In this case as in those previous, attitude is everything. It demands self-control of your sense organs. Initially you may find it difficult to eat salt-free curries, particularly if your aim is only for 40-50% good health. If you don’t have 100% good health as your goal and continue to eat 30-40% of the same old food besides 60-70% of natural food, you will never succeed in your new life style because new food will not be tasty to you.
If you truly understand the fact that you have changed your diet for better health, then you will learn to love your new food. Earlier, your importance was on taste, irrespective of its use for body. Attune yourself to relatively bland food before you start eating. Then it will seem appealing. Otherwise, you won’t be able to eat it whole-heartedly. If you accept things as they are, you will be blessed with sound health and happiness. Then you can worry about material comforts. You can achieve anything you set your sights on. Nothing will worry you or hurt you or will have any kind of hold over you. You win a man’s stomach through his heart! Gain detachment towards food, and you can accomplish detachment towards troubles and torments of day to day life. Initially taste buds may rebel when you begin the new diet. First of all concentrate and win your heart. Visualize good health and happiness. Then start eating. Your old taste buds will die, giving birth to new ones! These new taste buds are new to the old habit.
For example, patient has not eaten food for ten days. On the eleventh day do you think he can relish the normal food eaten by everybody or even the same kind of food that he used to eat ten days before? No! By then his taste buds will have changed, and his old food becomes distasteful to him.
If you give the new diet for 10-15 days, Mr. Tongue will adjust accordingly and yield to the taste of what you give him. If you do not let your tongue act as master, soon you will be the master of your tongue. Your taste will change. You will soon look forward to eating salt-free food, although you may have disliked it in the early stages. Patience and perseverance is what is required here!
As we all know, easy money doesn’t stick around. It steals your happiness and your peace of mind. The name and fame you achieve without any difficulty will also never linger. Misery teaches us what happiness is. Happiness attained after sacrifice is the only kind that lasts.
The daily routine we are going to follow may cause some hurdles initially. Let us look beyond them! There is a steady, perfect good health waiting for you there. All along you have been consuming food that created much waste. There was no proper outlet for that material! Our routine was framed to suit our greedy tongue and heart. Now the tongue and heart must consider the body. It will take time, but it will happen.
Even bad habits like smoking and drinking cannot be acquired at once. The first time a man smokes a cigarette, he chokes and coughs, but does he give up that bad habit right then? No, because he wants the pleasure of it! So he patiently bears with the discomfort he faces in the first few days. Once he starts smoking happily, he forgets the suffering!
The same is the case with alcohol. The first time a man drinks, he will become nauseous, dizzy and possibly even vomits. But still he bears with it to have the fun of drinking. So think it over! If you can doggedly pursue a bad habit that will ruin your health, why can’t you have the same patience to acquire good habits that will save it? Health is wealth. This body of yours is your mode of transport to enable you to fulfill your duty as a person. So devote yourself to the process that will help you to live happily for 100 years without throwing away money on illness! Come on, follow it and learn to live in peace.
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