This week, I’m going to dive deep into the first self-care pillar, Nutrition.
Now before you click off the page because you’ve know and have done all the food stuff, just give me a minute of your time. I’m not going to tell you what to eat or how much to eat. My goal here is to paint a more comprehensive picture of nutrition and it’s role in our physicality and spirituality.
Nutrition is one of my favorite topics because it was opened up a whole new way of thinking for me. Nutrition is what saved my mental health while I was in med school and also helped me tackle a lifelong weight problem that I thought I was stuck with. Even more though, food is intrinsically a part of us – after all, what we eat is what our body uses to rebuild us, from the inside out.
Using this function as a baseline, you can see how we take on the vibration of the food we eat. If we’re eating fruits and veggies, most likely we’re taking in a high vibration of light versus if we’re eating fast food consistently, we’re taking on a lower vibration. How our food is grown and handled all gets incorporated into. Ever notice how Mom’s home cooking always makes you feel better versus the same meal at a restaurant? That’s cuz Mom’s love and energy went into that food, versus the dude who cooked it at the restaurant.
Food vibration is a major reason why it’s important to properly source your food. Know where your food comes from. If you can purchase from a farmer’s market, that food is likely to have a higher vibration than purchasing the same haul at a supermarket. Sourcing is particuarly important in regards to animal products. How the animal is treated is partly what you’re ingesting you want to make sure your meat, milk and such comes from animals that were treated well. [This is within reason. Do the best you can with what you’ve got].
As you start to become more in tune with your body’s nutritional needs, you’ll see that you’re eating less than you’re used to. Eating higher vibration and quality food requires less food overall than what we’ve been conditioned to believe. Calories are only a small portion of the food picture. Quality over quantity.
As you eat more in tune with your unique energy blueprint, you’ll notice yourself gravitate toward different foods than you’ve eaten in the past. This is ok. It’s a good practice in trusting your body and intuition to led them take the lead in regards to nutrition. You may experience some missteps as your body adjusts hormonally but overall, you’ll create a diet that works for you all the time. The goal is to be empowered over your food choices and not feel deprived or restrained.
Choosing to not eat cheese is different than bingeing on it and/or restricting it forcefully. Both of the latter situations come from an energy of disempowerment and fear. The former comes from self-empowerment and an inner knowing.
While I say repeatedly that no one pillar is more important than the other, it’s not totally true. Each pillar builds on the one before it and what I’ve learned in my time doing this work is that nutrition can make or break the other pillars. The food we eat is a large part of who we are so it’s important that it matches the standards we set for ourselves.
I also understand how difficult it is to eat the way your body needs you to. We live in a world where food is central to our lives AND the food itself is designed to kill us slowly. Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place! This is why I make it clear that I’m not telling you how to eat. I’m asking you to trust your body’s innate wisdom and allow your intuition to grow. It’s a scary transition but you’ll thank yourself for allowing it.
If you feel a pull to try a specific way of eating or program, do it. If you feel a nudge to let go of a plan, do that too. Trust the knowing that exists within you.
If you made it this far, THANK YOU! I hope this helped a bit about how to approach food from a self-loving way. Always, always, always check back in with yourself because only YOU know what YOU need.