Speaker: Is your body a temple? Do you eat helpful food to have a stronger connection with your body. Food and Life Coach Susan Marque explain certain dietary regimes practiced by different religions.
Susan Marque: Spirituality and food is a really interesting subject. Many people throughout time who have had different dietary practices that they interplayed with their religion. Now, some of this is for very good reason, because, for example, if you are a monk sitting on top of a mountain. If you are eating very simple food, it can help you feel more. It can help you have that more of a connection with your higher power.
Now, a lot of them have helpful regimes. Simple whole foods and part of that is because people who have been eating some of these whole foods for thousands of years. It was just part of the culture and it survived due to religion. Some of the practices like periodic fasting were just for a very short amount of time to clean up the body, give it a rest. Give the digestion a rest for a short amount of time. That can be very, very helpful and it's a simple thing that you can do.
One of the things that I find is that people who are eating well. In all of this, of course, everything that doing but they find they have a deeper connection. If they are into religion, they find they have a deeper connection with their religion. If people are doing energy work. I have had lots of energy practitioners come to me to learn a little bit about food. They may find that they can feel much better. They can go deeper into their practice. It heightens your senses to some degree. To be able to eat well and keep the body running well and clean.
So learning how foods work is very, very important. Now some of the things that had been handed down through religions, for example, Quinoa was something that they grew in the Andes region in South America and it was a food that might have been used in their religions but that's part of because it was the food available at that time that give very, very high energy. Quinoa is a complete protein. You can actually run marathons eating Quinoa. It's a very powerful food.
Jesus talks in the Bible about prayer and fasting because he found that he had a deeper connection with spirits when he wasn't consuming food. When the blood -- when you are eating food, the blood is going to go to digestion. It's not going to go to your brain. So different practice have been used throughout time to help people have a connection with their religion, a connection with the people breaking bread to create relationships. They brought bread together. Usually after their prayers.
Certain religious practices found if they eat clean whole foods and were able to find the right amounts for that particular person. Their practice became much deeper. So you can experiment yourself with whatever as you want to create and see where you might let go off foods that might be clogging your ability to have that experience that you would like to have.
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