So this morning, my 6 year old was asking for maple syrup with her organic chicken sausage instead of ketchup (though that is not much of an improvement over the syrup in terms of sugar content). I usually feed her a solid protein breakfast, as she’s super active and she gets a lot of sugar at breakfast at her dad’s house (much to my chagrin).
Being frustrated over the fact that I’ve watched her taste buds shift the more time she spends with dad, from loving all veggies and meats and fruits, to preferring junk food (especially of the sugar variety), I said to her “Sugar is not good for your body!”
Her response to me was “Mommy, you are not my body!” which I found very interesting. Especially on the heels of Abraham last weekend. Abraham’s take on this topic is that if we don’t have any resistance to a food, then the health effects are less negative. They say our bodies are very adaptive, and can extract the nutritional value from the foods we eat. (now this is not an endorsement from me, this is just the idea they are teaching about the amazing power of our energetic bodies).
In any case, I have wondered how much, in my effort to teach my daughter health, and some good practices (eat organic, alive foods – even “junky” organic foods is OK) how much resistance am I causing in her? According to the laws of the universe, if she has resistance, and then still eats it, then it’s actually worse for your body than if she just ate it and basked in the joy of the experience.
Her comment to me this morning, though seemingly simple, was very profound in this context. Abraham would say that she knows better than I do what is best for her body because she is still so close to source energy (as adults we let life shift us from our universal knowingness).
I know this idea is probably really out there for some of you, and I’m not really doing it justice at the moment, but it came up today so I thought I’d mention it before I forgot about it.
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