Empaths & Metaphysical Aspects of Food Preparation

A Metaphysical Theory of Food

By Kevin Friel, Empath

I'll preface this with keeping Masaru Emoto's intention water experiment in mind (sending 'love' produced beautiful crystals, 'hate' jagged ugly ones...). I started thinking about the value of food after touring a top nutritional testing facility near Chicago this summer, and hearing that facilities CEO speak. My thought process brought me to the conclusion that not only what and how we eat and how it is prepared is important, but who handles the food through the farming/supply chain/distribution/preparation/serving process. More importantly, what is their INTENTION while taking part in this process?

Families used to prepare, cook, and in a lot of cases even farmed their own food together. They would then sit around together and eat. For the most part (sibling rivalry aside), the intention of all those people was to basically love the food that would keep their loved ones going. Even if we directly transpose the results of Dr. Emoto's findings to this, water is used quite a bit in preparing and cooking. If the intention is set in the water surrounding the food products, then no doubt that same energy would transfer into the ingredients. But I'm sure intention directs the building blocks of food (as we already know, energy effects everything!) in the same way. In the end, we ingest the loving energy 'intended' into the food. That has to transfer into our bodies too! Empathic receptions aside, why do 'home cooked meals' taste and FEEL so much better than an equivalently prepared meal at a mediocre restaurant?

So, the flipside. Much of our 'cheap' food comes from poverty stricken nations in large, factory-style farms. People are happy to work for the limited money, but the conditions are often poor to uphauling with long-hours and many accounts of abuse. The intention is set right from the crib of our ingredients. Hate for their boss, for their health, for missing their family etc, gets infused into the ingredients before they even get to the next stage of prep. If they are shipped across seas, more often than not the shipping crews are in a similar situation as the farmers. Sometimes this is compounded by having adjacent containers (or in some extreme cases, even the same shipping container) carrying drugs/weapons/human traffick. Another point for negative intention infusion. The truckers who spread the ingredients to the rest of the continent often lead dubious lifestyles, or miss their families greatly. Yet another point.  

If we are buying these products from a large discount chain, the warehouse staff are underpaid, and underappreciated. If we end up with these ingredients at a sub-par restaurant or fast-food chain, some preparers even PHYSICALLY put intention into the food (spitting, unsanitary practices...), never mind the metaphysical effects of such actions. So we end up with multiple points of potential 'hate' energy being infused, and then digested into our systems. Would this explain the broader link between depression and fast-food consumption (nutritional considerations aside)? Are GM foods filled with the negative intentions of their penny-pinching project-managers?

There are so many ways to be exposed to 'intentional energy', this seems like a very important one. And it puts so many pieces of our societal paradox together.

I would love to hear the reader's comments on this.  Have you heard of a "theory of food" anything like this floating around out there, and any other viewpoints along the way.  I intend to make a short film on the subject, so your comments will be helpful.

Kevin Friel, Canada

Earthquake Premonitions and Dreams: What's Happening?

Just in the last week, on three separate occasions, I have had three different clients who report being disturbed by having dreams and visions of massive earthquakes. This is in addition to three other friends who report the same thing - dreams and premonitions for earthquakes. (I have long had earthquake premonitions - and I am also having an increase in dreams and visions lately, especially for japan).

As empaths and intuitives, we are "feeling" the Earth, and how she is now moving and throwing off the energy from our years of abuse. None of this is new. Spirit has been telling us for years that this would happen, and now we're right smack in the middle of it.

More of this is explored in my empath empowerment package, The Complete Empath Toolkit.

Because this is happening NOW, that's why it's absolutely imperative that we learn about our abilities, enroll in healing classes, go to spiritual ceremonies, and learn about ourselves and our gifts.

For now, I will leave you with the words of Empath Connection reader Beverly Tier Bartlett, who prompted me to write about this today:

"My question is: Is there a shift in energy lately that is causing empaths to feel anxiety and to have heightened sensitivity? I'm empathic and kept hearing in my head the word EARTHQUAKE three times and it would not stop and I had no idea why I heard this and it turned out to be one week PRIOR to the earthquake in Haiti. Ever since then its as if I'm reading peoples minds and it isn't even fun :-) All of this is both interesting and amazing, yet quite distressing for along with hearing the word earthquake comes a flood of an overwhelming sense of doom and gloom and tragedy but non specific. Last week I started to hear earthquake again three times along with the number 6 so I shared it with a friend. I don't know what it is I'm supposed to do with this information except pray."

Yes, Beverly, the best thing any and all of us can do is PRAY. And also to SHARE what's happening with others, just as you did with your friend and by reaching out to me. By sharing your dreams and experiences, it allows others to know that this heightened sensitivity is GLOBAL. We're ALL experiencing it. There's no separation - what one person feels, so do all of us, on many refined and subtle levels.

You may benefit from reading the stories and experiences contained in my Complete Empath Toolkit package.
Until next time, may you pray for the world, the Earth, and all of her inhabitants, human, and non-human alike.

Michael Smith, Ph.D.
www.EmpathConnection.com