How To See How Conscious You Are Through What You Eat

Did you know that, one of the easiest way of seeing how conscious someone is, is probably through checking out what do they eat on a daily basis. Now by conscious, I mean it on a spiritual level, being synonymous to enlightened and awakened spiritually. Here is a nice article about the levels of consciousness out there which may interest you before continuing on this article.

A lot of people mistake financial achievements as the readings to measure against the level of consciousness. While to a certain extent, a very rich person is probably doing very right vibrationally, but it truly doesn't mean he is conscious. For one, when one is not fully conscious, he would not be able to duplicate the same level of success in other areas of life. And a lot of rich people have unhealthy body, broken family, bad attitude, and in general just don't seem that enlightened at all.

It is not easy to pin point that at what level of consciousness that a person may be considered as conscious, as being awaken. So for the sake of simplifications, consciousness in this article mainly refers to a person being fully aware of the cause and effects of decisions he makes, and assume full power and responsibility on every outcome the decisions produce.

So how can you see how conscious a person is just by looking at what they eat? Let's start with some obvious examples, drug addicts.

What do you see when you look at a drug addict? Why do so many people try to help them? Isn't it as simple as a personal decision to quit? Almost instantaneously you can point out that, drug addicts are far from being conscious. Day in and out, whenever the addiction kicks in, they HAVE to find the cure, they have to get a dose. But it wasn't like in the beginning. The body wasn't addicted to the drugs. But somehow these people made the decision unconsciously to inject more and more, eventually creating a problem within. And guess what, when the huge addiction kicking in, it's actually the body trying very very hard to detox all the toxins injected, but most drug addicts go against the body by injecting even more. Terrible!

But when we move a level up, smokers are in the same position, constantly drugging oneself, fully knowing the damages being done to the body, yet most choose to ignore and wither away.

And if you are thinking that, phew... you are neither. Surely you are quite conscious right? Moving one level up, I think most of the world falls under the spell of... caffeine! Yes you are probably stuck at this level too.

Caffeine, most commonly found in coffee, tea and chocolate, but also added to as many soft-drinks as possible. Why? Because caffeine, like nicotine, is actually addictive. It is never part of our natural diet, yet companies keep adding them into soft-drinks because it will cause you to be hooked onto their products, and without stopping, keep purchasing their products.

Drinks like coffee, as much as Nestle keep telling you that they contain natural anti-oxidants etc, they do more harm to your body than not drinking. For one, whatever benefits that coffee brings, it's counteracted by the very fact that it acidifies your blood stream. This is actually a very complicated theory, but in short... if your blood streams are acidic, your body would neutralize that by extracting calcium from your bone marrows. Continuously doing that would deplete the calcium of your bone marrows, and in a extended period, causing an unbalanced body that breeds all kind of diseases, most commonly cancers.

But since caffeine, like the other type of drugs, are considered as toxins, rest assured that your body tries even harder to get rid of them, which only means that the calcium in your bone marrows deplete even faster than usual, and leads to your early death fast!

I am actually tempted to put liquor in the same category as coffee, but I think it's in between the caffeine category and the next... processed food category.

Processed food, as much as the marketers tell you how healthy they are, is hardly healthy. Most nutrition are lost long before they even reach your hand. But on top of that, all the preservatives, colorings, msg, excessive salt and sugar, as well as other unhealthy additives are just plain damaging to your body. While it is easy to recognize the harm done by junk food or instant noodles; cereals, chocololate (again), canned food etc, are bad for your health too!

Moving another level up, we have meat. If you are this far up, I think you are quite enlightened already, having avoided most of the unhealthy food that can damage your body. But meat? Few people could resist. Many would argue that there are nothing quite like them out there that plants can offer. However, on the path of being more and more conscious, it is vital to stop eating meat.

One, how can you learn to be compassionate if you are eating the dead body of another animal (or often multiple animals) everyday? That if you do not eat any of them, you would be so hungry, not knowing what else to fill your tummy? Do you realize that meat is almost like an addiction sometimes, that even if one is offered other things to fill the tummy, one still always opt for meat.

Putting aside the more abstract issue of being more compassionate towards other beings, meats nowadays are overflowed with all sorts of chemicals and hormones injections. Even if they are not injected directly, rest assure that their food are almost certainly filled with meat growing enhancement, just so that the farmers can juice out more per head. They aren't really as "healthy" as they were once upon a time.

At the 2nd top of the list, we have of course, all the vegan foods. Vegetables, fruits, nuts, all the plantation produce are great. And if you opt for organic vegetables they are even better. Still, you will be a long way to the top of the list... Eating plain raw food!

Why is raw food so good actually? Raw food is good for a few reasons: 1st, in its most natural form, raw food is easiest to be absorbed by the body. 2nd, it does not pollute your blood stream, and is oil, salt and sugar free, something that humans really do not need as much as we are eating at the current rate daily. Finally, because you will be more attuned physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Imagine having a body free of all sort of toxins that other human beings constantly inject into their bodies, how would this body not glitter with joy consistently? And you will notice that Joy, is quite a high level of consciousness few has been able to attain.

Actually this article sounds a great deal like a health article, and I don't deny it. My point is actually that, if knowing how harmful things are, and you are still putting them into your body, what does that say about you?

When you claim that you are enlightened and conscious, yet drinking cups of coffee, swallowing big chunks of instant noodles on a regular basis, that alone is a good indication that perhaps... you are not really as conscious as you think you are, as you are unable to control your earthly desires from harming your own body. To decide that enjoying harmful food is more important that your ONE and ONLY possession -- your physical body, is rather ridiculous by any means.

So how do you see how conscious is a person? Just look at the level of harm he is inflicting upon himself everyday. :) People who do drugs are not the same as people who drink coffee, and are not the same as people who are vegetarians consciously, and definitely are not the same as raw foodists.

Admittedly, I too have a long journey ahead towards full raw foodist. Question now is, will you consciously decide that, enough is enough, time to treat your very ownself a little better by feeding it more nutritious food? And that will decide how conscious you will.

Enlightened people ask the question, "what nourishes me?". The rest just ask "what do I want to eat today?" Want... is a trap.

The 2 Types Of Depression

There are two types of depression. One tells you to just be patient; the other one tells you that it's time to change!

Sometimes, when we want something, and while the universe is happily aligning all the consequences leading up to our desired outcome, we get impatient. We started doubting ourselves by wondering why haven't things come? Where are they now? Is it going to happen? All these questions are actually casting your thoughts of lack into the universe, interrupting its grand design in bringing everything to you.

Thoughts of lack, will of course by law of attraction, attracts the lack of abundance. So fulfillment of your desires, an act of abundance cannot happen as long as you hold the thoughts of lack. Your negative emotions when thinking the thoughts of lack speak very clearly to you, about why you shouldn't think thoughts of lack. It's your soul telling you that "YOU ARE MESSING THINGS UP! STOP DOING IT OMG!"

On a smaller scale, you may feel a little unease. On a bigger scale, there you go... As long as you continue to delve at the thoughts of why haven't what you want come, your depression will haunt you. And it will grow larger and larger until it consumes you, and forces you to give up on what you wanted; effectively creating the situation of lack in your life.

Now on the other hand, depression also tells you that it's time to make a change. What are you unhappy about now? Your life? Your work? Your relationships? Your health? Then make a change! Make a change today!

Too many people resort to all sort of excuses just to avoid dealing with their issues heads-on. It is bad really. Most common issues are definitely work and relationships. Often, one brushes off their emotions and just move on, hoping that it will go away soon enough. Actually, it doesn't. Just that when depression becomes such a natural state for you, you stop noticing that it exists!

Change doesn't always have to be physical. Unhappy about your work? There is no need to quit it now now. If you have a house loan and a family to feed, heck the lack of money would make you even more depressed isn't it? But surely there is a some small improvement where you can implement straight away into your life right now.

Maybe it's just a change of attitude on how you approach your work, change of perception on how you perceive your work environment, colleagues, and your duties etc. Anthony Robbins suggests that, by changing the words and metaphors you use to describe something, you can effectively change how you feel about the certain subject. Give it a try. Instead of describing work as a "grilling hell", how about describing it as a "fantastic place to challenge your limit everyday"? Do you feel better now thinking every morning that, you are going to see how far you are going today! I bet you would feel all fired up instead of dreading work.

If work, or life is too mundane, too routine, sets a goal. Set a destination to look forward to. Reward yourself once you hit that goal. Let the reward itself be the destination to look forward to!

A simple goal could be, "I'm going to get through the 8-hour work today, and watch a movie tonight!" Or "I will get through this week and I shall invite some friends for a deep sea fishing weekend!" "By getting through another 3 months, I shall reward myself a new car!" Or perhaps a larger goal works better for you? "I will be the best of the best in my job and in the company. And I will be respectable through my knowledge and achievements." "I am going to score an extra sales every week, and eventually hit my weekly target of 2,000 sales. So that I can be comfortable with where I am financially." "I am going to save up $ 20,000 in 10 months, and start a new business, re-gaining my personal freedom!" etc.

It is very easy to differentiate between the two types of depression actually. Are you waiting for something that is coming in a foreseeable future? By foreseeable future I don't mean it as in 10 years or 20 years. In fact if it is anymore than 1 year I would seriously classify your depression as "the one that tells you to change now!"

Change something. Change anything! If it doesn't work, keep changing! Change the way you describe your situations, change your thoughts, change your closet, change your daily routine... It doesn't matter. Just change.

I hate to say this, but 90% of the time when you are depressed, it is probably telling you to change instead of being patient. :)