If our grandparents and great-grandparents knew how the diet-, food- and pharmaceutical industries have a hold on us, they would surely turn in their graves. There is a pill for everything, there is a diet for everyone and every body style, even every blood type. Today we are bombarded with "shoulds" and "should not's" and people feel guilty for eating foods in the first place. Some feel that just looking at foods makes them gain an ounce (heavens forbid). What a joke!

Yet today's main health problems are all stress related and it's no wonder when we have learned to program our minds with information that is meant to scare us when it comes to our diet. Is it any wonder that we suffer from diseases today that didn't exist two decades ago?

Why have we let this happen to us as a society? What's the benefit to us for the diet industry to have such a tight grip on us? And why have we willingly become their slaves?

We live in amazing bodies that were originally designed to be healthy transportation vehicles for us; we are meant to enjoy our bodies and to love the foods we eat. Slowly but surely over the past few decades our bodies somehow have turned out to be our enemies that we somehow need to mold, reshape and get cut apart and put back together better than before. This article is all about you regaining your freedom and to feel gratitude for the vehicle you live in so it can do its job.

Here are 4 tips that can help:

1. Start looking "inside" for answers: Whatever it is you're looking for, you can find any and all answers inside of you. If you've been told that you are suffering from an illness, turn to your Higher Self for answers. You created the disease over time, perhaps over life times; ask your Self for details and how to heal yourself. Even if you feel at a breaking point, there is always a way out from under the seemingly unbearable pressure. Seek the answers with all your heart and your Higher Self will answer and show you the path to full recovery.

2. Meditation and breath work: I can't stress the important of spending time alone with your Self in silence. Start your time alone by breathing with intention. Watch your breathing throughout your day and take deeps breaths throughout your day. Meditation is hard for most people because they feel they're not doing anything. That's exactly the point; we are human beings, not human doings. And peace and happiness come from a state of being.

3. Move your body: You have an amazing purpose to accomplish here on earth and your body was designed to help you with this endeavor. Europeans walk an average of 2 miles per day. Here in the US with at least 1 car per household we barely walk 50 yards per day. Substitute moving your body by finding other ways; go to a fitness center or starting walking for fun; just get yourself moving.

4. Love your body, all of it, and be kind to it: As a society we have come to learn to hate our bodies or at least parts of it. Imagine the leader of our country broadcasting on national television that he hated and disliked us - we would have instantaneous war amongst ourselves. And yet, isn't that what we are doing to the 70 trillion living cells that make up our body when we tell one part that we don't like it? How can you expect your body to work in peace and in cooperation with each member when you tell one part that it is defective in some way? Say nice things to your body for the parts that do work and the parts that you do like. Start somewhere, then expand as you start feeling the 70 trillion living cells suddenly work together to help you create a body that is truly at peace within its members. You will be amazed at the difference!