Ch.2 Breakfast (NTCHR MNDD Free Book)

Having a healthy breakfast isn’t just about what you’re having for breakfast, but rather what time you ate dinner and eat breakfast.

One of the most important things that people neglect in healthy living is rest. I’ve learned, in life, that optimal rest requires time without eating, thus leading to breaking your fast.

The term breakfast originally means to break your fast. You’re not really fasting if you’re eating at 12 AM, and having breakfast at 9 is not breaking your fast; that’s just eating. An eating schedule like that has no breakfast; that’s just continual eating.

The point is to let the body rest and be without work at all.

Complete rest is required for the anatomy that we have to work optimally. Everything in nature has a system. All these systems work together in harmony to be reliant on each other. We are a part of nature, so our body mechanisms rely on each other. If something relies on something, it can also react. Eat for good reactions so your system can rely on you.

Having self-relying organisms, we literally repair ourselves. In almost every scenario where you’d have to see a doctor, a recommended part of every get-better regimen is rest. The phrase “time heals all wounds” is not just true metaphorically; with the proper diet, time, and proper exercise for what causes you dis-ease, all ailments can be eased until reversed completely.

So in order to live in optimal health, I stopped eating at either 6 or 7 PM. This way when I’d wake up, my body wanted to have breakfast. When you eat, your body is digesting what you’ve ingested—this doesn’t happen in the snap of a finger nor the bat of an eye. Distributing food to different parts of the body, which is amazing, takes time.

When you sleep on food, your mind rests a little while your body works on digesting what you’ve eaten.

I say your mind rests a little because it is the central control system for all nervous functions. So while part of your mind rests, the rest of your mind sends signals to your stomach by way of nerves.

When you wake up after late night eating, people usually eat again when they rise. So, because of that, some go days on end without letting their digestive system rest. This leads to anxiety and stagnation of the body’s natural regulatory functions.

Overeating turns out to be a term that can be used to describe most of the world’s inhabitants.

Overeating has the same effect that overproducing has at a factory. Overproduction leads to waste because of excess. When we overeat, we stress our digestive systems. The same as conveyor belts getting jammed, machinery overheats, and the factory has to shut down and repair to function. Shutting down and repairing takes time. That shut down and repair time can be equated to your body healing itself or making sure everything is finely tuned for smooth and easy operation.

In order to have optimal living, we must stay on continual reset. By resetting, you're forced to pay attention to yourself.

Your reset should always include self-assessments; you can't refine without taking note of what's happening in your ecosystem.

The best form of resetting is having a check system:

• Dinner at or before 7 PM
• Light, non-starchy bedtime snack (preferably soft fruit)
• Six hours or more of sleep
• Glass of water upon rising
• Something green as a part of breakfast
• Moderate exercises

Use and edit the check system above for your personal use; not too much tweaking, though. Check yourself regularly for consistency.

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