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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is so much more to us than we pay attention to and it is living within.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.’
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
“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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘Obviously these cravings cannot be true messages from a body that always, by its very nature, strives for balance and healthiness.’ A key point. We go against the natural instincts of our body so how does this happen and who is calling the shots?
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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…
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.
Energy is a very important subject because we can discern that there are 2 types of energy, one that supports us and one that takes us away from ourselves. When we have food cravings and think no-one will know if we have overeaten, we ourselves do know and can feel how unsupportive that is to the body. It can feel bloated or sluggish, and it is great to observe that, then we learn to look at our choices next time.
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.
” 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
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
So interesting. I can’t wait to see these findings start to become more mainstream. It all makes so much sense!
When it comes to choosing our food we have a choice to indulge the cravings of the mind or to listen to the wisdom of our body as to what it requires for its nourishment and wellbeing.
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.
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.
One day science is going to wake up to what it already knows and that is that the human body is made up of particles with an amazing intelligence, and that therefore the whole cannot possibly be as dumb as we have been making it out to be.
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.
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.