The belief factor!

Do you know about resistance?

Do you know about release?

Are you questioning every think?

How aware are you of what is going on in your own mind?

What are your belief systems?

I had a client the other day share a belief that he had. It was very interesting. Typically during a session( to Stop Smoking), I talk about the affect our daily choices have on our mind and on our overall health. I usually sum up quickly the abridged version of The Slight Edge Principle by Jeff Olsen.

How our small daily choices compound and accumulate over time to lead us to either a better place or a worse place. The difference is in the small daily choices that are both easy to make and easy not to make. A typical example I use is the choice to eat a big greasy burger and fries or choosing a salad instead.

I usually share some background about that choice. Just the basics really. About how humans are not really designed to eat meat and how it will typically rot in your body and not get digested fully. The fact that these animals are being fed chemicals and antibiotics which is what you are now eating through their flesh. The most important fact is the point that you are eating a piece of meat to get the nutrients into your body that it got into it’s body by eating plants. My thought and suggestion would be “why don’t you just eat the plant directly to get your proper nutrient rich food/fuel?” In my opinion it is like having a third person at a two person party, totally unnecessary.

My point is this. My client had very strong beliefs on this subject. When I shared with him that I am a vegetarian and started to go into the above facts. He didn’t want to hear it, it totally brought up resistance. He shared amusingly that he would be considered a beefetarian. When I brought up the facts again he started to go into defense mode. He quickly made a comment that his belief is that animals were put here to be our food and then followed it up with he wanted to focus on stopping smoking. Of course I did not push any further but told him I respected his beliefs and steered the conversation into a recap of all the things we had gone over so far that were specifically related to his goal of becoming a non-smoker.

It was a smooth session and totally successful but for me I reflect on these things afterwards. I couldn’t help but ponder what happened. It is funny because we were talking about programs and beliefs in the sub conscious and how they are the ones that actually run a persons life. It was a great example and afterwards I brought his attention to just that, a great example of a belief that is affecting his life and choices.

In a good way of course. It is not my job to judge.

Now I don’t have all the answers and am not going to pretend to. I do know that meat is not healthy for you. Yes, it can keep you alive if you happen to be starving but if you can actually choose your food why would you choose a food that, while keeping you alive for the short term, over time, compounded, is actually killing you. ( more people die in this country from fork related disease than all other ways combined)

I guess it is the same answer as to why a lot of people smoke, drink, overeat, turn to drugs and hang out in bad relationships.


This might hit home for you.

If you would like, please leave your comments!

God bless,

Gavin


P.S. - Don’t forget to check out the Slight Edge Principle, it is certainly worth it!