In this episode, you will learn exactly how to stop junk food cravings with a multi-pronged approach that has absolutely NOTHING to do with restricting your "junk" food intake.
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How to Stop Junk Food Cravings
Let’s jump in, but before I get into the details how to stop junk food cravings, lets talk about what happens when we ignore cravings, bc I had a listener question come in (which you can submit at audreychristie.com/questions.
Juls asks, “what happens if I use my willpower and just push right through craving after craving?”
The funny thing about these needs and these cravings, is that they won’t just go away, regardless of the cause. You have to deal with the root of the issue, so if it’s physical hunger, you have to feed your body. If its something else like stress or an emotional void, you have to fix that underlying issue and then, only then will the struggle stop. While cannabis products from companies like Oregrown Portland, can help reduce stress, make you feel better, and less likely to snack, it doesn't address the root cause. What happens is that it begins a cycle...first your craving may come at you at first as a whisper. And then, as a tap on the shoulder. And then, as a nudge, then a forceful shove. And finally, if you keep ignoring the base need, the base emotion, the base nutrient, it smacks you like a mack truck. By the time you are at mack truck stage, many clients end up uncontrollably overeating to the point of binging. Hence the first step in getting rid of cravings, especially before they turn into an way out of control moment.
Okay to start, let’s review a little of what we talked about last week regarding cravings.
What is a craving?
A “craving can be broadly interpreted, but for our purposes, a craving is an intense and irresistible hunger for a particular food. A craving is most often driven by an imbalance, an emotion, or an emptiness, sometimes referred to a lack of feeling whole.
I also want to make sure we are all on the same page, so if you haven’t listened to last week’s episode, I encourage you to do so or to read the blog post. But I gave 3 ways to get rid of cravings.
3 Steps to Stop “Junk” Food of Cravings
First, Give Up. I know, sounds crazy right? But I’m completely serious, here’s what I want you to give up: restrictive diets, diet culture in general, and killing yourself with cardio.
- Give up killer cardio. I have had clients come in and say, “I’ve been on the treadmill 45 minutes, twice a day for 10 days, you’d be so proud!” No! Stop that killer cardio, it's just not sustainable, and when you fall off the wagon, be it the killer cardio or the restrictive diet, you end up full of failure, guilt, and shame.
- Give up on the body wraps. Those are fun, but they aren’t really helpful.
- Give up on those silly shake programs.
- Give up counting carbs, calories, and points.
- Give up herba-plexa-level-thriving mess you are being sold.
Remember: Having a shake for example, occasionally, because it is tasty or convenient, or nutritious (which most aren’t) is okay. Taking a supplement because you recognize that it has health benefits for your body and it's bioavailable, also okay. But diving into this entire, take this diet-culture program because its good for you and you must adhere to the 1,200 calorie diet and killing yourself P90X style with cardio every day in order to lose weight is not sustainable.
You may reach some arbitrary goal with these methods, but when and if you do, you essentially have 2 choices - you can continue down that path on into infinity, taking your shake program or magic pills or counting points, continuing the restrictive diet and fighting your body’s innate wisdom, urges, and needs. The other option is to gain it all back and start over.
So there is the first step, give up.
Next, seek out. Last week I mentioned that cravings can be caused by emotional voids. When you find you are searching everywhere for that item that is sweet, or salty, or fatty, here’s what you do.
Stop for a moment. Take a breath.
A really big, deep, deep breath that fills your lungs. All the way to the bottom of your tummy. Right? Take a deep breath and ask, "Am I hungry? Am I physically hungry?"
How do you know when you're hungry?
Here are some clues...hunger, physical hunger, that is for fuel is physical and it doesn't occur based on time. We talked about it doesn't happen because it's 12 noon or seven pm or 6:45 in the morning and it's time for breakfast. We also learned that hunger doesn’t happen based on circumstance, it doesn't happen because you walked into the break room at work and there happens to be a plate of cookies or because you walked by a pizza shop and you can smell the pizza, or because you watched The Food Network.
Physical hunger isn't urgent. Physical hunger comes on gradually. Physical hunger isn't picky. It can be satisfied with any kind of food. Emotional hunger, on the other hand, is a two-year-old. Have you had experience with a two-year-old? Sometimes you can fight it but sometimes you best just give in, more on that in a minute.
Physical hunger can be satisfied with any type of food. Physical hunger also allows you to stop eating when you're no longer hungry. Because it allows space for satisfaction. Whereas hunger that isn’t physical is often associated with guilt and sometimes even shame. Physical hunger comes with physical signs like your stomach is growling or your energy is draining.
By pausing and shifting with that breath into the present, you allow yourself just a moment just enough space to identify the cause. Be it stress, anxiety, fatigue, joy, sadness. And then you can find an appropriate solution for it.
Today we are going to come back to Seek Out and spend a bit of time diving deep, but first let’s review the final step in stopping junk food cravings.
Finally, Give In. The third step is to give in. Give in to the craving if you are physically hungry. Just freaking give in. And sometimes if you're not physically hungry, it's okay just to give in too.
And so, you can give in something that fits the profile of “healthy.” Or you can give in all together.
I'm giving you permission right now to go ahead and have that ice cream. To have those cheese fries, the catch is, just be fully present with it. When you're fully present while you're eating, you're not double fisting fries into your mouth while watching TV or scrolling through Facebook. You are taking one bite at a time. You are savoring the textures, the flavors, the smell.
Here's the thing, when you're fully present and you're giving in to a craving and you're savoring each bite you'll find the very first bite is just as delicious as you freaking imagined it. It's bliss. And the second bite is also really good. Oh, yes, really good. Right? And then that third bite good too.
Did you notice what happened? It is a little less ah-mazing each time. A few more bites and it may even become kind of “meh.” You see, if are present with what you are eating, and you check in about every three bites, especially if you're new at this, you can really tune in and see if it's worth carrying on if you're still physically hungry.
Now, let's jump into that step 2 a little deeper. As I mentioned there are many solutions to cravings, probably the biggest one-stop-shop is to 1. See if you are hungry and if so 2. Give in. But, as you might guess that is not always the best case, what if you are emotional and have a craving or tired and have a craving, so let's dive a little deeper into some more specific or targeted solutions for stopping cravings.
How to Seek Out the Cause of Your Cravings (+ Solutions too!)
Last week I mentioned that cravings can be caused via a deficiency in a particular nutrient. And this one is kind of a misnomer to call it a craving because it is actually a deficiency. But, I include it because for a long time it was widely publicized that when you're craving chocolate, for example, what you're really craving is magnesium and to eat some almonds. And that was really, not true exactly. At least that's not the exact pathway or cause and effect. There can be a physical correlation, but it's not really that specific. If you were craving fresh fruits and vegetables, then that could legitimately be a sign of a nutrient deficiency. But let's face it, if we were all craving fresh fruits and vegetables we wouldn't be connected right now. Your body is really great at showing up and letting you know when you need certain things, more water, sleep, for example, or even physical cues as to when you need to fuel your body from physical hunger. But the fact that most people crave high carb, high-fat comfort food, along with some scientific research that's been done, it's a really good indicator that cravings are not generally related to nutrient deficiencies.
More often, nutrient deficiencies show up as messages in our body or as signals or signs. They show up as things like migraines, tingling in the hands and feet, a big fancy word for that is peripheral neuropathy, muscle cramps, hair loss, low energy to the point of feeling weak or fatigued, catching a cold every time the wind blows. Those are physical indications that you are lacking in nutrients. If your mind is telling you that you are lacking in a nutrient and so you need to consume this Hershey bar, that's your mind playing tricks on you. It's seeking a reward or comfort or filling a void.
When you feel your cravings might be driven by a particular biochemical change in your body, and again, when I’m referring to “biochemical change” I want you to think about hormones sure, but also about blood sugar. Use the Seek Out step to find out what is really going on, statistically, we know that while hormones can drive cravings, 80 to 90% of the time, it’s not physical hunger but a mental detour for emotional triggers.
When you do have a craving or when you are hungry related to a biochemical change via hormones or blood sugar, generally those cravings are satisfied and come to the body as signs of physical hunger. So they show up as those cues I discussed earlier of physical hunger you know where it’s non-urgent, satisfied by any kind of fuel, etc. One question I get asked a lot is "Any kind of fuel? How can my body just need any kind of fuel?"
Well, when your body needs fuel, what it's requiring, and I'm about to get all science nerd on you, what it's requiring is energy in the cells in the form of ATP, which is a byproduct of cellular respiration. Now, the cool things about our body is that proteins and fatty acids are metabolized in the same way that glucose is. Your body doesn't care on a cellular level what you're putting into it to satisfy that hunger. Now, because of genetic modification and engineering and pesticides and all kinds of things that we humans have done to our food supply, there are guidelines on what makes better choices so that it doesn't destroy your body's ability to read its own DNA (one snack won’t do it), but in general, daily, the only thing your body requires is some sort of food going into it that has a nutritional content, so be it a fat, a protein, a fruit, a vegetable, a sugar cube or something that resembles it. It all turns into energy in the body.
Glucose produces more energy per molecule of glucose than say protein or fat does, but it also has more negative side effects than a protein or a fat. But that is a discussion for a people that are much further along in their intuitive eating journey. For today’s purposes, I want you to know that your body doesn't care what you put in it, and so that's part of the way you know when you're physically hungry.
If you are truly having a hormonal or blood sugar level issue that's driving you to eat, and it's not a genuine physiological need, so it does actually come in the form of a craving, usually, this only happens on the heels of overindulging in food or overindulging in alcohol, like a hangover. And you can have food hangovers or alcohol hangovers. And the reason this happens is that there is a large fluctuation in your blood sugar that causes these reward hormones to become so great, your body's like a little crack addict and wants to get some more.
It happens, people overindulge, everyone has their moments, then following those overindulgences there is sort of life hack for those oopsie moments. You simply can take a big ol’ glass of water and carry it with you all day and squeeze a fresh orange in there, in the same manner, you would a lemon. If the cravings are really severe, consider going up to one part orange juice to eight parts water or two parts orange juice to ten parts water is probably easier math to do. You just drink that all day and eat your normal meals. And generally, within about three days, you won't need that orange in your water anymore.
Habits and Patterns as Cravings
Then the next type of craving is better classified as a habit or pattern because it is a habit or pattern. It's like when you go to the movies and you've already been out to dinner and you want popcorn, or again, football, you have to have pizza and wings or that sort of thing. How do you know what those are? Well, they're pretty easy once you know that it's a possibility that they're there. Aside from the football or the movie example, let's talk about making kids' lunches. Do you make kids' lunches after dinner? You're already done eating, your body's already signaled that you're not hungry anymore so you stop eating, and then you go pack lunches and you're snacking on chips and maybe having a little bit of this and that. But you're not hungry, so that's a habit. You sit down in front of the TV and you think you need a bowl of chips. You're not hungry, that's a habit.
I include habits in cravings because it's sort of like a sister to craving. The easiest way to fix it is to change the pattern. And it doesn't have to be a big change. Maybe it's a situation where a replacement snack is in order, so maybe you sit with an apple or apple slices while you're watching TV. That's not the best solution because you don't wanna mindlessly eat, but maybe it's something ... it may work in the short-term to snap you out of the habit and into the present moment. Maybe you take your wallet back out to the car after you buy your movie tickets. And it only takes a time or two. Maybe you see one or two movies without the popcorn, and you provide enough interruption in that pattern that you allow yourself to enjoy and experience it in another way.
Another way to break the habit or pattern is to not multitask. In talking to clients and some of the studies that I've read, multitasking really, really, really screws you on mindless eating. If you're watching TV while you eat dinner if you're eating while you're doing anything else other than sitting and enjoying eating, you're not focusing on the task at hand and that can lead to the mindless snacking.
Cravings Related to Emotions
Now for the big one. I just spent a third of our time together on what constitutes about 10 to 20%, and that 20% I'm being really generous, of the reason why we crave particular foods. The big one, the majority of the time, your craving is driven by an emotion or an emotional void.
You eat, you indulge, you give in to that craving either for distraction from that emotion or from that stressor or for comfort for it. And researchers using MRIs and lots of different studies have actually narrowed this down to specifics. Your brain sends out a cascade of hormones in response to emotion. And leptin, which is a hormone that specifically cues hunger, is also cascaded. Leptin cues hunger and then the satisfaction of that hunger or the counterbalance for the leptin serves as a cue for a reward for both the stress and the craving.
This kind of emotional stress or need shows up as a craving, and when it does it comes on suddenly. It's usually on the heels of a really terrible conversation with someone or maybe your boss was a jerk or you got some distressing news. Sometimes it comes with a super happy event. Sometimes it comes with a celebration. And when you give in, a lot of times you feel powerless, or sometimes shame and guilt. These types of cravings, emotional cravings, never, ever, ever have a physical hunger associated with them. They are really specific and they fall into three broad categories: salty, fatty, or sweet. Now, sometimes there's a combination. Sometimes people crave things that fit into more than one category. And for some reason, what comes to mind is ... and I've never, ever had one, but on the news around Texas State Fair time and on Facebook they're always talking about all these crazy combinations, so somebody who craves salty, fatty, and sweet might be totally jonesing for a deep-fried Snickers bar for example.
But by and large, most people have one category that is sort of their thing.
We're gonna talk and get into some of the science and blend some of the energetic stuff into it too. Because if you've heard my talks or consumed my information before, you know I blend ancient and modern, science and energetic. I really believe that achieving wellness physically and making it last effortlessly starts with fixing what's on the inside.
Again, usually, a person has a broad category that they fall into most of the time. For me it was salty. I'll take a pile of potato chips over a bowl of ice cream any day. And if you give me the ice cream, I'm probably gonna dip potato chips in it because salty was my thing. And I still lean towards more savory foods in general. But this isn’t about me, so we're gonna start with sweet cravings because that's the one I hear most of the time.
What is so annoying and frankly damaging about the solutions that are out there is that the diet-culture says things like, "Go for a walk. Go work out. Just don’t. Have willpower."
And you're like, "It's 10:00 pm, I'm standing in my pajamas in front of my refrigerator scouring for what to eat because I'm craving whatever. And you're gonna tell me to get dressed, go outside, and it's hot, cold, rainy, dark, whatever, and go for a walk." That's not a reasonable solution. And quite frankly, it's a band-aid.
Sweet Cravings
Okay, let's start talking about the sweet craving because I can go on about the insanity all day. On a cellular level, a craving for sweet things is related to the body needing energy, the ATP that we talked about. Sugar, again glucose, is one of the quickest sources of immediate energy. When glucose enters the body, it goes through glycolysis, and that immediately produces ATP. When proteins or fats go into the body, they have to undergo a few changes, before they can enter the energy cycle and give off ATP. It takes more work for your body to break it down, which isn’t a bad thing.
Sugar, however, is an instant hit. It's a quick, quick source of energy. Glucose, as I mentioned, is sugar in its simplest form, so it's sugar once it's inside of our body. And it's what powers our body's internal powerhouse, internal electric plant at a cellular level.
Our bodies are phenomenal, and glucose is converted through a series of chemical reactions by our bodies from things that don't have any sugar in them like protein or fat because our bodies are pretty freaking phenomenal like that. But reduced energy production in our cells can occur because of a lack of minerals necessary for proper insulin secretion sensitivity. And I don't mean so lacking that you're in the diabetic category, although the scale definitely does shift from all the way from diabetes all the way to wellness. But sweet cravings can be helped by fixing some of those supplements that maybe you're not ingesting regularly to help balance out your body. So if you're craving sweets, things you need to add to your supplementation: Omega 3s, chromium, magnesium vitamins, and B vitamins, as well as increasing your healthy fats intakes, like avocado, coconut oil, ghee, fat from grass-fed, happy animals. Increasing these things, and you'll have to give yourself some time, you'll find those cravings slowly go away, but they go away forever by increasing supplementation of those items.
Now the flip side of that is the sweetness craving to fill an emotional experience. And these two things don't happen separately. If you're craving sweets, yeah, your body's craving energy. And you probably need to supplement with those things I mentioned, the Omega 3, chromium, magnesium, B vitamins, and increase healthy fats. But you're also craving to fill an emotional experience or fill an emotional void.
Typically, sweetness is associated with sadness. So what happens is on some level, whether you're conscious of it or not, you're hoping to temporarily cover up or ease a low point with that little burst of sugar high. And now, you can look at this on a scientific biochemical level or on the energetic level.
The biochemical level would be the experience of the happiness oriented neurotransmitter serotonin or the more spiritual view that you're quite literally looking for "sweet" experiences in life. Guess what? The sweet experiences in life, they also trigger that serotonin release. In plain language, your body responds internally with happiness hormones whether you reward that emotional void with food, which causes more troubles, leads to illness, or with happy experiences, which often help you balance your emotional and physical issues, avoid those cravings, and move the needle more towards wellness body, mind, and spirit.
Following that three bite rule mentioned earlier, you might be able to give in to that experience. And you might be able to overall reduce and eliminate those cravings with those supplements that I mentioned, so Omega 3s, B vitamins, chromium, magnesium, and healthy fats. But what you really, really require is more serotonin stimulating activities. And these may be a little different for everyone.
Generally, physical activity, and no, I'm still not gonna tell you to go take a walk, unless that's what you truly enjoy doing. These may be a little bit different for everyone. For me, I like to go for a walk, I like to go for a jog, I love to ride my bike, I love to do yoga. And interestingly, as I my body shrank over the last few years, I wasn’t griding out the killer cardio, I was just doing the activities that I liked to do and that felt good and that I wanted to do. Oftentimes the thing that increases the serotonin the most is something that you enjoyed as a child. So tap into that inner child, and what did you like to do? Did you like to ride bikes? Did you like to play in the woods? Go for a hike. Did you like to paint, or draw? Did you like to color?
Other things you can do, meditation. Research, science shows that meditation in as little as five minutes, five stinking minutes three times a day, and we can all do that, increases serotonin levels. Other things that increase serotonin levels, massage. Everybody loves a massage, right? Early morning sunlight. Just getting outside, sitting outside, will do it. And also, getting a full nights sleep. And you can totally check out some of my information on sleep. I have a bulletproof sleep protocol, you can download that here. Okay, those are all things that increase serotonin levels.
So, when you're looking at, okay, well I can just give in to the cravings, produce that serotonin and repeat that cycle and pull the needle toward illness and disease and unhappiness. That, satisfying that sweet craving with food is a temporary bandage. Solving that by introducing more activities into your day, that produce more serotonin, that increase serotonin levels, that's a sweetness that heals. Okay?
Salty Cravings
All right. Next up, salty. When I'm putting together salty and I'm going through the research, I'm like, "Oh my god. This was so me." And still is a little. I still struggle with some of these things. A craving for saltiness, though, physically in the body is associated with your kidneys and the adrenals and the water balance that they control. So, the water balance that they control in your body.
When stress, anxiety, big emotions, emotions that are significant enough for you to crave food and want to eat them are present and intense for long enough, the adrenal glands actually become exhausted and they reduce the creation of something called aldosterone.
Aldosterone is a hormone that helps your body to retain the proper amount of sodium. So, this is a good time to point out that stress is really perceived, right? So what drives me to high stress is different than what drives you to high stress, and that's different than what drives your neighbor to high stress, and that's different than what drives each one of you reading this to high stress.
For example. So, it's not stressful for me to see somebody injured and bleeding. I mean, I'm sure on some level it's a little bit stressful, but some people that puts them in a full-fledged panic. I could be in that situation and help because I have the medical training to do so. But other people just faint, right? So that's an example of something that's high stress to some people, and not high stress to others. And stressors can become high just over time. It's kind of like waterboarding. Like a constant drip on your face eventually becomes the most stressful thing in the world.
When a stressor or anxiety is present and intense those adrenal glands become stressed and that aldosterone in your body messes up the hormone retention. That’s how these high-stress levels can cause you to crave salty things, your body is seeking to replenish what's lost. Now to be clear your body isn’t causing you to crave Lays potato chips, your body is just asking for salt.
You can start to shift this with some supplementation that supports the adrenal glands, including vitamin B-5. You've got to make sure B-5 is bioavailable, though. And also, herbs or essential oils that are adaptogenic. Siberian ginseng, holly, basil, lavender, also essential oils, lavender, clary sage, basil, lemon, geranium, some others. These help to repair on a cellular level, the neuroendocrine balance and also return that part of the neuroendocrine system to balance. Which in turn, reduces your salty craving.
Another thing to do is to swap your table salt for a quality Himalayan sea salt, which can help to keep those cravings at bay.
On an emotional level excess stress, constant life stress leads to adrenal exhaustion and energetically, it's often a sign that you're resisting the flow of life. It's a sign that you're trying to solidify yourself because you're overwhelmed and afraid on some level. And at this point a lot of times, especially the people that are affected by this, you have that voice in your head that says, "Ugh, whatever. I'm not overwhelmed or afraid. Blah." That, "She's so full of crap. I mean, I like salty stuff. I crave salty stuff, but that's totally not me." Here’s a hint, this means it is it even more likely to be you.
You can use salty cravings and then the resulting salt intake to build a mineralized fort against whatever the stressor is, or stressors are. And the problem is that salt temporarily fixes the water balance, and it can bolster your stress reserves internally, but in the long term, just like with sweet, it only ends up creating resistance and disease and not healing.
How do you fix it? Well, you got to find acceptance without control. Ouch, right? Salt cravers are control freaks, most often. And the challenge, my challenge as well, is to find strength in trust and in flexibility rather than enforcing emotional walls and forts because it doesn't work. They always crumble. Recognizing this and then fixing it is the way to reduce, prevent, solve those salty cravings. You do that by practicing mindfulness, trusting in the process of life by working on acceptance. And this looks a little bit different for everyone. By moving in the flow of life, rather than standing in resistance.
I find, for me and for a lot of my clients, breath work really helps. And that can fall into the yoga or meditation category. Personally, I like both. But not necessarily yoga in terms of asana or poses, but more in terms of the pranayama, or breathing exercises. Although, I mean the physical benefits of yoga are great on lots of levels, especially for control freaks because you can't control it.
But, breath examples. So if you are sticking to just those five minutes of meditation three times a day, it can be as simple as rhythmic breathing.
Breathe in for four, hold it for four, exhale for four, and hold for four before you inhale again.
There's lots of and lots and lots of examples both downloading my meditation guide, as well as free examples on YouTube of guided meditations that you can use.
Last but not least, let's talk about fatty cravings. Cravings for fats like nut butters, peanut, macadamia nut, almond, whatever you like. Oils, fried foods, physically can be related to calcium deficiency because the craving, even though we can't articulate it, is for saturated fats
These fats are necessary to help maintain bone density and to keep calcium in the body. It's really neat to see changes in my clients as they balance their mineral intake, and soon find that reduction in fatty cravings is almost completely eliminated.
Now, fatty cravings may also be really, really straightforward in their motivation, and indicate that you really need a good quality essential fatty acid. And those help with a whole host of things. On the most basic level, they balance the hormones and stabilize the cells, which are required for life. You can get that from eating oily fishes, fresh seed oils, that sort of thing. There is a difference, remember though, in craving a good fat and satisfying that craving and the ability to inhale a tub of KFC in one sitting when you're not even hungry. One is listening to your body, and the other is a disordered eating pattern. One causes satisfaction and one often ends in shame and guilt.
Inside that amazing, beautiful body of yours, fat digestion occurs with the help of something called bile. And bile is produced by the liver. So if you eat too much fat and too many fatty foods because you're constantly craving them, you find yourself with kind of an uncomfortable, bloated upper abdominal area. And that's a big signal that you have seriously challenged your liver.
Increasing your intake of healthy fats, be it omega-3 oils, seeds, oily fishes like salmon you can effectively reduce or eliminate these cravings. But you still haven't healed the root energetic cause.
Energetically the liver is the physical seat of personal power and creativity. It's right there at the third chakra, or the solar plexus chakra. So if you're craving fat, it's generally a sign that you're not accepting your own importance. And it's a subconscious need. And even this is often a symptom of people who, on the outside might be boasting about their importance, right? But subconsciously there's a need to fill and to keep full. To keep the full reality of our power sort of distracted by uncomfortableness in our human suit.
How do you get past that? Well, you learn to love yourself again. So you make a daily practice of pointing out things that you love about yourself, physically, emotionally, spiritually. In all ways, right? And you go against social norms and you, I like to call it the zero-Fs, and you can assume what F means, but I like to call it “giving zeros,” for short. You give zeros about somebody else's opinion or judgment or perceived judgment. And you make decisions and you let your light shine, let your freak flag fly. Know that you don't fit in a box, and share that with others. And that you are beautiful and the size of your body (we come in all shapes and sizes) has nothing to do with your abilities, your beauty, your light, or your health for that matter. And it's okay if when you step into this power people fall away.
And what happens is once you step into this power, you begin to verbalize or articulate out loud or in writing your own truth, you can really understand yourself, and step into your power and see how beautifully powerful and amazing you truly are. And that helps you to release all those restrictions on your personal power, healing up that solar plexus chakra and keeping it balanced. And it's not something you can stop. Chakra balancing is like hydration. You have to continue to do it to keep it up. But it releases the restrictions on your personal power, and then you've truly healed the underlying cause, the energetic cause and then with what we talked about earlier, the physical cause of your craving.
Closing:
To wrap up this huge episode, So, quick review. Cravings have a physical and energetic cause, right? This is the seek out. These are the longterm solutions, rather than the short term band-aid. So when we look at the ... We're going to look at the three steps when you get a craving. Give up, or if you're experiencing cravings, give up, seek out and give in. Give up. Give up the ridiculous stuff. Let's look at real solutions. To seek out. Even if you have to go to step three and give in, notice what the reason is behind that so that we can pick a solution for it. And then you're going to want to take part in both the physical and the energetic solution to make it go away for good.
Be Well,