…Helps The Medicine Go Down!
This is a very familiar phrase thanks to Mary Poppins. We all want to find some kind of comfort when things go wrong, when we are facing difficult times. One of the obvious problems is that this will lead to a desire to soften life and its lessons with comfort foods that make us feel good. What happens is the need for a crutch every time something goes wrong in our lives.
The biggest problem is that we have done this conditioning generation after generation. This causes us to be angry or bitter when we fail to find the comfort we want when we think we need it. In essence, we have become a weak and needy nation and quick to anger without patience. React first, then maybe think later.
Another problem beyond the psychological one, is that if we do use a spoonful of sugar; we are now literally adding poison to our body that only comforts the taste buds and does harm to the body. We have grown up with a myriad of sweet poisons and unhealthy foods and drinks that are designed to take us momentarily out of our dilemmas and into unconscious bliss. We watch the ads, and our environment is continually bombarding us with how good we will feel with these comfort foods.
Chocolate is one of the most popular comfort foods that are physically proven to change our mental conditions and psychologically create dependency upon it because of how it acts in the brain to stimulate good feelings. Sugar is another more subtle change in our body’s need for comfort, but this is a totally different kind of need and addiction. The manufactures of sugar have now through the use of corn syrup, and sucrose in almost all food products changed our recognition of poison when we eat it. They even started to put commercials on that promote the eating of corn syrup or sucrose as a healthy part of your diet.
I could go on about the physical enslavement of sugar and other very unhealthy comfort foods, but the point in this article is that we are being tricked out of learning to rely on ourselves for our own behavior modification and our own restraint or control over our bodies. By using any of these comfort foods for comfort, we are losing the chance to learn to deal with hardships without crutches. We don’t realize how much stronger, and smarter we would become if we dealt with our troubles face on.
Also, when our problems become overwhelming we could have been motivated to seek our creator for some kind of help, but the training is not there. What a novel idea! If we would not seek comfort foods for the first escape of problems; we would actually get a lot of experience of problem solving and find methods that actually work for future reference. I found that in my life I sought to solve problems the way others did it, but not really recognizing how many of their methods failed them as well.
Repeating a failed process is such a waste of time and effort, but day in and day out we continue to use failed methods, and then seek the comfort of food to make us forget our failed problem solving. We get so repetitious in our non thinking and security in reactionary ways to deal with the problems when we don’t change our ways; we then become resigned to just continue to dig the hole deeper and deeper.
It takes new vision, new thinking, or reality and any real thinking at all in a conscious state of being to change our usual methods of choice. We need to be made aware that we are in the hamster’s wheel going nowhere fast. All my childhood was spent on the goal of getting money to buy candy, soda, and anything else that would give me that momentary comfort. There came a time when I could no longer blame my husband for all my short comings, or for all the problems my children were having. I was psychologically being pushed into a corner. I did not know what to do. I could see that all the things I used to apply to problems were not working, and it did not ever really change the outcomes.
The reason most of our children in society in general are having so many food problems and drugs, are the lack of mature role models in their lives. The lack of guidance in where or what to learn and how to be self sufficient in the areas of self restraint does not lead them to any successful outcomes. This is what was needed to build their self- esteem.
You will see self- esteem programs applied in public schools today with very little success. The TV has more influence than parents; even their peers have more influence over your children today. Being cool is more important than being healthy and being part of the “in” right groups is more important than life itself.
There aren’t any simple answers to any problems unless we are ready to look at them in a different way. The commercials on TV are geared to psychologically make the child or adult feel like they are missing something if they don’t eat what everyone else is eating, or doing and having what everyone else is doing or having.
We were collectively indoctrinated to need to belong to groups. This is due to the Social Engineering processing for more than a hundred years. China, Russia, and other dictatorial governments have been very successful using these methods. You are now seeing the end results of this type of state schools. In Japan, children and young adults commit suicide because they lose face if they fail to get the grades that move them from factory jobs to higher positioned employment.
Society in general is now totally influenced by groups; social groups, and economical groups, authoritarian groups like your experts, and government entities or agencies. We have created a weak and needy society for too many generations and now we face the future with the need to stop compulsive behaviors with pharmaceutical drugs, instead of self- restraint being taught by example. Whatever happened to prevention? Yes, we now believe that we cannot live without that spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down.
We are not really ready to look at our world without the crutch of sugar, chocolate, ice cream, or whatever else you use as the comfort foods or drugs to get you through your days and nights. I have said this before, you can be the hero in your own lives and that of your loved ones, but it only takes a bended knee for God to become your hero. He is waiting to change you and free you.
Barbara L. Gonzalez ponderland@charter.net
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