You can change your life and diet… one tiny step now is all you need

By: Daria Boissonnas, Certified Reconnective Healing Practitioner

At 5pm this evening, I walked into a conventional grocery store.

I was desperate. I wasn’t thinking.

My husband and two of our four kids were home sick today. I bounced between biz work and healing and caring for them. Over the long holiday weekend, though, we’d drained the fridge dry. Except for a gaggle of lonely baked potatoes that seemed to me to be crying out to dance with onions, peppers and sausage. Mmmmm, comfort food.

The food co-op was 30 mins away, too far at 5pm. So I casually stopped by the grocery store on the way home from extracting my book-crazed teenager from the library. She stayed in the car to read of course.

I ended up doing a lot of reading myself.

What was I thinking?! I’d completely forgotten how hard it is to find no-nitrates, no-nitrites, no-MSG, no-preservative (not to mention organic or grass-fed) sausage! I desperately scanned the sausage area, which in Wisconsin is brighty loaded with piles of kielbasa, bratwurst, breakfast sausages, and the usual section of hot dogs.

I read the fine print: MSG, BHA, MSG, nitrates, MSG, nitrites, MSG, propyl gallate, whew! I read them all.

And found I just could not bring myself to feed these chemicals to my kids. Though my mouth was watering for foods I ate aplenty 13+ years ago, I couldn’t do it. I’d rather do something else, thank you. As I took in the massive sausage section, I marveled at how so many people in the world trust whatever is wrapped in a happy plastic package.

I remember how I used to do that.

One Tiny Change

13 years ago, when I first started reading about healthy food and why some of what I had been eating was harmful, I was overwhelmed. Everything I was doing seemed to be wrong! I had to change everything!

So I changed nothing. For a long time.

Then one day, just one random any-old-day, I chose a loaf of wheat bread instead of white bread.

I didn’t even like it much at first. But after eating whole grain bread for over a decade and finding the brand and recipe I like, today white bread tastes weird and even gross to me. (I only like it in restaurant rolls when travelling, go figure.)

That one day, I stepped sideways out of overwhelm, and I simply took a step. My first step. One tiny change. I followed that one change for a while, still feeling overshadowed by how much I wanted to change. But listen to this — I followed that one step, that one tiny shift, until it became my norm. Until I loved wheat bread and looked forward to eating it.

No, my palette hasn’t been ready for all the healthy food I’ve tried. Some of it was just a “try” and an “oh well”. But tonight when I stood before the festive, preservative-laced meats this evening, I realized how far I’d come. I knew I was gonna warm those potatoes with organic veggies in raw fair-trade expeller-pressed nonwinterized coconut oil, with sea salt, and NOT in an aluminum pan. I stood suspended, keilbasa chilling my right hand, as I appreciated how far our family has come in its eating habits. And how deeply grateful I am for the Madison farmer’s market and stores like the Williamson Street Food Co-op that offer the alternatives I seek.

You Can Do It!

You too can change your life, change your diet, change your body, change your mindset, change anything you want. All it takes is one step. Forget new year’s resolutions. Forget aggressive huge PLANS. Forget massive goals!

Just choose ONE thing today to change consistently. Just ONE thing.

ONE fewer cigarette per day. Add ONE new vitamin/supplement. Get to bed at the same time each day. Get ONE health concern looked at or treated. Eliminate ONE “bad” food from your home. Change ONE thing in your environment – and keep it up.

Change that one thing. Become that one tiny change. Do this and it will become a seed for other positive change to flow naturally into your life. All you must do is choose to start. Decide to make ONE. TINY. POSITIVE. CHANGE.

And let me know how it goes!

Many blessing on your journey.

13 years ago, when I first started reading about healthy food and why some of what I had been eating was harmful, I was overwhelmed. Everything I was doing seemed to be wrong! I had to change everything! Decide to make one tiny positive change.

Daria Boissonnas, Certified Reconnective Healing Practitioner, is the founder of the Global Institute for Awakening -- dedicated to bringing more healing into the world. After 12 lonely years as a healer seeking spiritual & healing mastery, Daria founded the inspiring, educational network she'd longed for herself. Get your complimentary Spiritual Journey Wake-Up Kit (ebook, audio & more) to build wealth, wellness & wisdom http://giawaken.com

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