Day 60 - Discover Your Beverage Profile: How What You Drink Impacts Your Emotional Life

Step 1 in The Awake Eating Method is Cleanse. It is all about investigating how what you drink affects your body and your life. Here is a sneak-peek into what you will learn about yourself in session with me:

What follows is a general breakdown of different types of beverages, and what they symbolize emotionally. Find what beverages you drink on a regular, consistent basis and investigate whether the emotional needs correlate for you. These are general, from observation with clients, so take what resonates and leave the rest...

SODA: Needing direction; wanting more goodness and positivity in daily life.

• Soda is essentially sugar water. It is sweet and gives you an initial burst of energy. The problem, though, is that soda is like a life preserver in your day. It may keep you from sinking initially, but it is nothing like getting on a boat of true nourishment. A life preserver keeps you floating aimlessly, while a boat (symbolizing a nourishing meal or water) gives you actually stability and direction to follow your dreams.

DIET SODA: Withholding pleasure; restriction from what you really want in life.

• When you consume an artificial sweetener your taste receptors send a signal to the brain to prepare the body for the delectable food on its way. But nothing comes. It is like a child about to eat an ice cream cone.... and then it falls and splats on the ground. Drinking these beverages may symbolize that you are not allowing yourself to experience true pleasure and goodness.

COFFEE: Believing that you are not enough; that you do not have the abilities you need.

• Coffee (or caffeinated beverages) can give you an advantage or edge. You have a burst of energy from your stress response and your mental acuity is enhanced for work and creativity. Overtime, though, it depletes your ability to function at the bare minimum without it. This drink is used because deep down we really believe that we do not have the abilities, skills and talents within to achieve what we desire. 

ALCOHOL: Escaping from your true expectations of life; numbing negative thoughts.

•  Alcohol can be a powerful sedative. Your brain and neurotransmitters are altered, almost as if we are letting another identity take over, because we are not enough. You may feel reprieve from what is overwhelming you outside of yourself, and numb from the thoughts from within. The tendency with alcohol is to push away the true potential that we feel is possible in our lives.

WATER: Flow, investment, cleansing. 

• Being that we are made up of 70% water it is obvious of its power in our lives. If you drink water on a regular basis you allow things to come and go in your life. Drinking this beverage allows a river of abundance to make its way into your life; where new packages come to you from upstream, and what no longer serves you can be released downstream.

Once you have identified the underlying emotional reason that you are choosing beverages, we can begin to work on addressing your true needs with something other than diet...

Nat