I was very surprised by the question. I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years now, with the occasional slip ups during pregnancy. When the question was asked, I realised that I did not even see the turkey sitting there as food. I have already learned to dis-identify it as a food item.

Our minds are pretty amazing if we know how to make it work for us. One of the key things I have learned to do while I was on my way out of alcoholism was to dis-identify feelings and thoughts of pleasure, love, attention, relaxation from alcohol. And then enforcing and identifying thoughts and feelings of destruction, ill health and so on with alcohol.

The same technique was applied to my diet when I made a commitment and several other times re-commitment to become a vegetarian for moral and social reasons.

The saying "the flesh is willing but the will is weak" is very true for many especially when one does not know how to work with the power of the mind. Our strong will can only come from the power of our mind. The mind indeed is our greatest ally if we invest it right.

@ 2009 Shamala Tan
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Mind power and food

We spent last Christmas with my husband's family in the UK and we had a wonderful time just relaxing and catching up with everyone.

After the Christmas dinner, the huge half eaten turkey was placed on the kitchen counter waiting to be packed up for later meals. I was sitting on a stool at the same counter reading the newspaper and someone walked in saw me and said, "Are you not tempted to eat the turkey being a vegetarian?"

I was very surprised by the question. I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years now, with the occasional slip ups during pregnancy. When the question was asked, I realised that I did not even see the turkey sitting there as food. I have already learned to dis-identify it as a food item.

Our minds are pretty amazing if we know how to make it work for us. One of the key things I have learned to do while I was on my way out of alcoholism was to dis-identify feelings and thoughts of pleasure, love, attention, relaxation from alcohol. And then enforcing and identifying thoughts and feelings of destruction, ill health and so on with alcohol.

The same technique was applied to my diet when I made a commitment and several other times re-commitment to become a vegetarian for moral and social reasons.

The saying "the flesh is willing but the will is weak" is very true for many especially when one does not know how to work with the power of the mind. Our strong will can only come from the power of our mind. The mind indeed is our greatest ally if we invest it right.

@ 2009 Shamala Tan

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