Clarifying Food and Nutrition

  

What is food and nutrition?

“Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells in an effort to produce energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food

  

 “Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrition

As we look at the basic definition of food and nutrition we can see that food, at the most basic level, is simply information. And, eating is a form of information exchange or communication. As we eat, information begins to be exchanged, broken down and assimilated within our bodies.  These processes happen on physical, chemical and energetic levels.

For example: a carrot carries inside of it information that is not only chemical in nature (such as: beta-carotene and minerals) but also energetic information (such as: vibrational frequencies). The energetic information also contains information imprinted within its molecular structure from things such as where/when/how the carrot was cultivated, grown, packaged and shipped. When consumed, we are ingesting and inserting all of this "stuff" into our cells.

For most of us, it is easy to comprehend food in the form nutrition as chemical information. But let us explore the energetic component for clarification and a deeper understanding.

Masaru Emoto is a Japanese author and entrepreneur, best known for his claims that human consciousness has an effect on the molecular structure of water. Emoto's hypothesis has evolved over the years of his research. Initially he believed that water takes on the "resonance" of the energy which is directed at it, and that polluted water can be restored through prayer and positive visualization.

Since 1999 Emoto has published several volumes of a work titled Messages from Water, which contains photographs of water crystals, and their accompanying experiments. Emoto's water crystal experiments consist of exposing water in glasses to different words, pictures, or music, and then freezing and examining the aesthetics of the resulting crystals with microscopic photography. Emoto claims that different water sources produce different crystalline structures when frozen. For example, Emoto claims that a water sample from a mountain stream would purportedly show a geometric design that is beautifully shaped when frozen. On the other hand, Emoto claims that polluted water sources will be distorted and will be randomly formed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto

Emoto’s work evidences the energetic imprinting of information from human consciousness on a molecular level. Consciousness, thought or “mind energy”, is the precipitating factor of this imprint but it is emotional energy that puts it into action. Emotion is feelings put into electromagnetic motion allowing for potentiality of the physical manifestation- or the imprint.

So where could this emotion information come from? The earth where the food was grown? The farmer growing and harvesting the crops? The company transporting and selling this food? The individual preparing the food for a meal? You, the one eating it?

There is a lot of information contained within just this one carrot.

Imagine what is in an entire meal!

So we can see here, the act of eating is a dynamic exchange of information on many levels. In this communion we are feeding our bodies with so much more than just vitamins and minerals. We are inserting a slew of data into our cells and stamping them with this data each time we ingest anything. This is why discernment becomes so vital.  Now we know what food is and what it contains; where do we go from here?

For starters, we may begin viewing a carrot as more than just an edible orange thing that grows in the ground. We know it contains more than just chemical nutrients to support our physical body. So how do we apply this basic information to making the decision of what to eat?  Basically, what we are really asking is “what does this have to do with me and my overall health, wellbeing and quality of life?” It may be more than you may think… So stay tuned as we pull it all together. 

Coming up next- we will explore the dynamics between you and food. What is your current relationship with food and is this truly the relationship you desire? Or, could it benefit from a little reframing, redefining and reestablishing?

This topic will begin to unfold in the upcoming discussion. So until then, I leave you with this simple question to ponder before your next meal….

"Are you bringing Love to the table"?

Many blessings,

Carolyn
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