What is More Important than Eating Right?
Did you know 87% of disease can be linked to thought life and only 13% is traceable to food, genetics and environmental influences?
While I consider myself moderately healthy, after working several years with spinal cord and brain injury patients, I realized how important it was to have a happy heart, a clean mind, right thoughts and then ….eat right.
I bared witness to life changing events, events that left people living by different means. Events that should have ended their lives, but miraculously didn’t. Some of my patients were injured and left paralyzed by car accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycling, skiing, diving and even mosquito bites.
Yes several of my patients were paralyzed from the neck down due to a mosquito bite! One of my favorite patients whom I became very close with was injured pushing a lawn mower, tripped and fell breaking her spinal cord. Pretty unbelievable, no?
While I was in the midst of tragedy, I had my most treasured laughs. You see all of these people had the heart of lions. They didn’t let their accident take over their emotions. They excepted their new life and embraced it with gratitude. Watching them, empowered me to do the same.
We put a handicap on those who do not walk like us, talk like us, see like us and think like us, yet those who we consider “normal” are the ones crippled by their emotions. They make up 98% of the population whom are taken hostage by themselves and their thoughts!
I made many lasting friendships from Hawaii to Europe. I was invited to move to Kauai with a family as well as flown to Olathe, Kansas to train a family’s new staff. It was a privilege and honor to work amongst such extraordinary human beings.
So the next time you eat right~be sure you are the 2% that is also feeding your mind and soul the nutrition it needs!
God Bless!
Brandi
Health, Marketing, Personal Growth, Raw recipes, Self Improvement |4 Responses to “What is More Important than Eating Right?”
Leave a Reply
Loading ...
 -->/images/footer.gif)
Brandi,
You are so right. Time and time again, while I was in the military serving in places that many people have never heard of, I encountered people who by American Standards, shouldn’t have even been alive.
People crushed by starvation and eating weeds and the bark from trees. People with blunt force trauma amputations, that had been self treated by wrapping dirty clothing around the stump. People who didn’t know the meaning of luxury, careers or the easy life, but did know the meaning of survival and realizing that life is a thing to be treasured.
The mind is all powerful, and knowing this, there is no reason why we should be treating our bodies as foreign objects to be abused by making them run on poison.
I said to someone not long ago (and they got very angry at me) “If you wouldn’t fill you’re dogs bowl up with Captain Crunch, because its not good for the dog, why the hell would you fill you’re own child’s breakfast bowl with it?”
If we have the luxury of being able to access and afford nutritional food, why wouldn’t we take advantage of it?
Thanks for posting,
Adam
God love you, dear heart !
“Health” and “well-being” are often mentioned in the same breath. From what you’ve said here, the well-being is more important than the mere “health”…
~ Alex from Our Evolution
It’s powerful to think about those statistics Brandi. I wouldn’t have guessed the numbers skewed so much toward our thoughts. It’s a great reminder that our health is much more than just eating right and exercising.
Thanks also for sharing about your previous encounters with people of strong faith in their mental health. These people are a real inspiration.
Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James.