Giving Thanks For Food :)

Agreed.

Many, if not most, of the old 'ways' have their roots buried beyond conscious memory in actual knowledge... In this case, knowledge of our connection to and use of energy, as well as how our bodies function.

On the purely physical, 3D plane, taking a moment to appreciate the food you are about to eat has very real benefits too. During that time your body responds to the stimulus (hunger, smell, appearance, etc.) and has time to prepare. Saliva, with its enzymes, begins to flow; the stomach produces more acids... this activity allows the body to fully break down what is consumed and enables it to extract every last bit of nutrition available in it.

Chewing slower and for longer than we normally do (I forget the recommended number of chews :) is another old "instruction". Doing that give the salivary enzymes time to do their work to its utmost.

Even most 'crap' food does contain quite a bit the body can use. If the diet is marginal, our bodies will make the most of what it does get... and filling it with light through thankfulness can indeed be transformational, imho.

Thank you for the nice reminder of something too easily forgotten!

yes! and thank you :)

I always pray before I eat. Not only because I'm thankful but that I want my food to be blessed because I don't know who might have handled it before I ate it.

You are literally what you eat.

you are.

A great reminder, thankyou!

very nice!

So if I say thanks to the next box of chicken mcnuggets I get, it wont make me feel like crap?

I've thought about this before, have heard that positive energy can help you heal and be healthy regardless of what you may be consuming.

I may try and do this when I eat from now on, giving a short thanks for being able to eat what I am about to when others can't even do that.

I think maybe I get so worked up about eating right, (not that I shouldn't try) that I forget to be grateful that I can eat at all even if it isn't the best a lot of the time here.

Eating slower is a good idea too, though didn't think about the nutritional benefits part as much there. Same for the 3D thing.....little things can make a big difference can't they?

Good posts.

Last Edited by ajk on 10/12/2012 06:28 PM

doubled.

Last Edited by ajk on 10/12/2012 06:28 PM

Science supports this theory! The observer affects the observed, this applies to food stuff too. The energy with which the food is prepared is important too, giving thanks imparts the enrgy of love into the food.

I like you, plus you are from Minnesota so thats cool.

Ate at Salvation Army today and I was "thankful" for the meal and thanks the volunteers serving. I always appreciate. :-)

Rubadubdub thanks for the grub.

Food tastes better when it is received in thanks ... Blessed by the Holy Spirit...
Who interceeds on our behalf before the Throne of God.

God Bless YOU for posting this reminder.

I always try to give thanks too.

Only if you mean it. You don't want to know what goes into McD's food chicken nuggets are made from recovered meat that means tendons, fat, salami and other meats are blended into the chicken, chemicals etc.

"it wont make me feel like crap?"

Off course not!

i love ren and stimpy :)
thanks for these :)

This is true. We should thank God for the days we eat and also for the days we don't.

But back to topic, I eat 'junk' all the time. Pretty much everything is GMO. I also work labor and ride a bicycle as my main form of transportation. I smoke cigarettes and used to heavily use illicit drugs. I lift weights also and have done so for about 7 years now.

People can eat all the non-GMO fruits and veggies they want but the human body is designed for physical activity. It's proven that people who excercise have better circulation.

Eating healthy and refraining from physical activity that elevates the pulse rate to 120+ bpm will only accomplish so much. Eating junk high in caloric energy and burning through that energy using the bodies ligament, bone, and muscles to contract and expand against some form of resistance will also accomplish so much.

To each his own. I think I'm addicted to the endorphins now. Addictive personality.

eat try it all! every taste is a new experience like it or not and then consume a pound of butter, Rock on

ha these pigs are too busy stuffing themselves at the buffet to give a shit, much less thanks.

the oceans die, the ecology dies, in massive agricultural manufacturing of "food"

then they waste most of it and it goes to the landfill.

Good thread