You are what you eat

When you change diet every 2 weeks, you realize how much the people, places and conversations around you affect what’s on your mind.

I’m just back after hiking Torres del Paine’s O-trek for 8-days Solo. Completely exhausted after many days with 5-9 hours of walking, very far from “reality” mentally as this hike really brought me in to the present moment and filled my heart with beauty.

The last day of the hike I got up at 3:15 and walked to Mirador Base del Torres to see it at sunrise as the weather was scheduled to be clear, and it was astonishing. A few tears ran down my cheeks as it took my breath away.

But this post is not about that hike - it’s about how clear my comment “Basically your life is the input data or your diet” from my last post is when you’ve been traveling for awhile.

In February I spent a lot of time in the jungle with people working with plant medicine - and of course that becomes all I think about and want to do. Now I’ve spent a lot of the last 3 weeks hiking, and all I can think about is the next hike.

To be clear, neither of these are bad things, I love being part of both communities. But living life in this way where the every day is far from routine and steady - it becomes clear how affected I am by my surroundings - my diet, aka what I eat.

I also start to think - how can I really listen to my innermost dialog if I’m always surrounded by people? Maybe I am more easily affected by others than others - but I doubt it. I think we all become what we surround us with.

So what do I do with this information?

Well first I realize I need to shed even more layers, spending even more time in solitude - to find my inner voice. I believe the ayahuasca and the last weeks have done that to a big extent, but I don’t think I’m truly there yet, so I’ll continue this path. To find my inter voice.

Secondly, I can become intentional with this knowledge. I know already that I want to work with health and be more in nature, so the communities above I can continue to dive in to. But I also know I want to explore music - in that area I don’t have any exciting community - so I’ll try to find one. Let me know if you have suggestions?

Third, I will also need to remove things that are not resonating with me anymore. For me this has during my travel been about listening to my intuition about people as an example. If I meet someone who I feel take energy from me I’ve actively chosen to distance myself.

I’ve not been active on social media for 3 months now, and I don’t miss it, though sending pictures individually to 15 people on WhatsApp is taking sometime, so I prepped for returning to instagram by going in and removing a lot of accounts that doesn’t resonate with me any longer.

Can you hear your inner voice - and is the diet you’re on the right one for you?