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 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!
I’ve learnt that my whole body can communicate to me, the being, what energy it is in at any moment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I love that our body “always, by its very nature, strives for balance and healthiness”….how can that not be something created by God?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
If everything is just energy, information, and vibration then you have to wonder if we are craving not foods but vibrations.
Absolutely Melinda…that makes so much sense. What foods do we choose? And what do we think they are giving us?
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.
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.
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.