Fundamental Fuel – Food for Thought!

Looking good and feeling great is something we all aspire to, and it can be achieved by choosing the right nutritionally dense, high-vibrational food to eat.

Earlier in the Blog I talked about everything being energy vibration. Humans, as ‘energy beings,’ are composed of energy, some of which is visible – skin, hair, flesh and bone etc. There are also other aspects of our energy fields which vibrate much faster and cannot normally be seen with the naked eye. For instance, you may have heard of the energy lines that run through the body called ‘meridians’. Traditional Chinese medicine has been using specific points on the meridians for thousands of years to regulate the follow of energy, or ‘chi’, by means of acupuncture. Reiki, reflexology and a number of other alternative therapies are also based on this ancient and established view of the body.

Food too is energy, and has its vibration.

Consider for a moment and ask yourself these questions:
• What are your motivations and drivers when it comes to the food you choose to buy and eat?
• What foods attract you? How do they attract you? Why?
• What foods do you avoid and which repel you?
Think in terms of colour, smell and texture – what emotional sensations do you feel: happiness, comfort, fulfillment or suppression?
What, how and why we choose the food we do, how and where we buy it from, how we prepare, cook and finally eat it – are questions worth exploring.
The above investigation highlights your approach to food, and what you get from food.

Use your Journal to explore those questions and write down what comes up for you. You will find it quite revelatory.

Using your ‘extra sense’

Fruits, vegetables, pulses, seeds, meats and the like, all being energy, have their own particular vibration. That vibration may be one that you are attracted to, repelled by, or feel neutral about.

By learning how to tap into the energy vibration of food, you’ll simultaneously connect with your own vibrational sensory system – in effect, you’ll feel the food without needing to touch it. It’s a system that is easily drowned out if all you listen to are the messages from that small dominate tastebud on your tongue that sends out craving messages for sweet, salty, spicy, fatty, ‘tasty’ foods. It’s time to turn down the volume on the superficial selectors!

Everyone has a vibrational antenna, as we discussed before – you walk into a room and pick up that the people there have had an argument, or perhaps you meet someone for the first time and, without really knowing why, like them and develop a rapport. These invisible energy messages can be picked up easily, and it’s fascinating to see it in action once you’re aware of it.

A food example might go something like this; when shopping for fruit, you will find yourself drawn to certain types and varieties, and will most likely pass off on the ones that looks bruised or rotten without consciously ‘deciding’ to do so. If you are buying broccoli for instance, you’ll go to one that looks a strong green colour and is robust and healthy. Your hands and eyes (sensory system) know exactly what to do without you thinking about it.

The goal now is for you to acknowledge, develop and strengthen your sensory process, going past the superficial use of your nose, eyes and fingers – stepping past the dictates of your tastebuds!. Experiment when you are next shopping. Before you shop, create a mental intention to select the food that is good for you and that you will enjoy, and that you ‘feel’ is what you need. The best and most effective place to start may be the fresh fruit and vegetables. Notice what appeals to you, be conscious of your selection process – what part do colour, smell and the feel of it play? How does it ‘appeal’ to you?

By comparison, if you see a very bruised or damaged item, pick it up, and explore how it feels to you.

“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food” – Hippocrates

What do you eat?

Eating is a meaningful act – it can even be regarded as a ‘sacred’ act.
We ingest ‘food’ into our body which will be broken down, absorbed and assimilated. It will affect the whole of us – for good or bad. By ‘the whole’ I mean literally all the physical matter that makes up your body: brain, skeleton, muscles, nerves, blood, organs, eyes, hair, teeth – and, by extension, your thoughts, emotions, moods, and energy.

All things considered, it would be fair to say that we have an incredibly ‘intimate’ relationship with our food. We more often equate intimacy with relationships – we carefully choose our partners, as not just anyone will do. Yet how do we choose our food?

Do you eat just anything? Do you consciously consider what it is, where it came from, and whether it has been altered or adulterated?

The denser, heavier, more processed and stripped of nutrition your food is, the more ‘toxic’ it becomes, and the more ‘toxic’ it is, the more it ‘sticks’. It’s harder it is to digest, and your digestive system struggles to move it around the intestines and colon. The resulting stagnation can only serve to create negativity in your energy, thoughts and moods.

Conversely, the lighter, fresher and more ‘alive’ the food that is eaten, the easier it is to digest. Your body receives excellent nourishment without having to battle for it – which provides abundant energy rather than depleting it! Eating fresher, lighter foods helps to create strength, clarity and receptivity.

Whilst we can all fall prey to cravings for foods which are effectively poisonous, there is also in each of us a deeper level of knowing. As we bring awareness to our food selection and eating, we can begin to feel what our true needs are, and therefore what truly nourishes us. With this greater awareness, we can begin to make choices from our bodies; what makes us feel good at the deepest level – what really is ‘good for us’. Over time we can cultivate the skill of recognising cravings and addictions, discard them and instead work from our deeper levels of guidance.

When we prepare our meals, our own personal energy at the time can have a fundamental effect on the food. It really makes a difference whether you create a meal with love and appreciation, or just hack it up with a bad attitude and a foul mood. You can even feel the difference in the words!

Prepare your food with love and appreciation, make your meal with love, eat it whilst consciously savouring the taste, smell, colour, texture and acknowledge how it gives you nourishment with which you can live life to the full.

Task

If you have purchased the downloads, you can make use of the Meal Planners and Food Diary sheets to help you with this task.

• Plan some healthy meals – thinking ahead will help you to avoid the temptation to just grab what’s easiest – and write yourself a shopping list.

• Consciously choose, buy, or gather your ingredients. Look at them and enjoy them: the colours, shape, and smell. Select them using your inner knowledge of what is truly good for you, rather than listening to superficial ‘wantings’.

• When you prepare the meal, do so with a conscious appreciation of the benefit you’ll gain from this meal, and ensure your energy is positive.

• Enjoy with gratitude the texture, aroma, colour and taste of the foods on your plate.

Has eating will ever been so rewarding?

Healthy Eating Golden Tips

It really is important to include as much locally grown and organic food in your diet as possible. In both cases the nutritional value, the ‘life force’, is more strongly preserved. It’s a well-know fact that the fresher the food, the richer the nutritional content – it begins to deteriorate as soon as the food is harvested. For that reason it is evidently central to a healthy diet to eat plenty of ‘fresh’ food.

The energy and nutrition in food is significantly damaged by excessive processing and chemical preservation, and any sort of cooking will reduce its nutritional value too. So cook your vegetables lightly – or better still – eat them raw! You can make them delicious by adding a drizzle of good hemp or olive oil, a dash of tamari, a sprinkle of hemp seeds and a squeeze of lemon or lime – yum!

Enjoyment of food is part of opening up to being fully nourished by what we eat. If we are happy when we eat and in our relationship with food, then the body will literally accept the food more effectively into the system.

• Prepare food with kindness, love, appreciation and a sense of fun.

• Serve and eat your food with the same appreciation and understanding of how fundamental it is for you and your family.

How do you eat?

The most important part of eating is what’s on your plate – but it’s not the whole of it:

• The digestion works best when we are focused on our enjoyment of the meal and not distracted or troubled. It is better to make mealtime a relaxed occasion when we are not trying to read, watch television, do business etc.

• It is helpful to take a little time to relax the posture too, perhaps take a few quiet breaths before eating. Crossing legs or sitting twisted or hunched will compress the digestive organs and hinder the passage of food through the body.

• Well chewed food lessens the work the digestive organs have to do and allows them to extract the nutrients more efficiently. Chewing also warms chilled food.

• If we overeat at any one meal, we create stagnation – a temporary queue of food waiting to be processed. As a result we feel tired while our energy is diverted and used to digest the excess food.

• When we eat late at night our system is naturally slowing down and the food sits around for longer in the digestive system. This also creates stagnation – and depletes energy.

Embrace a renewed, healthy and vital relationship with your food

“Food is in the air, I can feel it all around…”

Dawn

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