How Saying “No” to Foods I Love May Be Depriving Me of Other Pleasures (As Related to the Law of Attraction)

I had a mighty realization a few weeks ago that ties in with the law of attraction and what it means when I deprive myself of the things I love. The “thing” that caused me to have an ah-ha moment in this particular instance was food.

If you’re a semi-regular reader you know I have issues around food and body image. At their worst, these issues have manifested as an eating disorder when I was a teenager. Most of the time, though, it just means I throw my hand up at the offer of foods I don’t feel match my low-fat, high-fiber healthy eating aspirations.

The thing is, I really enjoy food. Double chocolate cakes with buttercream frosting, decadent ice cream sundaes that overflow with hot fudge and whipped cream, piping hot pizzas with sausage and onions, coconut crusted shrimp in pineapple sauce… the list lingers on. However, the thing I don’t like is what indulging in these foods does to my body. I like keeping myself relatively thin and awhile ago learned that doing so was easier when I avoided such decadence.

So, most of the time, I give a polite brush-off to things I wouldn’t think twice about eating if someone told me, “Don’t worry, they’re fat & calorie-free!”

* Sigh *

Well, going along with my “what if” mentality that I’m trying to adopt, something struck me: depriving myself of the things I enjoy (in this case food) is like telling the Universe, “I don’t think I deserve the stuff I enjoy. As a matter of fact, I think it’s bad for me.” From a law of attraction standpoint, this trickles into other areas of my life, too. The Universe doesn’t differentiate and say, “Well, she just means food.” Instead, the repercussions are farther reaching. I could very well be sending out a blanket message to the Universe saying, “Hold it! Keep all the things I enjoy for yourself or give them to someone else. I should not have them!”

When I had this realization it was like a 100-watt light bulb went on over my head. I don’t want to miss out on any of life’s finer pleasures. I want to enjoy what I enjoy! Better yet, I want to reach a point where I think, “What if the things I enjoy – including decadent foods – aren’t really bad for me? What if they’re good for me?” After all, being in a state of joy is good for me on a spiritual level, and things that are good for me on a spiritual level feed into me physically. It’s just my mind that’s been resisting all this time.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s an element of moderation I know I need to play around with. My extreme personality tends to want to go big or go home. However, I’m hopeful that the more I explore the “what if” territory, the more joy I’ll find in simply going where pleasure pulls me and abandoning my rigid beliefs around what’s right and what’s wrong. I like the idea of just being with what is.

(Speaking of…) So that’s where I am: having just learned something new about myself with regard to my beliefs about food and the law of attraction. Dare I say I’m incredibly excited about this newfound discovery? I half imagine finding a Universal delivery person at my door in the next few weeks with a truck full of pleasurable people, things and experiences anxiously awaiting my signature!