You are what you eat, it is said, but the truth might more be that you are how you eat!

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"The way one eats, defines what kind of a person he is mentally and spiritually." Peter Deunov, (1864 to 1944), the great Bulgarian philosopher said this. I have even heard it said that the way you chew your food also indicates how you are relating to life. If you eat very quickly, are you also trying to get through life, without savouring it, and enjoying its taste. Maybe you are not happy with the reality of your life, so much so, that you just want to get through it, but without stopping to really swallow, or to chew over the truth of it more, so as avoid growing your understanding of it all, as it's all too painful to bear. You do this because you might feel you are being forced to swallow a reality that you don't really like. Food enters the mouth from the world and then is transformed into energy in you to enliven the body, and also to allow a better connection to be made to the soul in a way. Not a better connection, per se, but a more better acceptably recognised one, because feeling the energy coming to you from your soul aligned with your food intake doubles its effect, so you feel full of spirit then too. Does our body and the way it is, really relate in these ways to our inner self? Is our way of eating and breathing really indicative of anything else, or not? Well, I feel that this correlation of mind, spirit, soul and body is indeed a very real one. For example, the sleepiness and tiredness that I feel right now is related to my wanting to leave life, because it has become too much for me to handle. All life and its living reveals such idiosynchronistic outer feelings, as they are often twisted tightly around certain inner states, that are either not being fully accepted, or perhaps they are being rejected entirely. You must not tie yourself up with yourself then to be free. A blocked nose restricts your breathing. When this happens to you, are you blocking something else in your life, stopping it from coming into your life, by your creating this physical barrier to the World of full life, which full breathing indicates, or is indicative of? In my own case, for example, I used to suffer terribly from asthma. Luckily, I seem to have moved past this affliction now, and it no longer affects me, at all now. I have even dropped all of my medication. I also have a crooked septum in my nose that only allows me to breathe through only the one nostril at a time. I am always being restricted from full breathing then, by this condition. Is this perhaps indicative that I have placed a barrier in place to my connecting fully with the world, or not then? I would probably answer this with a "yes", because the life we take in is indicative of the life we want to give out. I am afraid of life and full living (I have always been so, and even now, this is true of me and I am over 60 years old now!) and this is what these two conditions are, and were showing to me, even now. Some of my fear must have left me though, as my asthma has left me. Maybe, I am less afraid of myself, have more understanding, and have accepted life, and the World, a little bit more now, than which I did when I was younger. You should not allow (or try not to allow) your outer state to restrict your inner state, nor vice-versa, is what I might conclude from all of this type of thinking and contemplation, on these things. Photo Credit: The photo used here has been freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com How could the way we eat be more important than what we eat?