Is Nutrition Really Important?In light of recent films like “What
Bleep Do We Know?” and a collective surge in awareness of Energy therapies and theories, one question that clients repeatedly ask me in my coaching practice is, “Is nutrition really that important?”
My short answer is that, yes, it's all important. The Modality of body is not any less or more important than any of other Modalities.
The longer answer is that when you take care of physical, you send a message to Higher Self, sometimes referred to as Observer, that you are willing to take care of your Self; that you appreciate this physical manifestation of spirit or Energy realm. That, in turn, puts energy in motion. It's self- nurturing on a symbolic level. Everything physical is symbolic of spiritual realm. So, you symbolically nurture spirit by taking optimal care of body.
When clients become lackadaisical in their efforts to maintain optimum health, instead focusing almost exclusively on spiritual or emotional health, their physical health inevitably begins to decline. This, in turn affects their emotional health, and begins cycle of an overall decline in total health. Each Modality is intricately interwoven and interconnected with others. Any change, whether perceived to be large or small in one Modality, has a resounding impact on all.
Each Modality has octopus-like tentacles reaching into other four Modalities, changing and altering their fundamental state based on how optimally you are functioning at any given time. As such, nourishment or negligence of physical has deep and resonating repercussions in all areas of Self. This then, has direct and immediate implications on your capacity to actualize your full potential.
Each one of us has ability to achieve greatness in our lifetime. The only way this is even a remote possibility, is to ensure optimum or peak functioning in each of Five Modalities. This requires diligence, dedication, and a deep commitment to bring to bear all that you are capable of conceiving.
Admittedly, this is no easy task in a culture that not only breeds mediocrity, but often celebrates it as an accomplishment. Each day, each moment, that we are plugged into our Overarch, is a challenge to greatness that we are capable of bringing to fruition. Focusing energy, creativity, and thought on our inner lives requires a conscious effort to tear ourselves away from seductive pull of a consumer- driven world.
We receive and internalize billions of messages every day to look at ourselves from outside, as opposed to looking out from behind our eyes. We are inundated with media, advertising, and images encouraging us to consume rather than create; to accept rather than challenge. Our profound spiritual connectedness to nature, to one another, to our deeper and higher selves, is replaced with stagnant dogma. None of this is an accident. All of these factors jointly produce effect of an insatiable soul-hunger; a hunger for which we are then offered material “cures.”
If we take this very same analogy, and apply it to nutrition, we see that we have a food industry that strips essential vitamins, minerals, fats, and other phytochemical components from plants and produce in their natural forms, and bottles extracted nutrients to sell separately to “health food” industry. The refined foods, once much of nutritional value has been removed, are then sold to public at large, sometimes with added sugars or salt, health-eroding trans fats or hydrogenated oils, artificial flavors, colors or other additives and preservatives.
