Lies and Cleansing

It's easy to lie when our physical system is clogged and grimy. Lately I've been overindulging in junk food; don't get me wrong - there are times when licorice and chocolate and cheeseburgers and fries are the perfect food. At those times, we can and should eat to our hearts content and we won't hurt ourselves or our bodies. A problem arises when we allow ourselves to become mentally and physically clogged.

Then the same french fries that are in the right moment comforting become toxic, tripping up our whole system, sitting too heavy in our collective gut.

When we allow ourselves to become spiritually heavy, weighted down by negativity and false perceptions of other people or groups we open ourselves up to a series of "lies" about what is going on around us. We mis-perceive actions others may take and our own situation as threatening and limited. Other people are potential competitors, out to get us from every possible angle; they might use up limited physical resources like food and water, they might steal the affections of those we love away from us. Everything and everyone is perceived as a potential threat.

The extreme of living the lie of these perceptions is death. Death by definition is the cessation of movement, the repetition of conditioned habits as its own, ultimate destructive habit. It is the opposite of the ongoing life obviously around us, and it holds a sickening glamour of its own making - we can get stuck on it like a hamster in a wheel.

Recognizing the grime and grit we've let build up out of habit is the first step toward cleaning out the system - the entirety of all we are and all we can hope to become from a more nutritious diet, one based one the truth that is.