Buy Your Freedom

Ever noticed what kind of food your body craves after you have skipped a meal or two? Or gone all day without eating anything but a fistful of Oreos?

Anytime you allow yourself to get: a) dehydrated, b) really hungry, c) really low blood sugar, or d) all of the above, you kiss your freedom goodbye. You become a slave to your basic needs when the tough food choices come around. Any clarity that you might have had, to make good food choices, is shot.

Making proactive food choices is the only way to truly stay free. You buy your freedom when you choose to guzzle water and chomp on string cheese before the office pizza party. Or each time you bite into a crunchy apple a few hours before lunchtime (even if you aren't hungry quite yet). The good decisions that you make before you are faced with the coronary heart disease food choices make all the difference. They will buy you your freedom when you really need it. And freedom is everything.

So it is with so many other areas in our lives. We buy our freedom by obeying the laws of our land, by paying our taxes, by going to our annual check ups and by taking our blood pressure medicine.

We buy our freedom every time we make proactive choices in any area of our lives.

We can buy our freedom from emotional pain too, by choosing to let go of offenses and by forgiving ourselves and others quickly. We buy freedom when we replace harmful thoughts in our brains with better ones. We buy freedom and greatly increase the odds in our favor when we do life inside of a less stressed out brain and body.

Wanna feel better quick? In fairness, other options are available. Grab more Oreos and some caffeine and you'll feel perky in no time. Speed to the meeting you're late too, and you might make it. Stay offended- it feels sort of good, and they certainly deserve it.

However; not much freedom with: a headache, fatigue when the sugar and caffeine wear off, a ticket, more adrenaline than your body knows what to do with, an emergency hospital visit, or a damaged relationship that might have been easily resolved by just letting it go.

It's time to start making the better choices. . . before the crisis.

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