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Food, Energy, Cravings & Beyond
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Food, Energy, Cravings & Beyond

By Dianne Trussell · On March 24, 2014

Recently I explored some of the odd food cravings I’d experienced after antibiotic therapy. It raised the question of how my body knows the nature and location of a food I have never seen or heard of before that evidently contained what my body needed. Science has some of the answers, but not yet all.

Science

Health sciences show us that antibiotics can destroy one’s friendly intestinal bacteria. These bacteria perform crucial functions for us such as: producing essential nutrients that human bodies can’t make; digesting foods we can’t digest; processing plant hormones into the precursors of human hormones; and training our immune systems by communicating directly with our gut lining cells. Antibiotics and other pharmaceutical medications deplete nutrients in a variety of ways, either indirectly by harming intestinal bacteria, or directly. This creates a deficiency that must be filled.

Other factors such as periods of stress, changes in climate, work, exercise, social relationships and parenting also engage or increase the function of particular cells, organs or biochemical processes. Then our bodies need to be supplied with specific nutrients that we don’t often consume, or more of something common like vitamin C and zinc during a viral infection.

Our whole body including our brain is made of cells which all communicate with each other. Thus whatever the cells of the body ‘know’ they need can be communicated to ‘us’, i.e. our conscious minds, via our brain cells. Basic biology.

 And Beyond…

Here’s the curly question: how does my body know about the composition and location of something that ‘I’ have never encountered before? That implies the body can access information outside itself, at a distance. The ONLY explanation for this is that information, as a field unto itself, is accessible by the body much like television channels travelling through space are accessible by a TV set.

Science is only just beginning to investigate this uncharted area of knowledge, which lies in energy and not in how we perceive matter. Everything is energy; even matter is energy. Because energy is indestructible and contains information, all the information about everything is encoded in energy permanently. It’s thus permanently accessible to whatever is ‘tuned’ to it. So, if my brain didn’t know it, what part of my body ‘got the information’ and communicated it to my brain? New research says it’s the heart that accesses all the informational energy ‘out there’ and communicates it to the brain. The heart has been experimentally shown to pick up and respond to outside information before the brain does. This is where many scientists will scoff with derision, but their objections will die away as the new lines of research proceed to bring light to the truth of this.

Good Cravings, Bad Cravings

Back to people and cravings… is the craving a true reflection of the body’s need, or an artificially produced craving for something that is not beneficial but harmful? It’s blatantly obvious that cravings for cigarettes, coffee, alcohol, recreational drugs, sugar, junk food, etc, are harmful. Even the person who keeps choosing them will say: “I know it’s bad for me, but I like it”. Obviously these cravings cannot be true messages from a body that always, by its very nature, strives for balance and healthiness. And surely there are also many other things that are more subtly harming (but not recognised as such) than these strong examples. Physically, the reward pathways of nerves in the brain are involved. However they are wired for foods in their natural state and quantities, and not modern aberrations! Also, they respond according to how they’ve been trained and that training may have been inappropriate, such as constantly rewarding children’s behaviour with sweets.

Where physical science currently leaves off, discernment and choice come in. That’s a whole other story, and one that must look to energy for the answers. Not only the heart can pick up energy, but of course the brain and the whole body can too, but what energy? This is an important question, especially since what the brain/mind ‘thinks’ it wants and ‘thinks’ it likes, are often the harmful things. Since information-loaded energy is what’s being picked up by the body, it will be necessary in future to work out the different kinds of energy, how they ‘get in’, and what their implications are to the human being.

By Dianne Trussell, Ocean Shores, NSW

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Dianne Trussell

Born in a lab coat' (much to the chagrin of non-scientific parents) - forget the girlie stuff, gimme a microscope and a big question any day! Lover of nature with eyes, ears, nose, skin, hands, feet and camera. Favourite working environment: my blue-and-white office (sea and sand under a blazing sun). 15-year segue from university research to computer graphics and web development (geek come-out) and back to research, writing and teaching with a new joyful, freely-expressive style change!

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367 Comments

  • Mary says: January 14, 2020 at 4:15 PM

    Dianne I love how you make science so interesting and ask questions in a way that has me asking I wonder why that is.
    This statement is fascinating and I wonder why this isn’t taught as part of our education.
    “Everything is energy; even matter is energy. Because energy is indestructible and contains information, all the information about everything is encoded in energy permanently. It’s thus permanently accessible to whatever is ‘tuned’ to it. ”
    If we could live in a way that we could tap into this energy then we would know beyond what we consider intelligence to be, we would have to because energy has been around since the universe existed and who know even beyond this!

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  • Leigh says: December 26, 2019 at 9:13 PM

    I’ve learnt that my whole body can communicate to me, the being, what energy it is in at any moment.

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  • Mary says: September 11, 2019 at 5:46 PM

    Because of the workshops and presentations of Serge Benhayon I have attended I have a greater understanding of my body. For example sometimes I crave sugar and when I get these cravings I would just eat sugar in any form and feel numb or sleepy depending on the chemical composition of the food I had just eaten. Now I know that when I crave sugar there is a part of me that wants to dull my awareness to life, so that I go back to sleep and just function through the day. I prefer my awareness as that gives me a completely different way to understand life there is so much that we do not read when we are full of sugar, as we are too racy to feel anything.

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  • Leigh Matson says: August 13, 2019 at 3:36 AM

    A bodily need tends to come with this sense of knowing that what is craved for is supportive, these are often things that at any other time I’d have no interest in it, like manuka honey, fenugreek seeds and liver. A negative craving comes with obsessive thoughts about that food/drink/behaviour until it is carried out and then seeks more of it, like sugar and salt.

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  • Mary Adler says: April 26, 2019 at 1:49 PM

    Children at school, and all of us, should learn about energy first and foremost so that they appreciate the messages received by the body and learn to make wise choices.

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  • Helen Elliott says: March 24, 2019 at 4:57 AM

    Fascinating that it is accepted that our cells communicate with each other but that many find it harder to accept the heart’s role in this bodily communication. Is this because we have put too much emphasis on the intellect of the mind rather than the wider knowing of the heart that can literally lead us to what we need if we are willing to allow it.

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  • Ingrid Ward says: February 10, 2019 at 8:15 AM

    I really appreciate blogs like this which give me such a deeper insight into the human body and how it functions all day, every day, while we go about life. But sadly, so few of us get to understand its intricacies and what it needs to maintain optimum health and so we end up with the burgeoning rates of global ill-health that we have now. As far as I am concerned, care for our body ought to start at a very early age and continue as we grow up; I’m sure if this was the case, we’d all be a lot healthier.

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  • Sarah Flenley says: December 10, 2018 at 7:36 AM

    I love that our body “always, by its very nature, strives for balance and healthiness”….how can that not be something created by God?

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  • Carola Woods says: October 29, 2018 at 5:20 AM

    I love what you have shared here as it elucidates how our awareness of the quality of energy behind our cravings not only with food but with behaviours and emotions allows us a choice to respond with truth.

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    • David says: October 31, 2018 at 6:05 PM

      Agreed Carola, its about what’s behind the reason why we choose to eat certain foods first and foremost. We all know some things aren’t great for us but often reach out for them. Other times we feel like it’s something out of the blue but perhaps there its our body showing us what we are missing and needing.

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    • Mary says: August 5, 2020 at 5:23 AM

      I have discovered Carola Woods that my cravings are actually hard wired into my psyche so that by eating something, say sugary, it will race my body. The more I develop a stillness from within the more I can feel this quality of energy that fights to make me want sugar or another stimulant, distraction, anything, rather than feel the stillness that is inherent me and in all of us.

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  • Monika Rietveld says: October 22, 2018 at 5:30 AM

    The new science insights that our heart picks up the outside information before the brain does makes so much sense. We communicate with each other with our hearts and not with our brains. And our hearts have such a depth, endless love and immeasurable wisdom, science can’t keep up with this yet.

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  • Lorraine Wellman says: October 9, 2018 at 4:40 PM

    I like how you explain energy, and how it is everywhere accessible to whoever tunes into it, ‘ That implies the body can access information outside itself, at a distance. The ONLY explanation for this is that information, as a field unto itself, is accessible by the body much like television channels travelling through space are accessible by a TV set.’

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  • Ingrid Ward says: September 29, 2018 at 5:07 PM

    Reading about the intricate and innate workings of the body always amazes me and asks me to stop and appreciate the often, minute processes that are endlessly taking place in my body. I haven’t always appreciated them but that was at the expense of my health and my well-being. These days my wonder at the wisdom of my body and my appreciation for it, is immense.

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    • Helen Elliott says: March 24, 2019 at 5:01 AM

      We so often take the wisdom of our bodies for granted but when we pay attention and appreciate what we are being offered we have an immense source of support and love.

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    • Mary says: August 5, 2020 at 5:29 AM

      I agree with you Ingrid Ward I am in awe of what my body can tell me and does show me especially when I have not been taking care of myself. If I rush and do something on automatic pilot I have a tendency to bump into things, or misplace something. When I slow down and give myself the space to enjoy what I’m doing then life goes smoothly.

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  • Annelies van Haastrecht says: September 16, 2018 at 1:57 AM

    The amazing support our body is always offering us because the body ‘by its very nature, strives for balance and healthiness.’ its the wisdom of our body that should be honored day in day out.

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  • Melinda Knights says: September 1, 2018 at 11:08 AM

    If everything is just energy, information, and vibration then you have to wonder if we are craving not foods but vibrations.

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    • Elaine Arthey says: September 1, 2018 at 6:30 PM

      Absolutely Melinda…that makes so much sense. What foods do we choose? And what do we think they are giving us?

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    • Monika Rietveld says: October 22, 2018 at 5:40 AM

      Yes it is all about vibration and that is what we choose: the vibration that suits our purpose: either more awareness and responsibility or vibration that delays that.

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  • David says: August 13, 2018 at 3:05 PM

    this shows so clearly how the best diet is the one where we listen to our body, feeling what is needed and why we are feeling to eat that certain food.

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    • Lorraine Wellman says: October 15, 2018 at 6:44 PM

      Our body always conveys so much wisdom, it is up to us whether we allow ourselves to tune into this and benefit from what is lovingly shared.

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  • Sam says: July 18, 2018 at 1:22 PM

    “it will be necessary in future to work out the different kinds of energy, how they ‘get in’, and what their implications are to the human being.” – and thus at this time so will the true research and investigation into dementia and mental illness begin.

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  • Ingrid Ward says: June 22, 2018 at 4:25 PM

    After not having eaten bananas for a very long time, a couple of weeks ago, after a period of being un-well, I began to feel a ‘craving’ for them. I initially ignored it but after a few days I felt to eat one and as I did I could almost feel my body say thank you. The craving was back the next day so I ate another. The third day I was sure I was still feeling the craving and had another but my body did not respond in the same way. I then realised that my mind had kicked in and was trying to convince me I needed another when in fact whatever my body needed from the bananas, two was enough. In the past I would have listened to my mind at the expense of my very wise body, but these days its wisdom is honoured.

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    • Elaine Arthey says: June 30, 2018 at 7:01 PM

      Beautiful Ingrid, I have had the same experience. It is brilliant when we can trust our bodies and ourselves in this way.

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    • Chan Ly says: July 3, 2018 at 8:07 AM

      Awesome sharing Ingrid and it is very supportive to have a loving relationship with our body. I had cravings for something sweet last week and I ate a banana followed by 2 dates. Not long after my stomach was aching and I had to lay down to release the pain. It was a loud and clear message from my body that it was not a loving choice, I knew from the moment I reached for the banana that my cravings were not from my body.

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  • Sylvia says: June 14, 2018 at 6:16 AM

    Science is the small expression of what we all know for so long.
    We know that all is energy and that all is because of energy.
    We all agree that from certain conversation we get tired. We all experience tiredness after certain foods.
    We hold a laziness when it comes about truly caring for ourselves. We gave up on ourselves as being the first and foremost to love.
    But we can start again by becoming aware once more about the energy we can choose in every single movement., either love or not love. Called fire or prana.

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  • Samantha says: June 13, 2018 at 5:02 PM

    When we feel addicted to anything be it food, fizzy drinks or drugs its simple because we are not accepting our own loveliness and the very fact we are divine.

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  • Chan Ly says: June 2, 2018 at 6:07 AM

    This is fascinating Dianne about energy and how our body receives it. The way you explained it is super easy to understand and I find each part very relatable. We receive information through our five senses but it seems that we have another sense that is not commonly recognised or talked about and that is our ability to feel energy with our entire body.

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  • Ingrid Ward says: May 12, 2018 at 3:25 PM

    I have come to understand that when I feel a craving for a particular food or foods that is simply my body letting me know that something is not okay. In the past I would have allowed myself to give into the craving, no questions asked, and usually to the detriment of my body as clearly indicated by a variety of symptoms. These days, although it is still very challenging I will stop and try to figure out what needs addressing in my life which is manifesting in the craving. The answer mightn’t be there instantly but eventually it will be, one way or another.

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    • Chan Ly says: July 3, 2018 at 8:11 AM

      Very wise words Ingrid, thank you for sharing, it is very supportive for me to read what you’ve shared.

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  • Nattalija says: May 6, 2018 at 3:23 PM

    Cravings are a call to control feelings that we are not ready to feel and let go of! What better way to numb this than to fill the body with an assortment of tantalising flavours!

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  • Nicola Lessing says: April 25, 2018 at 1:43 PM

    There is so much more to us than we pay attention to and it is living within.

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  • MW says: April 17, 2018 at 8:08 AM

    What I have also noticed is that I can have cravings beyond food- like the need to constantly check my emails or social media, the craving to create a tension with another, the craving to be more racy in my movements, the craving to go shopping- all of these are done in a way to keep my body in a busy state and not surrender to a deeper quality.

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    • Nicola Lessing says: April 25, 2018 at 1:46 PM

      Funny word craving isn’t it because as you describe it, it is raving mad… so you could say: see me raving as in c raving!!!

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      • Chan Ly says: June 2, 2018 at 6:11 AM

        Ha, ha brilliant Nicola, I love your ability to break down words and make it super fun, light and humorous and in a very clever way.

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    • Mary says: August 5, 2020 at 5:40 AM

      MW I can say that currently I can feel the resistance to deepening my relationship with myself which is what I have been steadily working on getting to a sense of fullness in my body where I can really appreciate the love it has for me. My mind wants to regain the upper hand again so that it can dictate to my body. I actually find it fascinating that we can fight ourselves and that the mind can be so callous, it will do anything to gain that control even if it means to self- harm.

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  • Stephanie Stevenson says: April 14, 2018 at 4:06 AM

    How truly amazing our body is – harmony being its true and known way for it to work – which begs the question what is the energy that drives the need to succumb to cravings that cause the body so much harm? It certainly is not love.
    ‘Obviously these cravings cannot be true messages from a body that always, by its very nature, strives for balance and healthiness.’

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    • Nattalija says: June 1, 2018 at 9:49 AM

      Our body knows what to eat, how much to eat and the exact last mouthful for nourishment. All other beliefs lead us towards a spiral of ill health that supports no one in the long run

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      • Ingrid Ward says: February 10, 2019 at 8:21 AM

        This is so very true Nattalija. Our body is the wisest and most patient friend we could ever have, but how telling it is that we often treat it like it has let us down, sometimes abusing it for giving us a message that we don’t like to hear. If we treated our closest friends like this I’m sure they wouldn’t hang around for long.

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  • Sarah Flenley says: April 8, 2018 at 6:05 AM

    “The ONLY explanation for this is that information, as a field unto itself, is accessible by the body much like television channels travelling through space are accessible by a TV set.”

    SO the energy (TV channels) is travelling through space, and then the TV set is the conduit that the energy goes through. Just like us humans, there is energies travelling through space and our bodies are the conduit for that energy – so the question is – as you so aptly ask – what channels are we tuning into?

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    • Mary says: August 5, 2020 at 2:16 PM

      Sarah Flenley the other question we need to ask is why are we not taught this fundamental process regarding energy ? I know that it wasn’t spoken about within my family or at any of the schools I attended or in the work place. The only person who has spoken about any of this is Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and what he has to say makes so much sense humanity has been given the missing link to understanding exactly what is going on and the truth of why we are here on this plane of life.

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  • Joseph Barker says: March 24, 2018 at 10:22 AM

    Just because our head is attached to our body it seems as though the two things should get along and sing from the same songbook. But what I have found is without the heart connecting them up they both end up doing their own thing – leading to choices that aren’t always great it seems. An awesome experiment to conduct is to live with everything connected and involved and see what direction our life takes then. Thank you Dianne.

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    • Chan Ly says: June 2, 2018 at 6:18 AM

      Great point Joseph, and without our heart our body will not function and our heart is perhaps more intelligent than we think. If we start thinking with our heart perhaps we would make very different choices.

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  • Kevin says: March 18, 2018 at 3:15 AM

    I can’t wait until this subject is explored to the point that we are all living it, not just a few and it is not just a theory that the whole body, all of its cells are in constant communication with the heart and not the head at the epicentre. The way you explain it Dianne would make even the skeptics think twice.

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  • Helen Elliott says: March 14, 2018 at 5:52 AM

    It is interesting that we are taught at school how different parts of the body intricately work with each other to keep us functioning and yet scientists are reluctant to concede that the heart can access information through energy and alert our brains because they have not yet seen concrete proof. Yet I, and many others, know that I have had seemingly weird cravings for a certain food when I have not been well and how trusting this has supported me in my healing process. I look forward to wider acceptance of the role the heart plays in keeping us functioning smoothly.

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  • Joseph Barker says: March 13, 2018 at 12:13 AM

    The more we explore the science of our body the more we have to admit it works in an incredibly advanced and intelligent way that we are yet to fully understand. So clearly the wisest thing to do would be to follow and honour what it has to say. It knows more about life than any PhD any day of the week. Thank you Dianne.

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    • Chan Ly says: July 3, 2018 at 8:15 AM

      I agree Joseph, to listen and to honour our body is the best support we can give our body and ourselves. The intelligence and wisdom of our body are not yet being appreciated enough by many people.

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  • chris james says: February 11, 2018 at 4:56 PM

    It is like we have the most extraordinarily refined delicate and sensitive equipment or perception built within, there to tell us exactly what is happening within and without, and yet we choose to absolutely ignore this, and go for secondhand second rate information to be the foundation for our lives.

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  • Leonne says: February 9, 2018 at 8:18 AM

    Every cell communicates it to us every day – some of us pay attention and some of us ignore what we feel so we can keep doing what ‘we‘ want.

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  • greg Barnes says: January 24, 2018 at 7:57 PM

    So what is a good, “friendly intestinal bacteria” Dianne as I sure many would benefit from some good-gut-bugs. Thank you for sharing there is so much good science in what you have shared so lets hope soon this will be better understood.

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  • HM says: January 23, 2018 at 8:13 PM

    It is about considering what is true not what we crave – this blog shows that food is just the end point of the energy we have already chosen and that this is where we can truly change what is possible in our bodies and the ways in which our bodies truly communicate with us. As I allow more love into my body, my choices naturally become more loving.

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  • Carola Woods says: January 13, 2018 at 6:03 AM

    There is much for us to unfold and explore of who we are as a body and being in this world, what our true potential is and how we can maximise living this potential, our innate way of being. What you have shared makes so much sense, that we are part of and constantly in a field of energy, and that the heart is what is sensitive to reading energy, and in connection to our body offers us access to a true intelligence. This highlights the greater depth of awareness and connection we all have access to and can be living.

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  • chris james says: January 10, 2018 at 5:39 PM

    And again we can read about and indeed feel the absolute essential nature of the choices that we can make, and how these choices deeply affect our well-being and our lives

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  • Heather Pope says: January 1, 2018 at 5:55 AM

    It seems to be implied in the word “craving” that it is real, it is something that should be listened to, that the person has no control and it is the craving that is in control. But as you so clearly point out, if the body is craving heroine, or even coffee, does that mean it is good for the body? Clearly not. And so the craving game is outed for what it is…

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  • Rik Connors says: December 9, 2017 at 10:01 PM

    What you are sharing Dianne is valuable information that all should know. Without this awareness that true sense of what we feel will not be so freely accessible thus we are missing out on communication from all around us.

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  • Sam says: November 30, 2017 at 5:14 PM

    We always have a choice to choose from our bodies, rather then our minds, this life is all about lessening the hold the mind has and bringing the power all the way back to the body.

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  • John O Connell says: November 25, 2017 at 4:18 AM

    ” Because energy is indestructible and contains information, all the information about everything is encoded in energy permanently. ” Thank you Dianne this is incredible to think the energy of truth is indestructible and always there and accessible if we tune into it , just awesome

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  • Nicola Lessing says: November 17, 2017 at 5:40 PM

    “I know it’s bad for me, but I like it” – what a strange saying that is. You have to wonder who the “I” is that is speaking because chances are it is not the body.

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  • Shami says: November 15, 2017 at 4:16 PM

    This is a huge subject, how energy is what makes up everything – even that which we call physical matter. And I love the fact that science is exploring this because it will be very interesting to hear what they discover and thus what greater intelligence we can bring in to our lives, because surely it must be a very intelligent way to live if how we live is consciously guided by the energy that we are living by.

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  • Fumiyo Egashira says: September 22, 2017 at 8:43 PM

    Thank you, Dianne – reading this I get a feeling that brain is just as much as a part of a body as any other part, and this is a great reminder that just because we are not able to see, it doesn’t mean there’s nothing. Space is not empty, it is actually very full.

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  • Joshua Campbell says: September 19, 2017 at 4:01 PM

    We think our cravings are coming from us when we equally know many of them to be harm-full. Could the real ill here be the fact we see the indulgence and harm as a behaviour of who we are and in doing that, accept and identify ourselves as being less than what we can be.

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  • Gabriele Conrad says: September 11, 2017 at 10:51 AM

    The mind’s version of intelligence pales into insignificance when compared to what the body can access and science will prove this without any doubt. But we don’t have to wait for science to catch up – why not experiment and reap the benefits now?

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  • Leigh Matson says: September 4, 2017 at 12:17 AM

    I have found those bodily needs and the cravings feel different in my body once I go through with them.
    For example in two different illnesses my body craved fenugreek seeds and in another instance fresh basil leaves. There was a craving but I wasn’t constantly thinking about them or becoming anxious for not having it, my body felt content after having the seeds and basil.
    Whereas at work for instance I would crave almonds or marshmallows, my body would feel sick, tired, heavier, colder after eating them and my mind will get highly anxious the longer I put off resisting them or crave more afterwards.
    The difference is noticeable when we pay attention.

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    • Amparo Lorente Cháfer says: December 25, 2017 at 10:29 PM

      Because of the difference between the bodily needs and the cravings, it is very important to be present in our body, for us to be able to notice and discern the origin of each one of them, before following its pull and eat or not what is asked from that energy that feeds us in a first place.

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  • Suse says: September 1, 2017 at 4:22 AM

    Amazing blog Dianne and a great reminder to always be discerning with every craving we have so we can distinguish if it is what our body actually needs or it is an emotional craving to mask something we don’t want to feel.

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  • Elodie Darwish says: August 24, 2017 at 5:16 AM

    So interesting. I can’t wait to see these findings start to become more mainstream. It all makes so much sense!

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  • HM says: August 1, 2017 at 3:33 AM

    I know it to be true that anytime i want something that is unloving – that makes the body racy or dull or damp – then it is not truly from the body but from the mind. And that we have a responsibility to truly listen to our bodies and respond to them and not the craving of the mind.

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  • Heather Pope says: July 28, 2017 at 4:21 AM

    The word ‘craving’ smacks of something that isn’t actually going to be supportive or healthy. I wonder could you say that the word craving can exclusively be taken to mean unhealthy? Perhaps there is such a thing as a craving for a healthy food the body needs, but I would never say “I had a craving for water”… even if I was dehydrated. So I think I’ll stick with cravings being largely if not fully unhealthy.

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  • Meg says: July 15, 2017 at 1:29 PM

    There’s such a massive massive difference between knowing there’s a food your body needs for nourishment, for example you may need lamb one evening, to the cravings we get for sweet things, or just the taste or feel or a food in our mouths. The two are worlds apart and it’s super important to be able to discern the difference.

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  • kev mchardy says: July 15, 2017 at 1:16 PM

    If only science could catch up with you Dianne, I watched a series drama about Einstein and saw how much other scientists of the time can hold back progress because it is not the thinking of the time. I marvel at the idea of having all this information floating around and being able to access it by using our bodies, namely the heart.

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  • Elodie Darwish says: July 2, 2017 at 5:58 AM

    I’m fascinated with what will unfold with this approach to the body through science and the findings. It’s soooo interesting!

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  • Joshua Campbell says: May 28, 2017 at 6:08 PM

    Love the science in this blog Dianne. Tickles me pink to the core. If food is one of the worlds greatest focuses then there is something to food that is greater than what we have made it to be. What I mean here is that in poor countries food is the focus because people do not have enough and in rich there is excess but nearly everyone is thinking about food a lot be it what is on for dinner or what food is their favourite. Food is eaten in indudlgence not Love. Does this mean we are using food for indulging and in a means most do not want to even consider?

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  • Shushila says: May 21, 2017 at 4:38 PM

    Another inspiring blog but this was a biggie from an earlier comment – ‘In connection it loses power over us’. This is so true when we are in connection with ourselves there is no imposing of any substances into our bodies.

    The world presents many gimmicks and lies to lure us to not feel and the biggest money making is the food industry. It is only when a person discerns and wakes up to what is truely going on and no longer falls into their trap.

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  • Gabriele Conrad says: May 12, 2017 at 1:29 PM

    The Ageless Wisdom has the answers to all our questions but it will take a while yet before science catches up, proving what the body and the heart already know and have know since time immemorial.

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  • Jill Steiner says: April 12, 2017 at 6:54 AM

    Thank you Dianne for making Science so relatable, everything is energy and everything is because of energy is the foundational truth that underpins all that is going on in the world.
    Our bodies know and respond to the energy within and without as it is passing through us all all the time. Amazingly powerful is our heart centre in its absolutely knowing.

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  • Adele Leung says: April 8, 2017 at 5:18 PM

    There is so much information out there that seems scientific and experimental in regards to what foods are “good” or “bad” for us. But until I have either experienced how my body reacts or responds to something, or discern through feeling truth, it does not feel wise to just accept or follow what is being presented. I always have to ask myself–do I want this piece of information to be right? Any investment would allow something which is not true to feed into my consciousness and there is a slightness then to truth.

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  • Adele Leung says: April 8, 2017 at 5:12 PM

    There was a time in my life when I convinced myself that sugar was good for me. I did not resist sweet things and allowed myself to indulge. Very soon my body showed me the reactions of this indulgence, and I gained weight, especially around my stomach area. My mind could convince me–but the body never lies. What is true and supportive or not, is very clear.

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  • Shirl Scott says: April 7, 2017 at 9:43 AM

    I love the way you present science in a way that makes sense and easily understood Dianne; I really appreciate this. The lesson from your blog today is to listen and respond to what the body is conveying and to be aware of the quality of energy that is passing in and through us.

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  • Victoria Warburton says: March 26, 2017 at 7:57 PM

    To ‘think’ that it is only some loosely-defined-in-itself concept of ‘mind’ that determines our thoughts and choices is so limiting that it leaves me gobsmacked. No doubt you could write a book/books on the subject Dianne – bringing the true science of understanding how energy works, and that we are constant receivers and expressing vehicles of energy, in and through the whole of our body.
    Just what runs this body, and then determines the quality of our thoughts, choices and behaviours, is the great question then, isn’t it… Enter the work of Serge Benhayon and the aeons of Ageless Wisdom before him, and we actually have all the answers to this we need. Interesting… that mainstream science wants to yet reduce everything to its mental constructs (in the main), and not embrace the fact of our multi-dimensional energetic and fundamental nature…

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  • Amita says: March 15, 2017 at 8:20 AM

    Dianne what you have shared is great, there is obviously so much going on in our body than we can imagine, all the communications and changes. What is beautiful to know is that our body does give us the true signal if we just stop to listen, it will tell us what is needed and what is not.

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  • Mary Adler says: March 12, 2017 at 3:48 PM

    All the ‘discoveries’ in the world to date pale into insignificance when we realise how much we have to rediscover in the science of energy.

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  • Debra Douglas says: March 8, 2017 at 4:34 PM

    I remember having strong cravings for particular foods whilst I was pregnant. One was gooseberries and the other was smoked haddock. Both were foods I didn’t normally eat. Looking back I feel it was my body calling out for whatever nutrients were in those foods.

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  • Shirl Scott says: March 1, 2017 at 4:17 PM

    What you have presented here Dianne is awesome; there is obviously so much more going on in our bodies than we realise. Your blog is a great tool in helping me deepen and appreciate my body and the energy that moves it, thank you.

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  • Elaine Arthey says: January 26, 2017 at 5:17 PM

    Not so long ago I had an abscess in my mouth and the dentist suggested that I take antibiotics before starting work on my teeth. I had not taken these for a long time but when I had done so before I always took probiotics to counter the affects of the antibiotics ( they can kill a lot of bacteria that are supporting my body as well as those that are working against it). This time I did not take the probiotics, I managed to delay buying them and then not get round to it at all. This was so unlike me but I can understand how it happened as I was doing this in other areas of my life and I let it spill over. After this episode I found that my immune system was definitely impaired and I felt quite run down. I realised when advising someone else about taking probiotics while on antibiotics that I had not done this for myself. The next day I bought some probiotics and started to reinstate more healthy choices to my life, choices that I had become lax about. I soon found that my energy levels came up and my attitude became a lot more positive. The combination of probiotics and being more attentive to what supports me in other areas, like a daily walk and other gentle exercise, meditation and going to bed earlier and resting more in the day has brought me back to being more proactive and making wiser choices in other areas of my life too. What has also helped is putting more focus on the quality that I am in whenever I am doing anything.

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  • Ingrid Ward says: January 25, 2017 at 6:34 PM

    I have often wondered how our bodies are managing to deal with the tsunami of processed foods that they are having to digest daily and you have offered me a glimpse into the fact that “the reward pathways of nerves in the brain are ……. are wired for foods in their natural state and quantities, and not modern aberrations!” That to me makes so much sense and also makes sense of the skyrocketing statistics of illnesses and diseases that we see in the world today. Our wonderful bodies are just not programmed to deal with what I call ‘non-foods’, products that are created in labs with the sole goal of enhancing the taste so people become addicted to them and are left wanting more, all for the sake of making the businesses money; putting profit before the health of humanity.

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  • chris james says: January 21, 2017 at 6:38 PM

    When we look to energy for answers the opportunity for deep and profound revelations open up to us all… consistently.

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  • Helen Elliott says: January 2, 2017 at 10:48 PM

    Thank you for making this topic so relatable. Choosing to listen to my body and trust the clear messages I get has transformed my relationship with my body and not only am I much more careful what fuel I put into it but also how I deepen the level of care that I am prepared to give myself. I look forward to science catching up with what so many of us have already experienced and then perhaps this will be taught in schools.

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  • Nicola Lessing says: December 23, 2016 at 6:41 PM

    There is much, much more going on in this world than meets the eye or nose or ears for that matter.

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  • Sandra Williamson says: December 20, 2016 at 5:04 AM

    This is an area of awareness that humanity as a whole would benefit from a whole lot of expansion. Having science come from connection to heart intelligence could we be the corner stone for health and well-being. The thinking mind clearly has a set energetic path, one that we can all see has and still is creating situations it then spends billions of dollars to try and find solutions for. For some reason this line of energy doesn’t allow for prevention to be understood as the simplest and most loving way to treat ourselves, where as the intelligent heart is this and wouldn’t choose harm in the first place.

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  • Kevin McHardy says: December 9, 2016 at 3:21 AM

    I love this blog, it really opens up the endless possibilities and doors that can be opened if we can connect with the body and the energy that is in every single thing. The possibilities are endless and there is nothing we can’t know if this is the way we choose to go instead of being held back by what is perceived to be intelligence today.

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  • chris james says: November 24, 2016 at 6:02 AM

    understanding that our bodies have this extraordinary intelligence, this deep inner knowing is one of the fundamental tenets of what Universal Medicine presents and, that, if we were able to actually tune into it, would bring such clarity and awareness to our path that would transform our everyday life

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  • Leonne says: November 13, 2016 at 6:52 AM

    “It raised the question of how my body knows the nature and location of a food I have never seen or heard of before that evidently contained what my body needed. ” This line really sticks with me Dianne. I have experienced the wisdom of my body many times. For example, I moved to a much colder climate and for the first time ever put in a couple of kilos before winter. I knew that my body was preparing for a cold winter but I had no idea how it knew I was not just in a holiday and returning to a warmer climate. It’s as though it’s a surprise to us that our body knows our future when we sometimes feel we do not. It is worth appreciating the wisdom of the body.

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  • Lorraine Wellman says: November 11, 2016 at 4:54 PM

    A great article Dianne, particularly love this, ‘Everything is energy; even matter is energy. Because energy is indestructible and contains information, all the information about everything is encoded in energy permanently. It’s thus permanently accessible to whatever is ‘tuned’ to it.’ Makes sense to me.

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  • sueq2012 says: October 17, 2016 at 3:54 PM

    “They respond according to how they’ve been trained and that training may have been inappropriate, such as constantly rewarding children’s behaviour with sweets.” At boarding school for 6 years I was ‘trained’ to eat sweets (because we were allowed to have them then) every day after lunch – that was my connection with home. I can still get a craving for sweets at that time – which doesn’t happen if I don’t eat lunch or occurs at another time of day. And this is forty plus years on!!

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  • Vanessa McHardy says: October 14, 2016 at 6:09 AM

    Love this article and your writing Dianne it makes me want to study science and energy! It seems to me a terrible shame that most of us have no idea of what you talk about in the sense that we haven’t the understanding but yet we are working and with what you are talking about all of the time! This should be the stuff of school science lessons not remembering the periodic table.

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  • Samantha Westall says: September 4, 2016 at 5:31 AM

    I love what you shared about the body knowing something from accessing information outside of itself that you had never encountered before. It just highlights how truly extraordinary our bodies are and the wisdom they possess that we cannot begin to fathom. They are a wise master definitely worth listening to.

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  • Mary Adler says: August 25, 2016 at 1:39 PM

    “Because energy is indestructible and contains information, all the information about everything is encoded in energy permanently. It’s thus permanently accessible to whatever is ‘tuned’ to it.” Thank you Dianne, science that makes sense. So we have a choice to ‘tune in’ to the messages received in the head or the heart.

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  • Lucy Duffy says: August 15, 2016 at 9:22 PM

    If we confine ourselves to needing scientific ‘proof’ of how the body receives information and communicates to us, we will remain stuck in the arrogances of believing that without this so-called proof there is no natural intelligence of the body.

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  • Natallija says: August 15, 2016 at 6:08 AM

    Food cravings are just that, cravings to fill what is not always needed. A yearning or longing that is fuelled by a need.

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  • Kevin McHardy says: August 11, 2016 at 12:31 PM

    When the brain can make such odd and damaging decisions for our health, it’s time we looked and felt for truth when it comes to the body. I can’t wait till scientists prove that what you are saying here is true Dianne but in the mean time I’ll just have to keep improving my own connection to my body and feel it for myself.

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  • Elodie Darwish says: August 6, 2016 at 5:32 AM

    We have so much still to learn. It’s amazing that we have such research going on behind the scenes, that whilst today might be contentious, I’m sure soon enough will be accepted as truth.

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  • Anna says: July 18, 2016 at 7:37 AM

    ‘Back to people and cravings… is the craving a true reflection of the body’s need, or an artificially produced craving for something that is not beneficial but harmful?’ This is a great point Dianne, if we all lived asking this question and listened to our bodies, perhaps our society would not have such a high rate of diabetes and obesity today.

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  • Anna says: July 16, 2016 at 7:16 AM

    I know when I give into a certain craving I am having it just starts this whole cycle of wanting more of the same thing, not just a one off for me I notice my body then craves this food more and more.

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  • Ray Karam says: July 16, 2016 at 5:55 AM

    Hello Dianne and I’ve never thought of food or cravings in this way. I have been watching a lot more the quality of my thoughts and actions after certain foods. I know with any sugars my body gets a bit racy and I know with nuts and a like I feel like sleeping. It’s amazing the more and more you open up, how things feel. At times I am convinced I want something only to feel not that great after eating it. At this point I’ve been looking at what has happened over the previous moments to bring some awareness to why I’ve chosen to have something that I’d already experienced isn’t the best feeling afterwards. This could go on and on until I unlock the feeling to the ‘why’. Thanks Dianne.

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  • Sylvia Brinkman says: June 25, 2016 at 3:38 AM

    You are great Dianne. I love what you bring to us to ponder on. I can feel the truth of what is presented here as I can feel that my first feeling is from my heart and my body and then it gets translated through the mind to get expressed in possible ways.
    To be aware of what energy we let in from where our choices are translated to actions is very important.
    If I walk one step and I am not present in connection with my heart then there comes energies through me from which I have no idea what the quality is unless I start to open up to feel what is in truth going through my body? What makes my thought. Do I choose to walk with me or is my body walked by something else?

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  • Simon V says: June 17, 2016 at 11:34 AM

    It is fascinating and important to ponder this kind of scientifically inspired blog. It is a fact that our bodies are energy and must be influenced by energy passing through them. How much we support our bodies to choose a quality of energy that heals or override them to choose an energy that harms surely is affected by whether we are prepared to acknowledge how influenced by energy we are in the first place and our openness to explore this in our lives.

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  • Johanne Brown says: June 16, 2016 at 9:56 AM

    This is a great blog and offers so much to ponder on, especially when it comes to cravings… Is it a true craving that the body may be deficient in a particular nutrient found in that food, or is it a craving that provides a platform for numbing ourselves? And where is this thought coming from exactly?… Understanding energy opens up a whole new field of science.

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  • Christine Hogan says: June 10, 2016 at 7:45 AM

    How often do we over-ride the wisdom of our body and take on what someone else thinks is best. More and more I am choosing the communications of the body. My body loves and works for me it is as simple as that. Thanks Dianne.

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  • Samantha England says: May 26, 2016 at 3:12 PM

    Recently I have noticed when I start to get cravings it is a sign I’m not with myself that I have checked out for a moment or I am avoiding something. When I am tired too I am more likely to get cravings. Listening to my body and getting rest if I need to is vital for getting myself back on track.

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  • Shirl Scott says: May 24, 2016 at 8:45 AM

    Deepening our understanding to discern what energy is harmful and what is healing is ongoing and vital. The scientific facts you present in this blog Dianne are interesting and informative; our challenge is to deeply listen to our bodies and respond lovingly.

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