Another key point is the concept of self-love. As we work on self-love and loving ourselves unconditionally, I believe that we want to feed ourselves healthy food. I've talked in prior blog posts about how I frequently met with a channeler the past couple years to hear directly from the spirit realm. During these channeling sessions, spirit guides have discussed multiple times the importance of self-love. I believe that if every human loved themselves then we would be living in a much different world. How did I start loving myself? I spoke to myself kindly and I literally told myself outloud that I loved myself unconditionally. Words and intention have energy and affect our bodies, this is a scientific fact.

As I continued meditating, I naturally lost weight over time from eating healthier foods and I stopped overeating. Because I was eating healthier foods, I also phased off caffeine overtime as well. I stopped needing the energy jolt of caffeine since I was receiving the energy I needed from healthier foods. When I looked online, I found data suggesting that there is a known connection between meditation and eating: "Mindful eating incorporates intuitive eating, to help us slow down and listen to our internal cues of true hunger versus cues of satiation, and as such, it can help us reduce or even entirely cease our emotional or binge eating." (link here).

There are multiple reasons at play here. In regards to repressing emotions, I know that during my late teens, 20s, and early 30s, I definitely used alcohol and overeating in order to repress emotions, specifically anxiety. This is definitely a learned behavior from our family members and our culture. When I was young, everyone was binge drinking on MTV and it was definitely cool. Then of course, it was totally acceptable for our grandparents and great grandparents to drink heavily. Our ancestors endured WW1, the Great Depression, and WWII and they weren't supposed to have any feelings about it.

Some will say, well these days aren't any easier with the Epstein files, Iran War, and all the UFO disclosure stuff going on. However, I believe humanity is evolving and we do have the information about spirituality, healthy eating, and wellness if we search for it. We also need to use our intuition to know what works for us and what doesn't. We are actually in an age of information overload so it's more important now than ever that we learn to quiet our mind and use our own intuition for what is right for us.

Essentially, it's not as simple as telling someone to diet and stop overeating or drinking as much. There's always a root cause to our unhealthy habits and it usually has to do with feelings of anxiety, grief, shame, guilt, not loving ourselves, or a disconnection to spirituality. In order to release these emotions we need to sit quietly with ourselves and observe our thoughts and our belief systems. Ask questions as to why do I think that, how are these thoughts serving me, why don't I love myself, etc, etc. It starts with observing our thoughts and working through our belief systems and emotions first. The second important part is reframing our thoughts to be more positive and affirming. This then starts to transform our physical body.

The other thing is that a disconnection to spirituality is a major reason why people drink too much, do drugs, or overeat. If you don't think there's a purpose to life, and you don't know why you're here, then of course short term pleasures will seem like a better option. It's almost like a "what's the point" perspective. There is a lot of evidence and information to believe in an energetic universe. Scientific studies for remote viewing, mediumship, and intention all provide evidence that consciousness does not originate in the mind. The mind is actually an antenna picking up information. Then of course there are the near death experiencers and those under hypnosis that provide consistent information about the purpose of life and the spirit realm. And last but not least the "spooky science" of quantum physics which materialist scientists can't explain. There is enough information out there on purpose of life and the existence of an energetic universe, afterlife, or spirit realm (whatever terminology you prefer).

In regards to our food system, politicians, and corporations, they are a mirror image of the collective consciousness on our planet. If we individually work on ourselves and change our own consciousness, we will see changes to our institutions. This is all part of the ascension process and evolution of the human species. We all need to work on ourselves by understanding our own emotions, learning to love ourselves, and finding peace within before we can expect our corporations and political structures to change.