A few years ago, The China Study was the talk of the town. Eat a plant-based diet, and life is good. You’re healthy, you feel great, your chances of disease decrease. Lots of data and research to validate the premise. Now we’re reading about the Paleo Diet and the Keto Diet. Protein and vegetables [Paleo] and consuming fats to burn fat [Keto], each, again, with plenty of data and research to validate the premise. Vegan, Paleo, and Keto Diets often seem confusing and contradictory!
There’s controversy and tension as people take strong positions about which nutritional and health-affirming model is ‘RIGHT.’ At one point, I found myself censored by a colleague who proclaimed a plant-based diet the One-and-Only Solution to health and well-being. I was not allowed to discuss any other way of eating to any clients referred to me by this colleague.
Food is Fuel
Who’s right about what’s right for our bodies? I know you know this, but you are the one who’s right. Your body responds to what you eat. Food is fuel. It’s your body’s energy source.
What you feed your body matters, just like what you think matters.
Now, having validated that you and your body are fully capable of deciding which health-affirming, rational nutritional approach works for you, let’s move to another topic.
Accepting and honoring choice: Vegan, Paleo, and Keto Diets
Each of us is a sovereign being, right? So we all have our own minds – conscious and unconscious – operating within us, within the unique cauldron of self. We are also informed by the energy of the collective. Whatever we believe as truth is something we hold in individuated awareness, as well as through the collective energy of everyone else who also believes what we believe. This is also applicable when we’re talking about Vegan, Paleo, and Keto Diets.
Can you accept that another’s way of eating is his or her way? That it’s not yours to judge, condemn, or praise? In reality, when we jump on the right/wrong bandwagon, we skew our energy out of neutrality and flow and into judgment and rigidity.
If you choose a plant-based diet, choose for yourself. If it works for you and your body, that’s awesome. You’ll be entering the plant-based eating collective belief system, and it will inform your awareness. There will be ‘rules’ you follow, and perhaps some rigidity in how you think about food and what you eat.
If you choose an animal protein based approach, such as the Paleo diet, and it works for you – equally fabulous! You’ll be entering the animal protein-based eating collective belief system with its rules and rigidity.
And thus it goes to reason, choosing the Keto diet will house your awareness in that belief system, and whatever rigidity and rules occur in that way of eating. Vegan, Paleo, and Keto Diets have their differences, but we all need to respect others’ choices when it comes to food.
Inner Wisdom
We all simply need to remember that we are what we eat, and then rest comfortably in our choices, right? Good. I’m glad we’ve gotten this cleared up.
So from here forward we’ll all remember that the energy of acceptance allows us to honor our own and others’ choices, trusting that each of us is capable of being guided by our inner wisdom.
We’ll remember that our experiences are perceived through the legacy of our beliefs, opinions and thoughts. We’ll recognize and acknowledge that as we opt in to a way of eating, we join a collective belief system that feels right to us, but may not be what’s right for others.
And then, we’ll remember that cultivating neutrality and acceptance allows us to make our own choices while honoring others’ choices. Vegan, Paleo, and Keto Diets are as individual as those following them, and should be treated with respect.
What a lovely chat! Thanks for reading this with an open mind.
This post originally was published on Energy Healing Institute.
As a teacher and practitioner, she enjoys dissolving limiting paradigms and shifting the beliefs and thought processes that block people from taking personal control of their healing and evolution. Jill empowers every student and client to be their own healer, to see themselves as who they really are—and to take ownership for what they are creating and manifesting.
Learn more about Jill and Energy Healing Institute at: https://energyhealinginstitute.org/about-ehi/jill-leigh/.
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