In recent years our society became conscious of their eating habits and started to become more active to maintain their body weight. On the other hand, giving so much attention to just the physicality of the body and ignoring or avoiding the internal self conflict is resulting in the constant relapse of maintaining the body weight. In this article I want to redirect your attention to the mental conflict of the self that results in becoming overweight.
I broke down the elements that I believe are necessary to understand the amount of food consumption that an individual is taking according to one’s state of mind and emotions. These are: time, discrepancy thinking, instinct hunger, chewing, gobbling, nibbling, intellectual, dental development and eyes. Eating habits on daily bases are most often related to time, such as morning, noon and evening in terms of breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now some people think about food in terms of their health, some other just consider it as a fuel for their body and some others feel pleasure within food.
All of the above thinking leads the individual for satisfaction, this is what logically thinking individual might conclude yet, this is not all, and self dissatisfaction also has an important role to define the concept of food and the way it might be consumed. When an individual says: “I am hungry” the “I” identifies itself with hunger. It is interesting that some people feel hunger by seeing the food, this is not the hunger this is the desire and wanting to have that food. In this case the “I” is not identifying itself with hunger yet, “eyes” identifying itself with the hunger! This is not instinct hunger.
To fulfill instinct hunger the required process contains: “I” identifies itself with the hunger, teeth uses its aggression to fulfill the needed destruction of the food, taste and introjecting (swallow) the food. Our appreciation of the food has direct relation with our intellect (mental food), the ability to understand ourselves and our surroundings, and to go on with our lives.
To fulfill hunger caused by eyes, the process contains: “eyes” identify themselves with the hunger; gobbling and nibbling will be the way to take the food and destruction of food by teeth will be eliminated. In this process the individual will lose the taste, will lose digestion, will lose needed aggression for own benefit. Most often when individual is not using teeth aggression for food destruction such individual more often has conflict with expectations.
When “eyes” identify themselves with the hunger, the awareness in all perspective will be minimized drastically. “I” will remain dissatisfied always and all the time. This is how the self will look for constant feeling of satisfaction within gobbling and nibbling of the food. One of the habitual behaviour of an anxious and stressful individual is: nibbling the food when feeling anxious or stressful. This habit will give them momentary self-satisfaction which requires constant repetition of that habit for even a second of satisfaction.
Indeed, I believe in this conflict, the individual as a whole might consider the balance between physicality of the body and mental process of the mind. Just focusing on the physicality is making only the surface attraction of a built foundation. There is no doubt in my mind that noticing and valuing the physicality of the body in approach for overweight conflict will be just periodic and the individual will certainly relapse after a while. Satisfaction of the self as a whole is what I consider and the cycle of experience will not be completed without the needed satisfaction. This is how when the individual is focusing on physicality only then the cycle of experience is not completed and withdrawal will happen.
I certainly believe focusing on physicality along with the mentality of the individual is a balanced way of viewing and dealing the overweight conflict.
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