“The problem isn’t wanting to eat chocolate cake, but being willing to eat chocolate cake for the wrong reasons.” – James Blacker
The Wisdom Diet (2007) is a psychological approach to weight management that identifies the five disempowering aspects of conventional dieting and turns them on their head so that they work for you.
Based in the healthy and wise approach of listening to the body, The Wisdom Diet guides us to distinguish between the needs of the mind and the needs of the body. If the need for food is in the mind it can never be satisfied by food, so by making this distinction we can empower our approach.
The five main things that are wrong with dieting are;
- Denial
- Forced exercise
- You can fail them; there’s no guarantee of results
- It takes time
- And you can quit them.
There’s a psychological way to turn all of those negative-seeming characteristics to your advantage.
About James Blacker
James Blacker is a humanitarian and Integral Philosopher, and of course the Founder of Kissing Consciousness, and author of The Kissing Consciousness Handbook. He launched the Kissing Consciousness movement to help as many people as possible to work together, commune and co-support in releasing the blocks to their true self, and thus live their happiest and most fulfilled life possible.
In the realm of collective development and social and global issues, James is using his qualification in Spiral Dynamics to provide leadership and help co-create a world beyond system failure, so as to avoid – or mitigate – climate disaster, economic injustice and our other existential threats.
