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Look Who Ran Away with Your Fr>ee-Will and Will-Power...
Fr>ee-will is important to us all. We've fought for it and we'd
fight for it again if we realised someone tried to take it from
us. But have you considered that your fr>ee- will is being
eroded in such a subtle way that, before you know it, you've
lost it.
Our will-power is best considered when looking at what we eat.
Eating well is vital to our wellbeing - you don't have to be
Einstein to know that. Yet many of us have given little more
consideration to what we put in our mouths, other than to think
about the explosion of flavour.
I'm going to go on here and talk about food, but you could just
as easily substitute what I say about food to what happens with
your TV set, your cigarette smoking, drinking, newspapers and
the negative stories and the business of life and do-do-doing.
For around the first twenty-two years of my life I ate what my
mother cooked for me. Beyond that I ate what my wife cooked for
me, plus what the advertisers told me was good for me. By the
time I reached the age of twenty-five I was eighty pounds
overweight. By the time I reached thirty, I'd ballooned by
another seventy pounds. Looking at the statistics of obesity,
I'd say my experience is quite typical. It all happens because
we fail to take responsibility for what goes into our mouths and
because advertisers know how to get us in a buying trance where
we ignore everything else except the feeling of their product in
our stomach. This failure to take responsibility is what
determines that live our lives according to someone elses will.
Is it any different in other areas of life: sitting mesmerised,
channel hopping, nothings on but you can't turn it off; you know
smoking is bad for you, but it makes you feel a little happier
with life; the news is disheartening, but you read it any way,
with a morbid hope that by somehow reading it, everything will
get better.
And what can you do when TV advertisers make pizza look
mouth-watering, chocolate look sexy, they tell us milk has
calcium that's good for our bones and that wine is good for the
heart. And we believe what they tell us... usually without
question.
Why?
Over a year we're bombarded with this image or that. They come
via our TV, on billboards, in magazines, via the internet. It is
little wonder that if we don't have a strong will and line drawn
in the sand, that we will eventually succumb to the power of the
advertiser. When we think of their product we remember how
delicious it looked, when we taste it we know it will taste
fantastic - because the advertiser told us it would - when we
smell it we remember it for next time.
And we then get bombarded with more adverts telling us this or
that is for us. Our will weakens and once again we succumb to
the advertiser.
It's little wonder the nation is gaining weight, under stress,
fed up and feeling like identity with our selves has been lost.
It's like we're in a trance drifting along a pavement,
remembering the tasty images we've seen on TV; remembering the
feeling in our mouth; remembering the experience of eating;
remembering the smelling the bread or the coffee as the waft of
crispy chicken wings drifts along the high street as a call to
you, to stop in, fill up and feel good.
It's like we can't help but smoke, or drink, or work because we
know we'll get sacked if we don't.
But do the processed foods that look good on TV and taste
sensational in our mouths sustain us? Do our habits or
addictions or our lifestyle make us feel good day-to-day. Are we
functioning at maximum output or left with the sense that there
must be more to life.
Reclaim your fr>ee-will. Don't just eat things because you have
always eaten them or because the TV says you should - don't
trust anyone who has a vested interest in the product. If they
are advertising the product, they're making money on it and
might not have given your overall health much thought.
And why should they?
A food manufacturing company makes food. It's your
responsibility to choose if you want to eat it or not. If you
want to feel great and look good then choose the food that goes
with that. If you want to feel sluggish and enjoy having rolls
of fat hanging over your belt then buy the food that goes with
that. It's your right to have bad breath and have smelly clothes
as much as your right to have perfect health, it's your right to
do what your told at work as it is to have respect for your
personal life.
How do you make these informed choices?
Remember every decision you make is like putting fuel inside
you. It ignites your passion or douses the fire. You wouldn't
put diesel in your unleaded fuel tank would you? Don't risk
putting fuel in your engine that might cause you to lose power.
Reclaiming your will power put the right fuel in your tank,
every time.
About the author:
CommunitySoul is where people who want to make informed choices
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not ignorance. Full up your tank with the right fuel!
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