A Full Spectrum Of Nourishment
Consider your body as a battery. What we consume through food is converted into energy which fuels all of our bodily functions from making our muscles move to processing the thoughts in our brain. During the day, while we are awake, our energy is ‘spent’ and as we sleep, this deep, restorative rest recharges our biological battery.
However, the human body is a lot more complex than your average battery! Besides the food we eat, we are fuelled by our emotions and we gain or lose nourishment through our five senses. Our energy comes from things we consume through our mind and soul, not just our body. Love, connection, compassion, excitement, and also stress, grief, trauma and pain.
Eating is personal, and it can be a much deeper experience than simply re-fueling your body with nutrients. Food can be healing, it can be medicine, it can also be used as an escape or comfort, it can be religious and ceremonious, it can be a distraction or an addiction.
Food is the ultimate source of nourishment; yet it involves all our senses to digest it fully. Two people might eat exactly the same food yet they both receive entirely different nourishment from it, because of the difference in their digestion, but also their state of mind and stress levels. Even identical twins who eat the same meal have highly variable responses. Food is capable of creating all kinds of responses for different people.
Here at BELIEVE, it’s important to us to look at the cultural, societal and soulful aspects of nutrition as well as the function of food for our health. Our holistic approach addresses nutrition and nourishment through all forms. We want to foster curiosity and a deeper connection to all the ways we can receive nourishment from the earth, and how we can best nourish ourselves and each other.
“What nourishes you is not vitamins in food. It is the joy you feel in eating it.”
― Ramtha
References
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/food/
https://www.who.int/elena/nutrient/en/
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2382
https://www.nbcnews.com/better/lifestyle/what-science-says-about-best-way-eat-what-we-re-ncna1104911