Learning to Eat: Being in Energetic Harmony with the Food You Consume
Eating is our most primal survival instinct. But what if we've been doing it wrong most of our lives? Does such an incredibly complex process require more than just chewing and swallowing? Do our thoughts, actions, and emotions while eating have any bearing on how well or poorly our food is metabolised? Who taught you to eat? Your gut is not a garburator The old adage "you are what you eat" is profound. It sums up in just a few words one of the most complex biological miracles the body accomplishes over and over again, day in, day out. But did you ever stop to think about what's really going on? From the moment you smell food, your body starts producing the correct enzymes needed to break down that specific food. Some of those enzymes are in the saliva in our mouth, and the combination of chewing begins the process of breaking down and metabolising the food we eat as soon as it passes our lips. It then goes down the throat to the highly acidic environment in ...