When I lived in the UK, food was food. You go to supermarket to buy items, cook them and sometimes have leftovers.
If you were lucky, you could grow your own veggies as my dad used to do, knowing that home-grown and organic food had the most nutritional value.
I had no idea or knowledge of the energetic or prana value of food.
What I learnt from my time in India was that when it comes to food, people have very high standards.
In a lot of families, food is cooked fresh in the morning before they go to work and placed in a ‘dubba’ with daals and veg items.
Eating the same food from yesterday is a no-no. I once owned up to eating leftovers from day before and my colleague raised an eyebrow and said even her child insists on eating food cooked the same day. I was bemused.
In India, there is a strong emphasis on having freshly cooked food and eating it as soon as possible, so that is does not decay physically and lose energetic value.
If you accept the premise that everything is energy, then everything vibrates at different frequencies. This applies to food also.
I learnt from Sadhguru’s book ( A Taste of Well Being) that foods have different energetic values, and some are more energy-rich than others.
I decided to put this to the test after one year of yoga and meditation to see whether cutting out foods with dense energy would have an impact on my well-being.
This is my experience. After eating meat for forty years, I turned to eating vegetarian food. . . Within weeks, the first thing I noticed was that I felt more emotionally balanced, with less ups and downs, and I was a lot calmer.
I promise you this was not a placebo effect.
I did after a few months succumb to the delicious-looking lamb curry as well as a prawn dish I had made for the family.
However, the following day I could feel the difference energetically in my body.
Since then I have maintained a vegetarian diet.
The second impact was that I felt my skin glowed a lot more.
I tried the raw food diet but felt it hard to sustain long-term, so now I try to have 70 per cent cooked veggie food and 30 per cent raw foods.
The third thing I noticed was the impact on my children’s behaviour.
After eating vegetarian food, the kids were calmer, whereas after eating meat there were noticeable mood swings.
Luckily as I had a lot more time, I was able to make these observations.