Tasting your mind

"The food and energies that we ingest nourish our consciousness and spirit. Like the yolk of an egg nourishing the emerging chick, the body acts as a placenta to the growing Tree of Life within us. Our roots as human beings are in heaven, and the ki or electromagnetic energy that animates us comes primarily from above through the chakras before branching out to the meridians and then to trillions of cells. Each cell has spirit, nourished constantly by energy and vibration from heaven and earth." Michio Kushi, The Book of Macrobiotics.

"The digestive process is very similar to the respiratory process. Through breathing we capture the environment around us, assimilating it and returning to it what we cannot assimilate." "Breathing is governed by the air element, while digestion belongs to the earth element" "Digestion has similarities to brain activity, as it is the brain (or consciousness) that consumes and digests the world's material impressions." Thorwald Dethlefsen, Rüdiger Dahlke,The Healing Power Of Illness.

Just like  psychotropics - food has psychological and physical consequences. You choose whether being active or lazy, concentrate or inattentive, calm or stressed.  Our surroundings also interfere in our mood and feelings.  WE interfere in our surroundings too, so let's work with what we have: our body and our power of choice.  When we eat we are ingesting.  Ingesting dense energy in the form of food.  As food has an effect on us, we have an effect on food. We transform the food we eat.  When we eat in peace, we potentialize peace.  With anger, we potentialize anger.  with love, we potentialize love.  Eat gratefully.