We really are what we eat.

We can eat poison or we can eat medicine. We can eat dead food or we can eat living food. We can treat our bodies as living temples or as garbage disposals. May we choose wisely what vibrations we commune with and make space for food to serve us as God intended: as medicine.

As we walk our healing paths, we remember that we are not separate from nature. Can the food we invite into our body temples assist us in this process? What we ingest affects our vibration. Eating foods closest to the source (Gaia) can assist us in remembering our own Source.

I’ve had the honor of preparing food for mindfulness and medicine retreats and I see how the food assists with the healing and integration. This is because having a clean inner body temple allows us to perceive reality more clearly, give from clear intention, and receive more fully. When our bodies are overloaded with food (information) and more dense and difficult to digest food, it is harder for us to feel clear and present. Clouded gut, clouded mind, clouded perception. Making it harder for the medicine and lessons to land and settle into our systems. Thus making harder to integrate our work and keep going. We may become distracted and fatigued.

When treating food as medicine, we are showing respect for ourselves and the food. We show our body temple that it is worth keeping clean. We show the plants that we are so grateful for their generosity and intelligence. We don’t over eat or override our bodies voice when it requests nourishment. We cultivate deeper relationship with ourselves and the earth when we eat consciously.

When we eat far from the earth, we are far from the earth. When we eat close to the earth, we are close to Her.