We Are What We Eat!

Healthy eating is an important notion we are seeing everywhere right now; it has become very popular in the news and in conversation with family and friends. Our society has taken on the quest for health through foods that are fat-free, sodium-free, and calorie-free. What people don’t know is that by extracting so many things, the food has become energy-free. We are obsessed with food that is no longer food, but more or less a chemistry project. What we should be searching for is what needs to be in our food, not what we needs to be missing or extracted from our food. Therefore I am challenging you to forget what you have been told about fats, proteins and carbohydrates and to see food the same way our body does, as life energy.


Food fuels more than our organs and cells; it also has great potential to feed our spirits. Processed, refined or fabricated foods are produced quickly in mass quantities, with flashy packaging and catchy commercials; imagine the processed foods that lie in middle isles of your favourite grocery store. Now, imagine an apple that spends the entire summer growing up from the earth with rain from the sky and the sun of a beautiful summer day.

That apple contains so much more than the obvious nourishment and vitamins that an “apple a day” offers. That apple also contains minerals that have been redeposited time and time again into the soil from where the tree grew. It contains energy and life from the same sun that warms each of us. It has been carefully cared for and nourished as it grows, not unlike each person we are and we know. Furthermore, that apple contains enough seeds to grow trees to produce a million more apples. When you are eating living food, be aware of the power it possesses. The energy present in live food can also be seen in a pumpkin seed, strong enough to grow an entire pumpkin; the protein source inside an egg is of such a great quality that it will provide growth for an entire chicken.

Something really incredible happens when we choose to feed not only our bellies, but also our spirit; food changes. Eating food is a transfer of life and energy, and in turn we change. We are providing our body its basic needs beyond nutritional values and calories. The health we are able to provide the body is immeasurable. Just as our bodies take time to create life, so should the food we put into it. By eating foods that grow, change and develop, we give ourselves the capacity to grow, change and develop. This is what is truly meant by healthy eating.

I trust in the truth of this concept because I have felt it and experienced it in my own life. Therefore I now challenge you to try and eat one thing everyday purely for its life energy. Feed your spirit and watch as it flourishes. When you eat the foods that serve your body with life and energy, your body will then function from a place of true health. Always put in yourself the things you wish to be and do not forget these simple words; we are what we eat.

By Marcie Brown
RMT and Reiki Practitioner
Nutrition Expert
Bundles of Energy

“Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie.” ~Astrid Alauda