Chapter 33 Now

Welcome to the end of the book, it's lovely having you here.

First, congratulations on quitting! You'll find that life becomes even more beautiful without junk food, and that quitting opens your eyes to the many ways that it can be.

You're an important part of the world, and right now is the only time that exists, and to summarise many different spiritual teachings: you can cause great suffering for yourself by refusing to accept now, and craving for anything else.

It's okay, and healthy, to have goals and to strive towards purpose, but you shouldn't place your personal value in something outside of you, or let yourself be defined by the imagined past or future.

So, be present and attentive to right now – it's the only place that's real.

As an example of this and a practise throughout the withdrawal period, you'll find a different 'moment of revelation' (or understanding) soon where you have a 'craving' thought about junk food, and then recognise it as a thought caused by junk food in the first place, and then feel blissful that you're freed from that thought being 'you'.

You can do this with every thought you ever have, like negativity, or ruminating over the past or future, or times you're feeling wonderful too, and enjoy them more presently and fully without your mind hijacking you with displeasure.

You could be on a tropical beach with the waves rolling in, listening to calm music whilst enjoying the sunset, and you could still be in despair through your thinking.

Even now, as you're reading, you can become aware of your body resting in space, and the sounds where you are, and the sphere of light around you, and know that this is all these is. Nothing external can add to the serenity you already have. You're not defined by junk food, or anything else, unless you think your way into it.

Awareness is the most important teaching I can give you, and easypeasy is simply giving you awareness over junk food and asking you whether you enjoy it; and so, pure awareness itself will give you the answers to any other problem you're facing.

I know this is all a bit 'woo woo', but it's really important, since all the problems that I hear from people (including with easypeasy) is the failure to recognise their own thoughts. Letting minor and major things stress you out by making them a personal problem, or for easypeasy, it's wrestling with the infinite reasons your mind will manufacture as valid for eating junk food – and many of them might be really strong reasons – instead of understanding that you can instead just happily drop the rope instead. In fact, all of the problems we face are exactly that, a failure to pay attention and accept the present moment. You may not prefer it, sure, but accepting it fully is the only way forward.

Anyway, the book is being rewritten to give you this understanding, as easypeasy tries to counteract your brainwashing by telling you the reasons why you're not enjoying it, instead of us having a conversation and letting you come to the understanding yourself. I'm working on it, and looking forward to chatting in the future, and in the meantime I had to include this (less elegantly written part)

So, on eating: just accept the beauty of your body's natural hunger signals, and learn to respond to them mindfully instead.

33.1 So, where to now?

You shouldn't change your life because of quitting junk food – for example, you can imagine someone purposely avoiding all restaurants to keep themselves away from junk food out of fear – but you'll find that dropping something that was only holding you back, and gaining happiness, energy, health, and freedom from slavery, tends to help quite a lot in creating a better life you'd love.

You can also see what else we're doing at https://peacefulfoundation.org, which basically amounts to rekindling local communities.

33.2 Sharing easypeasy everywhere

One of the things that makes communities better is freedom from addiction; if you'd like to help spreading easypeasy, there's two things you can do:

First, share healthy recipes and tips everywhere.

healthy eating meme

I have thousands of healthy recipes and tips available on https://healthyeating.org that I'd appreciate you sharing where possible.

If you're passionate about nutrition, you should check out the https://healthyeating.org/ethos ethos, and consider the world's complexity and the ego-escalation inherent in food addiction, otherwise you'll be unironically called preachy.

Anyway, it's also my favorite way to help others and I hope you'll love it too x

Creating conversations

local impact checklist

People following this checklist will realistically create a global conversation about junk food and other normalized addictions, realistically enabling hundreds of millions to quit.

You can also create conversations online, and you should pause to consider all the people who are directly and indirectly affected by poor nutrition and how you can reach them, and also remember that local impact is the most real, and seeing real impact works best.

You can also check out https://quiteasily.org/help for another conversational campaign, donation links for https://peacefulfoundation.org, and other ways you can get involved in changing the world.

Really, it just involves thinking about where people who are affected by poor nutrition are (so, everyone), and how to reach out to them.

33.3 Fantasy

Junk food is the elimination of natural appetite, where you are mechanically led to overeat through conditioned cravings, which escalate in proportion to your desensitization. Quitting will raise many questions about your relationship with food, but you should understand these conditioned cravings aren't you and never could be. A binge eater consuming large amounts of processed foods and a casual user eating occasional treats are more similar than different. Rest now, cultivate mindful eating and health, and these questions will work themselves out in time.

For further assistance, you can check out https://mindfulnutrition.org.

Eliminating natural appetite has many societal impacts. You cannot dream of a better future, you are stuck with cravings that live within the current system. You are sold on processed foods rather than enjoying real ones, and you consume projections of idealized eating to rationalize apathy to your own health.

So, I have a favor to ask that might help.

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