How much thought do you usually give to your food?
Are you one of those people who can eat and drink whatever they want, and will always feel amazing? Or do you have to be a little bit careful with what you eat?
Have you noticed over time, how different foods affect not only your body, but also your thoughts and your emotions? Are there foods that bring you more joy and energy? And foods that leave you feeling depleted?
Food, like everything else in the universe, is made of energy.
Apart from the chemical composition, like the amount of vitamins or pesticides or any other elements that you can have tested, everything you eat will have a certain energy to it. Consider for example the difference in vibration between an industrial bread that’s made in huge kneading machines, leavened at breakneck speed with reaction-accelerating powders, baked, packaged, and delivered automatically, and a bread you’ll make at home for your family, that’s hand-kneaded, left to leaven naturally, and carefully baked. There’s absolutely no love in the first one, that’s for sure. The one you made, on the other hand, will have as much love as it has flour in it. That makes a huge difference.
I know an amazing baker in Colombia, who a few years ago had the inspiration to start adding love to her bread as an ingredient. At some stage in the bread-making process, she will intentionally, wholeheartedly, infuse her dough with unconditional love. She didn’t tell any of her clients about that, but in a matter of days, her one-woman-and-one-dog business started soaring, and she went from real tightness to becoming a luxury brand!
Foods do carry their own energy.
Meat will carry an energy of fear and desperation. Vegetables, especially from natural farming, will carry the energy of the sun.
And then there are the vibrations of our emotions about food. These are even more powerful.
Do we eat something with joy? With gratitude? Or with a sense of guilt? With shame? The effect any food will have on our body will be hugely different, depending on the energy we are in, when we eat it.
There’s an amazing true story from World War II, told in one of Clemens Kuby’s books, about a group of four prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp. People there were starving, they got given some dry bread and some dirty water now and then, some mouldy leftovers and other rubbish to eat, and they were in the physical state we all know from those horrible pictures of the time.
Now these four people had an unusual habit: every rare time they got some sweepings to eat, they would praise them as delicious, wholesome food, express their gratitude for such a precious gift, and talk about how they enjoyed perfect health, thanks to their great diet. At the end of it all, when all the prisoners were freed, these four people got suspected of collusion with the wardens at first, because they were in fact really healthy and strong, while everyone else was more dead than alive.
Do you see where this is going? It’s all about the energy – nothing new there!
So today, what we want to inspire you to do is, be aware at all times of the energy both your food and yourself bring to the table – literally – every time you eat.
Eat with intention, and let your intention always be one of health, of well-being, of self-love, and of respect for our beautiful planet.
