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The Way Of The Vegetarian
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Cooking by the Seasons: Simple Vegetarian Feasts
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Karri Ann Allrich A few weeks ago, I finally went totally vegetarian. It's a move that I have been thinking about for many years, but could never quite bring myself to do. In this article, although I am discussing this issue as an example, you can use the ideas here to move to any goal of your own choosing, i.e. by taking small incremental steps first.

The fact is that you can achieve almost anything - vegetarianism, giving up smoking, ending sugar addiction or alcohol addiction, doubling your income - by taking small steps towards that goal, and gradually chipping away at the barrier preventing you from attaining it.

My move to vegetarianism was a very slow one. As I write this, I am 44. The first two-thirds of my life were spent eating both meat and fish, and the last third fish. Hence, giving up eating flesh was not easy for me.

I was brought up from childhood eating meat. Although my mother is a Buddhist and came from a vegetarian family, she compromised on this when she married my father. Hence, as a family, we ate both meat and fish. I remember, as a boy, loving my steaks done as rare as possible, so that they were juicy and bloody.

Having said this, I have always had a love for animals. However, this never translated to what I ate. Like most people, I regarded meat eating as a necessary evil. Besides, I liked the taste and could not conceive of doing without it. That seems to be the issue that stops many people.

So what caused me to stop eating meat? It was a television program revealing the appalling conditions of farm animals. Without going into the details, it as enough to cause a seed change in my thinking. I wanted no further participation in that sort of thing. From that time, I was meat-free.

However, I continued to eat fish. The contradiction was apparent to me, but the reality was that I could not see myself eating vegetables alone. How could they taste as good? Where could I find recipes to make them taste good? It all seemed like too much bother.

There is a pleasure/pain principle at work here, and in so much of what we do. It is what keeps us stuck in so many situations that we would like to change for the better. In this instance, we have the pleasure of eating meat/fish vs. the pain of finding viable alternatives and the education needed to prepare them in a palatable fashion. However, this applies to your specific situation too; whether it be leaving an abusive relationship, finding a better job, giving up smoking, etc.

The secret is to invert the pleasure/pain principle and make it more pleasurable to engage in the new behavior and painful to maintain the old. Then, change can happen very rapidly.

For me, the flip came via my own personal development. It became increasingly clear to me that many of the major spiritual traditions support vegetarianism. Buddhism, for instance, teaches the concept of Harmlessness; not just to human beings, but to animals as well. Spiritually, there is also believed to be negative karma that incurs through killing animals for food.

All of this played on my mind for a long time. Finally, I just got sick of looking at the glassy dead eyes of the fish I was preparing staring back at me reproachfully, and washing out the blood. That was the pain side. The pleasure aspect came from finally developing the will to live consistently with my own inner desires and beliefs.

Each person has to make their own mind up on this issue. Nobody can do it for you. Speaking as a former non-vegetarian, I know how difficult it is to make the change. I was a mental vegetarian (i.e. in support of it in theory) for years before I became a practicing one. There are doubtless many people who feel the same way.

It's the same for other change issues. Whatever your personal challenge may be, it's easy to stay where you are. That takes no effort. Yet, sometimes the time is not quite right to make the change either. Your mind is not in full support of what you want to do. It's important to develop the will to make the change and stick with it. That may not be an instant thing. Perhaps some personal growth will be needed first.

The most surprising thing about the last few weeks is that I have had NO craving for fish whatsoever. Apart from the very good soya substitutes that exist nowadays, if you really want to have the texture of meat in your mouth, it is also true that proper preparation of pasta, curry and the like can work extremely with vegetables alone. I would never have thought so, but it is true. For instance, I find that a mushroom curry has very much the same texture to it as would meat or fish prepared in the same way. Indeed, it has been said that mushrooms are the closest thing to meat in the vegetable kingdom.

So, if you have been thinking of making this move for a long time, do think about it once more. Maybe this article will be the wake-up call for you to finally take action. Even if you have no empathy with the issue, think how this "stealth" approach to radical personal change can work for you. You can use it to undermine the obstacles stopping you from making the changes YOU desire in your life.

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