Eating Disorders – Higher Self Is Calling
May you be suffering from an eating disorder and not know about it? Eating disorders refer to irregular eating habits and severe concern about body weight and shape. Like all illnesses they are a cry for help (the first step to recovery) to a life of meaning, energy and a real sense of purpose. It is a wakeup call from your Higher Self to show you are on a catastrophic wrong path. It can be an invitation for integrating your disowned parts and moving beyond the limitations of your story.
Our Higher Self is in constant communication with you through symbolic language, the language of eternity, in order to bring you back on your life’s path, especially if you suffer from an eating disorder.
What Are Eating Disorders?
As psychiatric labels are widely used to describe certain conditions I need to give you at least the names before I deconstruct their meaning, away from the common usage.
When there may be regular vomiting, this is called Bulimia Nervosa. Binge Eating is another type of eating disorder which involves eating a lot of mixed food in a very short period of time. Anorexia Nervosa is not eating enough for health and often involves obsessive exercising. Obesity is overeating. All of the Eating Disorders accompany many health problems and can be life threatening.
Eating Disorders can be triggered by one or many factors, such as negative body image fuelled by society’s concern for good looks. Family problems, stressful life events and transitions, careers that require a lean body for performance, feeling victimised can all play their part.
Sufferers may look very healthy all the while they may be very ill underneath the appearance. They attempt to protect themselves from emotional pain in the face of stressful relationships and conditions. Food and their appearance become the centre of their attention to create a sense of control as a way of coping with unpredictable nature of life.
Hear The Call Of Your Higher Self
Our Higher Self is in constant communication with us through symbolic language, the language of eternity.
Synchronicities, accidents, illnesses, the words of your colleague or a friend, the lines you read in a book, dreams that you may have or dreams that you heard may all be thought of as communications from your Higher Self.
When we are so immersed in the material world that we lose contact with our Higher Self, we limit ourselves to our body and our story, the ‘so called reality’ we are born into. This is what we call the false self. Some call it the ego, some name it as the conditioned self.
When we identify with our false self we become overly vulnerable to others’ approval or to search for security. Growing up to become a mature person is all about recognising the signs of living via the false self and reconnecting with our Higher Self.
When we are identified with our false self it is likely that we sidetrack from the path of our life’s purpose.
Wittgenstein who is one the most influential philosophers of 20th century points out that the best picture of human soul is human body. I read it in Mustafa Çilek’s website.
This year I started to work with him, he is an health and fitness professional.
Sometimes he assists me over Skype in the early hours of the morning. One morning I was talking to him about a presentation I was preparing for Özyeğin University Family Therapy Department; mentioned the concept of ‘false self’. He was intrigued by it.
That day we were using a dim light for illuminating the room. He had difficulty seeing some parts of the room. As the day light started to enter he was able to see much better.
He made this astute analogy: ‘If the false self is similar to an artificial light the true self must be like the natural light of the sun’.
An Eating Disorder Can Invite You To Lead A Meaningful Life
Have you heard the story of the wise man? When he is asked to prove his powers he responds: ‘My miracle is that I eat when I am hungry and I rest / sleep when I am tired.’
As miraculous beings we are all 100% capable of perceiving the communications of our Higher Selves.
The integration of Higher Self is the ability to perceive and follow its guidance. This is what makes life truly three dimensional, gives it a meaningful depth, a purpose, a journey towards wholeness as Marion Woodman puts it so eloquently. To me this is the only life worth living.
