words of inspiration ...

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> >

> > Bob , I'm back on raw foods as of

> > yesterday - no salt and no oil either. How do you

> > guys stay on track the way you do? What drives

> you

> > to stick with it? My head needs fixed - I don't

> > seem to be feeding my brain the right thoughts so

> > that I will feed it the right foods.

> >

> > Any suggestions? My husband says, " Don't you

> have

> > enough incentive? " What can I say? I guess not

> --

> > not enough for ME. :-/

> >

> > On again/Off again,

> > Joy

> >

> > JOY--

> >

> > Congratulations! Incidentally, your question

> has

> > wide enough application that I'm sending it, along

> > with an attempt at an answer to some of our NH

> > friends ... without your permission ... thank you!

> >

> > Why are you back on raw foods?

> >

> > I think it's all BS.

> >

> > Belief System, that is. (BTW, since you

> mentioned

> > salt, my BS has recently changed & now includes

> the

> > idea that Celtic Sea Salt is a natural food, so I

> > taste it each day & eat as much as my body wants,

> > which varies from zero to a quarter tsp, averaging

> a

> > few of the coarse grains)

> >

> > When I graduated from dental school I believed

> > what I was taught: There are no causes for dental

> > disease, they just happen & I'd been trained to

> > spend my life charging people money to repair the

> > results of the two main dental diseases, caries &

> > periodontal breakdown. As long as I believed

> that,

> > I was quite comfortable fixing results with no

> > thought to causes.

> >

> > Very soon, I learned about prevention, that

> > there ARE causes & if we help people eliminate

> those

> > causes, they quit having the dental diseases &

> quit

> > needing us. Once I believed that, I could no

> longer

> > fix results without helping people understand the

> > causes & how they could prevent the results if

> they

> > chose to do so. Nothing was " driving me " to teach

> > preventive dentistry. That was the only option

> for

> > me with that BS.

> >

> > For 40 or so years before discovering Natural

> > Hygiene, my BS was that a " balanced diet "

> containing

> > the 4 food groups (burgers, shakes, pizza &

> cookies)

> > was the proper food intake for humans & nothing

> > " drove me " to eat that way. I guess it took ten

> > years to change that BS, 'cause I discovered NH

> thru

> > Tilden's " Toxemia " in 1980 & it wasn't 'til 1990

> > that I began living NH, raw, whole food, etc..

> But

> > once NH was my BS, it did not require any " driving

> > force " , it's just my only option.

> >

> > Adopting Instinctive Nutrition was much quicker.

>

> > Within a month of learning of Anopsology, Comby,

> > Burger, my BS was that Instinctive Nutrition is

> the

> > nutrition part of NH & it's now my only option.

> It

> > requires zero discipline to live that way.

> >

> > Suggestions? No, I really don't know how anyone

> > else's mind works. I'm still workin' on figuring

> > out my own. For me, once a Belief System is in

> > place, everything else follows easily.

> >

> > How to change one's Belief System? As you

> > suggest, what works for me is more information,

> > data, etc. once my conscious mind accepts an

> > apparently proven fact as truth, the subconscious

> > mind seems to adopt that idea & I unconsciously

> act

> > on the idea.

> >

> > Interesting journey.

> >

>

> >

> > To laugh often and much... to win the respect of

> > intelligent people... to earn the appreciation of

> > honest critics... to find the best in others... to

> > leave the world a little better... this is the

> > meaning of success. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

> >

> >

> > lou & bob wynman, lake tahoe

> >

> >

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