Are you eating more than food?
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Are you eating more than food?
Diets, eating programs, organics, no meat, no fish, no nightshades, no gluten, no dairy, no sugar, no caffeine, no alcohol … the list of food and drink choice options is endless. Today’s bookshops are filled to the brim with new recipe books, diet plans and fasting programs to reach our ‘optimum’weight, health and vitality. Diets to get thin, diets to add muscle, diets to have more energy, diets to recover from ill health. The list goes on and on.
Add to that fasting, shakes once a day, oat, almond, soy or cow milk, wild caught versus farmed fish, cooking with only certain oils, air frying versus deep frying, steaming versus baking. Takeaway versus home cooked, local shopping versus supermarket shopping. The choices are beyond endless!
The variety of what we eat, what we don’t eat, how we cook, where we shop, what time we eat and so on and so on means our food focus is literally never ending. Have you ever thought about how many times a day you think about food? We are literally target-guided missiles laser-focused on food and every aspect of it.
These days our food focus is not just to maintain a healthy weight, nor even to enjoy a particular food, but these days a lot of people are eating to maintain or improve overall health and vitality. People might be seeking to deal with an allergy or general unwellness and know now that food is a major contributor. Others are seeking a joy-filled life and recognising for example that an alcohol binge can entail days of feeling low or even depressive during post binge recovery. For others eating a lot of bread or cereal can leave them feeling lethargic, and so again they recognise that the food they eat affects their mood, their disposition and their health.
But with all this focus on food, and what we eat, there is a different question we can ask.
Is there more to eating than meets the eye (or mouth)?
When we talk about food and eating, we obviously refer to what we literally put into our mouths, but what if, just for the purpose of a hypothetical, we were to also consider what we ‘swallow’ with our other senses?
What if we were to broaden the concept of eating to include other things we consume?
What for example does a binge day of Netflix or any other streaming platform leave as a residue? What have you consumed when you’ve watched 12 hours, or even one hour of a show about survival, competition and revenge? Do you find yourself paranoid about colleagues at work the next day after such a show? Do you find yourself manipulating others to get the outcome you want?
What does listening to hours of nostalgic lovelorn music do to your relationships? Do you find yourself, all of a sudden not satisfied with your lover’s responses? Do you wish he or she would be more attentive, more expressive? Do you worry that they are cheating on you?
When you’ve been to a giant sporting event that features loads of physical activity like in the case of football, do you find that your movements around the house are more harsh, or even aggressive? Or are you simply now ‘feeling’ more competitive?
After a difficult day at work, with customers or colleagues that may have been unpleasant or perhaps even abusive, are you snappy with the family when you return home? Have you stopped to wonder what you may have ‘taken on’ during that unpleasant day? What may you have swallowed in the way of hurts, upset, frustration or anger that was actually never yours to begin with?
There are thousands of other examples I could give about how we ‘swallow’ what we participate in when we are blind to what it is we are partaking in. The Way of The Livingness has us consider every aspect of our lives, including not only what we eat but what we listen to, what we watch, where we are, how we move and how we are after any and all of these experiences. If everything is energy and everything is because of energy, then there is nothing we can do, say, watch, hear or witness that is not as a result of energy.
It is not about hiding in your room or staying away from work, music, TV or sport, but about being aware that nothing, literally nothing is free of a quality of energy, and when you partake of an activity, you also partake of that energy. The energy in what we eat, what we drink, what we dance to, what we listen to, who we spend the day with, what we choose to do, all has an effect, no different to the way in which the food we eat does.
So where to from here I hear you say?
To begin with developing your inner clairsentience will prepare you for learning how to observe energy, its impacts and it effects. In this way you are effectively building a muscle for clairsentience and thereby equipping yourself to make decisions based on energy first, activity second.
From there the key is to continue to develop an awareness of the quality within you and to dedicate yourself to that quality of you. To nurture and develop the inner you such that you allow nothing to alter the incredibleness you are within. Sure, attend a sporting event or watch a TV series, but be aware of the impact, the after effects and maybe even the hangover, the same as you would if you ate too much chocolate or drank too much.
Through that awareness, you may find your choices change such that a day in front of the TV no longer seems that attractive. Through that awareness you at least have a choice, whereas without it you are at the mercy of it.
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