Speaker 1: 0:01

Hi and welcome to our podcast Revelation Within On the Go. I'm Heidi Biles-Mepperson, one of your hosts and the owner and lead coach of the revelationwithinorg ministry.

Speaker 2: 0:12

And I'm Christina Motley, your other host, also a Revelation Within coach and Heidi's partner in all things Revelation Within. We are so happy to invite you to join us for this episode of Revelation Within on the show.

Speaker 1: 0:34

Yay, I'm so glad you're here. I'm so glad you're here too, and we're glad that you're here, listener. So welcome, welcome, we're glad that you're here, listener. So welcome, welcome. We are in the midst of a series where we are going through our five intentions of spirit-led eating, which is one of Revelation Within's tenets of what we do with our lives that and mind renewal. So we are unpacking today intention number four. But before we get to that, we're going to go ahead and read through all of the five intentions of Holy Spirit led eating. And, like I mentioned to Christina, we're talking Holy Spirit led, not emotional spirit led or angry led or whatever.

Speaker 1: 1:20

We want to do what the Holy Spirit is leading us to do, and he has some thoughts on how we eat and what we eat and why we eat. So God tells us that whether we eat or drink, we can do it all to the glory of God. So that's awesome. So start us off, christina.

Speaker 2: 1:39

Okay, so we have a little paragraph here before the five intentions. My body is a gift from God to me and is fearfully and wonderfully made in God's image and by his careful and loving design. I am his beautiful masterpiece, his poetry in motion, one of a kind. I look to the Holy Spirit for his wisdom and loving leadership. Therefore, I will honor my God-given body with these intentions.

Speaker 1: 2:09

You know, it's occurring to me as you're reading that and this was totally unplanned for me to say this, but it's true. What if one of our mind renewal tools? What?

Speaker 2: 2:18

if.

Speaker 1: 2:19

I were to get up in the morning and read that out loud. What if I were to read it out loud before every meal? I mean, we believe what we tell ourselves, and then what we tell ourselves and what we subsequently believe we're going to act on. So it makes sense to me that if I were to repeat this paragraph and actually get it in my head so well that it's memorized I mean, it's rooted in truth, in God's word but if I were to tell myself these things again and again, I would begin to believe them more and more and I would act on them more and more. That my body is a gift from God to me and is fearfully wonderfully made, and that you are his masterpiece, yes, and that you are made by his careful and loving design.

Speaker 2: 3:04

Right, I just yeah, I totally agree. This is a beautiful paragraph. It's like a little truth paragraph, perfect resource to renew our minds.

Speaker 1: 3:13

Yeah, All right. So the first intention of Holy Spirit led eating is I will busy myself as the spirit leads until I prayerfully sense a physical hunger signal.

Speaker 2: 3:27

And number two, I will invite the spirit of God into my meal with a heart of gratitude and praise.

Speaker 1: 3:35

Intention number three I will choose food in a just right sized portion that delights my taste buds and causes my body to feel energized and strong.

Speaker 2: 3:47

And number four. This is the one we're going to camp on today in this podcast. I will create a peaceful eating experience by being present with the food and reducing distractions.

Speaker 1: 3:59

Number five I will stop eating before my stomach is full, at the peaceful place, of just enough.

Speaker 2: 4:05

So, in case you're just joining us with these spirit led intentions, we did podcasts already on one, two and three, so be sure to catch those. They are in the lineup.

Speaker 1: 4:19

Yes, Okay, so the scripture that we're using for this today is from Colossians 2, 20 to 23. And really one of the things I appreciate about these intentions is each one starts with the words. I will.

Speaker 1: 4:36

We have choices and we'll highlight that in a moment. But this verse kind of directly relates to that. But this verse kind of directly relates to that Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belong to this world, do you submit to its rules? See, there's that choice submit, do not handle, do not taste, do not touch. These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings, and that citation again is from Colossians 2, verses 20 to 23. So our intention today that we're unpacking is I will create a peaceful eating experience by being present with the food and reducing distractions. Let's talk, christina, for just a moment about this, the words that begin all of these intentions I will. I know we've highlighted a little bit in previous podcasts, but what is the significance of the? I will?

Speaker 2: 5:50

Yeah, well, I think so many of us and I know we both have experiences that are different, but they, heidi, you and I but they lead into the same point.

Speaker 2: 6:01

It's like we grew up often thinking I don't have a choice and, for all different reasons, someone else is choosing for me, whether it's when you're a child or a teenager, or maybe as an adult, when you're going from diet to diet, like I did, I felt like I didn't have my own choice, like that wasn't something that I could count on or depend on or even trust.

Speaker 2: 6:31

And so I do love this, because we know that we are actually free in Christ. We are free to choose. We are free to turn right instead of left. We are free to stop in the moment and ask God for help or invite him in to whatever we're doing. We are free and we can choose, and two of our favorite mind renewal tools at Revelation Within are today I choose and I am free, because so many of us need to hear that and hear ourselves say it again and again and again, renewing our mind with what is true so that we can believe yes, you know what I really can choose, and my choices will then change. What happens next? It'll change my beliefs and then my behavior.

Speaker 1: 7:21

Right and if I truly can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. That means that, even if I feel like I don't have the ability to make a certain choice, what is true? What is true God? What God? What are your thoughts about that? His thoughts are I have given you everything you need from for life and godliness.

Speaker 2: 7:42

What is?

Speaker 1: 7:43

true is that you can do all things through me. I strengthen you. What else is true is in your weakness. My strength is made perfect in you, yes.

Speaker 1: 7:54

So we have the ability, we have volition, we have agency, we have choice and we just want to invite God at any moment in time, even mid-bite, If you feel like you can't stop. You want to invite him and say God, I know I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. I know in my weakness your strength is made perfect, so I want to ask you right now to help me to lean into that strength, because I want to stop, whatever it might be, or I want to choose whatever it might be, because we can. We probably tell ourselves all the time oh, I can't resist that, oh, or I couldn't stop in the middle of that or whatever. And we can. God says so.

Speaker 2: 8:39

Yes, yes, and I love that this intention begins with I will. And then we go into create. And this is such a great word, because what is that word? You know what comes to mind when you think of creating something. You can have freedom and joy, and you can use your creativity, and it can be about what you like, what you're interested in. Creating is a wonderful thing. So not only can I choose, but I can also create a peaceful eating experience. So I love that that word is in there.

Speaker 1: 9:16

I do too. It's something that I can choose to have happen. I can do all kinds of things to make it happen, and that's creating choosing to create something that is going to bless me and others if they're eating with me. Yes, definitely. Here's something that a lot of us aren't aware of, and that is that God has wired our bodies even our physiological bodies sure our minds and our thoughts, our emotions to be best when we're at peace. When we are at peace, everything functions better physiologically, and we've said this before, but I think it bears repeating that when we are at peace, when our logic brain is online, when we're thinking things through, we can be creative, which is something that's a part of this intention.

Speaker 1: 10:07

We are able to make better choices because we're not panicking about something and, believe it or not, we also digest our food better. So we want to be peaceful when we eat, and I don't know about the listeners, but food and eating have, historically for me, been charged with emotional energy, anxiety, distress, really, like what should I eat? Oh my gosh, I want that, but I can't have it. Or I should eat that, but I hate that. And we want to jettison that anxiety. We want to create that peaceful eating experience, because we are at our best when we do that. God has made it so so I can digest better, my metabolism works more efficiently, I absorb nutrients better. It's just a great thing to do. Plus, it feels good.

Speaker 2: 11:02

Well, that all sounds so, so good, Heidi, and I'm just. I'm just guessing that there's someone out there who's thinking, yeah, but my life is not peaceful. I'm not in a season of peace right now. I'm in a season of chaos and craziness and fear and people running here and running there and kids and issues and problems and overwork. How does that go together? How do we create a peaceful eating experience even if our life doesn't feel peaceful?

Speaker 1: 12:51

Yeah, and I think the key is I can control what's happening in my. I'm pointing to my brain right now, my head. I can control what's going on in there. I can calm and quiet my soul like a weaned child with its mother. The psalmist said I can do that. I can no matter what's going on around me. It's like being in the eye of the storm and the storm, the tornado or whatever. I don't even know what those kinds of storms are like because I've never been in one, but I can be in the center of it and God's he's holding me close.

Speaker 1: 13:26

And if I am mindful of that fact, that his peace that surpasses all understanding is guarding my heart and mind, I can choose to focus on that. Choose to focus on he is bigger than you know all five kids fighting at once at the dinner table, or whatever it might be, and maybe there's time when I have to stop in a. You know, I'm just sitting at the dinner table, I'm sitting wherever I'm sitting, or I'm standing, and I just have to close my eyes and say God, you are here, you are bigger than this, you are bigger than this.

Speaker 1: 14:02

Just reminding myself I can choose what I will focus on. I don't know. What do you think?

Speaker 2: 14:07

No, I love that you know. The other thing I can choose what I will focus on. I don't know, what do you think? No, I love that you know. The other thing I can choose is when I'm going to eat, when I'm going to have this peaceful eating experience. If there's too much going on, if my emotions are really, really big, I think it would be best to wait, and sometimes I'll do that. To wait, and sometimes I'll do that. We call it wait time. I might wait 20 minutes and when I have a minute, go to the Lord and say God, I am hungry right now, but I am not peaceful and so most likely I'm going to eat, I'm going to choose the wrong foods, I'm going to eat too much, I'm going to struggle because my emotions are so big, I feel consumed by them, and so going to the Lord, taking a moment and I always joke about my offices because you know things can be so busy in our homes or at work One of my offices is the bathroom. You know I can go in there. I can think of a time last week I did not need to use the bathroom, but I went in the bathroom, closed the door and had a couple of minutes with the Lord just to kind of process some things, talk to him. And then I waited another little amount of time before I ate because I wanted to be able to have a peaceful eating experience.

Speaker 2: 15:31

I'll just give a quick example. Last week our house was so full of people. Oh my gosh, my son had had his wisdom teeth pulled. He's 24. So he was here for six days and we loved having him here. It was wonderful. And then my daughter, who's 22,. She was here packing and getting ready to go off on a huge adventure. Her boyfriend was here often helping her and he was packing as well, A 10 month trip y'all A 10 month trip.

Speaker 1: 16:03

It's not a little visit away for a weekend.

Speaker 2: 16:05

No, this was huge. And then, of course, my youngest, who is 18, has friends over all the time. Two of them have moved in and then others are coming all the time, and so our house was full pretty much every day. Last week we had lots of people here and there was a lot going on, people going in all different directions, doing all different things, and meals were chaotic. We didn't all sit together at a table with placemats and hands folded. We didn't do that at all.

Speaker 1: 16:39

What you didn't.

Speaker 2: 16:40

No, in fact. I mean, the kitchen was like Grand Central Station. The trains were coming in and out, and in and out, and everything was being left everywhere. You can imagine it, right, heidi? Oh, of course. Yeah, I've been there, yep.

Speaker 2: 16:56

And so, to have a peaceful eating experience in the midst of all of that, there has to be intention. You have to say you know what. This is what I want, this is what I'm choosing. I'm going to go after it, and maybe that means that my husband and I make ourselves our meal and go sit on the back porch together, where we're by ourselves. Or maybe it's just me my husband is busy doing something else with someone else, or whatever. Maybe it's just me sitting at the kitchen counter with the Lord. I was joking about offices, the bathroom the car is one of my offices the back porch, the front porch, you know places that you can go and just be with the Lord. We all need those. We all need those, right? But it's that idea of no matter what's going on in your life, no matter how crazy, how chaotic, how sad, how disappointing, how exciting, how fantastic, no matter what's going on in your life, you can choose to create a peaceful eating experience with the Lord.

Speaker 1: 18:08

Yeah, that's so true. I know that it's for many of us who have struggled with kind of a disordered approach to food and eating, the idea of having a peaceful eating experience sounds like what? What on earth is that, and why, then? One of its main goals is to help people come to a place of being at peace with food, eating and our bodies. If we can align our thoughts with God's about food, eating and our bodies, so many things fall into place in beautiful order. And so, yes, it is possible. Order and so, yes, it is possible.

Speaker 1: 18:57

The God of the universe is not hindered by my experience over the past 62 years. In my case, he is not limited by that. We don't want to allow our experience in the past to dictate what we can experience now, because God is able to do a new thing. In fact, he says do you not perceive it? Behold, it springs up away in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, and that's a lovely truth. So, yes, you are able to create and become a peaceful eater. You really are. You are able to cooperate with him, align your thoughts with his and invite him into that. The more you do, the more I do, the more we're going to actually find ourselves falling into that peaceful rhythm with our food and eating experiences.

Speaker 2: 19:47

Throw one more thing in here Peaceful does not mean perfect, right? This is not some kind of pie in the sky perfect eating experience. It's not. It's not perfect, no, and it doesn't need to be. There's nothing about this that you know has to be in some way having this pressure of being perfect. Please don't worry about that. Just enjoy, do the best you can, be intentional, invite God in and then enjoy, and if something doesn't go quite right, no problem. Look and learn with the Lord and try again next time. Throw perfectionism out the window.

Speaker 1: 20:33

It's a lie from the enemy. Anyway, it's the way that our longing for our perfect heavenly home has been warped by the enemy, causing us to think that anything on this planet could ever fall in line and be absolutely perfect.

Speaker 2: 20:45

It can't be.

Speaker 1: 20:46

We're after peace, not perfection.

Speaker 2: 20:49

Yes, exactly we can have perfect meals. When we get to heaven, the banquet table I'll be sitting around saying, wow, I really kind of feel like this is perfect.

Speaker 1: 21:01

And it will be and that'll be great.

Speaker 2: 21:03

But here on earth let's go for peaceful.

Speaker 1: 21:07

Yeah, so this intention continues with a couple of ways that we can do that. So this intention continues with a couple of ways that we can do that.

Speaker 2: 21:13

So the first one is being present with the food. Well, you might think well, of course the food's in front of me, Of course I'm present. I'm like putting it together, preparing it. But how many of you have experienced what I've experienced a million times, where I don't even remember what I ate. I don't even remember what it tasted like, I don't remember chewing the food, I don't remember what I was doing. You know, someone will say oh well, what did you have for lunch today? I have no idea.

Speaker 1: 21:47

Yeah, or where you might even say to yourself did I have breakfast or did I have dinner?

Speaker 2: 21:54

Yeah, Right, and it's that idea of. Well, I don't think I was present with the food. I wasn't aware, I wasn't mindful.

Speaker 1: 22:05

I wasn't intentional.

Speaker 2: 22:07

I wasn't even there, hardly, you know. My mind was completely on something else. I think about the thousands of times that I had lunch at work as a teacher, as a classroom teacher of young kids, I was never, ever present with my food, and I mean, part of that is because it's a busy job. But once I started learning how to eat this way, I was more intentional, more mindful. But for years and years I was on the computer, or I was cutting something out, or I was putting something away, or I was Xeroxing, or I mean you name it, wait.

Speaker 1: 22:47

Xeroxing. What's Xeroxing? Yeah, sorry, that really dates me.

Speaker 2: 22:54

What's the other one that goes back even farther, I don't know. Oh, the ditto machine, ditto machine, and it's all purple and there's that certain smell.

Speaker 1: 23:05

Yes, now I'm really dating myself.

Speaker 2: 23:09

But no, I was always busy, busy, busy. I wouldn't even spend 10 minutes being present with the food and present with the Lord, no way, I mean, I was just. He was there, of course, watching me, yeah, saying hello, hello, yeah, hello, watching me scarf down that food that I didn't even taste, or yeah, so being present. So what does being present mean? What do you think, heidi?

Speaker 1: 23:35

Well, for me it means being attentive to the fact that, oh, this is yummy, oh, the textures are great, oh, thank you God, this food is just amazing. I mean, really, when we practice the other intentions, I think it's more likely that four will be happening, because we're, we are present, we're less distracted, and then my brain has a chance to record that I had a pleasant, calm, peaceful eating experience, and I don't grab for food because I think I must be hungry, because I don't remember eating you know, and so.

Speaker 1: 24:12

I think being present is just being attentive to the fact that I'm nourishing my body right now. God is present with me. Thank you, god. And you know we don't have to pray at the beginning of the meal and leave it there. We can pray throughout, and being grateful throughout the meal can be one way of being very present with the food and with the Lord.

Speaker 2: 24:40

This is something that I have seen in people that I know that are peaceful eaters. I used to work with this woman that was a peaceful eater. It just was natural to her. There was no issue for whatever reason. And one of the things that I noticed about her was number one she ate really slow, really slow. And she was my coworker, she was a teacher also, so there's no, it's not like she had a peaceful job.

Speaker 2: 25:01

The other thing that I noticed about her is that she talked about the food. She would say, wow, this lettuce really has a crunch to it today. Or she would say, you know that bite that was like an explosion of flavor in my mouth, or this is one of my favorite recipes, or I decided to try this too. You know, she talked about the food. She was obviously present with it because she was talking about it and grateful for it and enjoying it. She never brought food that she didn't like or that someone else had, you know, prepared somehow, or I mean she was intentional and present, and that was pretty refreshing to see for me, who was always just scarfing down anything that might've been in the fridge for who knows how long just scarfing down anything that might've been in the fridge for who knows how long.

Speaker 1: 26:00

Well, and you know, what's interesting too is a lot of us tend to be fast eaters, so we're not as present, but whether you're present or not, in eating fast, when you eat fast, when I eat fast and this is an issue for me and has been my whole entire life when I eat fast, I am telling my body that there's even though I may not be panicked about anything, I'm telling my body that we're in a stressful state, and that means I am not going to digest food as efficiently as I would if I was in a peaceful state, and my body won't absorb the nutrients, my metabolism won't be as efficient, and so it's interesting that that is what cues my, my adrenals.

Speaker 1: 26:39

I will be having a rush of cortisol, and so it's interesting to me that just my pace and the way I eat can cue my body. Physiologically. I'm no, I'm not peaceful, you know, I'm not attentive, I'm not, I'm not in a good place, and and that changes everything about, well, about everything, physiologically and spiritually, I think, as well as emotionally. So I don't know. I just think that's interesting.

Speaker 2: 27:07

That is so interesting. I just came to mind the same coworker of mine from before. There was a day when we had to go out I think it was to a training or something and go get lunch on the way and I said something like well, let's go through the drive-thru and we can eat in the car. And she, I remember she said to me why would we do that? Yeah, yeah, you know, like it made no sense to her why we would drive and eat at the same time and not enjoy the food. Why would we do that? You know? Why not figure out a different way?

Speaker 2: 27:46

you know, go to the restaurant that's closer or pick up something and then eat it before we go into the training or whatever. But she in her mind, she's like what, why would we do that? How many of us do that every day? Yeah, you know, go through a drive-thru, scarf something down. What was it? I don't know. I don't remember how did it taste, who knows?

Speaker 1: 28:08

Yeah, my sister's the same way when she was staying with me. Once we had bought some special gourmet ice cream to enjoy together and after dinner we were done with a satisfying dinner. We sat down to watch a movie and quite some time into the movie she said are you ready to have our ice cream? And I'm sure she goes. Okay, let's turn off the TV. Wait what?

Speaker 2: 28:34

What.

Speaker 1: 28:35

What do you mean? Turn off the TV? Well, because the ice cream is so good I want to pay attention to it.

Speaker 2: 28:40

I mean that's just the way she does it.

Speaker 1: 28:43

Yeah, so I just think that's so interesting. I never did that until a few years back, so it's like, oh, okay.

Speaker 2: 28:51

Yeah, I love that. That's such a great example. Why would I distract? Myself from this amazing food by having the TV on, and yet so many of us eat in front of the TV all the time, or the computer or our phone or whatever.

Speaker 1: 29:09

Or the cereal box, or whatever I mean. I had a client once who said how many times have I read that cereal box? It's like anything but be present, and I think that sometimes would be good to take to the Lord. Lord, why do I want to not be present with the food? Is there something you want to heal in me that I need to stop and pay attention to? And that could be a really good question. Yeah, the second way that we can create a peaceful eating experience other than by being present with the food is reducing distractions, and that's the cereal box. Let's put it away. You know, the newspaper Is there a newspaper anymore? I don't know. The iPad, the phone, the computer, the TV, whatever it might be that holds my attention. Really, just try it for one meal to not read, to not find something to do other than eat and enjoy the flavors and the textures of the food. You know, remove the distractions that are removable. Obviously, you can't jettison the kids. See ya, you're a distraction.

Speaker 2: 30:18

You're a distraction, but you could do this with the kids. Yes, and actually, we can learn a lot from young children about peaceful eating and waiting till we're hungry. Oh, they do it so well.

Speaker 1: 30:34

They do, they do. And so often we get in the way of that and say stop playing and sit down and eat. I'm not hungry, I don't care if you're not hungry.

Speaker 2: 30:46

That is so true. And then you try to make them sit down and eat, and they're not hungry, their body doesn't need fuel, and the whole thing is a disaster, yeah, anyway, we're kind of working on being intentional to do the opposite of that.

Speaker 1: 31:00

I will create a peaceful eating experience by being present with the food and reducing distractions. What else can we say about that?

Speaker 2: 31:09

Oh my gosh, we just did something so fun this morning, didn't we Heidi? Oh yeah, we invited members of our community to come to a Zoom call with their breakfast.

Speaker 1: 31:21

It was a Zoom picnic.

Speaker 2: 31:23

It was a Zoom picnic. I love that and they brought. Of course, we have people in all different time zones, so maybe it was lunch for some, breakfast for others. You don't even have to name your meals, whatever it was. And we practiced together the five intentions of spirit-led eating and it was so much fun. And one of the ones that we practiced was how do we reduce distractions? Okay, so there were, I think, nine of us or 10 or something like that, and so you would say, well, that's distracting. You're on a Zoom, you're in front of a screen and you're with nine people, but you know what. We were intentional and it was lovely. Heidi put on this wonderful worship music without words. You know what's that called when it doesn't have words Instrumental, instrumental worship music without words.

Speaker 1: 32:12

You know, what's that called when it doesn't have words?

Speaker 2: 32:14

Instrumental. I knew the songs, so the words were kind of in my head, but the music was just instruments. And then we had our food in front of us and we all waited and we talked about what it felt like to be hungry and what a blessing that is those signals in our body and we invited God in and thanked him. We talked about our food and what we were going to eat and how it tasted, and we just enjoyed together.

Speaker 1: 32:45

We ate very slowly.

Speaker 2: 32:47

So we were in a group and we were in a Zoom, but it was one of my least distracting meals.

Speaker 1: 32:55

It was wonderful. It was for me too, was it? At first I thought, well, how am I going to not be distracted by this, because I'm leading this with Christina? But as people were responding, as Christina would share, as the people would share, I'd take a bite. And do you know, it took me 20 minutes to eat.

Speaker 2: 33:13

Something would normally take me three minutes, yeah me too, I mean, and of course we were talking about it, so I was really trying to do it, but you know, putting down my spoon and my fork and listening to everybody, and then looking at my food and being present with it, tasting it, but also then being engaged in conversation, it was beautiful, wasn't it?

Speaker 1: 33:38

Yes, I can't wait to do it again.

Speaker 2: 33:40

I know we're going to do it again, Hopefully several times. I loved it and we had a lot of big smiles. I think everybody loved it yeah definitely so.

Speaker 1: 33:50

If you think you would love it, join our community yeah.

Speaker 2: 33:53

And then look in the events column and there's all kinds of wonderful things there, yeah, but this is something new. That great idea, heidi Heidi came up with and I loved it. It was so much fun. We spent a whole hour too. Yes, that was something, wasn't it, which I didn't expect. It was wonderful, me too.

Speaker 1: 34:14

Well, what else do we need to say about intention number four, Christina?

Speaker 2: 34:18

What about emotions? This morning I got a text from my daughter and then I got a text from her boyfriend and they're both in Slovakia and they're having this amazing experience with a Fulbright scholarship. Anyway, I had asked both of them how are you doing, how's it going? And I knew they would be together today in Bratislava. So Kat's boyfriend sent me a picture of her and she was visibly upset and, yeah, just looking kind of sad and out of sorts, and he wrote to me she's having a hard time. And then in the picture I know in the picture his I couldn't see him because he was taking the picture, but his hand was on hers on the table and it was precious. It was precious like makes me tear up. And I said to him you guys have had a huge week.

Speaker 2: 35:18

I'm thinking that Kat has a lot of emotions to process right now and so just take it slow. And here they were sitting at a little cafe. I could see the surroundings it was a little table cafe and you could see the city around them and she was feeling obviously overwhelmed, maybe homesick things like that.

Speaker 2: 35:41

Probably tired and jet lag, too. Tired and jet lag, everything anything that you can imagine. But I love this picture of his hand on hers and this surrounding. So obviously they were going to eat there, but she was distracted by what? By her emotions, and that's valid, that's very real. That's a very normal part of being human. It's very normal part of our everyday lives. So we talked about that a little bit at the beginning. But a distraction if you're feeling out of sorts normal part of our everyday lives, so we talked about that a little bit at the beginning, but a distraction if you're feeling out of sorts, if you're feeling like you're on the verge of tears, if you're feeling like you're going to explode with anger or irritation, you know it's probably not the best time to eat. That's a huge distraction and it will, you know, cause your peaceful eating experience to be the opposite. Right, so, taking that time, like we talked about, go to one of your quote unquote offices.

Speaker 1: 36:45

It might be a favorite chair.

Speaker 2: 36:47

For five minutes, that might be all it takes A favorite chair Right, exactly, and just you know, maybe if you're at work I know someone who takes walks around the building when they're feeling like their emotions are very high, whatever it is, so that you're not distracted even just a couple minutes of processing an emotion can make all the difference Absolutely, and you know the angst and the frustration difference Absolutely and you know the angst and the frustration.

Speaker 1: 37:17

You know how your body responds when you're stressed. Yeah, yeah, it's a stress response. Cortisol goes crazy, my heart rate goes up, my blood pressure goes up.

Speaker 2: 37:24

Yeah, Right, or when you've just heard difficult news, you feel kind of like crushed, you know like defeated, or you know your spirit is heavy. Bring those things to the Lord first, even for just a few minutes before you eat, and that will help so much.

Speaker 1: 37:45

Good idea. Yeah, wow, there's been a lot in this intention for us to process. We can probably go on for three more hours. No, yeah, so I do want to extend again an invitation to any who might want to be a part of our community.

Speaker 2: 38:00

Yes.

Speaker 1: 38:01

Go to revelationwithinorg and see some of the details that we're cooking up during this month for you. We would love to have you be a part, for sure.

Speaker 2: 38:10

We would, we would Please come and join us. Yeah, and thanks for joining us today. Yes, we're so glad you've been here and we hope that you'll come back, because we have one more intention that we're going to unpack next time Number five on our podcast Revelation Within.

Speaker 1: 38:28

That was a great rest of your week. We'll see you next time on the show. Have a great rest of your week.

Speaker 2: 38:36

We'll see you next time, bye, bye, for now.