Hamburgers & Gremlins 🍔

By Nina Ferreyra

I felt guilty eating that hamburger. Why?

Why did I feel guilty eating a perfectly delicious hamburger? I felt guilty that I was eating too much even though I was having these thoughts when I was less than halfway into eating my burger.

I acknowledged these thoughts and I told myself NO. I do not want to feel guilty eating this sandwich.

I said: "I want to savor all of the flavors and I don't want to feel bad about eating this."

There is no reason to feel bad about eating this. I am not overeating and I don't normally eat this.

But, why did I feel guilty? It's conditioning, fear, and worry that I am going to gain weight if I eat something like this.

I wonder how many thoughts we have running in the background while we are eating something, but we are not really consciously acknowledging them.

These thoughts turn into mini-imagination sessions and can turn into your self-concept about yourself.

How you view yourself whether it be good or bad.

And they can affect your manifestations and affect everything about you.

It's so important to get rid of guilt that isn't serving you. Because what is guilt really doing? It's this tiny little voice in your head that is telling you that you're doing something bad by eating a burger, by spending some money going shopping for clothes, by receiving a large sum of money that you don't feel worthy of, by finding the man or woman of your dreams that you don't feel good enough for.

These are feelings of guilt.

Of not feeling worthy and just feeling bad about these things.

When in reality they serve NO purpose at all in your life. They just make you feel bad. These little guilt monsters. Or guilt gremlins.

It's time to kick those guilt gremlins off to the side and enjoy that hamburger. 🍔