Welcome to Exit the Matrix

Congratulations for seeking greater comprehension about the nature of our world and desiring deeper levels of personal development and health.

Healthful Living is about “opting in” to a conscious way of being that nurtures life and furthers freedom.

Exit the Matrix is about becoming aware of factors that hold us back and, as best we can, “opting out” of their influence in order to accelerate our path forward.

At Healthful Living we’re “waking up” and choosing how we want to be, then working to empower life by nurturing all that affects us – today and tomorrow. It’s a personal choice – to live consciously, to be aware of the impact of one’s actions and decide to individually imbue a paradigm for nurturance of six areas of life experience.

But why doesn’t everyone adopt such an innately human orientation? Why are some people “asleep?” After all, living healthfully makes common sense (from a deeply “wired” biological point of view). What prevents us from consciously choosing INSIDE what we want for ourselves and how we want to be?

Of significant influence

We are affected by our beliefs, knowledge, feelings, social opinions and interpretations, historical patterns, repeated conditioning, and more. There are many factors that affect people’s inhibitions and limitations  - that keep them “inside the box” and that restrict personal choices and freedom. And, so much of what we ARE, what we DO, and the OPTIONS that are available to each and every one of us is shaped by what we call The Matrix.

We use the term Matrix loosely to refer to forces OUTSIDE of us, that aim (intentionally and non intentionally) to inhibit our personal growth, empowerment, and freedom – and often intend to indoctrinate us with “ways of being” that serve OTHERS to our individual detriment. We are not typically aware of the specific machinations of this Matrix because we’re typically caught up in it  (even though we may sense that “something” isn’t right).  Advertisers, the mainstream media, and greedy corporate America often spread information that is in the best interest of a few individuals, and not the population as a whole. 

If we are not aware, we are at influence of. If we are at influence of, we are not fully at personal choice – not entirely free.

A simple example

Why isn’t ‘health of the body’ a default way of being for people?

If we look around in America today, several things are apparent:

• There is an epidemic of obesity – adults and children
• There are more types of disease
• People do not typically exercise their bodies
• Junk food consumption is prevalent

Part of the reason is that people weren’t taught from childhood to nourish themselves for optimal health, so they just do what “everyone” does, what the Matrix teaches them to do.

But what is The Matrix telling us about our bodies? What are the messages that we are incessantly bombarded with that influence us inside and affect how we care for the health of body?

Television commercials constantly remind us of how inadequate we are. The visions of beauty and body shape that are “sold” to us are truly unattainable for most, yet we ceaselessly strive to be what they tell us we “should” be. An increasing volume of pharmaceutical ads purport to “treat” almost any ailment in our body, some of which they conjure as “disease” in order to sell products. We blindly take on the Matrix’s perspective of ourselves and the resources available for us to grow. If you watch television or are exposed to any forms of mass advertising, you are being “programmed” by the Matrix in ways that do NOT serve you.

The Matrix dominates the information we take in.

What Keeps the Matrix in place?

• Mass media – as employed by those aiming to affect our behavior.
• Long standing beliefs and practices that support them
• Paralyzing fear
• Our own self-assessments and disempowerment.

Most people say that advertising does not affect them. Most people are dead wrong. Advertising is a science – the science of psychology – and billions of dollars are spent each year to intentionally influence beliefs and buying patterns.  In fact, believing advertising does not have an effect reduces your own defenses and enhances its impact.  Advertising is intended to influence you, to make you feel a specific way and to associate your feeling with a particular product or perspective.  Unless you are actively avoiding or countering the influence, you are in EFFECT of it.

The mainstream media adds to this manipulation by contributing stories and information that fuel these messages. A disproportional number of fear-based stories, further impede society’s critical thinking – leading to feelings of hopelessness and a sense that their isn’t anything they can do to change things for the better.

Exit the Matrix is about having an awareness of these influences and ameliorating their effect upon us.

Supporting Positive Change

In order for anything to change for the better, awareness of the present state is required. Then, one can ask the questions “where do I want to go?” and “what’s keeping me where I am?” The latter question is often accompanied with “how did I get where I am?”

In this Exit the Matrix section, we aim to CALL OUT and identify various MYTHS, DECEPTIONS, and MACHINATIONS that hold us back in various areas.

The intention is:

• To bring greater awareness to what is going on around us
• Interrupt the default influence of things outside us
• Neutralize the affects of limiting programming
• Empower personal choice in all matters

As the Healthful Living website expands, this section will include increasing resources for empowering your personal choices though better understanding of factors that inhibit those choices – The Matrix.