Understand cravings

When a person stops taking drugs his craving for them becomes painfully strong. Stimulating foods have the same effect on the body because they are also ``pain-suppressants''.

A craving must never be satisfied with what is craved for because it gives a devestating result that is virtually unknown. A craving is not a signal that something must be done but just the opposite, it is a call for no action. Craving is a pain of damaged body cells as they come out from under the narcosis of poisoning substances, and cells need that pain to be healed. Every pain can easily be suppressed with more drugs or food, and be pushed back into its former state of narcosis. Pain tell that life - in the form of a feeling - has been returning to the nerve cells again. Every increase in feeling is an increase of aliveness.

A craving surfaces after every rest. Other words for cravings are - hunger, appetite, desire, emotion, coveting, hope, yearning, stimulation and greed. All are signalling a challenge for man to either destroy himself or heal himself.

Healing starts when man begins to feed his body, mind and emotion very sparingly and only when a wise and sane mind says so, and as long as man sojourns earth, these faculties are most valuable in detecting where he needs correction. It is not the desire for wrong foods that has compelled him to eat them over and over again but the misery of the after-effect. But this misery is valuable because it invites the healing process.

Only a sick man (and that is everyone) experiences hunger and it is particularly strong when he sees a banquet table full of delectable ``concoctions''. Here is what he must tell himself: ``The foods I crave may taste good but they are bad for me, I simply end up with a greater craving. I have observed too many times that after I have eaten them I feel miserable. I just won't do it anymore because I am tired of hurting.''

Very few people do understand that undereating is the elixir of life, but the undereating relates to right foods. The only right food for man is fruit and only if one has extensively experimented with a sole fruit diet will he be convinced that this is true. He knows he eliminates them the fastest. Other foods may still taste good to him, but he has paid too high a prize for their indulgence. He would have to give up his gained clear-mindedness and suffer from bodily pain again.