The Psychology of Dieting - Mindset, Motivation, and Success

It’s barely six in the morning. I’m sitting in the kitchen with a cup of warm coffee, watching the day slowly brighten outside, and thinking about how many times in my life I’ve started over. A new diet, a new regimen, a new Monday. Every single time with the same naive illusion - that if I just change what’s on my plate, everything else in my life will suddenly fall into place. Now, in this silence, something very simple has become clear to me, though it took years to understand: every true change begins in the mind, not in the fridge . The problem was never the calories or a lack of information about which food is healthy. The problem lies in that deep, invisible place inside us, where the real reasons hide for why we reach for that bag of chips or the chocolate at eleven at night. When I really think about it, I rarely eat because my body is actually experiencing biological hunger. We use food as a language to try and say things we don't have words for. Looking back at my child...

The Self is the only reality

 

"The Self is the only reality that always exists, and in its light, all things are seen. We forget this and direct our attention to the external world. The hall is illuminated whether there are people in it or not, whether they are performing a play or nothing is happening. It is the light that allows us to see the hall, the people, and their performance. We are so absorbed by the objects or phenomena revealed by the light that we fail to pay attention to the light itself. Like the torches in the hall that always burn, the light of Consciousness or the Self is always present—whether in the waking state or the dream state, where things appear, or in deep sleep, where nothing is seen. What we must do is focus on the seer, not the seen, not on the objects, but on the light that reveals them."
— Ramana Maharshi.

 

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