Energy and Diet
Try closing your eyes and picturing yourself picking vegetables from your own backyard garden.
Are you able to imagine the smell of the dirt?
Can you feel the texture of the leaves and stems as you hold them in your hands?
How does the sunlight feel as it’s pouring it’s warmth down your back?
If you felt a connection to this imagined moment then you may have noticed that by just thought alone you were able to raise your energy and your awareness. You created something and that something was probably pleasureful and perhaps even nourishing to a part of you as well.
In my 20’s I really connected to a television chef called Nigella Lawson. She was on the TV Show “Nigella Bites” and she also wrote a cook book called “How to be a Domestic Goddess.” At the time I was working 3 different jobs in retail just to make ends meet and I had to save up to buy the book . Nigella gave off a certain very powerful sexual energy when she talked about cooking. I was always so intrigued by her persona. Watching her make a late night spaghetti Alfredo was entertaining enough that I could almost feel nourished by the thought of it (even though I was likely eating a frozen pizza for my dinner).
The nourishment of our souls and bodies is very much a creative pursuit. In Christianity you almost have to imagine the physical act of being saved by Jesus Christ in order to conceive that it’s possible. When we imagine something like that, we turn on our creative centers. It’s at that point that we feel the most alive, the most hopeful and the most energetic that we can be.
I hear a lot of people in the fitness community refer to a way of eating where you think of food as fuel and nothing more. I personally have a very hard time connecting to that idea. And Meal prep is another area that I have struggled to find enjoyment in.
My take-away is this: Be a goddess. Be a domestic goddess if you wish or a non-domestic one. Really just focus on opening up your creative pathways and connecting to what your ideal life looks like.
Experience how powerful it feels and then from here on out, pursue that.