Conscious Nutrition Beyond Diets and Calories

When people think about getting healthier, eating better and getting exercise are perhaps the two options that immediately come to mind. And given that most of us eat at least two to three times a day, we really need to give food our attention.

To start eating better

Of course there are many diets out there, with experts arguing about which one is the best for people to follow. There are vegan and vegetarian diets, keto and paleo diets, macrobiotic and Mediterranean diets, caloric restriction diets, and so on. In short, there is no one consensus on the way that we should eat, so even if you wanted to do the right thing… where would you begin?

Despite their differences, most of these diets agree on some key items, and points of agreement include the following:

• Eat a diet of minimally processed foods, direct from nature or made from natural ingredients. Avoid anything artificial.

• Eat a diet of mostly plant-based foods.

• When eating meat, eat the meat of animals raised on pure plant foods.

• Avoid sugar and refined carbohydrates.

Small Changes, Big Results

I should point out that the term “all natural” on food packages has no technical meaning. It is a marketing term. I encourage you to start learning to read the ingredients on any packaged foods, and if you don’t know what an ingredient is, look it up or avoid it until you know. It’s sometimes hard to believe what’s allowed inside processed foods!

You can make a big impact on your health and energy by simply beginning to remove foods from your diet that don’t fit within these guidelines and replacing them with those that do.

Few people can or will make these changes overnight, but as you take steps that are simple for you today, then the steps that seem difficult right now will seem easy later on. Making a small change each week turns into substantial changes in a year.

Life Exchanges Energy

From a bioenergetic perspective, though, choosing natural, unprocessed foods is about more than just avoiding toxins or ingredients that your body doesn’t know how to deal with. Obviously healthy food provides building blocks that are chemically necessary.

But beyond that, it provides minerals that water can structure itself around, producing a battery inside every cell. Also, the production of energy (ATP) from food relies on electrons released from food and moving through the electron transport chain. Batteries produce a flow of electrons to do work, and that’s exactly what happens in all our cells as they generate ATP to power the body. In both of these ways, food is truly part of powering a literal body battery.

As if that weren’t enough, food is also about light. This is because living tissues emit light, or what we call biophotons. There’s been some powerful research on this topic that can help you understand how important natural food is.

In Russia in 1923, Alexander Gurwitsch discovered that living cells and organisms emit extremely low levels of light spontaneously. He thought this light was involved in communication between cells. A century later, research has continued to mount showing that this is true, that light is part of an energy-based communication system in the body that’s much faster than chemical communication. (Photons, or particles of light, are a means of communication between electrons, and the movement of electrons in the body is key to all our biochemical processes.)

Another researcher, German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp, is perhaps the best-known researcher in this area. He emphasized the energy nature of the human body by saying that we are “light beings” who need coherent light to coordinate the trillions of biochemical processes happening in the body.

His research, for instance, showed that cancer patients emit less coherent light than healthy people. Meanwhile, stress seems to drive too much light emission – this effectively means we’re less efficient with our energy and are using a lot of it to move through stress. With biophotons, the goal isn’t to produce a high quantity of light, which would be wasteful, but to use and produce a high quality of it. That is, to make use of more coherent light. So in the case of multiple sclerosis (MS), for instance, Popp’s research shows that people with this condition are emitting too much light, as if the body is in a constantly high state of stress.

Along these lines, Popp found that the healthiest food had the lowest intensity of light but highly coherent light. Again, quality over quantity. His team also studied the “after-glow”, or delayed luminescence, of food and found it possible to distinguish organic tomatoes from conventionally grown tomatoes strictly from this reading of light. They could also distinguish free-range eggs from caged-hen eggs, and could use after-glow to predict the germination rate of barley seeds.

A rainbow diet

Besides the coherence of light, we can also consider the frequency of light, which we perceive as colors. Every frequency carries its own information to support the body’s communication system, so our best bet is to eat not only food with coherent light, but foods of many colors in order to provide a broad spectrum of light. Conventional views on nutrition already encourage a rainbow diet; from a bioenergetic perspective, this is why.

Coherent energy

Finally, we can think about the way we eat. Stress and negative emotions can also impact the heart’s communication with the brain and the rest of the body and cause overall decoherence in our communication system (or the inability for everything to speak together).

For this reason, it’s ideal if we can set aside time to eat in a non-stressful setting, breathing deeply and calmly and being in the moment. Being in a state of positive emotions with people we love may also contribute to our state of coherence as we eat.

In short, coherent energy is essential not only to powering us, but to making sure that power is used well. And when it comes to food, we can best gather this type of energy by eating:

• A variety of foods from nature (not labs)

• Organic when possible

• In as natural (unprocessed) a state as possible

• In the most balanced personal state possible