From Persia to Tehr Angeles by Sharareh Kamran;KShar;

Author:Sharareh, Kamran;KShar;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 2013-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Study Your Eating Habits, Study Yourself

It isn’t only about food: you need to study everything about yourself. Yet if you study your eating habits, you will learn so much about yourself that can translate into various areas of your life. Studying your eating habits will help you become familiar with the way your body reacts to different foods and to different actions. You will learn what to eat, how to eat, when to eat—and when to stop. For instance, you will learn the size of your stomach when you know how many bites it takes you to be full. Then you know how much to consume, and that will be your limit of eating—your limit in that part of your life.

It’s the same with everything else. You can study your anger, for example, and learn at what point you will reach its height. Then you can learn to stop under that point. That will be the length to which you can drive your emotion. Then you will be in control.

Instead of trying so hard to control each other, we should start controlling ourselves—controlling what we eat, controlling what we think, and controlling our own feelings.

For instance, there’s nothing wrong with being stingy, being jealous, and so on. Nobody’s perfect; that’s part of who we are. Most of our problem in life is that we try so hard not to be what the community tells us we shouldn’t be—for example, we are told, “being stingy is bad.” So if someone tells you that you’re stingy, you get defensive and start to say, “No, I’m not.”

But you can use the energy of trying to push that thought away, and instead ask yourself, “Okay, I’m stingy, but what can I do to overcome this?”

At the same time, everything is relative. Someone who I think is stingy may seem very generous to somebody else. So you cannot believe what people tell you. You have to believe in yourself. You have to know who you are.

So if I tell you, “You have an anger problem,” don’t get mad—go out and study yourself. See if you need some anger management. Just because I tell you who I think you are, that doesn’t mean that’s actually who you are. You are who you want to be.

And if you accept and appreciate that, and give all your energy to moving yourself to where you need to be, then over time you will find out where you are happier. If you start from the place of, say, anger, and you want to study, “What makes me reach the height of my anger?” then you can grow. Then you also have a choice about when to stop: “At what point do I not want to go any further?” If you don’t study that, then you go all the way; and the next time, you go further and further.

So to bring this back to eating: maybe it takes you 10 bites to get full. But if you don’t watch it, you eat 11 bites.

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