Thank you, Earth

Your body and the body of the Earth

Your body comes from the Earth.  Your first body, the one you were born with, came from the Earth through your mother and the nutrition she brought you in the womb. It is as if your mother’s body was teaching your spirit how to create a physical body for the earth plane.  Then, since your birth, you have been creating your body through what you eat and drink.

All the cells you were born with have been replaced, some of them many times over. This process is largely automatic, except that you respond to your body’s messages in choosing what you will eat and drink.  Even this choosing you may feel is sometimes distorted by the desires of your personality and the habits you have acquired.

Even so, your connection with the Earth is an intimate one.  You might even consider yourself as an aspect of the Earth’s own consciousness, as a part of the way in which the Earth is itself evolving. For by bringing your spirit to the earth plane and clothing it in a selection of the same atoms that form the Earth’s body, you are participating in the evolution of matter.

Becoming more conscious

A being like the Earth, who chooses to embody as a planet, seeks to grow in part by bringing greater consciousness into the world of matter.  On a smaller scale you too are doing the same thing, choosing to take on a physical body to bring greater consciousness to the world of matter, while growing in consciousness yourself.

One of the ways you may grow in consciousness and assist physical matter to become more conscious too is through appreciation or gratitude.  Being grateful for all that you eat and drink is to offer it your love. That love confers consciousness, for matter itself responds to love and opens to the next level of consciousness that is written into its blueprint.

You and the Earth

Then beyond that direct response of gratitude to the food and drink that nourish you, can be a sense of the love that is expressed by the Earth through the food and drink. You can begin to connect consciously in this way with the Earth’s soul and this connection can have a revitalising effect on the cells of your body.  Each cell has its own consciousness. As you eat and drink more consciously, finding the Earth’s love expressed through all the forms its consciousness has shaped for your nourishment, then you are acting as a channel for that love to be carried directly to the heart of each cell and each cell rejoices.

Playbox: Enjoy your meal

This playbox is for when you are eating a meal or a snack. It doesn’t matter whether you are eating something highly processed or straight from the garden, but initially you may find it easier with something like a piece of raw fruit.

• Take a mouthful or a bite of food.

• Savour it.  Give yourself time to respond to all its flavours and textures.

• Let your heart centre open as you thank the food for the nourishment it brings you.

• Feel the aliveness in the food and let this aliveness help you connect with the Earth’s soul.

• Thank the Earth for giving you your body and for giving you the food and drink to nourish and nurture it.

• Feel or imagine a heart connection with the heart centre of the Earth.

• Then feel the same connection – your heart centre connected with the heart of the Earth – through the cells of the food your are eating.  Feel the cells of your body responding to this love.

• Enjoy your meal!