Your Daily Sustenance
Nov 18, 2024
Have you ever noticed that there is a ton of conflicting information about nutrition and exercise? I’m sure you have. All you have to do is listen to the latest press release or social media post or pick up one of those paper books we used to call magazines. Do they still make those?
Anyway, we live in an abundant information storm of chaos. We are bombarded with information about Everything, and Everything negates everything. Everything will kill you. Everything will heal you. Everything is part of this complete and nutritious breakfast. The only true thing about Everything is that Everything is just information. Whatever it is - truth, lies, facts, scams, fears, misinformation - it is all information that feeds us.
Wait, information feeds us?
Absolutely.
We are designed to be fed through information. Information nourishes and enriches us, or it undermines and weakens us. The human brain sifts through 11 million bits of information per second. Unconsciously, of course. With our conscious mind, we can only sift through 50 bits per second. But still, 50 bits per second, with 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour, that’s 180,000 bits of information that you can consciously sift through. That’s really impressive. But it is nowhere near the amount of information your brain can sift through in one second. The human being is AMAZING.
Anyway, our brain is an unquenchable information-guzzling machine. It is designed to feed on and sift through information constantly. And the information it consumes either bolsters the body's health or undermines its health. With the information it consumes, the brain tries to determine if the information is safe or not. In other words, does the information help the body thrive, or does the information mean the body needs to strive to survive? Should we rest and digest, or should we fight or take flight? Should we grow and express, or should we shrink and withdraw?
Information determines the course of our lives.
We cannot control the 11 million bits of information we receive each second, but we can influence it. We can also greatly influence the conscious 50 bits of information we receive, especially since we probably generate half of it. Our thoughts alone are information. The food we eat is information. How we move and what we do is information. We are responsible for a good bit of the information we are aware of, and we influence a great deal of the information we are unaware of through our choices.
Our body is an information-generating machine. It is full of sensory cells that inform the brain about everything we do and come into contact with. Every moving part of your body - every joint, muscle, and facial layer feeds your brain with information. Feed is the right word. When we move, we nourish the brain. When we don’t move, we starve the brain in a sense. After all, no information is information to an insatiable information sponge. When the brain does not detect what it is looking for, what it expects to receive, it determines that what it is looking for is either gone or no longer needed.
I guess I’m trying to say that good health results from “good” information. Living in our design - moving as we are supposed to, even eating what we are supposed to - provides “good” and “safe” information to the brain. The brain uses this information to keep the body healthy, strong, and able to thrive. Poor health is the outcome of “bad” information. Not living in our design - being sedentary or even eating man’s chemistry experiments - provides “bad” and “unsafe” information to the brain. The brain uses this information to determine what functions, tissues, organs, and systems it needs to cut back on or let go of. This outcome is a survival mode of weakness and frailty - “exist until things get better mode.”
Only they often don’t.
We are creatures of habit. Whatever we feed the brain today, we will likely feed the brain tomorrow. This is why we must be conscious of the information we generate and receive. We get comfortable in health and sickness. We live by habit or through trends. If we provide our brains with poor information, we get good at feeding on poor information. We get good at existing until things get better, but things can’t get better because we can’t overcome ourselves and our choices.
We must consciously supply and feed on “good” information if we want good health. We have to move often and on purpose daily - this is why Pressing RESET is SOOOOO good for you. Breathing, moving the eyes and head, rolling, rocking, crawling, walking - these are nutrient-rich! Speaking of nutrients, we must choose to eat foods our body was designed to eat. And we have to set our minds on hope, peace, strength, courage, and love. We need to choose how we generate and consume our information, and then we have to feed on it. If we choose well, the information we consume will be sustenance to us. It will enrich us.
If we don’t choose well, the information we consume will undermine us and eventually take our health and ability to enjoy life.
Mind what and how you consume and generate your information. Your awe-mazing brain is insatiable. Feed it well.
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