We've had clients who struggled a long time with losing weight or with a partner. And their inability to maintain an ideal weight or create the peace and love they were looking for in their relationship led them to believe they were "broken" in some way.
As they would loop through the yo-yo dieting or ups and downs in the relationship, they told us it felt like there was permanent damage from their past and they'd never be able to find success.
Fortunately, what can feel like permanent damage because the same pattern occurs over and over, is actually conditioned, habitual thinking looking real. And as our clients began to see this, everything changed.
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There are times in our lives when something happens and it seems like too much. We don't see how to resolve it well and we create a coping mechanism to handle it. But, instead of the situation being resolved, we end up just coping.
It isn't a resolution, but it keeps us moving through our lives and not stuck in the situation. But, because the situation isn't really resolved, things can come up again where we find ourselves in a similar situation and naturally turn to the old coping mechanism. This is how we can find ourselves in the same, frustrating patterns again and again that make us feel like there's something wrong with us.
When we begin to see that a negative pattern recurring in our lives is not telling us we're damaged but that we're caught in habitual, conditioned thinking, we start to see things differently.
It's like a paradigm shift to go from "I'm damaged" to "I have a lot of conditioned thinking that has kept me in the same rut".
In the same way that things changed radically for people when they began to see that the world was round and not flat, when we see that our experience comes from our thinking and not our circumstances, there can be a radical change in our lives. We start relating to life from a very different, and we think healthier, point of view.
If this resonates with you at all and you would like to explore it more deeply, leave us a note in the comment section below and we'll find a time to discuss it with you. No charge.
So, to summarize, as stuck in repeating, negative patterns as someone might feel they are, they are not permanently damaged. They are just stuck in old thinking. And there is a way to relate to this old thinking that's new and can reveal the innate health and wholeness that lives at our essence.
The recipe this week is Lemon Pie Bars. It's our Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) answer to the classic lemon pie, without the refined grains (flour), butter, eggs and sugar. Give it try, we think you'll like it. Once we start eating them, we find it hard to stop! LOL
To your Amazing Health,
Connie and Bill
Lemon Pie Bars
Base
- 16 medium dates (like Deglet Noor)
- 1/3 cup almonds
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1¼ cups rolled oats
- ¼ banana
Add dates, almonds, zest, lemon juice, and banana to a food processor and process to a small chunk.
Pulse in the oats to the texture you want, chunky or finer. The mixture should stick together.
Press lightly into an 8×8 pan.
Bake at 350º for 10 minutes, remove and set aside to cool.
Lemon Filling
- ¼ cup cashews
- 14 medium dates (like Deglet Noor)
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- ½ cup fresh lemon juice (about 3 lemons)
- A little less than 1/8 teaspoon turmeric (for yellow color)
- ¾ cup water
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch, dissolved in ¼ cup water
Add cashews, dates, zest, lemon juice, turmeric and water to a high-speed blender (everything except the cornstarch) and blend until completely smooth. About 1 minute.
Pour into a saucepan and heat over medium, stirring constantly.
When hot but not boiling, whisk in the cornstarch, dissolved in ¼ cup water.
Continue cooking and stirring until it thickens to a pudding consistency and just begins to gently bubble.
Cook 30–60 seconds more, then remove from heat.
Pour into the baked crust and let it cool fully to set.