If you are scratching your head right now, I can explain.

The foods we eat daily serve our bodies of don’t. We make choices based on a million things such as thoughts, memories, the advice of gurus, friends, doctors, the marketing experts. No matter the choice–and this is not a post about good and not so good ones–these bits of protein, carbs, fat etc have an impact on our system. They create hormonal reactions in all of the systems of our bodies. Sometimes you are aware of what food does to you and sometimes, especially if you are eating what suits your particular system, you won’t notice anything at all.

Does this mean nothing is happening? NO. It means you didn’t do anything your body wanted to let you know about. Everything is status quo.

Let’s look beyond comestible food stuffs to all the other energetic sources of influence in our lives. People? Energetic influences no? Ever had someone walk into a room and suck all the air out with their negative demeanor? That person’s influence is much like the pizza you wolfed down for lunch except you didn’t have a choice about being where you were when the person walked in. The negative energy you feel sends signals into your system to alert stress hormones that something might be wrong.

Fearful about the possibility of getting diabetes or heart disease? Feed and condition your mind with information on what it takes to prevent them. The fear is unnecessary and produces stress hormones, in other words it has an energetic effect on your body. When you soothe your fearful mind you are calming the effects of stress. The food which is the information is like eating a big plate of vegetables.

I believe that this is how we will fix the health care crisis. My good friend Linda Welch got all fired up the other day about this. What we put in our mouths is where healing and disease prevention starts but without considering all of the other influences on our physical and emotional selves, we are only looking at half of the picture.

Look around you to your environment at home and at work. Does it support you or make you feel heavy and out of sorts? Is there something you can do to improve it? If every day you look at clutter in your cubicle or home office area then berate yourself for it and for not getting around to organizing to get rid of it, you are feeding yourself poison. Either learn to love your mess and piles so you won’t beat up on yourself, or take it on.

Your health, happiness, freedom, and power lie in your choices. From where I sit, Everything is Food, so choose wisely.