I really enjoyed the SOTT radio show this past Sunday and was very inspired by the topics discussed and questions and comments shared by callers. I was only able to catch the second hour and will be listening to the full show today.
I was triggered (in a good way) on Sunday after listening to the radio show on the Paleo diet, food and health. I want to start by saying I have over the past year gone Paleo after being vegetarian for 10 years. I have felt the personal benefits of this new way of eating. I feel more grounded, more energy, more clarity, more presence and I am less pre-occupied with food, to name a few of the 'many' benefits. I am speaking from my personal process as I am aware of the deeper benefits of eating Paleo/Ketogenic on a global, environmental and cosmic scale.
I would like to address an issue that I have not yet come across in detail on the forum, that is food and the psychology behind food/eating.
One of the questions that came up for me after listening to the radio show, when and why did the shift happen from the 'Marilyn Monore' body type (that Laura spoke of) to the 'coat hanger" body type as the desired body image in western society? It came to me that the pathological powers that be may have implemented this thin body image in the media/society with a purpose. Is it possible that this thin body image was put in place as another form of control, more specifically to control women and keep women dumbed down by being pre-consumed with a desiring and maintaining a body that for the most part makes us sick, dumb and keeps us asleep. It is not natural for most women to be a size 0. I know from experience that when I was thin, this desired body type that we see in the media and advertising, I was sick, asleep and had no energy to have a voice and speak my truth. I realize we have been brainwashed by a sixty-billion dollar a year diet industry and that it is all about power, control, greed and money. I feel it would help me to further understand how it came to be this way and history behind this shift. I would appreciate any references so I can do some research as I am not sure where to start.
I feel that I am not alone but in contrast feel very lonely out there in the Matrix. I feel especially alone when I am aware of the millions of people that don't question the pathology of the control system and the powers that be. How has this been accepted by society when it is so evident that so many people are sick with eating disorders and not fully living? I sit here and write this and know that I have been one of them and how deeply I want to work through this program so I can help others.
I just finished reading the book "Women, Food and God" by Geneen Roth.
"Food was/is my Drug of Choice," It feels sad to admit that but I know I have to be honest with myself to make the darkness conscious as I still tend to hide behind food, whether it be eating or not eating. I have struggled with Body Image issues and eating disorders ever since I can remember. It has been within the last 5-7 years that I have become conscious of these issues I struggle with. I was aware I had a problem when at 21 I went into treatment for Anorexia. But it was more that others acknowledged I had a problem than me truly letting myself feel deeply that there was something sick about how I was living my life. The great thing (sarcastic) is that I always had something to do.
Prior to being aware of these issues I believed I had 'self control' that others in my life just didn't have. I now realize that I was out of control and can see the amount of projecting I had on other people in my life. I soon discovered that the world felt like a hostile place and that I needed control. The control manifested over my body (and food) in order to feel I safe in my own little world of starvation, over-exercise and my good or bad food lists. I see now I was hiding from myself, from allowing any trauma or past hurts to surface by having obsessive thoughts about food and my body. I was also doing what I could to stay asleep and to ignore what my experience of life really felt like and what I really saw. It was all too scary at the time to admit to myself the imbalance I saw in society so I took it on internally and started to become sick myself.
Instead of using food or no food to avoid discomfort I am now trying to tolerate what I believed was intolerable. I am extremely over-identified with my body. I am looking at how I have allowed myself to be brainwashed by the media and diet industry and how deeply ingrained these programs are for me. The Matrix is powerful and a part of me wants to avoid it all together, but I can't. I know I have to face my lessons and constantly check in with who I truly am, which I intellectually and spiritually get is not my body. But I am still having obsessive thoughts, I hear them all the time. I use food at times to manage my feelings and realize it is an addiction. From my understanding addiction is a manifestation of trauma and past unprocessed pain and hurt.
I am reading Peter Levine's book, "In an Unspoken Voice" and it has been very insightful so far. A part of me becomes very scared to learn more about trauma as I see the correlation between past trauma I have experienced and that I need to look at how to release myself from the hold past trauma has on me. I see clearly that there are so many factors that come into play with eating disorders, trauma being a major player as well as what I have mentioned above. Peter Levine states in his book that the phrase, 'time heals all wounds' does not apply to trauma. I will continue to read this book as I am only 1/3 of the way through it. I know it will help me to learn how to process trauma which I hope will heal my eating disorders and body image issues. I know it's not just about food.
There is so much more I could say but I wanted to leave it at that for now...
Any insights about psychology relating to food and social programming in regards to body image are greatly appreciated.
I was triggered (in a good way) on Sunday after listening to the radio show on the Paleo diet, food and health. I want to start by saying I have over the past year gone Paleo after being vegetarian for 10 years. I have felt the personal benefits of this new way of eating. I feel more grounded, more energy, more clarity, more presence and I am less pre-occupied with food, to name a few of the 'many' benefits. I am speaking from my personal process as I am aware of the deeper benefits of eating Paleo/Ketogenic on a global, environmental and cosmic scale.
I would like to address an issue that I have not yet come across in detail on the forum, that is food and the psychology behind food/eating.
One of the questions that came up for me after listening to the radio show, when and why did the shift happen from the 'Marilyn Monore' body type (that Laura spoke of) to the 'coat hanger" body type as the desired body image in western society? It came to me that the pathological powers that be may have implemented this thin body image in the media/society with a purpose. Is it possible that this thin body image was put in place as another form of control, more specifically to control women and keep women dumbed down by being pre-consumed with a desiring and maintaining a body that for the most part makes us sick, dumb and keeps us asleep. It is not natural for most women to be a size 0. I know from experience that when I was thin, this desired body type that we see in the media and advertising, I was sick, asleep and had no energy to have a voice and speak my truth. I realize we have been brainwashed by a sixty-billion dollar a year diet industry and that it is all about power, control, greed and money. I feel it would help me to further understand how it came to be this way and history behind this shift. I would appreciate any references so I can do some research as I am not sure where to start.
I feel that I am not alone but in contrast feel very lonely out there in the Matrix. I feel especially alone when I am aware of the millions of people that don't question the pathology of the control system and the powers that be. How has this been accepted by society when it is so evident that so many people are sick with eating disorders and not fully living? I sit here and write this and know that I have been one of them and how deeply I want to work through this program so I can help others.
I just finished reading the book "Women, Food and God" by Geneen Roth.
"Food was/is my Drug of Choice," It feels sad to admit that but I know I have to be honest with myself to make the darkness conscious as I still tend to hide behind food, whether it be eating or not eating. I have struggled with Body Image issues and eating disorders ever since I can remember. It has been within the last 5-7 years that I have become conscious of these issues I struggle with. I was aware I had a problem when at 21 I went into treatment for Anorexia. But it was more that others acknowledged I had a problem than me truly letting myself feel deeply that there was something sick about how I was living my life. The great thing (sarcastic) is that I always had something to do.
"As long as you are striving and pushing hard to do something that can never be done, you know who you are: someone with a weight problem who is working hard to be thin. You don't have to feel lost or helpless because you always have a goal and that goal can never be reached." - Geneen Roth
Prior to being aware of these issues I believed I had 'self control' that others in my life just didn't have. I now realize that I was out of control and can see the amount of projecting I had on other people in my life. I soon discovered that the world felt like a hostile place and that I needed control. The control manifested over my body (and food) in order to feel I safe in my own little world of starvation, over-exercise and my good or bad food lists. I see now I was hiding from myself, from allowing any trauma or past hurts to surface by having obsessive thoughts about food and my body. I was also doing what I could to stay asleep and to ignore what my experience of life really felt like and what I really saw. It was all too scary at the time to admit to myself the imbalance I saw in society so I took it on internally and started to become sick myself.
Instead of using food or no food to avoid discomfort I am now trying to tolerate what I believed was intolerable. I am extremely over-identified with my body. I am looking at how I have allowed myself to be brainwashed by the media and diet industry and how deeply ingrained these programs are for me. The Matrix is powerful and a part of me wants to avoid it all together, but I can't. I know I have to face my lessons and constantly check in with who I truly am, which I intellectually and spiritually get is not my body. But I am still having obsessive thoughts, I hear them all the time. I use food at times to manage my feelings and realize it is an addiction. From my understanding addiction is a manifestation of trauma and past unprocessed pain and hurt.
I am reading Peter Levine's book, "In an Unspoken Voice" and it has been very insightful so far. A part of me becomes very scared to learn more about trauma as I see the correlation between past trauma I have experienced and that I need to look at how to release myself from the hold past trauma has on me. I see clearly that there are so many factors that come into play with eating disorders, trauma being a major player as well as what I have mentioned above. Peter Levine states in his book that the phrase, 'time heals all wounds' does not apply to trauma. I will continue to read this book as I am only 1/3 of the way through it. I know it will help me to learn how to process trauma which I hope will heal my eating disorders and body image issues. I know it's not just about food.
There is so much more I could say but I wanted to leave it at that for now...
Any insights about psychology relating to food and social programming in regards to body image are greatly appreciated.