For many years my breakfast consisted of a Venti Bar Drink from Starbucks like so many Americans. I love Starbucks as much as anyone but these days I get a tall drip and that's about it. First and foremost your health and the quality of your living being and ends with what you think and what you put in your mouth. Things accumulatively affect you over time. You might feel fine after Starbucks but slowly the caffeine and the sugar begin to make your body a nervous mess filled with toxins. It's not just Starbucks it's the fallacy you don't need breakfast. We've all heard it's the most important meal of the day.
If you look at the world's most successful people most likely they have nutrition and doctors who prepare their menus and what they eat. If you feel good 90% of the time and are happy with your life and are filled with joy then you don't need to worry about anything. Nutrition plays a large role in success and I can speak from personal experience when trauma occurs you will survive and prosper much better when you take care of yourself. When I speak of trauma that can mean anything for the purpose of this blog I'll relate it to 9-11 and the .Com days when I and many others lost their jobs and businesses from the down fallen economy.
If you're thinking well I'll stop at Mc Donald's on the way to work your one step closer to killing yourself. Admittedly I eat at Mac Donald at least one a month probably for the same reason as many others that we grew up with it and there is something comforting about that red haired man. Mac Donald's is just manifested a menu people wanted. Cheap and tasty food. Never mind the fact it kills you literally. Yes there are a few good items on the menu but overall we all know its crap.
The answer in my opinion is not a simple one and requires you understand your unique needs. I'm going to discuss my this based on my experiences. I still drink coffee in the morning but I winged myself slowly from a Venti 21 once one of the most caffeinated coffees on the planet to a tall which is 12 ounces. But the emptiness in my stomach in the morning which was previously filled with coffee and half and half was still lingering. I tried some 600-700 calorie pastries at Starbucks which didn't work obviously.
For me I wanted to fill full and be calm not jittery distracted, nervous or ADD like being unable to focus. If you have every experienced anything of these kinds of symptoms you might blood sugar problems. There are supplements you can take which will help your body regular blood sugar which believe it or not directly affects cognitive function. How your brain processes your experience in life. If your brain is failing even 1% you're going to be missing out. If your brain is malnourish your experience in life will take a great toll. We've all seen someone on the corner talking to themselves on the street. That's an extreme case of cognitive failure maybe as high as 30%. This is from years of trauma which have accumulated toxins.
When you experience stress like when a wild animal is chasing down the street your body release stress hormone which helps you body survive. However in the past 100 years we haven't had to worry about in most cases animals trying to eat us. In fact we don't have to worry about much of anything really. However developing social structures and the race to create wealth has left many people in debt and trying to fill an empty void by killing themselves by cheating every corner they possibly can. Fear and Greed have ended all great empires. Except now we have the internet and mass media educate ourselves.
There is nothing wrong with accumulating wealth but you should take care of yourself while you work on that. I start the day with a few vitamins mainly targeting on maintaining cognitive function so my clarity is at its peak all day. I get my coffee from Starbucks like everyone else. Then after that I start off with some oatmeal. Um yes oatmeal. If you're overly nervous you can vanilla, blueberries and walnuts in there mix it up and cook it up in the microwave. If you know anything about the brain you know that all of these are good for cognitive function and real natural vanilla acts as a nerve tonic to release more dopamine in the brain giving you a calm feeling. It's almost as good as Zanax. In fact if you can't sleep at night drop a table spoon of vanilla in warm milk small serving. If you're extremely neurotic or toxic it will not work the first few nights. It will work eventually.
Everything in your life including how you feel your personality is a result of conditioning. From the moment you popped out of your mothers whom you have been conditioned to be a girl or a boy and to eat and to live your life a certain way. We're all different but we're all a product of our conditioning one way or the other. If you're not in good health, overweight, don't feel good most of the time then the good news is all you have to do is restore yourself by going back your original design. You're born to feel joy and feel good most of the time. Feel bad when you're supposed to not for no reason.
We feel bad because we accumulate negative toxins from what we think and what we eat. Nature Health a vitamin company suggests there are 100 times more toxins in our food then our grandparents had to deal with. If you think negatively and most people do, then you release negative feeling proteins in your blood. You feel bad and you don't know why and you don't know why you need that coffee and cigarette makes you feel just a little better. Or that donut with the sugary coffee every morning. It just makes you feel better from already hard enough day approaching.
The greatest discovery I made was when I realized all my vises, coffee, smoking crappy food everything that brought me comfort was slowly killing me and my cognitive function. In fact in my life's challenges accelerate so fast I was drinking two pots of coffee and smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day. As my therapist told me my life was a mess and nothing I could do could stop it. Every cell in your in your body has been conditioned to need those things. Receptors in your cells crave the bad foods negative thinking dramatic situations anger and complete madness. In a lot of cases most people have very little control over who they are and they are simply a product of their conditioning. Of course they pass that condition on to their young who also suffer from the same dilemmas. So how do you snap out of that?
Now that we established you're conditioned yourself to be who you are no matter who good or bad you do have liberty. The freedom to choose. You can change your diet and everything about you all at once and probably die of a heart attack two weeks later like you always hear on TV. We don't understand what happened he just went on a diet and started exercising. You got their slowly and steadily you must get out of there slowly and patiently. That means don't change everything at once and change it slowly. If you drink 3 cokes a day replace one with a water for a week. If you don't exercise in the morning walk around the block every morning but that's it. Build the habit first then increase your tolerance. Eat oatmeal in the morning one a week until you crave it over the stuff.
It might sound crazy but after two years I prefer sparking water over any carbonated drink. I prefer good foods over anything else. I crave walking in the morning just as much as did smoking. I crave carrot juice in the afternoon. I'm in the best shape of my life my mind is clear and I don't take things personally when I see someone acting toxic or lost their mind because their brain chemistry is tweaked. 30 % of all people suffer from some cognitive loss according to leading Neurologists. You have some friends who are a little off, or need more help than others. You got it.
A healthy life means more joy from life, more money and more compassion for yourself and others. It means a less toxic body which will less likely create cancer or other common heart and brain issues in old age. In the Johnny Cash song God's ganna cut you down, there is the most uncertain truth that we're going pass and I don't know about you but I want to have lived as much as possible.
Who am I? Well I'm not a doctor but I have experience good and bad in my life which have lead me to the doctors who practice general medicine. They practiced on me and didn't poor job only making my symptoms worse and having no positive effects on me. My therapist looked me dead in the eyes and said "wow your life is a big mess". That sprang the day I would fire him and start looking for real answers. I found a book by Dr. Daniel Amen who practices out of 6 clinics across the country which he owns. He practices modern day medicine. Your doctor if you have every spoke to them about the health of the brain works off a document on mental health written in the 60's! Although I didn't need a visit with this doctor I read two of his books and treated my own symptoms just like he said I could.
Instead of therapy I started taking lessons for singing, piano fencing and other things physical activities. When he explained what smoking did to my mind I quit smoking cold turkey after 10 years. I quit drinking so much and changed my diet and started the process. It's important to note that I did this over 9 months to create a measure impact in my life. The business works better I work better. I just feel good most of the time. I appreciate life more and in return it gives me more. The theory of attraction at work. Amen's is not the end all do your own research and feel good 90% of the time it's your life and your experience and you can have just about anything you want. It begins with you.