Why McDonald���s Is NOT the Problem

 

A few years ago, I was having a conversation with a fellow mom who, like myself, had a young child. She complained that she had trouble losing weight because she was always eating the same stuff her child ate: McDonald���s, chicken fingers, macaroni and cheese.

 

OK. First, let���s identify that her belief is simply that: a belief. It is not based on facts or even reality, but it is a convincing belief nonetheless. What happens when we believe thoughts like these? They are true for us, and consequently everything we do and the way reality matches up to our beliefs is pretty uncanny in proving them to indeed be accurate. That is both good and bad; in this case, I would say that it is BAD.

 

Second of all, call me crazy (you would not be the first), but no 3 year old that I have ever met drove themselves to McDonald���s and ordered a Happy Meal. Ever. So really, McDonald���s is not this woman���s problem. It is just a neutral entity out there, existing in the world. It only becomes a problem when she makes a decision to go there, gets in her car, drives there, orders the food, and then consumes it on a somewhat regular basis that a problem begins to arise. She actually picks the fight, so to speak, by engaging with McDonald���s by choice!

 

Whatever we struggle with persists. To end struggle, strife, and pain, we must look at the underlying root causes of our behavior. Only then, with that amazing and powerful awareness, can we change our reality. ���I must take my child to McDonald���s���—it that true? It certainly is not for many people in the world, and for them, McDonald���s is not a problem. Questioning our beliefs about reality, we become like Switzerland, peacefully existing in the world while others battle it out in surface struggles.

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