Outwitting the Devil and Food
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Today we discuss food and the book Outwitting the Devil. What does Napoleon Hill say about food in his interview with the devil. It’s really important.
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"What have you been eating?"
This question is common in my everyday practice as a Certified Fitness Trainer since 2002.
I remember the day I was training one of my clients. His heart rate quickly escalated to the 170s and his comfort was the 120s. I knew something was off.
I told him to stop what he was doing and sit down for a minute.
I asked him what he had to eat before coming to the gym.
He regrettable announced that he had a burger, fries, and a regular coke. WTH!😮
Your food affects so much and it is important to understand what the devil talks about in Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill.
Discipline
The thing is food is good! And there are a lot of great foods out there.
What one must do is develop self-discipline and stop eating so much.
How about getting a meal you love, taking half of it to-go and eating it later. Instead of eating the entire portion of food at once.
Practice Ho'oponopono on everything you eat. I say "I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you." Ho'oponopono is an ancient Hawaiin practice of forgiveness and can count as a blessing of your food.
Quotes from the book Outwitting the Devil
"Go ahead and tell me more of the methods by which you cause people to drift to hell with you!"
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Answer "I cause people to drift on every subject through which I can control independent thought and action. Take the subject of health, for example. I cause most people to eat too much food and the wrong sort of food. This leads to indigestion and destroys the power of accurate thought. If the public schools and the churches taught children more about proper eating, they would do my cause irreparable damage."
Self-Discipline
"Take the desire for physical food, for example. The majority of people are so weak in self-discipline that they fill their stomachs with combinations of rich food that please the taste but overwork the organs of digestion and elimination.
They pour into their stomachs both quantities and combinations of food which the body chemist can dispose of only by converting the food into deadly toxic poisons.
Poisons
These poisons clog and stagnate the body sewer system until it slows down in its work of eliminating waste matter. After a while, the sewer system stops working altogether, and the victim has what he calls “constipation.”
By that time he is ready for the hospital. Auto-intoxication, or body sewer poisoning, takes the machinery of the brain and rolls it into something resembling a wad of putty.
Sluggish
The victim then becomes sluggish in his physical movements and mentally irritable and fussy. If he could only take one good look at, and one bad smell of, his sewer system, he would be ashamed to look himself in the face.
City sewers are not the pleasantest of places when they become overloaded or clogged, but they are clean and sweet compared with the intestinal sewer when it has been overloaded or clogged.
This is not a pretty story to be associated with the pleasant and necessary act of eating, but that is where it belongs because over-eating and wrong food combinations are the evils that cause auto-intoxication.
People who eat wisely!
People who eat wisely and keep their body sewers clean handicap me because a clean body sewer generally means a sound body and a brain that functions properly.
Imagine—if your imagination can be stretched that far— how any human being could move with definiteness of purpose with his body sewer filled with enough poison to kill a hundred people if it were injected into their bloodstream directly.
Here again, Napoleon Hill is far ahead of his time. Science eventually caught up with Hill—and even surpassed his intuition about physical processes and how they link to mental and emotional health.
Improper eating is responsible for the majority of ills of the body
Q And all this trouble is the result of a lack of control over the physical appetite for food?
Answer. Well, if you wish to be absolutely correct you should say that improper eating is responsible for the majority of the ills of the body, and practically all headaches. If you want proof of this, select 100 people suffering from headaches and give each of them a thorough washing out of their body sewer systems with a high enema, and observe that no fewer than ninety-five of the headaches will disappear within a few minutes after their sewers have been cleaned.
Q From all you say about the intestinal tract, I gather the impression that mastery over the physical appetite for food means also mastery over the habit of neglecting to keep the intestines clean?
Answer. Yes, that is true. It is just as important to eliminate the waste matter of the body and the unused portions of food as it is to take the right amount and the correct combinations of food.
Q I never thought of auto-intoxication as being one of your devices of control over people, and I am utterly shocked to know how many people are victims of this subtle enemy.
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