Intriguing Link Between Integrity And Healthy Choices
Geaorgianna Donadio, MSc, DC, PhD – Driven by personal history and ambition, successful people offer perfect examples of the potential outcome of serotonin-driven self-soothing. This invites us to ask and answer questions about self-esteem and self-care. In exploring theme, we often find that integrity and healthy choices tend to go hand-in-hand.
When we understand the relationship between our unconscious mind, our self-esteem, and the stress of looking for love “out there,” it becomes clear that what is at the core of our “super sizing” or over-eating is not solved by the diet of the month or the next how-to best seller.
Rather, what is called for is an examination of:
- Ego State
- Personal World View
- Treatment of Nature and Others
- Values
- Beliefs
- Consumption
- Accumulations
Aspects of Whole Health And Self-Awareness
When these aspects of self are aligned with choices that lead to moderation rather than ambition, that produces balance rather than extremes, which debunks the thinking that “more is better.” We then select the foods we innately know are healthy, even when we must choose from a fast food menu.
In a culture comprised of 5% of the world population, using 75% of the world’s resources, we have come to accept access as a way of life. The 1980’s Robin Leaches’ TV show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, tainted our appetites for over-consumption, which has brought us to where we are today– obese and chronically diseased.
Making Healthy Choices With Integrity
World wide, healthy cultural traditions offer us an opportunity to re-think our approach to the way we live. Folk wisdom invites us to ponder:
How much do I really need to —–
- Have?
- Eat?
- Own?
- Control?
What do I need in order to be content? And, what role does gratitude in my life is? Having a calm, well-functioning nervous system can be a main objective for all of us instead of trying to trick the body into doing what is not natural with the latest diet craze or supplement pills available.
Asking Different Questions
It may be time for us to not only change the question we ask ourselves but the questions we are asked as consumers. What if, when making food purchases, the questions were “supersize or downsize” and the choice we make could result in significant weight loss rather than weight gain?
That might put us on the road to health instead of heart disease and diabetes, which more and more research shows comes from stress and poor food choices. So, are your food choices congruent with your personal values?
