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FIRST THOUGHTS

What an intriguing combination: food and chakras! I have to admit, I’m stepping into this with a completely open mind because I know absolutely nothing about chakras and only have a basic understanding of nutrition. This book feels like a unique opportunity to explore how these two worlds connect. I’m curious to see how food might influence energy, balance, and well-being from a perspective I’ve never considered before. I look forward to discovering new insights and perhaps even learning practical ways to apply this knowledge in my daily life.

A quick note to readers: I won’t be diving into the detailed nutrition advice or specific plans for each chakra type—that’s best explored by reading the book itself. Instead, my focus will be on providing an overview of each chakra type, their traits, and some practical tips on foodstuffs that can support all chakra types. This should serve as a useful introduction and a starting point for your own exploration.

INTRODUCTION

• Chakras: subtle energy centers in and around our body
• They manage every facet of life (psychological, physical, and spiritual) – by regulating the two types of energy: physical (visible) and subtle (invisible)
  • Most of reality, including a big part of your body, is made of subtle energies
• Synchronizing our choices with our chakras is a unique process
• Feeding our true self, often bodied in one chakra
  • Happier people often eat healthier
• What you eat should be based on who you are
• This book works with the twelve-chakra system instead of 7

PART I: WHAT DO YOUR CHAKRAS SAY ABOUT YOU?

1. All Things Chakra – The You Inside of You

• We all have a main chakra: key to our soul’s destiny and health
• Focusing on subtle energy leads to health, healing and the right weight for your lifestyle
• Each chakra is linked to an endocrine gland and controls a different physical, psychological, and spiritual aspect of your being
• You are here to express all of you
• Let your soul lead

The chakra types:

• Manifestor: ‘the root’, hips ; movement and manifesting
• Creator: abdomen ; emotions and creativity
• Thinker: solar plexus ; ‘digesting’ mental and intellectual energies
• Relater: heart ; love and relationship
• Communicator: throat ; expression (speaking, reading writing, ruminating…)
• Visualizer: third-eye center ; insights, strategies, psychic pictures, imaginative fantasies
• Spiritualist: ‘crown’, linked to pineal gland ; higher concepts and truths
• Mystic: above the head, linked to thymus gland ; metaphysical dimensions of reality
• Harmonizer: foot and a half above head, locks to diaphragm ; idealists at heart, unification
• Naturalist: foot and a half underneath the feet ; bonds to nature and personal heritage
• Commander: surrounding your body, concentrated around hands and feet, endocrine-related functions of connective tissue and muscles ; control natural and supernatural forces
• Uniquely you: field surrounding all of our aspects

PART II: THE CHAKRA TYPES – THE UNIQUE YOU

Practical Tips On Foodstuffs For All Chakra Types

• Craving: associating a particular substance with an underlying emotional need, mostly developped in childhood (ex. mother with milk)
  • Also occurs when something is missing in our diet, or a body instability
    • Ex. craving chocolate when lack of magnesium, craving sugar when low blood sugar

• Proteins
  • Grow and repair tissues, strength and empowerment
• Healthy, lean proteins, free-range poultry and grass-fed red meats, eggs, wild-caught fish…

• Fats
  • Energy and protection for your organs
  • Too much fat = overprotecting yourself or shame – cycle of self-denigration or addictive tendencies
• Polyunsaturated:
  • omega-3s (oily fish like salmon, mackerel, herring) – supports adrenal glands’ production and use of hormones
  • omega 6s (animal sources like meat and egg yolk) – great for brain and muscles
• Saturated:
  • animal sources – found high-fat meats and dairy products
  • butter, animal fat, coconut oil and butter
• Monosaturated fats:
  • provides energy, protect heart, assist with insulin sensitivity, improve blood cholesterol, decrease risk cardiovascular decease, cells
  • nuts, cashews and almonds, veggie oils, net butters, avocados
• (Nopes) Two main sources of trans fats:
  • natural, such as cow milk and beef, good in small amounts
  • artificial, industrial process, ‘cheat foods’, made by adding hydrogen to liquid veggie oils, acting as a preservative
    • heart diceases and stroke, diabetes

• Carbohydrates
  • Comfort, safety, contentment
  • Craving carbs = lack of self-satisfaction
  • Glycemic index: how quickly a carb raises the level of glucose (simple sugar) in your blood
• High-glycemic index carbs: white flour, all baked potatoes, white potatoes, instant oatmeal, short grain rice, corn, sugars…
• Medium-glycemic index carbs: orange juice, honey, sweet potatoes, yams, basmati and multigrain rice, oat bran, rye breads…
• Low-glycemic index carbs: soy products, beans, chickpeas, lentils, brown rice, whole grain pastas and grains…
• Prioritize unrefined carbs (lightly or not processed) – bran, barley quinoa, whole grain cereals, steel cut oats…
• Special carbs:
  • Avoid sugar (carb) and the ‘-oses’ (glucose, fructose, sucrose…) – go for low-glycemic fruits or veggies
  • Gluten (protein found in wheat, rye and barley). Test your tolerance – different for everyone

• Veggies and fruits
  • Technically carbs, but they occupy their own category
  • Provide nutrients and fiber, are filling, and promote healthy and harmonious weight
  • Cleanses and removes waste
  • Constipation or lack of fiber = need to release and let go of tangible foods, emotions, and relationships
  • Diarrhea or over-consuming fiber = not processing what you need to
• High-glycemic index veggies: watermelon, dried dates, overripe bananas, winter squash…
• Medium-glycemic index veggies: corn on the cob, figs, kiwi, bananas, pineapple, raisins, grapes, green peas, parnips, mangoes, beets, cooked carrots…
• Low-glycemic index veggies: green veggies, raw carrots, apples, grapefruit, oranges, peaches, pears, prunes, cauliflower, lettuce, mushrooms, onions, summer squash, zucchini, turnips, peppers…

• Dairy
  • Usually healthy, as they’re loaded with saturated and unsaturated fats, calcium, and other bone-building minerals and nutrients

• Minerals
  • Calcium: healthy bones and teeth, keep your muscles and brain moving, healthy structure to build your life
  • Iron: carries oxygen and supports many chemical processes, ability to respond to stress and come out on top
  • Magnesium: relaxing your muscles and easing stress, fight illness, allow your Higher Power into your everyday life
  • Potassium: muscle contractions, heart and fluid functions, counterpart to sodium
  • Sodium: maintaining normal blood pressure, nerve and muscle support, balanced fluids, reach for the heavens

• Vitamins
  • Vitamin A: vision and tissue health, supports your willingness to see the truth
  • B vitamins: convert food into energy, support passions and goals
  • Vitamin C: antioxidant, invites meaningful connections and intimacy, relationship support
  • Vitamin D: strenghten bones and reduces stress
  • Vitamin E: antioxidant, protection from desease, anti-inflammatory, letting go of old and others’ energies
  • Vitamin K: activates proteins and calcium for blood clotting, accept your personnal strength and control negative thoughts and behaviors

Manifestor: I am safe, strong and passionate

• Manifesting in physical form (material success), builder of materialized ideas and dreams.
• Chakra location: hips
• Doer, driven, busybody, persistent, motivated, body-based, kinesthetic, achiever, productive
• Main intuitive gift: physical empathy
• Can catch energetic cravings
• Major motivator: success
  • Results (tracking +++)
• Hidden fear: early childhood or primal traumas
• Greatest strength – physicality : decisive, body enjoyment, dependable hard worker
• Greatest weakness – impatience
  • workaholism, shame, distractedness…
• Forgiveness and releasing shame is key to achieve harmonious weight
  • Extra weight: lack of safety + drive for success
• Endocrine gland: adrenal glands – stress organs of the body
  • Generate adrenaline, hydrocortisone and cortisol
  • Cortisol needs to be regulated (mood, motivation, fear…)
  • Optimally reduces inflammation, regulates blood pressure, digestion and sleep-wake cycle

Creator: My emotions are good and I am desirable

• You are powerful with creation and change thanks to your emotional awarness, compassion and empathy
• Chakra location: abdomen
• Endocrine gland = ovaries for women and testes for men
  • You’ll need to constantly adjust you dietary plans to the cycles of your hormones and biological development
• You access the world through your emotions
  • Feeler, empath, emotional, sensitive, moody, fluid, intense, free spirit…
• Strength: emotional empathy
• Weakness: emotionalism – letting our own feelings or even others’ feelings take control
  • Sloth, gluttonny, codependency
• Releasing guilt to achieve a harmonious weight

Thinker: I am powerful, intelligent, and succesful

• You constantly formulate ideas, analyze, and organize
  • Also strong with mental empathy
  • Mentalist, logical, reasonable, organized, compulsive, intellectual
• Chakra location: solar plexus
  • Major endocrine gland is the pancreas
• Strength: innate intelligence
• Organs associated to the third chakra that fulfill both physical and subtle functions: pancreas, liver, gallblader, spleen, stomach, small intestine
• Weakness: vulnerability to negativity and judgment of others, causing poor self-confidence
  • Perfectionism, excuse-making, over-analyzing…
• Food prep may be beneficial for you

Relater: I am lovable and I have healthy relationships

• Chakra location: heart
  • Interesting fact: the heart emanates an electromagnetic field 50,000 times geater than does the brain
• Strength: healing ability
  • Lover, relationship, focused, heart centered, connector, affectionate, helper, caring, healer…
• Weakness: wanting to heal everyone
• Giving love away without expecting something coming back to you will help you achieve a harmonious weight

Communicator: I am honest and clear in communications with myself and others

• You live to communicate : teaching, speaking, writing, singing, making music…
• Chakra location: thyroid
  • This endocrine gland secretes hormones that control or influence metabolism, weight, growth, mood, energy levels, body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure..
• Strength: commitment to the truth
  • Enthusiast, storyteller, expressive, curious, observant…
• Weakness: being too impressionable
  • Dishonesty, compulsive eating, anxiety…
• Living in and expressing the truth will make you reach a harmonious weight

Visualizer: I am perfect as I am

• You live for visions of beautiful scenery
• Chakra location: pituitary
• Strength: your sight
  • Clairvoyance, observant, perceptive, designer, artistic…
• Weakness: being too self-focused
  • Obsessive, overly emotional, poor self-esteem, misperceptions…

Spiritualist: I am living my Divine destiny

• You live for spirituality, connecting to a Higher Power and seek relationship with Oneness. You may want to expore the world of psychedelics in your quest of understanding
• Chakra location: pineal gland
  • Produces hormones that regulate mood and sleep (melatonin, serotonin), as well as a chemical linked to spiritual experiences (DMT)
• Strength: devotion to spirituality
  • You can easily focus on concepts such as meditation, purpose, acceptance, wisdom, prayer, etc
• Weakness: egoistic
  • Moodiness
  • Masculine/feminine imblalances
  • Judgmentalism towards people who do not have the same worldview as yourself
  • Grandiosity
• You are a human having spiritual experiences. Let yourself be human.

Mystic: I am free of my past and powerful in my present

• The shaman of the chakra universe. You can connect nature, humankind, and all things that contain spirit
  • You’re a combination of all the chakra types
• Chakra location: thymus
  • One of the two main immune system organs
• Strength: otherwordly connectivity
  • Healing powers, multidimensional, innovative..
• Weakness: temptation
  • Stealing others’ subtle energy, susceptibility of the Dark Arts, inviting physical stressors…

Harmonizer: I embody harmony and peace and bring them with me wherever I go

• For this chakra type, it is all about harmony and meaning. You can find your purpose in activism and idealism
• Chakra location: diaphragm
  • Interesting fact: the diaphragm is the only organ found in all mammals
• Strength: commitment to a cause
  • Protective, commited, purpose driven, philanthropist, fervent..
• Weakness: lack of self-focus
  • You can also be judgemental towards people who do not share the same point of views as yourself, overly ideological
  • Headstrong

Naturalist: My body is my expression of the Divine

• You live for nature and love being outside. All about respecting and being at one with the Earth. This chakra links you with your own ancestors and those of the cosmos
• Chakra location: under the feet
• It’s endocrine gland being the bones (bone marrow)
  • Your bones are the framework for your physical self and metaphysically represent the structure where all aspects of your life are built
  • Your skeleton is connective tissue, and also produces hormones, which means it is an endocrine gland
  • Three main types of cells that make up your bones: osteoclasts (demineralize the bones), osteoblasts (secrete collagen and minerals) and osteocytes
• Strength: connection to nature
  • Respect for the Earth, natural healing, environmentalist
• Weakness: tendency to live out your ancestors’ issues
  • Your ancestors are alive within you
  • Their memories can cause you food cravings to mental or physical illnesses. May be at risk of addictions

Commander: I am an instrument of Divine power

• You are an innate leader that can access both natural and supernatural powers
• Chakra location: connective tissue
  • Though it does not produce hormones itself, the connective tissue contain hormone glands
  • The role of the connective tissue is to hold the entire body together
  • Connective tissues also support and surrounds organs and other body parts
  • Collagen and elastinare the two main ingredients of fatty tissue, cartilage, and bones
  • The fascia (band of connective tissue, primarly made of collagen, that lies beneath the skin) is one particularly important type of connective tissue. It attaches, separates, and stabilizes muscles and other internal organs
• Strength: commitment to achievement
  • Self-assured, strategic planner…
• Weakness: grandiosity
  • Can be egoist, bossy…

FINAL THOUGHTS

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Chakras, Food, and You. It provided a fascinating perspective on the connection between energy, food, and well-being. I highly encourage readers to explore the test included in the book to discover their chakra type. It’s a great starting point for understanding which nutrition plan aligns with your energy centers. Whether you’re new to the concept of chakras or already familiar, this book offers valuable insights and practical advice worth exploring.