Fruit Benefits Your Mind
Our brain responds to our environment, to the input it receives from the “outer” world. Our experience is directly linked to how we interpret and process the input we receive. This reaction is affected by everything we consume, including food and any other substance, as well as visuals, smells and sounds.
Let’s do a quick experiment. First, imagine a fruit forest, open, aired, fresh, full of light and color, made by Mother Nature and filled with life. Step into that forest and notice how you feel. What type of thoughts do you have there? Happy? Inspiring? Peaceful? That is how I feel when I am there, both in my imagination, and in real life.
Now, place yourself in a different scenario. Imagine being inside a slaughterhouse. There are walls on every side, little light, and it stinks. Death is in the air, pain and suffering in every face you see. Animals are screaming, blood is everywhere. What type of thoughts do you have? Pain? Disgust? Sadness? That is the reason your school never took you there on a field trip. That is the reason burger commercials show you sexy women in bikinis, and why most of the animal products industry does all it can to remain secretive about their operations.
Let’s review both scenarios. In one hand we have fruit, grown in natural environments, vibrating with life. In the other hand we have animal products, processed in slaughterhouses that resemble concentration camps.
We can’t deny that the sources of our food determine their quality. When food enters our body, it comes with its own karma, a history that includes who made it, where it came from, how was it processed, stored, and transported. The history of any food becomes our history when we consume it, and it’s karma become our karma. We are affected by everything we consume, we are transformed by it. Give Fruit a Chance.
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