Cultivate Your Energy Body
by Mark Powell, Diet Transformation Coach
www.transformyoureating.com
“The discovery that awaits us is that we ARE energy and we INHERE in energy.”
Most of us don’t have any inkling of the true power of eating in a clean, rejuvenative way. Because a regenerative way of eating creates outrageous health in us not just by reshuffling the meaty mechanics of our biochemistry. Rather, it gradually transforms our cellular being more and more into an “energy body,” and our body becomes less and less a merely gross “food body.”
One way a radiantly healthy diet does this, perhaps the most well known, is simply that, by eating lots of raw, or “live” foods, we literally consume bioelectric life force. The enzymes in live plant foods have been well shown to be, basically, little reservoirs of life force. In addition, the water in raw foods has a unique “colloidal energy” known as zeta potential, having to do with positively charged particles in the water. Actual, hard science instrumentation measures a potent electromagnetic field surrounding and permeating raw foods. For reasons like these, many raw foods advocates speak of eating raw foods as being akin to “eating sunlight.”
But the topic of how our eating helps to transmute our body into “higher energy frequencies” is actually far more profound even than that. We are not just “soft machines” that fare better when we “consume energy,” like a toy robot works better with fresh batteries. The discovery that awaits us is that we ARE energy and we INHERE in energy.
Mae Won Ho, PhD, a biochemist, geneticist and researcher, says that, “…all organisms emit light at a steady rate.” She calls that light a biophoton. Another researcher, Marco Bischof, has a book called, Biophoton:The Light in Our Cells. In it, he says, “The biophoton light is stored in the cells of the organism, and a dynamic web of light constantly released and absorbed may connect cells, tissues and organs within the body.”
Numerous researchers, including Nobel scientist Candace Pert, speak not only in terms of a light energy emitted by our cells, but go one step further, describing a coherent, intelligent field of energy that transmits information. Einstein’s Unified Field Theory hypothesizes that all matter is energy organized by an underlying electrical pattern or field within and surrounding substances. Countless scientists over the last several decades, including Rupert Sheldrake’s M Field theory, echo these concepts. And all of these modern conceptualizations, in turn, echo ancient descriptions of the pranic or etheric body, as the organizing template of our physical bodies.
If our bodies are organized by and in energy fields, then our vision of dietary health must go far beyond mere concerns about, “this vitamin” or “that antioxidant.” We must begin to learn about conducting (as spiritual teacher Adi Da describes it) and circulating energy, or light. I believe that the most profound levels of conducting energy must involve a deep process of opening and transforming our emotional core (which, of course, is not the topic of this article). But the most basic or foundational level—that’s all about what we eat!
For our bodies to freely conduct energy, to come alive as energy, is not only about consuming more high frequency foods (raw foods). It’s also, very crucially, about what we don’t eat. It’s about not eating processed, refined, fragmented, denatured foods. It’s about eating far less cooked foods (though, in my coaching work, I don’t teach a 100% raw foods diet).
In short, cultivating an energy body is about cultivating a body that is clean and light. This is a body with clean lymph, pristine extra cellular fluid bathing all your cells. In this body, cells shine. Energy flows freely. This is why people who eat clean, rejuvenative diets gradually eat less and less food, often only eating two, and sometimes one, light meal per day. Their bodies are clear, light and beautifully efficient. They’re living more on energy than on food.
To begin to get involved in this process, the actual dietary recommendations are hardly new or original—gradually adapt your diet to one of whole, unrefined foods, most of them being raw plant foods (60%-80%), with lots of variety. But what is less known is why eating this way creates such crazy super-health; how eating this way can enliven, free up and “brighten” your energy body, raising your energetic vibration. A bodymind that shines with this energy is radiantly healthy, feeling light, dynamic and vibrantly alive. And to think, this whole mysterious, amazing process all begins right in your kitchen!