| It’s a wonderful buffet at a New Year’s party. One of your neighbors had just about everyone min the neighborhood over to celebrate the New Year. New Years’ parties are always good times. There is a lot to look back at and be thankful for and a lot to look forward to. You’re planning to have a great year. Just then you notice something kind of unusual. One of your neighbors, who is about 30 pounds overweight, looks like he is trying to eat all the food on the buffet all by himself. He just keeps putting food in his mouth, almost on a non-stop basis. It looks like he is having trouble chewing fast enough to accommodate all that food. You’re really surprised that someone who weighs as much as he does is eating all that food. You can’t understand it. You know it’s foolish and probably self-destructive. You look around but no one else seems to be looking at your neighbor. They seem to think it’s normal. But you don’t. You can’t understand why your neighbor is eating that way. Just then it dawns on you. You also weigh 30 pounds more than you want to weigh. You must be eating the same way he is or you wouldn’t weigh what you do. It’s easy to see on someone else. It’s more difficult to look inwards and realize that you are really looking at yourself. You know, logically, that what your neighbor is doing is crazy. You would like to tell him that. You want to grab him and shake him and tell him to stop eating that way; that’s it’s not good for him; it’s not healthy; and he may be causing himself all sorts of medical problems. The problem is that you are doing the same thing and you should be telling yourself what you would like to tell your neighbor. But when you eat that way it’s not crazy. It’s necessary. At least that’s what you thought. Now you have a first hand objective view of what it looks like. Why are you able to see it clearly now? You can see it because you have gotten into the Process. You understand that it’s not the food. It’s his emotional needs. You’re on the road to eliminating your emotional need for food. |
