What gives you life?
What is nutrition? From our perspective nutrition is anything that ‘feeds’ you, anything that can give you energy, anything that gives you sustenance. Following from this perspective, it means that nutrition is not necessarily only ‘food’ in the conventional sense. It is the environment you surround yourself with. Anything can give you sustenance if you have a relationship with it. And that relationship you have with your ‘nutrition’ will define what effects it has on your body, your fitness, your state of mind and your general well-being.
Fitness and nutrition also isn’t just within yourself, it comes from your outside environment - you absorb from what’s around you for sustenance. It can be meetings at work, walks in the park, buying things, collecting things, hoarding things, a pet, a neighbour, going on holiday, family, religion, meditating, screaming, fighting, watching sad movies…
The list is, quite literally, endless. Anything can be a nutritional element in your life if you have a relationship with it. So, how much and what kind of life energy do you absorb from a nutritional element? That depends entirely on the relationship you established with that specific source of energy. Your mindset towards nutrition is the connection you have with it. What drains one person may be exactly what another thrives on.
A gut feel:
For us, the gut is our most important nutritional point, that is where our centre point lies and when something feels out of place or something is causing a problem within our body, we can check the gut to see if there is anything wrong.
How do we get where we want to be?
Food is emotion. How do I determine what emotional connection I have with a source of energy? Be conscious, every time I touch certain foods, whatever emotion is within me, will be associated with that certain food, and so if I focus on what I eat and when, I can control that emotional state. The same holds true for any other source of energy in your life, become conscious of your relationship with it. Consciousness is the key to control.
Food is a valuable system for us because we use it to stimulate emotional systems and then see where we are in our emotional state. If you eat something that gives you a harmonious emotion then it’s valuable. Once you give it a different emotion then it might not be valuable - like attaching labels. Maybe chocolate has always been a treat, you ate it and felt better. Now you hear chocolate will make you gain weight. And suddenly you change your relationship with chocolate. That original emotion is important to feel, why change it to something not valuable?
What gives you life? What feeds your soul? Where are you putting your value? Are you listening to your own higher self or are you listening to those around you?