Food-Free Lifestyle: Jericho Sunfire

Such an amazing video that highlights the life of Jericho Sunfire, a man who lives a food-free life. He subsists on the energy that is all around us... cosmic energy. He is in extreme physical health - the video shows him performing difficult exercises with ease. Your first thought may be that he's probably emaciated, or all "Breatharians" are, but this is actually not the case. Mr. Sunfire looks as healthy and alive as any other professional athlete.

It was his journey into rawfoodism that eventually brought him to his food-free lifestyle.

Really makes you think: If people can live completely food-free, then we can certainly take a moment before we eat to choose the best possible food for ourselves and this planet. Is that Philly cheese steak really worthy of you, or even some of the walnut and date treats that so many raw foodists love. We actually ask quite a lot from our bodies because of our addiction to the enjoyment and distraction of eating.

Choose whatever lifestyle works for you, but remember to consider the "slave driver" addiction can be.

Now I want to refer to Gwyneth Paltrow's lovely newsletter GOOP. This particular issue is all about addiction. Here's a very important excerpt...

Our addiction to the concept of self is the most deeply ingrained and the hardest to overcome. To do so we have to begin by seeing into the truth that there really is no self. The self is just a concept, an agreed-upon notion, much like that of a corporation. Over a period of 80 to 100 years, the CEO and all the employees will have changed several times. The product and even the name of the company may also have changed. So what is the company? In fact, there is no company, other than a legal agreement that it exists and persists over time as the same company. The self is just like this. We know that before there was a concept of self, there was no such thing called the self. We all agree when a baby is born that this baby is a self and has a self. But the baby doesn’t have a concept of self. We build that concept up over time, and the more time and energy we invest in the concept of self, the more attached, or addicted, we become to the notion that “I” exists as a separate, solid and permanent entity. Moment by moment, day by day, year by year, the more we have invested in this notion, the harder it is to free ourselves from the addiction of self. Once we have truly realized that there is no self, the easier it is to drop our addictions.
-Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel

And, some wise words from Michael Berg, co-director of the Kabbalah Centre™, about overcoming addiction...

Three essential things we can do to begin the process of leaving addictive behavior behind:

1. Realize these yearnings are coming from a true place (our soul) telling us we need to do more, and we can do and be more.

2. Begin a process of both realizing and connecting to our true essence by focusing, meditating and becoming more conscious of our thoughts, behaviors and true potential.

3. Do actions that take us out of selfish behavior. Become a more giving person. This helps us be less busy with ourselves.

Good luck with your journey, and ENJOY!