Many of us are always thinking in terms of what is good for our physical health by monitoring our “food nutrition,” but few of us think about our mental, emotional, and spiritual nutrition. Perhaps this is why some people develop ulcers, high blood pressure, arthritis, and other destructive degenerative diseases even despite having the perfect food intake.
The food of our experiences, circumstances, conditions, events, and daily life is our thought life. Our thought life includes our mental, emotional, and spiritual nutrition. Our thought life is made up of our thinking habits, and our thinking habits nourish conditions in our lives, whether those conditions are good or not so good.
Sooner or later these thinking habits will cause those conditions to increase and magnify. If it is health, it might increase to an even higher level of health. If it is illness, that too may increase. The bottom line is this: our mental, emotional, and spiritual nutrition has the power to create in our lives.
Everyone has heard the expression, “You are what you eat.” The meaning of this is that the foods we eat become the cells, organs, and systems of our body. Through the process of digestion, which includes ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and finally elimination, we take in food and use it for our bodies. The results are exactly as the saying implies: “You are what you eat.” Eat unhealthy foods and you are unhealthy or will become unhealthy. Eat healthy foods and you are healthier.
Our physical world and our mental, emotional, and spiritual worlds are always interacting. They are not separate from each other. They complement and support each other, whether that be for health or illness. The physical world and the mental, emotional, and spiritual world fit like a hand in glove. They fit perfectly together, yet they are different.
The processes that are true in the physical world of digestion are also true in the mental, emotional, and spiritual world. You are what you mentally, emotionally, and spiritually ingest or take into your mind. You have heard the saying, “Garbage in, garbage out.” When you take something in mentally, emotionally, or spiritually, you then have a choice to digest it even further by chewing on it, thinking on it, pondering it, and giving more energy to those thoughts.
From there, those thoughts become a part of you. As you give more energy to the thoughts, the energy from your mental, emotional, and spiritual nutrition takes on energy fields within your body. Depending on the kind of thoughts, they can support health or contribute to disease. These thoughts then assimilate further into attitudes, behaviors, feelings, and reactions. The assimilation process progresses toward either health or disease. Dr. Joe Dispenza says that the emotions we feel actually become energies within our cells, and these energies get programmed within our subconscious.
Take thoughts of anger. It has been discovered that thoughts of anger, or holding anger in, may contribute to the development of cancer. Breast cancer has been associated with worry and melancholy. Anger, irritation, anxiety, and depression can contribute to the development of heart disease.
Back problems have been associated with lack of support. Bladder problems can be associated with being upset or irritated. The list goes on and on with the association of emotions and disease, or dis-ease. Believe it or not, even overjoy can be detrimental to one’s health, causing the spirit to be scattered. Balanced joy and contentment are the key to true joy.
Yes, it is important that we have a good, healthy diet in the form of foods, vitamins, and other physical nutrition. Physical nutrition must go hand in hand, or hand in glove, with mental, emotional, and spiritual nutrition. There are many people who have excellent nutrition in the form of foods, but their health is destroyed because of their mental, emotional, and spiritual nutrition.
Just as our bodies take in physical nutrition through foods, our minds take in mental, emotional, and spiritual nutrition through our thoughts, our interactions, and our senses. So when you are considering food, consider it not only in terms of diet and nutrition, but also in terms of mental, emotional, and spiritual nutrition.
Sources referenced in Sharon’s original article include Dr. Joe Dispenza’s book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, research from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, and Shen-Nong.com.