How Convenience Culture Has Been Weaponized to Keep Us Sick & Stuck ⋆ Earth and Water

In today’s fast-paced and modern world, it’s easy to succumb to the allure of convenience. We often find ourselves reaching for the quickest and cheapest options when it comes to our meals. However, what we fail to realize is that these heavily processed foods can be detrimental to our health in the long run.

The food industry has mastered the art of marketing, making highly processed and packaged foods appear attractive and appealing. They are often filled with artificial additives, excessive amounts of sugar, unhealthy fats, and high levels of sodium. These ingredients, while providing a quick fix for our hunger, can take a toll on our bodies over time.

Consuming these convenient yet unhealthy foods regularly can lead to various health issues such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions. Our bodies require a balanced and nutritious diet to thrive and function optimally. By relying on heavily processed foods, we miss out on vital nutrients and put ourselves at risk of nutritional deficiencies.

To break free from this cycle, it’s essential to prioritize whole, unprocessed foods in our diets. Fresh fruits and vegetables, lean proteins, whole grains, and healthy fats should form the foundation of our meals. By opting for homemade meals that are prepared using natural ingredients, we can regain control of our health and well-being.

It’s important to remember that investing in our health is a long-term commitment. While it may require effort and conscious decision-making, the benefits far outweigh the temporary convenience provided by processed foods. By making informed choices about our food, we can nourish our bodies, boost our immune systems, and improve our overall quality of life.

I think we’ve all pretty well figured out by now that the standard way of living isn’t ideal in any way. We can go on 18 tangents here (and do, often, on the podcast) but the primary focus in this particular episode was food. Specifically, how the marketed convenience of our cheapest and most available “foods” are keeping us sick and stuck.

Jehan Sattaur and I discussed where we’ve landed in society and how the beautiful, healthy “farm-to-table” cuisine of local cultures is being crowded out by the industrialization of convenience foods. The reliance on which is creating more problems than it’s solving.

Beginning – 10:15

Authenticity and the difficulties in trying to decipher your own. How to navigate that. We get caught up in societal and cultural norms and accept the boxes we see around us because it’s the easy and comfortable route.

We use to have more time to sit around and think about ourselves and the world we were apart of. Conflict was more readily solved rather than pushed back and ignored.

Self sabotage and making things bigger than they really are.

There’s an excess of input from the world around us and it keeps us so focused and busy that we aren’t capable of processing our own needs, desires and what’s best for us all. Creating space in the world as it’s been given to us takes a lot of strength and focus. Strength and focus need to be cultivated, therefore we’re caught in the endless loop of overstimulation and emotional confusion.

We need the balance of yin and yang. Meditation, mindfulness and breathing techniques help.

10:15 – 15:20

We as a people had to arrive at a place where we were both ready and able to do the work required to build a better world for us all. We didn’t really understand it was even a thing before the internet became widely available.

How “the standard American diet” is spreading throughout the world, pushing the local cuisine out with convenient garbage.

The limbic system and how it records everything for repeating later. These patterns can be negative yet tricking us into believing they’re desired. These unhealthy patterns deplete our happy chemicals, causing stress, anxiety and depression.

15:20 – 19:15

We’ve become disconnected from our food, not thinking about what’s been done to it before we eat it. Food is intimate and becomes a part of us on every level. When the energy of that food is dead and toxic, we develop “disease”.

Labeling something as a disease makes it harder to rid yourself of it. Your attitude, mindset and belief system heavily influence your ability to heal. Every person is their own best doctor.

Televisions trick us into thinking that most of the world lives like what we see on them. This creates a village effect on that which we see on there and perpetuates the presented patterns.

19:15 – 37:15

The problem with affirmations.

Andrew Newberg and his studies.

Western philosophies are being pushed and Eastern practices are being suppressed. We’ve been taught to fear the herbs and not the pharmaceuticals. Naturopathic careers are heavily regulated and made difficult to comply with the laws.

How the universities are tainted by their funding. Doctors go into these schools with the best of intentions but the curriculum is biased towards the investors profits and beliefs rather than being based on science, research and the wellbeing of the people.

The best thing we could do for our health and wellbeing is focus on “farm to table” practices.

Crowding out unhealthy practices with healthy ones instead of trying to “kick the habit”.

37:15 – End

Everything is cause and effect therefore everything comes with a cost. Avoiding overwhelm by focusing on one thing at a time. You don’t need to “quit doing” the things contributing to the negative and harmful patterns you have. You need to “start doing” things that support a better, healthier and more positive pattern and that will naturally crowd out the harmful.

Changing all of the emotions that keep you where you are.

We’re too quick to cut people off. Setting boundaries through communication. Having the hard and uncomfortable conversations to find the common ground in order to cultivate these relationships.

Connect With Our Guest:

Jehan Sattaur is a CTAA accredited Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Nutrition Coach, Mindfulness Teacher and Specialist in the area of Subconscious Self Sabotage. Much of Jehan’s work focuses on removing the disempowering thoughts and beliefs from the subconscious mind which cause us to create less than favorable emotional consequences and circumstances. Jehan teaches you various ways to change internal dialogue, clear harsh memories and emotions and delete useless information from the subconscious so that you overcome self sabotage permanently.

Find me at: https://www.instagram.com/jehansattaur

E-mail: selfsabotageinfo@proton.me

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