Are You Addicted to Your Acidic Emotions?

In my grade school class, I remember we would measure pH levels of foods, such as meats, fluids, fruits, and vegetables with special pH paper. We would then match the color change on the paper to the scale on the back of the bottle that contained the pH strips. The color scale moved and blended into the next color from red (acidic) to orange to yellow to green to blue, indigo, and purple (alkaline).

Through a quick internet search, you will find vast information and color charts on how the acidic or alkaline foods that you eat impact your body. pH apparently stands for potential of hydrogen or power of hydrogen.

A short list of acidic foods (some are even considered “dead” foods) are things such as bacon, pudding, canned tuna, beef, pork, cream cheese, white vinegar, white pasta, white flour, white sugar, brown sugar, yogurt, ketchup, hummus, fructose, corn, rice soda pop, energy drinks, Gatorade, wine and coffee. (Sorry coffee lovers this one hurts me too).

Beer is surprisingly the least acidic and can almost be neutral if you like it sour. These are also known as comfort foods and can be addictive. Neutral foods include egg yolks, unsalted butter, salt, raw cow and goat milk, raw cream, tap water, raw honey, and green tea.

Alkaline foods include blueberries, strawberries, flax seed, almonds, apples, fresh oranges, raw celery, onions, wild rice, leaks, apple cider vinegar, watermelon, most any fresh green vegetable or grass, fresh lemon alkaline water, raw spinach, brussels sprouts, and baking soda is very high.

It is known and documented, but suppressed, that cancer can only survive in an acidic environment. Why with the advancement of medicine in the last several decades has there been an increase in cancer deaths? What if the acidic foods we eat are the cause of the problem? Why does sugar show up in almost every processed food or drink that you consume? It is lessor known, but people have overcome cancer by balancing their pH levels with baking soda which is highly alkaline.

Are the foods we eat related to the emotions we feel? Do our emotions drive us to eat certain foods? Are they connected to each other? Much like food, our emotions can be acidic, neutral, or alkaline.

Acidic emotions (red or at the bottom) include shame, guilt, fear, grief, depression, despair, powerlessness, anger, jealously, regret, anxiety, bitterness, resentment, offense, entitlement, disappointment, doubt, worry, blame, sadness, trapped, and hopelessness.

Neutral emotions include boredom, contentment, trust, release, courage, affirmation, feasible, and willingness.

Alkaline emotions are feelings such as trust, optimism, hope, meaning, joy, love, peace, acceptance, forgiveness, freedom, and empowered.

As we have seen emotions carry different frequency and vibrations from low to high, which also give off and carry a color or aura. (See the blog post Love, and Schumann Resonance Part III). Red, negative, or acidic emotions can also cause disease and cancer. Just like acidic foods can become addictive, so can negative acidic emotions.

In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, Dr. Dispenza explains how our negative emotions become addictive and familiar. (This is a brief explanation to his comprehensive work to get you interested, so I recommend you get your own copy of the book!) Most often this happens in a significant relationship, and you are made to feel guilty by your partner or parent and turn it inward. In an effort to protect yourself, you may also develop a habit of anger, bitterness, or resentment towards them.

After 5, 10, or 30 years of this, you create a mental state or what becomes your essence of being. Your body can now produce these specific chemicals to make you feel these negative feelings. After years of washing and flooding your cells in your body with these chemicals, your body begins to feel “normal” and conditioned with them. The body begins to now perceive and interpret this as even pleasurable. This chemical “hit” over time becomes more and more pleasurable.

Now as cells do, they divide and die. The new daughter cells require a higher dose of the chemicals to turn them on and for the body to feel “normal.” Like any addiction, more of the “drug” or negative feelings will be needed more often and for longer periods of time for the body to feel normal. Your body is now accustomed to these familiar feelings and chemicals.

You may not like the person you have become, always angry, bitter, and resentful, filled with shame and guilt. You decide one day that you want to change. A day or three pass, but your cells in your body are not feeling good. This is unfamiliar to your cells. Your cells in your body do not care about your brain and the changes you are trying to make.

The body tricks the brain through the spinal cord and actives the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus sees that chemical amounts are low from the loss of negative feelings. This triggers the super ego or critical parent voice to start making judgmental statements or thoughts. My mother is never going to change. My partner is lying to me. My boss doesn’t like me. What did they mean by that? I am right, and they are wrong! We embrace these thoughts, which create the indulgence of the negative feelings the body is familiar with.

When we try to change this system, your body is going to go through withdrawals just like a drug addict. You will relapse into self-loathing, depression, and then become angry and blame others creating chaos in your relationships that your mind hates but your body loves. The body has been conditioned to the negative and is far stronger than the conscious mind.

Dr. Dispenza’s research shows that 95 percent of the time we are unconscious, the body is running the mind via the unconscious autonomic nervous system. It’s no wonder that during the 5 percent of the time we make conscious choices to change we fail 95 percent of the time.

You have to deprogram, unwire, and unlearn these negative acidic emotions that have become comfort food to your body.

Acidic negative does not necessarily mean “bad” and alkaline positive does not mean “good.” Now, I am not saying to never eat acidic foods again or only eat neutral or alkaline foods, as this not realistic or healthy. Your body needs both. I am not saying you can never feel negative acidic emotions again either, as this is not healthy. In our humanness, we need to experience both, as they balance each other out. One does not know or truly understand joy, love, and peace if they have never experienced pain, fear, or hate.

I am saying that now you know you may be addicted to your negative acidic emotions, so you can now begin to do something about it. Take responsibility and control over life. Stop blaming others and being the victim. As you learn to control your ego and body from attaching to these negative emotions, you will no longer be easily manipulated. You will be free.

Are you addicted to your emotions? Take the emotional self-assessment today.

Cory Schortzman Executive Director

Cory Schortzman is an author, speaker, teacher and licensed mental health professional. Since 2008, he has served as the Executive Director of Transformed Hearts Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, CO. He is the founder of SARA, the Sexual Addiction Recovery Association. Cory is passionate about helping couples and individuals overcome sex addiction. He is also passionate about bringing awareness to the public and supporting the elimination of sex and human trafficking. Cory has been married since 1998 to his beautiful wife, Kerry, and lives in Colorado with their four daughters. He and Kerry have been seen on the CBS Early Show, Inside Edition, and ABC Good Morning America, Fox 21 News, and TLC/Discovery discussing the harm of sex addiction and the joys of recovery. He has also been heard on numerous radio programs.

Cory’s books include: Out of the Darkness, Into the Light the Workbook, Into the Light the Steps, Ashes to Beauty the Steps, 301 Dating Ideas, 301 Conversational Ideas, 301 Ways to Say I Love You, 301 Ways to Love Your Children & 301 Recovery Tools & Tips.