Every time we eat, we are making a choice that affects our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual states of being. Food is a daily intake of nutrients to sustain our physical well-being and is part of the creation of our mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Food is energy, and as such, it carries specific frequencies of light as well as levels of life-force. The energy of food, which comes from the sunlight, earth, and all the energies it comes in contact with on its journey to us, is thus highly influential in creating our states of health. So, the question is: how do you want to feel? Do you want to stay in a static state of being or live in a dynamic state of growth and transformation?

While we may spend a great deal of time planning, buying, preparing, and eating food, we may not question what types of food we are eating and their effects on other parts of our lives. We may feel that the food we desire is the food we need or that the food we’ve eaten is the food we’ll always eat. These are choices that we know, yet there are certainly others. Bringing consciousness to food, just like all other aspects of our lives, helps us to become more aware, and through awareness we can make the changes that we desire in our lives. Awareness brings light. We can bring nutrition further into the light of our understanding and consciously choose how we want to connect with the light present in our food!

In this course, we will bring our awareness to both the physical and energetic components of nutrition. We will begin by looking at the physical parts of how food gives us energy and nutrients. We will then explore our relationships to food and how these can be altered through eating specific foods. The information you will be given comes from traditional systems of health, ancient cultures around the world, recent research, and people who have dedicated their lives to bridging the relationship of food to higher states of consciousness. This is truly a unique formulation of knowledge that will empower you and those around you to bring the light of consciousness further into your lives through the food you eat.

This course is not designed to give you an exact dietary approach. Rather, it is intended to help you decide how to best achieve your own health goals and let you know what your alternatives are.  Just like many of the other courses you have been studying with UMS, nutrition can be another tool for you in your spiritual endeavors. This course differs from some of the other courses at UMS, however, in that we’ve all experienced the first hand effects of eating food and some of this will be knowledge you already have from your first hand experiences if you were self aware while eating. As you can come to know experientially, different foods have diverse affects on our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual states. The saying, “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food,” holds much value. So let us begin the journey of understanding why this happens and how we can use food as our medicine for all levels of our being.

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