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07. Food and Emotions Self-Reflection

Food and beverages resonate at their own frequency and hold energy that will nourish or deplete you on a physical and emotional way. Depending on the source of the food, the process of growing/harvesting, and even the mode in which you receive the food has the ability to change the energetic and emotional qualities.

For example, eating when you are in a "good mood" or a "bad mood" will greatly affect how your body is able to receive the nourishment from the foods as well as how you process and use the energy. Your emotional energy also has the potential to bias your food choices and can even restrict your conscious choice in when and why you eat.

To paraphrase a Cherokee Proverb: There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.

This self-reflection exercise is designed to identify your particular emotional connections with food and whether they are serving you in your greatest and highest good and health. Approach this exercise with honesty, curiosity and without judgment. You are ultimately doing this to serve your health!

 

Reflect for ~10 min or more with the next 1-3 days on your emotional relationship with food.  *Unless otherwise directed.

  • Use the Food and Emotions Self-Reflection prompts below.
  • Log your reflections in the journal on the bottom of the page for later reference. 
  • Perform this self-reflection again in about 2 weeks to assess your progress and to gather any new information to continue to support you and your greatest good.
  • Make adjustments based on the recommendations below within the next 1-3 days.

 

Food and Emotions Self-Reflection Prompts:

This self-reflection is designed to identify your particular emotional connections with food and whether they are serving you in your greatest and highest good and health. 

Over the course of 3 days, reflect on the following: 

  • Your emotional state before, during and after eating.
  • How often do you eat or drink something that you regret afterwards? Take note of how you emotionally feel before and after consuming them.
  • Are there certain troublemakers foods, beverages or additives that you are unable to give up? If so, how do they make you feel emotionally? How do they fulfill you?
  • Add other notes, insights, observations or feelings regarding your emotional connections to food in your journal below.

 

Food and Emotions Recommendations

  • Review the troublemaker foods/beverages/additives to better understand the need to eliminate them for your healing process.
  • Review your emotional expression patterns to better understand your relationship with food and emotions.
  • Ideally before eating, come into the present moment and center yourself, then eat. This allows you to clear emotional eating patterns connected to over or under eating.
  • Optionally, use your testing technique to determine when you and your body are ready to eat in relation to processing or "digesting" emotional energy.

 

 

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