Ask the Holy Spirit

"How many different diets are there? How many formulas for long living?

The only real one is known to the Holy Spirit.

We should go by the general guidelines (frying and fats and lots of sugar are not good for us; vitamins are) while knowing that we can't regulate the entire scheme of health through intellect.

There has to be an involvement of the spirit. If you want to be healthy and live out your mission, do so in a way that is spiritual.

That means asking the Holy Spirit about everything you and your family should eat and what you and your family should do (in moments of health anxiety), and it also means exercising the spiritual laws of discipline, which include fasting.

There's an old saying that discipline is the key to happiness, and the more you meditate on that, the more you see its truth.

Diets are only a shortcut -- a temporary fix. Does your body bloat because of salt -- which causes far more weight gain than most realize? Are you retaining water? Are you "addicted" to something that would cause rapid weight loss if it was cut out?

The Holy Spirit, knowing the intricacies of every cell, will tell you what it is and help you get rid of it (instead of waiting for purgatory).

It is Lent and thus the right time to approach discipline. When we control the flesh, we transcend it, we form it to the spirit, we avoid gluttony as well as other lusts -- and our prayers are all the more powerful.

Fasting works wonders. So does simple self control, which is a form of abstinence.

When we fast, we control not only our bodies but our thoughts, our moods, our passions. We are purified and that purity is transmitted as health to the body.

In discipline, we find out who we really are. We grow closer to Jesus."

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