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Why being in good shape is spiritual

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to your food only really gets eaten by your colon and so have your colon in mind next time you eat something like what's gonna be the food that's gonna best serve your body and by the way tasty foods really important because it helps with the digestion because if it's tastes you're likely to chew it more the more you chew the more first of all you break down the food give your stomach an easier time but you also were carbohydrates you create enzymes with the saliva the slave is filled with enzyme your digestive tract can't digest things without the enzymes so so you tasty foods very important but it's not the most important the most important is when the food all breaks down that it's actually going to be the most assumable for your body and what's so important about having a healthy body two things one is you'll live longer you'll think clearer and and lastly most important is your soul will be louder think about it someone who's ill do they hear more their soul or more their body someone who's ill with a body so a spiritual person has to have a really super healthy diet because if you're committed to spirituality so your body's got to be as quiet as possible and that would mean things like you have to be in top shape so you need strength flexibility is you don't want all the ouches and you know the pooches and ouches of stiffness so you're gonna need strength body strength flexibility balance in order not to get hurt you're gonna need coordination so you should be very coordinated which means doing things that bring coordination and an extremely healthy diet like really a top level diet for you perfect foods for you for your particular body and then your soul will be loud and your body just goes totally quiet see most of us get tricked in to thinking that more you spend worrying about being in shape and being flexible and diet that you're not being spiritual but it's not the case the case is that the more you're invested in your body's health the more your soul is going to have a strong voice inside you because the because when the bodies are clean mean running machine it's just burning clean fuel and your body's in top shape when you're in that mode it just gets really quiet because it's just a good example is anyone ever owned a really old car anyone ever ever had a really old car and you ever taken a trip with it and all your passengers are enjoying the trip except for you because your the whole trip you're just like wondering if you're gonna make it so all you hear is I think I can I think I can I think I can and when you finally arrive you're just like whew we made it and then what happens is you win a lottery or whatever happened you get a new car some people actually work for a living and you get a new car and then you take a road trip and the car is silent and suddenly you're the music you're enjoying the scenery you're like the all the passengers all of a sudden you actually enjoying the trip because your car is quiet so you want to turn your body into that quiet car so that you can actually enjoy your trip well what's your trip your trip is your souls trip you're sure your souls on a trip in this world it's been given a body you want you to keep your body as quiet as possible so that the soul can travel the only way your souls gonna do any traveling is is via a very healthy body now of course we've gotten this all very backwards in the Jewish world but I'll tell you this if you go check out spiritual people in the world like people really letting their soul glow and they've they've mastered soul worldly you know Gentile Gentile traditions that people have gotten really good at so those people check out check out their bodies I mean they're just like they're such good shape they're so flexible their diet is completely under control and and you know that that's part and parcel being a spiritual person is that your body's in top shape that's not a that's it that's not a an option I mean it's a non-negotiable if you're gonna be a spiritual person in the world and no time I've Jews if you're gonna be a spiritual person the world your body shows it that that is just gonna quiet from from being in good shape