Fruit!

Without a doubt, you know by now that fruit is one of my favorite topics, and that I’m big on the importance of getting in fresh fruit to your diet. There’s so much that fruit has to offer, and so much value brought to the table. But here’s the big frustration that I hear from many people: “I don’t like to eat fruit because it upsets my stomach”.

Surprisingly, for such a natural food, this problem comes up all the time. I’d like to take a few minutes today to address this once and for all, and give you the insight and clarity that will allow you to never worry about eating fruit again!

With that said, let’s take a look at the real problem here: food combining. It’s all about the combination and timing of different foods – it’s not the fruit. When you combine sweets (whether that’s natural, fresh fruit or refined sugar) with fats and carbs, you get digestive disturbances on some level. The simple sugars are made to be digested and utilized quickly by the body, and when they’re trapped in with longer-burning fuels like complex carbs and fats, the sugars ferment and create gas.

Nobody wants stomach pains and excess gas in their lives! But that’s not a reason to avoid fruit at all. Rather, be aware of when you’re taking it in. Instead of having a peanut butter sandwich with a large bowl of sweet fruit (simple sugars, complex carbs and fats), opt for fruit as a snack or meal of its own. The way I commonly  do this is through the smoothies you’ll find me drinking down – it’s usually a green smoothie, but occasionally a tall fruit smoothie as well…especially in the summertime. The smoothie can give you the calories and volume you need for a full meal, while providing both optimal nutrition and ease of digestion.

Besides the meal option, I’ll give you one more idea: having it in the morning or at night. In the morning, you’ll have a “clean slate” with an empty stomach assuming you haven’t eaten before falling asleep! That allows you to take in fruit and digest it with ease, with some only taking roughly 30 minutes to digest. Then, you can tackle your larger breakfast or snack – already having the health benefits of fruit tackled first thing in the morning.

The other idea is having fruit as your last meal in the evening. This works well for an entirely different reason: how good you feel when you wake up. If you eat your last meal at 8:00 pm and go to sleep at 10:30, you’re giving yourself a 2 1/2 hour window to digest that last meal. If that last meal is a few pieces of fresh fruit, you’ll be fresh and feeling good by the time you fall asleep – and when you wake up the next morning. However, if you make that last meal a random mix of fats, complex carbs and all sorts of other things, you can bet that you won’t be able to digest it by the time you fall asleep (if you can fall asleep – eating at night can be extremely stimulating). Imagine waking up to a stomach full of half-digested foods churning around! No wonder so many people aren’t excited about waking up every morning!

The bottom line with fruit is that you should enjoy eating every bite, knowing that you’re contributing to your overall health and vitality, as well as personal energy throughout the day. You’re giving yourself the kind of nutrition you deserve, but you should also feel good throughout the day. Start to keep these food combining principles in the back of your mind and you’ll find that eating the same foods – just a bit differently – can lead to a dramatically better quality of life.

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This is a topic I’ve been really been looking forward to talking about with all of you because it’s such a powerful principle at work in all of our lives. It’s called the Law Of Attraction – or more simply put, the Law Of Resonance.

The reason I write about this here is because it has everything to do with your lifestyle freedom – your ability to live the lifestyle you choose. If you want to start attracting new possibilities into your life, you need to start vibrating at a different frequency. It’s the oldest rule in the book: if you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll get getting what you’ve always gotten.

The way it plays out is this: your thoughts determine how you feel. When you think of all the things you’re grateful for, you feel good. When you daydream about something that made you happy the other day, you feel good. On the other hand, when you allow your focus to shift to the things that aren’t going right, that frustrate you, that really make you feel disconnected, you don’t feel good. What are these feelings? These feelings are just your vibratory state changing over time. Your thoughts determine how you feel, or your vibratory state.

Here’s the significant part: how you feel determines your experience of reality. Think about the Law Of Resonance. When you strike a tuning fork at 440 hz, or a musical “A”, every other object nearby resonating at that frequency is amplified (i.e. another 440 hz tuning fork would start to vibrate and ring out). Now imagine your best friend meeting up with you for a movie. They’re all smiles, and they’ve been having the day of their lives – how do you feel? Do you feel uplifted, like they’re broadcasting out that vibration or feeling? Absolutely!

Now imagine meeting someone you’ve never met before; your good friend is introducing you to their daughter, who they think you should meet. If that daughter is vibrating in a low, negative state and really just repelling you at all levels, doesn’t it make sense that she’s literally attracting friends, situations, opportunities and an overall experience that matches that broadcast?

What if you met her a second time at a follow-up 6 months later and she was all smiles (much like your best friend in the earlier example)? Wouldn’t you be much more inclined to get to know her better, become friends or business partners, hand her resources and opportunities, etc? I want you to take notice of a crucially important point here. She didn’t change at all. She’s still the same person, made of the same material she always was. What changed was her thoughts about the world around her, the way she feels on a daily basis and the vibration she’s broadcasting out to the world. All change is possible simply because you don’t have to change yourself – you simply have to become more aware of your thoughts and take back control of the driver’s seat.

I hope this has helped to quickly clear up all the misconceptions and lack of clarity about the Law Of Attraction and how it works in your life. There are all kinds of ways to raise your vibrational state, but it’s important to understand why you would consciously choose to do so in the first place. Simply put, choose the thoughts and do the things that make you feel good – it’ll keep you uplifted and help bring up everyone around you along the way.

Unleash Your Vitality,

John Brackett

P.S. Leave a quick comment for me and share your thoughts about the Law Of Attraction…what’s your take on it?