Food, Appetite & Spirituality

by Doreen Virtue

Just as our spiritual growth affects our relationships with people, so does our diet. The spiritual path creates a more positive outlook about ourselves and life. This uplifted attitude makes us feel lighter and freer emotionally and physically.

Yet, no matter how much we work on ourselves spiritually, our diet also plays a very significant role in how we feel. A heavy, chemical-ladened diet can actually make even the lightest spirit feel heavy. On the other hand, certain other types of meals can rapidly boost someone’s spirit, mind, and heart. Many spiritually minded people receive intuitive messages to delete certain foods or beverages from their diet. Others on the spiritual path lose their tolerance for low-frequency substances such as coffee or sugar. They develop sudden adverse reactions to ingesting these substances.

The angels explain that each food and beverage has a "frequency" according to how much "life-force" is in it. Life-force comes from the sun and air the plant is grown in. Foods’ life force also varies according to how it is processed before eating. Higher life-force foods compliment and uplift a person’s spiritual growth. These foods help us to feel lighter, energetic, and more aware of our Divine guidance.

The highest life-force foods are those grown above ground in high sunlight — such as the tropics. So, fresh pineapple, guava, mango, and papaya have a lot of life-force in them. If you eat these foods frequently, you’ll find that your sensitivity to spiritual intuitive abilities increases.

Foods grown in lower sunlight conditions have slightly lower amounts of life-force, as do vegetables grown underground. Organic foods also have higher life-force frequencies. Pesticides, which carry the energy of killing, lowers the vibration of foods. Cooking, canning, freezing, and other processing methods also lower or eliminate the life force in foods. Life cannot live in a freezer, and neither can the life-force in foods. The angels guide us to eat foods that are as close to their natural state as possible, such as fresh or lightly steamed organic vegetables.

Bread products made from "sprouted grains" (available in most grocery and health food stores) have a higher life-force than those made from ground flour. Grinding actually kills the life-force of grains as does the bleaching of the flour.

Sugar, caffeine, and chocolate have no life-force in them, and actually block your abilities to clearly receive Divine guidance. Meat, fowl, and other animal products (including dairy) also have no life-force, as they are dead or inert. If the animal was cruelly treated during its life or its slaughter, the energy of the animal’s pain is carried in its flesh and dairy products. The energy of pain lowers our body’s frequency. For this reason, if you choose to eat meat, fowl, or dairy products, say grace or blessings to transmute the energy of pain. Or, choose only "free range" fowl and eggs or kosher meat products, to ensure that the animals were humanely treated and slaughtered with the least amount of pain possible.

The angels say that fish is a higher frequency source of protein than fowl or meat. The water in which fish swim creates electrochemical reactions that transmutes any energy of pain the fish feels upon its death. So, those on the spiritual path who are concerned about the energetic repercussions of diet may choose to become semi-vegetarians. Their meals may consist of fresh or lightly cooked vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and fish.

Life Force in Beverages

The angels say that we should drink water in "as natural a state as possible." They wish we could all drink water freshly drawn from a river or a well. In the absence of this option, bottled water labeled as "spring water" or "artesian water" has a much higher life force than processed "drinking water" or "reverse osmosis water." The angels also ask us to avoid artificially carbonated beverages.

Juice has a high life force, provided it is consumed within twenty minutes of being squeezed from fresh fruits or vegetables. After twenty minutes, the spirit of the fruit or vegetable leaves, just as it would a body that had been pulverized in a blender. Frozen or concentrated juice has no life-force, nor does juice thirty minutes after being squeezed. Organic fruits and vegetables create a higher life-force juice than non-organic juice.

Alcohol, coffee, sugar, chocolate-based and carbonated beverages have no life force at all. They rob the body of life-force consumed in other foods. ¤

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