Why primary food is so important for our wellbeing

You may very well be thinking, what the hell is 'primary food'?...and quite rightly too.  I was just recently introduced to this concept when I was reading an e-book that IIN sent me about nurturing your body and feeding your soul.  Simply put, primary food is any food that can't be served up on a plate and which nourishes you as a whole and which contributes positively to your overall well being.  I hadn't really thought too much about this before.  Yes we are all told that we need to sleep  more, stress less, have more facials/massages and the list goes on...but do we make those things a priority in our lives...most of the time I don't think we do.

I never used to read many books before i was diagnosed with cancer, but since I was diagnosed I have used reading books as a tool to help myself feel more educated and empowered in a situation where I felt quite out of control.  I felt that treatment decisions were being made for me without me knowing much about the pros and cons of the treatment and decisions had to be made in a very short time period.  From what I have learnt I believe that cancer is not caused by one specific thing as such, its a combination of things that happen in your life that lead you to become unbalanced and unwell.  One of the things that I believe contributed to my cancer is the fact that I did not give myself enough primary food.  I thought that I was the the picture of health at the time I was diagnosed...after all I had just completed a half marathon, I was changing the way I ate and was looking and feeling my best.  Anyone that looked at me would have thought 'wow, she looks fit and healthy'...but little did we know that my boobies were ticking time bombs!  Before my diagnosis, I approached my life very much from the angle of 'everything will be alright, just push on no matter how you feel and put your big girls undies on if you're having a bad day'...very rarely did I listen to my body and what it was trying to tell me...for the most part I just ignored it!  Yes we are told to 'listen to your body' give it rest, but do most of us REALLY know why we are told that?  I don't think until now that I really understood why we need to listen to our body's and nourish ourselves by giving ourselves primary food constantly.  Being diagnosed with cancer was a huge wake up call for me and the Universe/God's way of telling me to listen up before its too late!  If I had known what I know now about health and well being (and there is still so much more to know) i would have lived my life differently and treated myself differently.  My life was way out of balance and 'primary food' was severely lacking in my life.  Unfortunately I had to go through a cancer diagnosis before I would listen to my body.  It is my wish and goal of this blog to make people listen up to advice given to them on how to truly nourish ourselves and be the happiest we have ever been BEFORE being given ultimatums by our bodies like cancer diagnosis's.

This past w'end I went with the family over to a spot that we have been trying to get to for a very long time.  This place is a secret little paradise and we are lucky enough to only live 1 hour away from it!  We drove over to Decanter Bay on Friday late afternoon for two blissful nights.  The photos at the start of this blog post are of the view from our holiday home and the actual holiday home that we were lucky enough to stay in.  This place was my 'primary food' for the w'end.  There was no cell phone reception and no TV which was great, no need to get distracted with things like that when you have a beautiful paradise to explore.  How often do we get distracted by whats truly beautiful in life just because we feel the need to update our Facebook status's, check our text messages or watch that TV program that we just can't miss!  I must admit that at first I felt a little uncomfortable that I couldn't check my phone or switch the TV on...but it only took an hour or two and I was truly pleased I had non of those modern conveniences around which was testament to the fact that most of the time we believe that we need certain things in our lives but in reality we probably don't we just think we do!  The entire w'end was spent getting back to grass roots i.e. catching fish for our dinner, soaking in a true kiwi tub under the stars overlooking the ocean, playing in the ocean with the kids and keeping the windows open at night in our bedrooms to listen to the waves lapping the ocean floor...the list goes on.  This was great 'primary food'!

Particularly at this time of year in the lead up to Christmas it is very important to make sure that we look after ourselves and feed ourselves with 'primary food' as much as we can in a season of over overindulgence.

What have you done lately or what have you got planned over the Christmas period to ensure that you are fed your 'primary food' and are truly nourished?  Have a think about it for a moment and if you can't think of anything then put something in place to ensure that you are nourished.  If you start with nourishing yourself first you will be surprised just how many other things fall into place in your life that you may have been struggling with before.

POSITIVE AFFIRMATION FOR THE DAY:  I deserve to nourish myself EVERY day