There is so much conflicting information about healthy food and diets, who knows what to eat. Did you know there are things you can do to make any food you eat healthier for you? I'll share ways to make your food healthier for you to eat from an energy healing viewpoint. You won't want to miss it if you like to cook. Episode Notes: Hello and welcome to Episode #7 where we will be talking all about food. First though, I want to pose this question - Is there a way with energy healing to make the foods you eat healthier, no matter what you are eating. There is so much conflicting information about healthy food and diets, who knows what to eat anymore. But did you know there are things you can do to make any food you eat healthier for you? I'll share ways to do this with your energy. You won't want to miss it if you like to cook. But first, I want to tell you a cute story of what I did a few weeks ago that I loved. Who out there has stink bugs around their house. We had massive amounts of them all over our house. Even in the winter, a few would show up each day in the house, and I had to get rid of them. We figured we would get an exterminator to get rid of them once they really started showing up when it got warm. Last summer, they were all over the outside of our house so I didn't want this to happen again this year. So you know what I did. A few weeks ago, when the weather started changing, I started to see more of them around the house. And I was thinking to myself, what if I did a little healing on the house to get rid of those nasty bugs. Why not. It couldn't hurt. And that is the beauty of energy healing. It only takes a short amount of time, I didn't have to buy anything or go anywhere So I did a healing. Took literally five minutes. And you know what. We have no stink bugs around our house anymore. Maybe it was the healing, maybe not. I tend to think it was. But it sure didn't hurt anything, and might of helped. Oh, and after the stink bugs came, we started to get ants. Those little critters must have scared away by the stink bugs. But after I saw a few of them crawling around, I did another healing on the house for the ants. Voila, they were gone. That's pretty cool. Maybe in one of my next podcasts I will devote a whole segment on ways to get rid of pests with energy healing. I can't get enough of this stuff. I love it. But now, onto food. I want to change your relationship with food. If you do this, there is a healing affect. Change the way you look at food. In America, the media has ruined it for us when it comes to eating. Eat this, don't eat that, do this, don't do that. Combine your foods this way, don't eat foods that way.) Americans are so obsessed with food and diets.) And the funny thing is, we aren't any healthier than any other countries. In fact, more than a 1/3 of our population in the US are obese. Wow, that is terrible, and bad news for the children growing up. I don't know about you, but it is confusing out there with talk about food. It's information overload about what to eat, is it healthy for you, should you eat protein, fats, carbs, eat less, eat more, eat raw, so many options. From day to day I get conflicting information. Someone says eating all protein and meat is healthy for you, then someone else says go vegan. Who can keep up!! Now, I'm not advocating that you don't watch your diet. I think it is essential to living healthy. But I am not an expert nutritionist, so talking about foods is not my thing. I would say to customize your diet to fit your needs. Some people respond positively to high protein diet, that's great. Eat that. Someone else responds better to a vegan diet, that's great. Eat that way. Inherently, I think you know what to eat that makes you feel good or healthy. Keep eating that way. Your body will tell you if what you are eating is good for you or not. Do you feel logy after eating one type of meal? Do you feel hungry shortly after eating a meal? Do you have a lot of energy after eating this meal.? That would be good; you want this. Did you wake up feeling hungry or tired after a meal like the one you ate last night? Did you have aches or pains, or heartburn after a meal, or bloating? These are the types of questions to ask yourself after eating a meal to determine which foods to eat. Of course, in episode #2, I showed you a technique that can tap into your subconscious mind to ask questions about yourself. And what to eat is a great way to use this technique. You would be able to test for yourself which foods to eat. But I want to get beyond the diet, and being a student of energy medicine and energy healing, I look at things differently than a lot of other people. And really, this podcast isn't about what you should eat or shouldn't. I'll leave that to nutritional experts. I look at diet and eating from an energy standpoint and ask myself, is there anything I can do to my food to energize it for healing. Remember, you don't have to be sick to need healing. If you pay attention and keep healing each day, you hopefully won't ever get sick or at least not as much or as sever So is there something you can do to make your food more healthy? The answer I found is definitely yes! There are. Here's a little story. This is a true story. There was a shaman who was with a friend, and they were really hungry. The man didn't want to take his shaman friend to a burger joint, because he thought the shaman would think less of him eating a such an unhealthy place. But it was the only thing open and around at the time, so he said, Do you want a burger, thinking of all this heart attack food. The shaman said yes, it sounds good to him. So they go in, and the man said, "I'm surprise you eat this stuff. It's not good for you. Aren't you worried about the cheese and meat and bread?" The shaman said, not at all. He loves hot dogs and eats a chili dog every morning for breakfast. He said, it's not the food that is dangerous, It's what you think about the food that makes it vulnerable. He went on to explain that before he eats anything, he says I love you, I love you to his food. If there is anything I am bringing into this situation that would cause this food to be unhealthy, It's not the food; it's not even myself. It's something in my mind that is triggering this thought. And I let it go. Then he goes on to enjoy his food because now it is clean. When I read that many years ago, it really stuck with me. It changed the way I look at food. So then I started looking if there were other ways to make your food more healthy with energy. And I was amazed that there are things you can do with energy, which means you use your mind and life force to make your food better to eat. Granted, I'm not saying go and eat so unhealthy because you can change things with your mind. This guy was a shaman; he was experienced in mind control and energy healing. Wow, that would be great if our thoughts were that powerful too. But you know, they are. Unfortunately, here is the key. If you have a history of thinking things are one way, like hot dogs are bad for your health because you've been told that since you were young, it will be unhealthy for you. And it's not that easy undoing those beliefs. Those beliefs can be cemented into your subconscious mind. So you need to clean out that subconscious mind in its perception of food to change your relationship with your meals. And how do you clean out the subconscious mind, with repetition. The more you begin to change your thoughts about your food to a more positive image of it, the more you will squeeze out the bad images of your food in your subconscious mind. Eventually, your subconscious mind will be filled with healthy images of your food. And that brings me to my first point. Perception is reality. Your perception of food is so important, and the thoughts you project onto your food has a dramatic impact on the foods you eat. Your thoughts are powerful. Here is what I mean. When I eat a meal, I am not thinking about how terrible it is for me to the food. That would just project negative frequencies on to the food. From the moment you were born, your beliefs set the stage for the life ahead of you. Your beliefs get set from the things you hear around as you grow up. You were guided and instructed as to what to eat and this set the stage for your beliefs about food. I know its not fair that your past defines the healthiness of your food, but you can start to change that. You do this incrementally, with baby steps at first. So in a small way, you can treat every meal as if it is a gift. Don't keep thinking how unhealthy your food is. Think of the benefits of eating the food, the nourishing aspect of the food. Set intentions on your food to give you all the nourishment you need at that moment. Project good thoughts onto your food. Be thankful for your food. You know. In a symbolic and metaphoric sense, food is a gift from the heavens. Food is delicious. It's pleasurable. Food can make us feel good. Eating nourishing food, making nourishing food, feeding others, celebrating with others, if that's not love – then what is? Think of when a child is born, "love" to them is being held, the touch of their mother, the soothing voice of their mother, and the sucking of milk from their mother. Even if you fed from a bottle, you were still in your mother's arms feeling all that love. Babies can't think sophisticated enough to distinguish the difference in all those elements. It becomes one intertwined loving experience. So to them, food is love. Fast forward many years, and a young child may also associate food with love. Very often, they're rewarded for good deeds with food, or their grandma makes something special for them, like cookies, because they want to show love. In an article by psychologist Marc David, he states, "Food is so intertwined with love, the reality is,
