Self-preservation

Dear God/Goddess, can you help me know how to deal with my body and mind, especially when it strongly wants what it wants and I know that is not even good for the body. You would think that since the body has a self-preservation mode in it, it would be the one to want to take care of it, like eating right and exercising.

Good Morning Sweet Child, it is good to connect. That question has some complicated parts to it. You really do have programmed in you to know what foods are good for you, and a desire to get up and move. And to get the sleep the body needs. However, it is also programmed to find ways of feeling pleasure. And it does not like feeling pain. This program of finding pleasure and avoiding pain, can at times over-ride the knowledge of what is in the long term good for the body. Also, if the body has been eating a lot of things that taste good, but are not good for the body, the body starts developing a taste for them instead of the better foods.

When you are eating only healthy foods, and avoiding the high sugar, salty and fried foods, your taste buds will change. And you will start craving fruits and nuts and stuff like that. It goes the other way too, if eating a lot of sugar, you will start craving more of it. This is part of the pleasure/pain principal. It usually is up to another part of you to decide what it truly pleasurable and painful. What you really want to experience. None f it is really good or bad, but what works. Remember, the Free Will, so you are able to choose from all the options out there. Who is deciding that the temporary pain from exercising, will eventually give you pleasure later on? That could be either your mind and or your Soul. We could spend hours and hours on the subject of your mind, so for now know that your mind is a tool for you to work with, and it is not the real you. When you are wanting to change some habits that you know are not having a good effect on your health, it might be helpful to ask yourself in the moment you are about to do something that you know is not good for your body, can I get some pleasure from something else, and can I get some better benefit in the long run, if I do or not do this now.