We eat how we are

You've probably heard of the saying 'you are what you eat'. The connection between what we eat and our health is becoming more obvious as heart-disease, obsesity and diabetes rates increase. Many people are realising that their reliance on overly processed or fast-food due to their fast-paced lifestyle is making them sick, overweight and depressed. Some continue to eat in this way, others are moving towards organic food, organic gardening and home-cooking with wholefoods (not tinned or packaged food). We eat to match the pace of our life, our state of mind, and our level of consciousness. Thus, we eat how we are.

I've been inspired by Gabriel Cousens MD whose brilliant book, Spiritual Nutrition has helped me to join more dots between what I eat, energy, and spiritual awareness.

Here's a few insights from Gabriel's book:

• Food is condensed cosmic energy.

• Without proper digestion to assimilate the different energy levels and foreign forces of food into our body, food would make us ill.

• Our relationship with food is more than just adding up calories, vitamins and minerals; it's about understanding the subtle vibration from its energy field.

• Food is affected by the environment in which is it grown and the consciousness of the people preparing it. So add some LOVE.

• Food supplies only 10% of our body's energy needs (that explains why some people survive eating only unhealthy fast-food). Pure cosmic energy is the primary nutrient that we all take into our system - we get it through meditation. Other sources include sunlight, oxygen, sexual energy and the earth's Geomagnetic Energy.

• Six Foundations for Spiritual Life are: nutrition (vegan, organic, live-food); building prana (through yoga, reiki, tai chi etc); service and charity (to see our attachment to things); spiritual guidance and inspiration; silence (meditation, prayer, mantra); Kundalini awakening (shaktipat initiation).

Read more about Gabriel's work.

"For diet to be truly effective,
it needs to be in the context
of a full spiritual life of meditation,
good fellowship,
right life,
and loving our neighbours
as our true self."

Gabriel Cousens