Alone in the Woods                                                           by Midnight As a buck stands in front of the quiet water falls, ever watching over his beloved faun, he hears the gentle snap  of the breaking of a twig and turns his head to see just what might be sneaking up on them. His mate waits just out of sight. He stands majestically like a warrior, poised and ready to fight, standing his ground, watching and waiting to defend her honor! He keeps guard over his beloved, waiting as she waits, in the woods beside the lake as the waters of the river flow gently over the water falls in the background. Not knowing what is to come, he stands his ground ever watching, ever waiting, protecting those he loves against any danger that might approach, ready and willing to take on the world at a moment’s notice! He searches the woods for the dangers that might be coming… But finding all is secure in the fact that he, his mate and his faun, are after all Alone in the woods.

First off I can see the wheels in your mind spinning wildly trying to figure out exactly what a soup sandwich is. Well it is a metaphor for any situation that sounded good at one time but has gone horribly wrong, at no fault of your own, but you are the one stuck with it. This happens frequently when people are given jobs they have no idea how to perform and don’t ask questions so they don’t look stupid. Eventually it catches up and it is usually right before the project is due! I am sure you have had situations that you had to correct that weren’t your fault but you had to handle them anyway. That is a Soup Sandwich! So typically what happens is as soon as you are handed your sandwich everyone panics. We all realize soup flows downhill so if you have the ability to pass it down, you normally will! If you are at the bottom of the food chain what you do next will determine your degree of success! Step 1 Contain the Soup Sandwich-This step is almost always missed. Most folks flail about and really just do whatever someone tells them to do. This usually leads to very sloppy results and no one is satisfied with the outcome. Best thing to do is

Then there is the third component causing your appetite, your brain.   Your brain is a physiological organ having psychological abilities, e.g. the ability to think.  The mind, through its neural network of receptors is connected to the bodies central nerves system “the spinal cord” sending life sustaining messages to each cell within the body continually in each nano second.   You mind is constantly monitoring is life sustaining forces.  It monitors your appetite, your digestion, your fat burning capacity, and every other life sustaining mechanism as you move through your day.    But, there is a function of the Brain relating to Psychology or “Thought” within your mind that often interferes with the brain’s ability to read its body needs from a physiological standpoint correctly.   This is the psychological interplay within brain functioning that in many cases prevents the human body from completing its sole purpose of sustaining the life of its internal organs.  Psychology is the component that is directly affected by lifestyle as it is subjected to the negativity of a disillusioned lifestyle causing people, in many instances to desire to eat for the purpose of feeling better inside at a psychological level instead of allowing the bodies natural appetite functions to occur and sustain the life of the internal organ functions.   In Vision 8, Mark Hamilton writes about

The purpose of every organ in your body is to sustain your life from the inside out!  We all want to feel good about ourselves on the inside.   Unfortunately so many of us look in the mirror and find ourselves wanting to turn away in disgust – to simply not even look at ourselves. Gone are the days of our youth when we would spend a moment taking in the beautiful creation of life that we were both inside and out!   No, as we have gotten older we have spent less and less time willing to see ourselves as that youthful person that is enjoying living the active life; and instead we spend the majority of our time sitting in an office at work, sitting in our cars driving to and from work, or sitting on our couch after work, perhaps with a beer and some chips.    What is the problem?  Why do we do this?    For many of us the reason has become that we don’t like the weight we have put on as the years have gone by.   We look in the mirror and instead of seeing the young beautiful body we once enjoyed in youth; we now see fat, flab, sagging, and disappointment in whom we appear to have become.  Then we turn away from the mirror