I was reading The Big Leap last week, and when I found this quote, I paused to consider the controversy and to write it down. At the end of my college career, I spent several months on a final research paper to explore the benefits of a raw food diet for people who have chronic fatigue. From what I saw, raw food provided some relief for the aches, pains and grogginess that sometimes accompany this health issue.
For a moment, assume that the quote above is true. I could ask you to eat all of the raw food in the world, and bring in other delicious healing foods, but it might not do anything for you if you stay stuck in an unfulfilling job, a dead-end relationship, or in a creative black hole that is not lined up with what you want.
Will it take coming into alignment with who you are to clear up any lingering health issues? People in my own life have been injured in ways that knocked them onto a new path, and the injury gave them time to explore their deepest desires. For some people, getting through a serious illness lets them fall back in love with their life. Each day that I say yes to what I love, I feel more energy and health.
This goes a little deeper than nutrition now. You could be sick because you are ignoring your full potential and your brilliance! If that is the case, the future of my own career expands in this very moment.
It’s time to bring in more of what makes you happy and deeply fulfilled.
What if those aches disappear as soon as you say yes?
© 2012 Ava Waits
