Simple Food ~ Sane Life

Are you a polyfoodie? Great! You are someone who enjoys and consumes a variety of foods to intrigue your taste buds, keep your digestive system awakened, and provide your body with complete healing nourishment. I first read the concept about being a polygamist with your food in Steve Gagne’s book, The Energetics of Food. Be on a lifetime taste-testing adventure. What a great concept!

Each food carries its own energy, its own nourishing, healing nutrients, for different areas of the body at different times. Polyfoodists enjoy a complete healing energy from the variety of the foods they consume. Early cultures knew this before we had the science to confirm it!

The next time you encounter food, look at or consider the shape, smell, texture, life force of the food, where it grows in relation to the earth, and the climate it grows in. All of these aspects speak to the nourishing energy of the food and how it relates to the body. As we consume a delicious variety, we balance our entire body.

We not only have fabulous foods growing all year around all over the world, but we can now also access many of these foods in the modern age of transportation. We can consume this nourishment in so many various ways: fresh, cooked, dried, preserved, pureed, marinated, frozen, and any other ways our creative selves can dream up.

Mother Nature allows for freedom and variety of growth and consumption. Think of farmers rotating crops. If they continue to plant the same crops in the same places every year, the land becomes depleted of the nutrients that crop needs. Think of your body in the same light. Rotate the foods you consume so that your body doesn’t become depleted.

This is also a way of avoiding the development of food allergies. There is scientific evidence that food allergies can develop from the constant regular consumption of a restricted diet. Even if you are on a therapeutic diet to heal your body, there’s still a variety of food experiences you can have to assist in the healing process.

I have a dear friend and spiritual advisor who upon learning from me about being a polyfoodie, took it into her own hands to try this concept and changed what she was eating. Her issue began to heal. Hooray! Freedom, not fear. By happily consuming a variety of foods instead of eating in fear of symptom manifestation, she was able to live freer and happier.

A question about polyfoodism from a client was if a vegetarian was considered a polyfoodist, because they don’t eat animal or fish. Of course they can be! Having a variety of foods at a variety of times of day over a long period of time is what polyfoodism is all about. Poly- means many. Eat many different foods, instead of suffering under tight restriction and control. This practice can be applied to anyone with any condition or lifestyle! I guarantee that we can find variety and room to play with it.

Variety is the spice of life, so we have all heard. Be good to your body and feed it a variety of healthy whole foods. Being a polyfoodist is also a form of freedom of speech for your body and your life. How would it feel to let go of food rules and eating the same foods every day? How does food restriction and control serve you?

Venture into polyfoodism. Excite your taste buds and give your body the gift of variety and healing. Create peace, happiness and balance!