Spiritual Weightloss - Weekly Energy Boost

Our physical bodies are a reflection of our soul. Throughout our lifetimes, we experience trauma and naturally carry that in our bodies – with physical weight often being an indicator of “emotional” or “spiritual” heaviness. This week we’ll talk with Marcus Weston about how to “shed the excess weight” by creating shifts in our consciousness to initiate healthy changes in our body. Episode 3 of 3. Original airdate: 7/26/21

Transcript

Good morning,

Everyone.

Good evening,

Good afternoon,

Wherever you are,

And welcome to this week's Weekly Energy Boost.

My name is Ali Sheva,

And I am here this lovely Monday morning with both David Guillaume and Marcus Weston,

Who we'll hear from momentarily.

This is the third episode that we are doing on the topic of food,

Eating,

And nutrition,

And we are focusing this week on spiritual weight loss.

That title may be a little bit misleading.

It might be exactly what we're going to talk about,

Depending on where you are coming from this morning or whenever it is you're listening to this episode.

The Weekly Energy Boost is a seven-day spiritual energy forecast.

We use the wisdom of Kabbalah to glean and curate the most powerful and practical wisdom and tools for our listeners.

Our podcast is intended for anybody,

Whether you are on a spiritual path or not,

You study Kabbalah or not.

This is really an introduction to how powerful and how practical the wisdom of Kabbalah can be.

We've been focusing on eating and food because,

As any parents or any Leos will tell you,

Food is important.

We're smack dab in the middle of the month of Leo.

Our focus has really been on consuming.

How do we consume,

What we consume,

And why we consume it.

This week's episode is really focused more on a couple of fundamental principles that I'm going to introduce today and then we'll hear from our fabulous co-guests.

I think first and foremost,

The important teaching to start with is that the body is a reflection of the soul.

The Kabbalists teach,

As above,

So below.

There's a journey that the soul takes in each lifetime,

Whereupon it picks the body that it's going to be housed in.

The body is the temple for the soul.

It cannot do its work without that vehicle,

Without that physical mechanism,

Not only to go from here to there,

But also the body is used as the conduit for energy.

Even though the soul is experiencing the connection,

The body,

As the mirror of the soul,

As the house of the soul,

Engages in actions or lack of actions that either connect us or disconnect us.

One of the examples we brought up in the first episode was how in prayer,

We sit when we're manifesting energy.

So too,

The Kabbalists talk about the importance of sitting down to eat and how both are connected to manifestation of energy.

We stand in prayer when we are throwing the fishing line to connect with whatever we'd like to draw,

And then when we want to manifest it,

We sit.

We sit.

So.

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I like that.

Throwing the fishing line.

We sit.

I like that.

But that's really what we do.

That's smart of you.

We're casting our line,

And then we reel it in when we're seated.

And so when we look at our physical body,

There's all different kinds of teachings that we can get into,

Even with regard to meditation.

The Kabbalists teach when we meditate,

We should not cross our arms and legs because both our arms and legs are conduits for energy,

And we don't want to cross those wires.

So as we look at what it means to be spiritually healthy and to consume things that are spiritually supportive.

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And I use the word consume because we're not only talking about food.

We're talking about media.

We're talking about what do we read.

We're talking about where do we hang out.

All of those are components of how we consume,

What nourishes us.

David brought up a really cool point last week where he was saying that when you consume different food groups,

If all the different food groups have different energies,

And if you don't know what I'm talking about,

You can go back to last week's episode.

So imagine you're consuming three different kinds of foods,

Three different kinds of energies.

What kind of spiritual,

To quote David,

Mishmash does that create in the body and therefore in the soul?

So one of the things we want to examine this week is how our energy impacts our physical being and vice versa.

I've tested a lot of different things physically,

And I always like to see their impact spiritually.

Of all the different ways I've tried to deal with food or dieting or exercise,

There's one that has worked very well.

And I talk to other people and they all say the same thing.

And I'm curious as to the.

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I'm not curious.

I did see what the spiritual side of this is,

Is portion control and not overeating.

Meaning you can eat what you want to eat to some extent.

But as long as you eat it in moderation,

That is going to maximize both the healing in the body,

The highest level of energy,

Because food,

What food does,

We think food provides energy.

Food takes energy.

Food is actually absorbing,

Taking your body's power.

Your body requires energy to digest the food,

To break down the food,

To do what it needs to do.

You have to take out it spiritually and all the different souls that exist within food.

We talked about this,

The sparks of light.

Just imagine you have to break open this shell to take out this spark.

So even the soul has to do work to extract the light that it needs.

So the more food we give the body,

We think it's more fuel,

It's more energy.

But actually it's the opposite.

It takes energy.

Why do we say not to eat right before bed?

If anything,

Give more nutrients to your body right before bed so that you can sleep better.

It's the opposite.

That if your body needs to give energy to break down food while you sleep,

Then the body is not using the energy to heal throughout the night.

So portion control,

Which pretty much means not eating until you're stuffed,

Is both a physical marvel and also backed by spirituality.

So again,

We're not talking about dieting and not eating for a whole day and then all of a sudden binge eating because that's reactive.

I know that's why most diets can be reactive because you deprive yourself and then you try to make up for that deprivation by binging as opposed to dealing with what's really going on inside of why we have those cravings.

But just eating to the point where you know you've given your body exactly what it needs and not giving it more so that it sucks energy from the rest of you.

What do you think about that?

Well … Marcus.

Welcome to the microphone,

Marcus Westin.

Well I've got to say first of all,

It's just lovely to be here in Los Angeles.

It's even lovelier to be on the Elie Sheva Giam show while recording these days,

The K-Ange booth.

But the most exciting thing to be here is just talking about food.

And the promise of a nice lunch afterwards.

I invited Marcus to a lecture I gave last night and he's like,

The first question he asked,

Like,

Is there food?

I'm like,

Yeah,

But that's going to come from the amazing people.

And just to be clear,

I couldn't actually go.

And then he said,

Can I Uber him the food from the event?

He literally said,

Can you Uber the more than the food?

Can you send me the food?

The attendance,

Just can you bring me back some sushi?

So I feel very qualified to sit here today,

Both perhaps wearing a Kabbalah hat,

But also I have many food issues.

I'm a foodaholic.

I'm obsessed by food.

Really,

I mean that very literally to the point where I have difficulty eating other people's food because it probably isn't prepared with the exact.

I find that when you become expert in anything,

It's interesting.

I was playing tennis this morning and you kind of think about the idea that the person I was playing against could tell exactly from my stance and my grip and my backswing everything good and bad about my game and knew exactly where strengths and weaknesses were.

I think if you have an obsession about something,

You become great in that area and the expansion or depth of your capacity to understand the otherwise invisible components are clear to you.

And so the palette of a foodie or a connoisseur,

If you go to,

I went up to one of the wine,

One of the Herzog wine cellar or regions or mostly to eat actually.

And just hearing about the sommelier.

I was fascinated because this guy clearly can taste 10 grapes and know exactly what percentage of what grape to put with what to create fantastic wine outputs.

And it's just extraordinary that his palette is 20 times more able to discern food than I am.

I'm fascinated by those things.

And I'm in love with food.

In fact,

My two joys in life,

Putting aside my wife and kids clearly,

Which isn't obvious just for the legal caveat,

Is the zohar.

I'm passionate.

I'm in love with the zohar.

I'm in love with the zohar and food.

Mikhail will often tease me.

You've only had as much joy for everything else in life as you do to eat.

And I would say this,

My claim to fame,

My claim to fame is that occasionally,

Secretly,

Perhaps not anymore,

Monica the vegetarian might come to me for steak or has historically.

So that's a very big self-introduction.

So what are we talking about?

Food.

Yeah,

I was going to say,

Do you have something to share with our audience?

Whoever says there is just in a confessional.

I'm like,

Wait,

Can you add some value to the audience and tell them something that's going to change their life?

Well,

I think you have a lot of profound wisdom.

That's the first point.

I think the extraordinary joy,

The joy,

It is overwhelming how it is actually ridiculous how fulfilled I am from food,

From the right kind of food.

And what does that mean?

So that's a big secret.

It's a big secret.

You're sharing a secret.

Because I remember years ago,

You know,

The Rav stooped to pick up this dime coin from the floor after being 70 something years old.

And why make all that effort to go and pick up that dime?

If a beggar can have so much joy from this particular dime,

Why can't I exude that same or kind of extract that same amount of light?

So why not?

There is so much happiness to be had.

And I'm sure there are many stories of Kambalists that have been into different kinds of things.

But the joy they have is their connection to the Creator.

And so there is an extraordinary amount of light in food.

It's been written about historically by Kambalists through scriptures incessantly.

I mean,

The whole idea of kosher is the obsession of extracting light from food,

Right?

Kosher isn't just a kind of a club.

And it's for a few people.

Kosher is,

Have you spoken about this?

We didn't get there yet.

Well,

There's an interesting idea,

Right?

Because for me,

The idea of kosher is what is going to support your soul's work,

Right?

So you can eat things that might fulfill your body and you can eat things that might taste fantastic.

But at the end of the day,

What you're eating is the fuel to your body's work,

Right?

And the question is,

Do you want your body's work to be spiritually bound or do you want your body's work to be egotistically bound?

And kosher for me is that kind of delineation.

You know,

I am aware there is something,

Just to kind of talk much more than you for a second,

There is a Kabbalist who says that if you get too excited by food,

Which I'm always thinking about because I do get overly excited,

Like really too excited.

He says that you denigrate your soul to the level of the animal.

I think maybe it's the Rambam or I'm sure who said that,

But I think that's an interesting idea.

If you get too excited by things beneath you,

You denigrate your soul to that lower level because you're actually almost idolizing the physical joy or the light in the food or perhaps the food versus.

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You become the vessel,

Not the cause.

Yeah.

Well,

I want to clarify something because you dropped the kosher bomb and I think it needs a little context.

And without getting into a whole series of classes about this topic,

Because we have a lot of listeners from all our countries all around the world,

Different religious backgrounds,

Different cultures,

And food is treated differently in these different countries and nations.

And to simplify it,

This whole idea of kosher as the Bible gives it to us,

If I had to make it something practical for everybody,

It's this idea that there are kosher as defining certain foods that have some kind of a spiritual responsibility behind them and then there are sparks of light that can be elevated and then used for the sake of creation and my own spiritual growth.

So it's not to say that if I don't eat kosher,

I'm a bad person.

We have to really get that narrative out.

It's this idea that there are sparks of light within the food that are deemed,

Quote unquote,

Kosher,

That I can utilize and extract should I have the consciousness to do so that could benefit both me and mankind.

So I really wanted to make that clear.

The only thing I want to add is that I think a lot of people perceive foods that qualify as kosher as ones that have been blessed.

We talked a little bit about blessing before.

I just want to make sure it's clear.

That has nothing to do with it.

It's more the categories,

And we talked about the categories last week about there's products that originate from milk,

Products that originate from the flesh of animals.

We got into it a little bit last week in terms of what part of me do those different categories of food nourish.

So David is taking,

Or Marcus and David are taking it to a level higher,

Is that the whole system of that is really about giving what I consume structure so that my own spiritual growth is supported by that structure and not inhibited by it.

And I wanted to piggyback on what Marcus said,

Which was,

And I heard this once from a lecturer.

It was a lecturer Michael Bergen who was quoting Kabbalists,

That a lot of times we're all looking for stimulation and energy.

That's probably one of our downfalls is that we constantly want to be stimulated by something,

And society has trained us to be so.

We end up becoming in a constant reactive state,

And as a result,

We're not connected to the light of the Creator.

And so the different blessings that we're looking for in our lives are just kind of put off because we're always just in the reactive state.

And reactive basically means I'm looking for a form of instant gratification to fill a need inside of myself.

And what Marcus said that was quoting Michael Bergen,

Was quoting a Kabbalist from before was that every single object in this world actually has an endless amount of energy.

We're only kind of eating the proverbial muffin top of sparks of light and all these things.

So for example,

I drink this coffee.

Technically,

This coffee has endless amounts of energy,

So much so that the secrets of financial prosperity for myself,

The secrets of how to make sure my children become the greatest they can be,

The secrets of health and healing actually exist within this cup of coffee.

If I were to know how to extract all the milk,

No pun,

Milk from the coffee,

All the sparks of light,

And you can only do so by having consciousness about that.

And so when Marcus is saying how much he enjoys food,

The way I took it,

Because I think Marcus is constantly of a higher consciousness and I look up to that,

Is that when he drinks coffee,

He's not enjoying it because it tastes good.

He's enjoying it because he knows there are 125 spiritual levels of light that he's extracting just from this one little object and then he moves on to the next item of food and extracts that same light there.

And I used 125 because there are 125 spiritual levels,

Which we talked about in other sessions.

So I think that's a really profound thing,

That when you're eating,

One of the reasons why we still stay hungry or we feel like we need to eat more is we're just eating the muffin top of all of these things and not actually saying,

I'm going to take all the light from this one object in front of me.

There's so much energy in every little object.

I think it's the spiritual weight loss as well,

Right?

Because I think most of us,

As you say,

Are eating for stimulation or we're eating something reactively.

And so what happens is you start to eat the energy that you want,

Right?

So for example,

If you're not feeling,

Or if you have a sugar food,

That's a very obvious go-to,

Sugar food,

A cake,

Lots of people have a little sugar issues,

They'll like that sweet tooth.

You're eating the sweetness that you want to feel in your life potentially.

You don't feel sweet yourself.

We don't feel loved sweetly by another,

Or perhaps you don't feel a sense of self care or a sense of happiness,

Right?

It's very difficult.

How does,

I mean,

How many people just don't feel happy?

That's one of the biggest metrics of spiritual work is,

Do you feel happy 24 seven?

And the answer most people will clearly say is no.

Well,

What are you doing to try and feel happy?

Which is that soul's desire every day.

I do lots of things and one of them is probably eat and then to eat the wrong thing sugars the need that we have.

And so we're eating our spiritual work.

Like to sugar coat the problem.

Yes,

Exactly.

And so there is a kind of weight gain and that weight gain might not be a physical weight gain,

But it's definitely a spiritual heaviness.

And so most of us carry that kind of baggage around with us that we satiate or deny by eating foods that make us feel it's really a drug.

It's a legal drug.

It is perhaps less dangerous or perhaps not actually.

When you see it,

When you see what goes on,

We've talked about it in previous episode about that specifically in the U S the lack of,

You know,

Food is supposed to be medicine and the way that it's treated is like a drug instead.

So one of the goals of these episodes is to really shift how we look at the spiritual tool of food so that it's no longer becoming that fix that we use it as.

Imagine,

Imagine if you said to a typical person,

Listen,

We're going to put you on a crazy,

Amazing medicinal food,

Natural diet regimen.

We're going to put you in some field in the middle of nowhere and you're going to forage and you're going to live off the land and eat leaves all day.

And that's going to really make you powerful.

Most of us would think that's torture.

We're so conditioned to the drug of food that when the medicine of food pops up,

We think that's torture.

That's how much our ego is.

That's how enslaved we are in the world of food.

We start to think good things are bad for us and bad things are good for us because the tasty food is the bad stuff.

I love,

I love looking at data and I was reading over the weekend about the repeat,

It sounds really boring,

But it's going to be interesting.

The repeat purchase rate of sodas over time,

The last couple of,

20 years,

30 years.

So it was amazing,

I was learning about Coca-Cola,

That it has a higher purchase rate than let's say Fanta or Sprite or whatever it is.

And obviously the obvious reason of the,

So the discussion was is it a branding thing,

Is it whatever.

But the fact is that they have caffeine and because caffeine is addictive,

It increases the purchase rate.

I imagine that these companies sit in boardrooms and they're thinking,

Well how do we get our consumers to buy and buy again and buy again?

And it's very simple.

Create something that provides enough energy to be addictive and obviously your revenues go up.

It's neither here nor there,

I thought it was an interesting fact and I read it this weekend so I thought I would share it.

Another interesting thing was I was on vacation once and I was hungry and we were driving,

My wife and I,

We didn't have any food and I said I'm really hungry,

I want food.

And so she hands me a bottle of water and I said what am I supposed to do with this?

She's like eat the water.

And she was like totally serious.

I'm like why don't you eat the water,

This is going to make me more hungry.

She's like eat the water,

Meditate and chew it and eat it and you'll see it'll satiate you.

And then when you get hungry again,

Eat more water.

I don't know why I'm sharing that,

I thought that was a powerful concept.

We should give that context as well,

David's wife is a certified,

What are all her certifications?

She has a lot of certifications around food.

Health and nutrition and food world.

David,

A lot of the time,

Well first of all every episode David brings up a digestion metaphor for spirituality.

I don't learn this from God.

Subliminal selling.

Yes.

So but the validity of what David shares or the fact that he's interested in all these different consumer theories and approaches has to do with the other 50% of his life which is working around nutrition and supplements and health support with things we consume.

The colon fascinates me.

It never did until I got married but now all I think about is the colon.

Definitely the next topic.

Not just that,

Both of you brought up a really important thing that we actually did get a few questions about this week was about addictions around food and where do they come from and how do we circumvent those addictions because our higher self,

When we are in touch with that higher part of ourselves,

I think that being perceiving addiction,

It's almost an insult but yet at the same time we have those moments where we hope nobody's looking or I sneak that Diet Coke or the Coke for that matter and then I feel guilty about it and at the same time I'm trying to achieve this level of elevation and impact and influence but I'm hiding in my cubicle drinking a Diet Coke or whatever it is so I think we need to give a little bit of time and energy to something I don't know that anybody is exempt from is that need,

When the need overcomes our common sense and our higher self and our goals and everything we stand for the other 23 hours and 55 minutes of the day.

We want to give people practical solutions to curb and overcome any type of addictive behavior because that is where our correction is and that is where I spoke about this last night in a lecture.

It was about soulmates but people asked,

You know,

How do I find my soulmate?

It was the most common question.

I went around the crowd and I said what do you want to hear?

They said I want to know how to find my soulmate and I'm thinking well when a person starts to overcome their addictive behavior and patterns and their neediness for anything,

That's when they start to open up the gates of soulmates and sustenance and coming from the – are you looking at my salad?

I just wanted to point out David,

Up until I started talking this morning,

David was munching a very green salad in the studio with us.

And it's sitting here like open with a fork in it and we're all just like looking at it.

It's this awkward salad.

The fourth person on the podcast is David's salad today.

I feel like you put some headphones on it.

So going back to what we're talking about that as long as I have addictive behavior and one of the ones that came up in the night was one of the ladies shared that she's addicted to her parents' approval and that plays a big role in her life.

Doing everything for her parents.

That's a very high level of awareness by the way.

Most people who have that kind of addiction are not aware that they have an addiction to approval.

Right.

She came up with that after we did a workshop of that thing that we need to let go to let the soulmate in,

Soulmate energy.

And so she said that because she's doing everything from her parents' approval and she was Persian so more Middle Eastern culture has more of that what does my dad want from me?

What does my mom want from me?

So that is something that holds us back.

That is a form of addiction.

It's not a food addiction but any type of I need something from you is going to block you from fulfillment and the greater gifts of life.

I think a lot of us also are very checked out of our bodies.

And so as we become more and more disembodied so the body becomes our only,

We're the same from our souls right?

So the body becomes the kind of force of instant gratification.

And so food for me is an emotion that I'm eating.

And many people are compensating for something the soul needs with the body like a drug.

So if you were to kind of pause and not eat in the moment that food that you so crave what would be the emotion that you're compensating for?

And there's a whole list of potential things.

But I think on the back of that you've got to layer in discipline to your even your eating habits right?

I find that my slavery of food I can talk about with so much joy because I have over many years developed a very significant discipline in how I eat.

And that includes intermittent fasting.

It includes certain diets.

It includes certain foods that I cut out completely.

It includes what I will break my fast in the morning with.

It includes certain things that I allow myself.

I've been told not to eat meat right?

And I just won't listen to that.

I mean there are certain things you shouldn't listen to in life.

And don't surround yourself with such negative people.

Yeah.

No I ask why do I attract them?

Such negative people.

But it's interesting by the way about meat because eventually it says people will become vegetarian right?

Which is really scary to me.

The idea that have you spoken about this in your podcast?

It's a fascinating idea that people previously were vegetarian.

I think the Noah Flood thing was the beginning and then you know towards the end of time it says people will again become vegetarian.

And that if you're like me is utterly shocking and scary and something to kind of.

And all the Leos that are listening are like heck no.

Yeah.

You know there's no way.

But what's fascinating about that is really something which interests me because I'm such a carnivore is is I want meat so much because and only because there are sparks of light in that animal that I in my soul's journey need to elevate.

So sparks of my light sit in that meat for me to elevate.

And at some point when I've elevated all those sparks of light back to me from the reincarnation of animals which is a whole different topic.

But but once those sparks return to me due to me I will have no more desire for animal because the only thing I want is the light.

It was the spark of light in the animal.

It wasn't just the flesh even though it sounds very lovely perhaps not to everyone.

But but it's so interesting that that what I'm looking for or I need when I go to that kind of carnivorous hunger or quest which is pretty cravings is a big thing as well.

Why do we crave meat or sweets or cheese or I don't know a glass of wine.

Well definitely when it comes to meat.

The idea is there's a spark of light in that animal which is due to you.

And that's really what you desire.

It's not the meat because the second that spot returns to the meat song is undesirable best bite of the steak is the first bite.

So for me it just kind of continues.

Sounds like we're now saying two contradictory things.

We're now having a cooking.

This is a Food Network show instead of a podcast.

This is important because we're saying two things that seem like they're contradictory but they're not.

On one hand we're saying you know eat in moderation.

Restrict eating the wrong things.

And then we're saying oh but if you crave something it must mean that you have to elevate a spark of light from it.

So one hand we're saying curb your cravings curb your addictions.

But if you are addicted to something then you're meant to eat it.

So it sounds like a contradiction but it's not.

We know it's not.

How do you explain it in layman terms for everyone to find that perfect balance of I'm addicted to something.

I crave something which according to Marcus and we've spoken about this on a prior show it means I must eat it if I crave it because it wants to be revealed.

On the other hand what we're saying is oh you got to overcome your addictions.

Yeah well the study I've read focuses specifically and solely on animals.

It doesn't suggest that that chocolate gateau with that lava gateau gateau that that kind of lava that lava chocolate cake with the little vanilla ice cream that just melts into the middle and it kind of this this volcano right the volcano.

It doesn't suggest the lights necessarily in that lava cake.

It's specifically about me but but there is a difference right.

There's a difference in in in in in in the food that you crave.

You also make me think about the blessing that you do right because there has to be some restriction on on the food and it's so interesting.

What do you mean when you say there has to be some restriction.

Yeah you got to break that down for us Marcus.

So when you want something in life the first thing you have to ask yourself is what part of you wants it.

Is it really that your soul desires this or that your ego desires this right.

There are many things in life that are so healthy to do that you physically in the level of your ego will not want to do in fact much of your day can be disciplined around that.

How many things today did I do that I didn't want to do right.

So the question is what part of you is eating is your soul eating or is your body eating.

So for me even though I know we kind of steer away from being religious but it is so interesting around the idea of of a meditation before food because the idea of having a very scrumptious plate of something or the temptation of something sugary in front of you is then consumptive and you can't help but kind of almost dive into that food and you you haven't got as it as David said the chance to really chew or eat or masticate properly because you're just too excited by the consumption of and the palate is so much inhaling versus eating you inhale food.

Exactly.

You inhale food.

And and so the idea of a kind of pause before you eat to really engage your consciousness to say what part of me is eating.

Is it my soul or my body.

And so the structure of a prayer is not like God please bless this chicken I'm about to consume.

It really is that you're bringing light down from the upper worlds and there's a particular part of the prayer which which again I love.

It's when you say you know because the English translation is is blessed are you.

It sounds obviously very kind of dogmatic but it's not because the energy clue of each word is a point when you say king of the world as in you know the God that the greatest king of the world.

And that's the point the cabbage said when you're eating to decide what is king to you.

What is king to you.

Are you just doing this blessing so you can slam this food in your mouth and hell as fast as possible or is really the light in the food.

What's important to you.

What's king.

The food is king or the light in the food is king.

And that restriction to pause to contemplate and to elevate your desire so you can receive the light in the food is what is what can attach you to the light in the food.

So that's the concept of restriction I'm saying.

I like it.

I want to address the actual title of the show briefly.

And even though the truth is Marcus my the only notes that I had was literally this and and Marcus spoke about his own personal experience with it.

You shared through the last three episodes different principles and what we call spiritual laws around food and around eating even drinking last week we talked about.

But what the Kabbalists really emphasize is that you have to know yourself.

And like Marcus said he has somebody who's telling him Marcus meat is not good for you.

Yet Marcus rises above and finds a way to elevate those sparks regardless.

It's really the goal from the Kabbalistic point of view is for each one of us to have our own diet book.

Like if I know that I don't know if somebody is even asking here if if if eating animals repulses me what does that mean.

That means that you're not here in this lifetime to elevate those sparks.

Maybe you have a gift to elevate the vegetable kingdom or fish or that that's your superpower your talent.

The goal is to be as in touch enough with our true selves that we can write our own diet manual.

And when I say diet manual I don't mean that the goal is to lose weight.

The goal is to live in a balanced and healthful state.

That's it spiritually balanced and healthful physically balanced and healthful emotionally balanced and healthful.

I know someone just to that point that doesn't eat gluten not because it messes with her digestion or she breaks out in hives but because it makes her anxious.

Now think about how in tune you have to be with your body to recognize I just had a croissant and now I'm having a panic attack.

Not rather than thinking the conditions in my life induced the panic attack or the issue that so and so is having is is awakening the panic.

It's actually the gluten.

So in my years and we talked a little bit about this last week in my years of trying to lose weight and be the optimum me I can be I have tried literally every diet literally that will maybe not every diet but everything from raw to vegan to keto to intermittent fasting to all carbs to no carbs to the cookie diet to this and everything illegal and in between.

OK.

What are the illegal ones?

I have smuggled pills in from other countries.

OK and done things that I am not proud of.

And I can tell you that let my research be your research.

The secret and how much money you imagine how much money over my X amount of years that I've been trying to do this.

How much money I've spent.

Let my expense be your expense.

Learn from my mistakes.

You have your own diet and you've got to figure out what works for you and what doesn't work for you and using that wisdom around the energy and around elevating sparks and the blessings and the figure out what is your what's your meal plan.

What sustains you what nourishes you.

And if it includes chocolate and if it includes wine and if it includes the steak that's OK because doing it and treating it like it's not OK is like taking poison.

It will inhibit your what's the word absorption of any positive benefit you could get from those foods and that those habits you could be eating salad 24 7.

And if you feel bad about it it will not help.

It will not support your health in any way shape or form.

So really the the these if you will if you look across every episode we've ever done the underlying message of every episode is always the unseen is more important than the scene that the consciousness is more important than the action the intention is more important than the result.

And eating food and nutrition is no different than and if you are getting healthy because someone wants you to lose weight there's a problem.

The real work is the inner work.

That's that's something that no one else can see including you.

You don't see it but you feel it.

And that's really where the shift comes.

It's more important.

Somebody was commenting last week in the episode.

You know weight is not a good measurement of health.

It's true.

There are people who are you know perfect body weight and desperately unhealthy and there are people who are heavy that are in the prime health possible.

So we're not talking about certain measurements or sizes.

We're talking about losing the spiritual baggage will help you be healthier physically.

That's really it.

I love it.

Final words?

I thought I'd get some food with this show at least.

On the way home we'll stop off for ice cream.

How's that?

No I think I think for me that the spiritual weight loss is is is is profound.

In fact we haven't even got to talk about food.

Maybe.

Because the subject of spiritual weight loss also pertains to baggage of unresolved pasts which I think then emotionally come out as food addicty things.

That's a whole separate subject.

But there is something to that.

It's a baggage of unresolved past that you're eating to deny.

I like it.

Cliffhanger.

Cliffhanger.

That's good.

Well first of all Marcus thank you so much for being with us.

You're a diamond among us Pisces.

So we're glad to have you.

Always glad to have you.

All of your episodes are very highly rated and listened to.

David Salid thank you for being here being the inspiration of the episode.

We are embarking on a new series next week launching into talking about how our home how our physical space where we where we hang our hat at the end of the day how to make that space the most spiritual powerful and positive environment it can be.

So get ready for that.

Keep sending your questions.

I love all of the feedback that we've been getting it definitely helps us plan and prepare for future episodes and as always continue to like rate review and comment.

Have a fabulous week.

Enjoy your food and we'll see you next week on the Weekly Energy Boost.