WHOLISTIC FAST DAY 18
Self Medicating
The unconscious pattern to suppress stress and emotion, generally a unwillingness to feel can stimulate the compulsion to self medicate.
Any ingested substance, habit or behaviour that causes suppression is self medicating. When it is habitual, impairing one’s ability to be responsible (able to respond freely) we have created addiction. This comes with biochemical, hormonal, and electrical impairment.
It is reasonable to say every person is working with some level of self medication. There are socially acceptable, modernly encouraged, profiteering, insidiously justified forms of self medication.
Comparing yourself to someone else and their experience can be debilitating and addictive.
To move into greater awareness, higher consciousness, we must individually address the ways in which we actively suppress our responses to life (both internally and externally).
This Wholistic Fast is about inducing awareness where consciousness change becomes possible. We cannot change what we cannot remember.
Self realization is incremental. Gradual or abrupt consciousness change continues to unfold with effort and application of principles.
Being aware of the many ways we self medicate is a humbling and can be a challenging process.
From increasing awareness we perpetuate opportunities to make more change.
Sugar, alcohol, sugar substitutes, corn and beet derived sweeteners, glucose, fructose, plus other chemically derived products that capture our palate, are added to foods en mass. Manipulation of food products, designed with full knowledge of addictive response, is practised by fast food entities around the world.
Feed the body what it requires to be vital. Reducing/removing sugars is assisted by increased probiotics. Parasites/fungi and yeasts feed on sugars. See WHOLISTIC FAST DAY 5.
Every effort made to decrease debilitating substance, while replacing it with invigorating food, results in an increased capacity to continue. As with all forms of HC, it may feel worse before getting better, yet is well worth the effort.
From How We Heal, by Douglas Morrison