Addiction, Eating and the Avoidance of the Greatness of Us

Can food and eating be an addiction?  Does is actually matter?  Is what we call something relevant?  Doesn’t it box people in?  

For me, the answer is yes and no.  What if the word “addiction” could have a totally different meaning than what you’ve been led to believe?  What if it was defined as a place people go to in order to escape this reality and not exist, rather than a compulsion etc.?

When you look at your relationship with food, do you find that you use it to escape someone or something?  Could that someone be you?

The interesting thing about avoiding you by going to a place where you don’t really exist, is that it’s all based on the false idea that there is something wrong with you. What if there was actually nothing wrong with you?  What if that “wrongness” was simply a creation of all of the judgments you have of you?

That has certainly been my experience; let me just keep eating so I don’t have to be aware of all of the judgments I have of myself and my life. Wow!  

The thing I’ve come to realize is that the issue is not just with the food but also with the judgments.  Without the judgments, I wouldn’t be so willing to stuff my face to avoid me.  So…what if all of the judgments you have of you are a lie?  What if they were just someone else’s point of view?  What if you could  actually come out of the judgments, and hence the “wrongness” of you and begin to see who you really are?  

Might that change your relationship with food?  What if you no longer needed to go to that place where you get at least temporary relief from the pain of your judgments that exist in this reality?  Would that change things for you?  You know, you may be surprised to discover that you’re not nearly as wrong as you’ve judged that you are!

I invite you to my upcoming 6 week Tele-Series:  Eating to Live Or Living to Eat? beginning July 14th.  To find out more and register click here.