Stealing Fire 

Stealing Fire is the title of a book by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal that we're enjoying right now. The title comes from the Greek myth about Prometheus stealing fire from Zeus and giving it to mankind, with which they were able to advance their knowledge and technology.
The reference to the myth in this book is that fire was a protected knowledge and Prometheus went against the law so to speak to give it to mankind. For this he was condemned to eternal torment, being chained to a rock where an eagle ate out his liver every day (that grew back each night.)
So there's a symbolic meaning to stealing fire of risking scorn or punishment to gain access to and share secret or protected knowledge. The secret knowledge that the book is about is altered states of consciousness and how many organizations and areas of society are exploring how to develop and access altered states to achieve greater productivity and peak performance.
Why we enjoy reading about this research is because it's about learning ways to point people to develop access to a higher state of consciousness than the usual day-to-day. When we coach people to create a healthy relationship with food, what we point them toward is developing their natural access to the intelligence of their bodies, which is beyond their thinking mind.
What we've seen in the past few decades of working with people to create a healthy relationship with food, is that it's our thinking mind, the mind that wants to solve a problem and get us back to feeling good that is the problem.
What we see creates an unhealthy relationship with food is using food to feel better. Those foods that make us feel better do it with ingredients that don't provide our bodies with what they need to thrive. Refined and processed foods (think donuts, candy bars, sugary sodas) and high fat foods (think pizza, quarter-pounders and cheese cake) lack the fibre and micronutrients that our systems need to stay balanced and healthy.
While we provide guidelines to a Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) diet because it has provided us with such good health, in coaching people to create a healthy relationship with food, we need to help them relate to life in a way that doesn't create the stress, pressure and low moods that they turn to food to help regulate.
We all the ability to access this place of inner intelligence and well being when our mind settles. And as we see how this works in our lives, we become skilful in regulating our moods from within rather than with food.
From there we have a solid foundation for a healthy relationship with food.
While the book is about leveraging altered states to boost performance and productivity, we feel these altered states are the result of a mind settling down into its true nature. And that's available to all of us.