Finding the Right Food - Part 2
Yellow Coconut Curry from LIfe Changing Foods
I find myself trying to understand more deeply how does nutrition enhance my intuition and how does intuition enhance my nutrition? This question has led me into a whole new way of eating. Listening to what my body wants to eat everyday rather than what my mind says to eat has developed into a small obsession.
I was recently introduced to a very interesting and mind expanding book written by Anthony William, a Medical Medium called: Life-Changing Foods: Save yourself and the ones you love with the hidden healing powers of fruits and vegetables. He writes about The Holy Four food groups: Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs & Spices, and Wild Foods. There are 50 chosen foods each highlighted with a summary about the food in general, the health conditions and symptoms the food can help with and also summaries I am really enjoying and have not read about before such as: the emotional support and spiritual lesson each food offers.
When I was recovering in the hospital, Geoff was bringing me fresh food every night for my dinner. The food we made felt and tasted 100% fresher and full of healing properties compared to the hospital food. (We all know most hospital food is not particularly healing. ) I remember asking him to bring me avocados mashed up with fresh lime juice squeezed on top, nothing else. This tasted so incredibly nourishing and good to me, I couldn’t eat enough of it. I love avocados, but this was like a whole new experience of eating one for me. Was it because my body was so weak and in need of comfort, nutrition, and support in every way it could get it that I was perhaps more mindful of what I was eating now?
Avocados are one of the chosen 50 foods in Anthony Williams book. He writes about the spiritual lesson of the avocado and says, ‘avocados are all about nurturing, it is the mother fruit, the closest food on the planet to breast milk.’ He writes about avocados as the ultimate comfort food and to ‘bring avocados in your life as a teacher of unconditional love, both toward yourself and others and watch your capacity for compassion grow and flourish.’
When I read this after I had my own experience eating avocados, I knew what he was talking about on a level that I could not rationally explain. When our body is completely at the mercy of needing greater help than we can give it alone, any defensive walls give way to a place of vulnerability, acceptance and possibility. This is when we can open up to the healing powers of foods.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
I felt Hippocrates words in my body, soul, and spirit on those days recovering in the hospital and now I can’t let go of the potential for how much food can heal the body. I am hungry for more recipes and understanding of how foods do heal our bodies and increase our ability to connect to our intuition.
I look forward to creating meals everyday, whether it’s combination of fruit and veggies for juices, salads, soups, or desserts. Approaching cooking with mindful awareness is healing for the body and comforting for the soul.
Having time to prepare meals and enjoy them slowly and mindfully has slowed me down to cook with more intention, to notice how my body feels after eating different foods, and to ask myself, did that meal enhance my energy and support clarity in my mind or did it make me tired and foggy in my head? You always have a choice what you put into your body. Whatever you are choosing to ingest, do it whole heartedly and with a mindful focus. I am noticing a difference and I wonder if you do too?