Sweetness.
The connection here should be fairly obvious, the message rather clear, however the end game, the product developed in each mind that reads it, may require some adaptation.
The innate ability for each person to first, see something that intrigues, click on the link, read the material, and internalize a message says more about what a person was looking for than the answer they found. If I am looking for something to reinforce a bad day, anything can provide the ammo. If I am looking for something to bring me joy, then I can choose to find joy in even the most mundane. If I want to eat something sweet, then, I can determine it to be sweet or not.
Yes, "determine something to be sweet or not," probably something starting to sound a bit heady, but one must consider what sweetness is before one can argue if they are able to determine something sweet or not.
The amino acid, phenylalanine, is concentrated in food-sweeteners of yore. Those sweetness that became demonized by many people for everything from leaky guts (which is pretty much what it sounds like) to brain disorders. Essentially, scientists figured out that by taking this single amino acid of which there are 20, and concentrating it, that the taste receptors of the tongue are stimulated in the sweetness category and a signal is sent to the brain. Now, if you reflect on foods with sweeteners, they typically have other ingredients to kind of, "mask" the taste of this sweetness alone. Instead, fats, others sweeteners, maltodextrin, caffeine, carbonation, fruit additives, etc are there to buffer the impact. If you take a packet of Equal and pour it on your tongue it is easy to taste that this product as a standalone is not very satisfying.
The thing is, phenylalanine, by itself isn't good or bad or sweet or bitter, it just is. It contains chemical elements that the body uses as needed and is part of a complete protein source found in meats and dairy. Phenylalanine is neutral, for it is the tongue and ultimately brain (the same brain built through genetics and environment) that give it the title, the credit.
This analogy, which I hope educates on what this long-standing sweetener is, is to help see that what we take in from our environment is also neither good nor bad, all of it just is. Even a gun, something recently demonized with the ability to stand, walk over to your neighbor and pull its own trigger by way of signs, Gun Kill People, are not "bad," they just are. The weather just is, the neighbor and the things he does just are, all of life just is, a part of nature. It is only in retrospect or a breaking of our own expectations that we find difficulty with things.
The tongue does not know sweetness naturally, without foods, therefore when something like a concentration of phenylalanine disrupts homeostasis and boom, a sensation is felt and a judgment placed, "good" or "bad." This is nothing new, for foods and the tongue have been around since the Garden of Eden to remind us what our bodies need, or depend on from the earth, to satisfy. We were not placed here to need nothing, but to need everything, depend on something from the ground, taking energy from the sun, turning it into organic material by way of faith, every single day. For it is this constant reminder, every time we place food in our mouths that it was only through faith in nature, which is ultimately faith in the one who made nature and started its process, that we have this necessary component to life.
This process is neither, "good" or "bad" but can be categorized, if we must, as efficient or inefficient. Some foods are efficient for the health and wellness of our body, some are not. This does not make the inefficient foods bad, it just means we do not require them or they do not help. A friendly reminder from the body, or in the example from above with people diagnosed as Phenylketonurics.
Words, experiences, the air we breathe, all things we determine to be something they aren't. Yet, sometimes the worst part, or the result, is when people try to make others fit their expectations, and in the end become upset that others don't see the world they do, judge the way they do. Yet, we have not walked in any other shoes than our own, therefore we are not able to judge like they judge, see what they see, experience sweetness the same way. After all, something neutral taken in and interpreted by the mind is again, an interpretation, and we all agree that we interpret things differently.
As both a spiritual message in being aware of judgments, as well as nutritional one, I find it helpful to be aware, or dare I say mindful, of what we are experiencing and determining if we are actually seeing the way that benefits us. With foods made with artificial sweetener, once I remove my judgment and what I expect from a sweetened food, I realize that the mass of mostly-organic material I am placing in my mouth is being determined by the tongue as efficient or not. I have the control in my head to determine and challenge foods that are otherwise mindlessly accepted to be "good." Once one is able to determine that a food is sweet because the brain deems it that way, and not as some soul-enhancing food product used to remedy pain, then we stop eating for comfort and return to eating for life.
For it is not the food that will be judged, but it is our judgment of the food. Comfort is not satisfied with a stimulation of receptors on the tongue, but through lack of judgment, ultimately, acceptance, and to accept one must love enough to do so.
God Bless.
Castle-Broken: When appearances are everything, available on Amazon. My hope is that what interferes with a person's ability to grow and find truth does not stop here at the cellular level, but expands into truth. Concern about how a body looks and the obsessions to keep it going are a distraction from this truth. Click HERE.
The innate ability for each person to first, see something that intrigues, click on the link, read the material, and internalize a message says more about what a person was looking for than the answer they found. If I am looking for something to reinforce a bad day, anything can provide the ammo. If I am looking for something to bring me joy, then I can choose to find joy in even the most mundane. If I want to eat something sweet, then, I can determine it to be sweet or not.
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| Try out, "the baby diet," where we eat only what th body knows it needs. Nothing more, nothing less, just enough, and the right stuff. Disclosure: I made that "baby diet" up. |
The amino acid, phenylalanine, is concentrated in food-sweeteners of yore. Those sweetness that became demonized by many people for everything from leaky guts (which is pretty much what it sounds like) to brain disorders. Essentially, scientists figured out that by taking this single amino acid of which there are 20, and concentrating it, that the taste receptors of the tongue are stimulated in the sweetness category and a signal is sent to the brain. Now, if you reflect on foods with sweeteners, they typically have other ingredients to kind of, "mask" the taste of this sweetness alone. Instead, fats, others sweeteners, maltodextrin, caffeine, carbonation, fruit additives, etc are there to buffer the impact. If you take a packet of Equal and pour it on your tongue it is easy to taste that this product as a standalone is not very satisfying.
The thing is, phenylalanine, by itself isn't good or bad or sweet or bitter, it just is. It contains chemical elements that the body uses as needed and is part of a complete protein source found in meats and dairy. Phenylalanine is neutral, for it is the tongue and ultimately brain (the same brain built through genetics and environment) that give it the title, the credit.
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| It is not our place to judge. |
This analogy, which I hope educates on what this long-standing sweetener is, is to help see that what we take in from our environment is also neither good nor bad, all of it just is. Even a gun, something recently demonized with the ability to stand, walk over to your neighbor and pull its own trigger by way of signs, Gun Kill People, are not "bad," they just are. The weather just is, the neighbor and the things he does just are, all of life just is, a part of nature. It is only in retrospect or a breaking of our own expectations that we find difficulty with things.
The tongue does not know sweetness naturally, without foods, therefore when something like a concentration of phenylalanine disrupts homeostasis and boom, a sensation is felt and a judgment placed, "good" or "bad." This is nothing new, for foods and the tongue have been around since the Garden of Eden to remind us what our bodies need, or depend on from the earth, to satisfy. We were not placed here to need nothing, but to need everything, depend on something from the ground, taking energy from the sun, turning it into organic material by way of faith, every single day. For it is this constant reminder, every time we place food in our mouths that it was only through faith in nature, which is ultimately faith in the one who made nature and started its process, that we have this necessary component to life.
This process is neither, "good" or "bad" but can be categorized, if we must, as efficient or inefficient. Some foods are efficient for the health and wellness of our body, some are not. This does not make the inefficient foods bad, it just means we do not require them or they do not help. A friendly reminder from the body, or in the example from above with people diagnosed as Phenylketonurics.
Words, experiences, the air we breathe, all things we determine to be something they aren't. Yet, sometimes the worst part, or the result, is when people try to make others fit their expectations, and in the end become upset that others don't see the world they do, judge the way they do. Yet, we have not walked in any other shoes than our own, therefore we are not able to judge like they judge, see what they see, experience sweetness the same way. After all, something neutral taken in and interpreted by the mind is again, an interpretation, and we all agree that we interpret things differently.
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| The tongue, the most powerful part of the body. Able to build people up, or tear them down, with one flex of its mighty muscle. |
For it is not the food that will be judged, but it is our judgment of the food. Comfort is not satisfied with a stimulation of receptors on the tongue, but through lack of judgment, ultimately, acceptance, and to accept one must love enough to do so.
God Bless.
Castle-Broken: When appearances are everything, available on Amazon. My hope is that what interferes with a person's ability to grow and find truth does not stop here at the cellular level, but expands into truth. Concern about how a body looks and the obsessions to keep it going are a distraction from this truth. Click HERE.
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