Monologue from a Wellness Force podcast in which the speaker (Josh Trent) frames the self as a soul inhabiting a body, argues the body is a separate house that can become sick or addicted, and describes an empowered process of taking control—'becoming the CEO'—to overcome addiction to unhealthy food over an intense ~three-week struggle and subsequent recovery steps.
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There's this life energy that is here in our spiritual world, keeping our body alive. And we are souls. We don't have a soul. We are a soul. And one of the biggest revelations was that my body is not me. My body is the house I live in. And I mistook it for me very much, oh, I have cancer. I have heart disease. That's not possible. A soul can't get cancer and a soul can't get heart disease. The body can get sick and they can call it names, but the body is either going to misbehave itself and keep being addicted to the wrong foods and throw temper tantrums when you try to correct your body or it's going to come under subjection to you. You have to put your body under subjection to you. You got to take over. So I literally told my body one day, I said, you're fired. And you're absolutely fired. You are such a spoiled, rotten little brat. You throw temper tantrums. I get gut aches, headaches if I don't eat garbage food. I was so addicted to all the chemicals and all this stuff and didn't even know that Wendy's and McDonald's had put all that stuff in there for addicting you to their food. I learned when I tried to stop and then it was like, oh, there's going to be a scrap here. And I know who's going to win. My body's been winning all along, has been the CEO of my life. I'm now the CEO of my life. Me, the soul, and it is my body. Body. If you want to put up a fight, I'm in. Let's go. You want to get a gutache, you want to get a headache, a throbbing headache, bring it on. You're not going to get your way. I'm never going to eat that food again for the rest of my life. And I'm going to eat good stuff. And that took about a. It was about a three week battle of intense, tense battle that I, I just kept saying, yep, I'm in. Let's keep scrapping it out. The beautiful thing is I did learn exactly how to get them out of my system and how to repair the damage they had caused. Sam.
