Emotional food is the nourishment that comes from our thoughts, from the way we think every day, from our beliefs.
It is real food for our body.
We are a little too often like sponges — we absorb other people’s emotions too much.
It is not toxic to have an emotion such as joy or happiness; those are rather emotions that are very good to keep — they are good food — but there are others that are truly very toxic.
Emotions directly impact our cells and we create our reality from the way we think; this can be a problem because we often have limiting beliefs.
Simply looking at a world that is going wrong is enough to create these negative thoughts that act on the body.
The body will become dysregulated in the more or less long term.
This has an immediate impact on the body.
You eat in front of the television: you ingest food that is not physiological, and on top of that you take in the emotional food of a world that is supposedly going badly.
This poorly nourishes our body and impacts the way we think, creating a real imbalance in our thoughts.
By accumulating bad habits, we end up at 50 exhausted — or even earlier.
It is these daily accumulations of errors, dietary errors and also thinking errors that lead to this.
We need to understand how we function.
People need to fill themselves, to be happy; they go looking outside themselves for external pleasure to fill this void and make up for this inner emptiness.
We look for compensations — a piece of chocolate — we know why we do it.
It is not always the case; it can be for pleasure, but it often also comes from a bad habit from the start.
Many of us as parents told our child: if you are not good, you will not get dessert; a bite for daddy when feeding the baby — this has consequences because we always have an emotional relationship.
These family and societal habits remain anchored in people.
We keep repeating patterns; it is better to have positive or healthy patterns so that life works.
There is also the conditioning we can have had from a very young age.
Regarding the emotional aspect as seen by the Chinese, they made correlations between organs, flavours and emotions.
We talk about 5 main organs.
The liver is linked to anger and the sour flavour.
When people are too drawn to the sour flavour such as lemon, they often have a liver weakness.
The heart is linked to exaltation and the bitter flavour.
We like exaltation, but when it is in overload it is a problem; when we say “dying of laughter”, it is not for nothing — it is not necessarily balance.
The spleen is linked to our worries and the sweet flavour.
To our incessant way of thinking and going round in circles in our head.
When we are not well, this organ responsible for digestion and food management — very important in Chinese medicine, much more than in Western medicine — is put under strain when we argue while eating, or do not speak and it is tense, or the television is on, making it difficult for the spleen to digest properly.
The lung is linked to sadness and the pungent flavour.
When we are sad we tend to cough, and very often this is linked to a general sense of suffocation — we have a weak lung.
The kidney is linked to fears and the salty flavour.
The kidney is put under strain because it is our battery; today we live in a world of fear.
This is indeed in order to drive consumption.
Fears are permanently present.
We are afraid because something happened to our neighbour.
The same thing will happen to us because there are wars in the world.
We are in danger all the time.
We are told things that frighten us.
We are never told that the world is fine… because there is no interest in doing so, otherwise you would stop buying.
If you wish to work on your emotions, your nutrition or other blockages, feel free to contact me. Together we can look for a new balance and greater inner freedom. This support does not replace medical care.