Getting Energy From Food

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality.”

Bashar as channeled by Darryl Anka

Let’s talk specifically about food. 

As with most people, eating is one of the most consistent things you do in your entire life. 

Unless you are a Breathatarian. But we won’t go down that rabbit hole.

Unfortunately, just because something is consistent, doesn’t mean it's healthy and in my case, my diet was consistently unhealthy. I spoke about my unhealthy love affair with “food” in this post.

Today I’m ready to make some changes to my diet to help energize and increase my overall vibration. 

Let’s keep this plain: Foods are either adding energy to your energy system or they are subtracting energy from your energy system. 

So if I want to build my energy, I would 

1. add in more energy-building foods, and 

2. remove the foods that are subtracting energy.

Simple math equation.

But what foods fit the equation?

I set out on my quest to find the foods that were listed as having the highest levels of energetic quality.

What I found was that the foods that were at the top of the list were also the foods that essentially had the most “light” in them.

What does this mean?

It means that all creatures require energy in some form to survive. And most of us depend on the sun’s input of energy. 

Outside of absorbing sunlight through our skin, humans have not been proven to have the capability of metabolizing sunlight and turning it into food. 

However, plants and some bacteria do this very well.

They have the ability to absorb sunlight and make their own sustenance. 

When we eat these plants, we are not only consuming the vitamins and minerals but also consuming the “light” that they have stored in their pigments. 

Pigments

There are 4 major groups of plant pigments. They are:

 chlorophylls, anthocyanins, carotenoids, and betalains.

All of them are phytonutrients that have antioxidative effects which means they decrease the levels of free radicals in the system which leads to prevention and protection from cancer, diabetes, and obesity.

Not to mention that each group of pigments comes with its own special blend of benefits in the body. 

Here’s a list of the top 3 foods that contain high levels of each pigment. 

Anthocyanins

Anthocyanins are blue, red, or purple pigments found in plants, especially flowers, fruits, and tubers. 

The health benefits are antioxidative effects, antiangiogenesis, prevention of CVD, anticancer, antidiabetes, improved visual health, anti-obesity, antimicrobial, and neuroprotection.

1. Chokeberry

2. Elderberry

3. Black Raspberry

Belatains

These pigments replace anthocyanins to produce red and yellow pigments in food and they counter inflammation, protect the liver, and have anticancer and antioxidant activity. Studies show that pigments in betalains inhibit the growth of several different types of malignant tumors, including breast, liver, colon, and bladder cancers.

1. Cactus pear

2. Red purple pitaya

3. Red beetroot

Carotenoids

These produce the bright reds, yellow and orange colors in foods. Benefits include antioxidative effects, improved eye health, reduced risk of hypertension, protection against skin, prostate, and breast cancer, and boosting overall immunity.

1. Avocado

2. Cantaloupe

3. Carrot

Chlorophylls

Chlorophyll promotes the production of red blood cells, acts as an internal deodorant and anti-inflammatory, has antioxidant qualities, and is anti-carcinogenic

1. Kale

2. Spinach

3. Chlorella

So even though these pigments are still a point of further research, it only makes sense to me that if you want to revitalize yourself from your cells all the way up through your major organs, you would stock up on foods that are naturally vibrant in color and rich in health benefits.

Don't Kill My Vibe: Raising Your Vibration

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

NIkola Tesla

How many times have you heard someone say this? 

“Raise your vibration… Vibrate higher… Increase your frequency. 

In the metaphysical world, this is the go-to mantra of many.

As I go deeper into my spiritual practice I see firsthand how what we do, say, and eat are exchanges of energy. 

It would only make sense that the “higher I vibrate”, the healthier all of my bodies will be. 

But what does this really mean?

What does this act of vibrating higher look like in my daily life?

Let’s talk about it.

Vibration

We talk about “vibing” with people, places, and things all the time but what does it really mean to vibrate?

This article explains it very well. 

Simply put, a vibration is anything that moves or changes with a regular rhythm around a single point of equilibrium.

Think about a swing at a park:

When you push the swing, you are adding energy. 

The swing stores the energy from your swing by changing back and forth between different types of energy. When the swing is moving, this is kinetic energy. When it pauses at the top of the swing before changing direction, that’s potential energy. And it will continue to do this until coming to a stop. The rate at which it switches between the different types of energy is frequency. We measure this in Hertz or times per second. 

We all have a certain frequency or set of frequencies that we tend to vibrate at. This is called our natural frequency. 

When something resonates, it means that it is moving at the same frequency as the natural frequency and when added will build the amplitude of a thing before reaching capacity.

Let’s go back to the swing.

If you push the swing once, eventually it will come to a stop again. But if you continue pushing the swing at the right moment the swing goes higher and higher.

Do you see where I’m going with this?

Be the swing for a moment. 

When we add energy from sources that resonate with a certain frequency that exists within us, we build the amplitude of that certain energy.

So if we add energy from sources that have low vibration, we build up the amplitude of that low vibration. If we add energy from sources that have a high vibration, we build up the amplitude of that high vibration. 

Now, this is where things get sketchy from an evidence-based perspective.

There are many claims of essential oils, “electric” foods, crystals, reiki, sound, etc having positive effects on the multiple levels of the physical and energetic bodies.

But there are also countless articles calling these things Pseudoscience.

Understand that as much as we know, there is still A LOT that we don’t know about our energy fields and the human body in general.

So when you start talking about energy and vibration, there isn’t much out there to back up what we may “know” experientially or on a subtle energy level.

My advice? Become your own scientist.

Do your research--begin to record your own findings and how you personally feel when using these different healing tools.

Eventually, your own data will guide you in what methods work well for you and which don’t.

Also, I personally recommend not to get caught up in the fact that something is called pseudoscience.

There are things that I have used on myself and clients and had great benefit but they fell under the pseudoscience umbrella.

While some things are definitely false, some things end up as pseudo simply because the science community doesn’t understand it yet.

After all, there are many ‘laws' that were once considered pseudo by the science community. Just saying....

So at the end of the day, to “vibrate higher” we need only to add energy from sources that vibrate higher. This will (according to my oversimplified theory) build the energy of that higher vibration.

Check out my next article where I talk about how to add energy to your bodies.

Let the good vibes flow

Sage No More

While sage is great as a medicinal plant used for smoking ceremonies and smudging, there are a plethora of herbs, woods, and resins that do the same thing--if not better!

Here are 3 herbs that are said to be excellent for clearing noxious energy and have medicinal properties:

• Havan (Hawan) Samagri

• Yerba Santa

• Sweet Grass

Havan(Hawan) Samagri

Samagri is a mixture of about 36 different herbs including  Black til, Jo, 30 types of dhoop, Bhimseni kapoor, rose petals, sandalwood powder, lobaan, ghee, chandan, Nagkesar, Tagar, Agar, wala, Red Sandal powder, Nagarmotha, Lotus seeds, Jata masi, Batriso Dhoop, Kapoor Kachri, Satavari, and Tumeric.

This particular blend is popular in Vedic traditions and is said to be used during yagnas (offerings/sacrifices given to divine beings and ancestors) and homas (specificaly fire offerings). It was actually found to reduce bacteria in the air by 94% within 1 hour of burning with effects lasting up to 30 days!

Typically Samagri is burned on wood such as mango wood during very specific and detailed rituals but this can also be simply burned using a charcoal tablet in your home.

Yerba Santa

The yerba santa plant is an evergreen aromatic shrub that is indigenous to the hills and mountains of California, Oregon, and northern Mexico. 

Also known as Holy Herb, this plant is traditionally burned as a means of creating boundaries and providing protection. In other forms, it is also greatly beneficial to the lungs and is used to treat conditions such as bronchitis and other respiratory infections.

The dried leaves are usually bundled into a smudge stick and can be burned in all spaces.

Sweet Grass

This sweet smelling herb is native to North America and is also known as Manna grass.

Sweet grass is popular in 1st Nation ceremonies as well as being a traditional ingredient in treatments for cold symptoms, eye washes, venereal diseases and more. As a smudge it is used to not only keep physical bugs away but to dispel negative energy while attracting good spirits and energy.

You will typically find this in a braid made of dried leaves ready for smudging. 

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What’s your favorite herb for smudging? Tell me in the comments below.

12 Affirmations to Stop Emotional Eating

Feelings such as stress, boredom, sadness, and loneliness can often lead to emotional eating as a way of soothing or suppressing negative emotions. Affirmations have become my go-to when it comes to reprogramming your thoughts and emotional triggers.

In this article, I give 12 affirmations to help you stop emotional eating and share some of the things I’ve learned in dealing with eating my feelings and how I have begun the process of stopping.

As I took a bite, I felt the instant calm. I just wanted to feel good for a moment. But now I feel something else happening...  I feel the energy leaving my body to the point I can’t even keep my eyes open. What am I doing to myself? Something has to change.

When I stand back and evaluate the “food” that I’m eating on a regular basis, I realize I’m not eating food at all...I’m actually eating death.

This is how Dictionary.com defines food:

“any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc.”

Sustain life? Provide energy?? So if I eat something that literally zaps the energy out of me, can I still call it food? 

I can’t and that leaves me with a serious decision to make.

If mastery of Self is my goal, am I willing to give up the foods that I love to achieve it?

Here’s what I know: Becoming a master of anything requires discipline. 

Over the last few years, I’ve watched these discourses in discipline unfold in different areas of my life. 

At one point I actually called out to the heavens asking to become more disciplined because I knew that discipline really wasn’t my strength. 

And now here I am…

My Divine Agency has created the opportunity for me to discipline myself in this area and I feel like I’m looking down the barrel of a gun. (be careful what you ask for, you just may get it)

So you may be reading this saying, well what’s the problem? Just stop eating the toxic, non-food.

Well, here’s the issue. 

“Food” is not just food anymore.

“Food” has become my emotional crutch—

I use it to get through boring monotonous work…

I use it to calm me during a hectic day…

I use it to gather the tears that I don’t feel like crying…

I use it for everything except what food is meant to be used for.

I say I love the very “food” that depletes me, makes me lethargic and brings imbalance to my physical and energetic bodies.

If this sounds like an abusive relationship, it's because it is.

And I am finally over the drama of yoyo dieting, emotional eating, and being overweight

I choose me…

I choose my health…

I choose balance…

I choose mastery of this aspect of Self.

Are you with me?

If you are ready to take command of your thoughts and stop the emotional eating, Recite these 12 Powerful Affirmations with me:

I love my body.

I will nourish my body with healthy foods.

I give myself permission to feel my emotions without guilt.

I allow my emotions to process through my body.

I choose to be my best self in this moment.

Food is my tool to empower my body.

Today I will sing the praises of my body.

I choose to heal myself.

I choose to be healthy— mind, body, and spirit.

I am in full control of my impulses.

I will use my emotions to support healthy thoughts only.

I am not the victim of circumstance but the creator of the reality I want.