{"id":1278,"date":"2012-01-18T01:23:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T01:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/the-imagination-healthy-eating-link\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T01:23:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T01:23:02","slug":"the-imagination-healthy-eating-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/the-imagination-healthy-eating-link\/","title":{"rendered":"How Good Imagination Leads to Healthy Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s tough to adopt a new lifestyle if you can’t at least hold it in your imagination.<\/em><\/p>\n

Unless something very unusual happened this year, a good number of us reiterated resolutions having to do with “eating better.”\u00a0 Would you like to end this year having actually taken significant steps toward a lifestyle of wholesome eating?\u00a0 Then commit to use your imagination more<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here’s the thinking behind this improbable connection:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 If something is fun, we have no trouble doing it, right?\u00a0 Think about the things you have no problem doing on a regular basis.\u00a0 Going to lunch with friends.\u00a0 Watching TV.\u00a0 Hiking.\u00a0 Spending time with the kids.\u00a0 Ordering pizza on Friday nights.\u00a0 Notice something about all these activities?\u00a0 They’re fun<\/strong>.\u00a0 And because they’re fun, they make their way into our lives pretty easily.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 So if good eating were fun, we’d have no trouble doing it regularly, right?\u00a0 Reaching that conclusion doesn’t take a very big leap of logic, but it may well test our version of reality.\u00a0 How many people really believe that good eating can be fun?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, a recent Wall Street Journal<\/em> article about online calorie trackers began this way:\u00a0 “Eating healthy can often feel like a chore.”\u00a0 The article writer cited no authority or study for that opening line.\u00a0 Presumably the chore-like nature of healthy eating is such common knowledge that it no longer requires substantiation.\u00a0 Hence the need for imagination<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We have been conditioned to believe that healthy eating is the opposite of fun–not to mention boring, tasteless and overwhelmingly difficult.\u00a0 Under these circumstances, it’s hard to believe that healthful eating can be a natural, easeful and enjoyable part of the day.\u00a0 But can you at least imagine it!<\/p>\n

Can you imagine, right now, that the world of wholesome, healthful eating is a world ripe with luscious foods, creative engagement, fun and friends?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagining doesn’t require any radical or frightful belief changes.\u00a0 Just a playful opening of your mind and heart to a new way that could open so many doors for you.<\/p>\n

So resolve this year to imagine–and see if reality begins to follow!<\/p>\n

“Your understanding will drop in as deeply as your mind is open to it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

–Byron Katie\u00a0 in Ode<\/em>, December 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s tough to adopt a new lifestyle if you can’t at least hold it in your imagination. Unless something very unusual happened this year, a good number of us reiterated resolutions having to do with “eating better.”\u00a0 Would you like to end this year having actually taken significant steps toward a lifestyle of wholesome eating?\u00a0 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}