12.26.2010

Crave, craving, craved! What do our cravings tell us?

If you're with me, you might have rationalized that decadent treat by telling yourself that if your body craved it, you must need it! Your rationalization might not have been too far off, that is assuming that you can read your cravings.

Our body has intelligent cravings or craving that occur to keep us healthy. These occur when our body is, for the most part healthy, but may be experiencing a need for something to keep us healthy. This craving or desire is said to come straight from our tissues. But we also have imbalanced cravings or those cravings that are experienced once we are already in the state of imbalance and there is poor communication in our body. These cravings just further our current imbalanced state.

What? You don't have a craving meter to tell you whether it is right or wrong/intelligent or imbalanced? Know yourself and know how you are feeling. Listen to yourself and your body. The answers are there, even if it takes a little practice.

"The deepest principle in nature is the craving to be appreciated"--William James