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Limiting beliefs prevent us from achieving our full potential.

We can choose to try and understand the root cause of the limiting beliefs, deconstruct them, and free ourselves from their impact.

Or, we can choose to think and act differently – to fly in the face of the limiting beliefs.

Regardless of the approach, awareness is key.

If we are aware of a limiting belief influencing us at a given moment, we should acknowledge it and choose not to listen to it – no longer let it influence our thoughts, words and actions.

We should immediately think, say – internally or vocally – or do, something that neutralises the limiting belief – thereby releasing its grip on us.

With time, those beliefs should be replaced with something more constructive.

I’m reading a book by Charles C. Mann called The Wizard and the Prophet. It’s a well written, engaging, and really interesting approach to discussing the issue of climate change, and how humanity could potentially mitigate the consequences of it. Whether through a techno-fix (the approach of the wizards), or through modification of our behaviours and systems in order to live within the capacity of the Environment (the approach of the prophets), or a combination of the two.

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As a scientific understanding of the microbiome, and its role in our mental and physical health and general wellbeing, it reinforces the value of food culture.

Since us homo sapiens came on the scene, and our ancestors prior to that, there has been the development of food culture – the acquisition of knowledge around food consumption and production through simple trial and error, rather than a rigorous scientific approach.

Our gastronomy gradually evolved from what berries can and can’t be eaten, to the cultivation and domestication of once wild varieties of grains, some 11,000 years ago, and from the use of fire to cook meat, to the preserving of food for later use and its subsequent fermentation.

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