Where I’ve Been: A Note from My Heart to Yours

Dear Readers,

You may have noticed it’s been quiet here for the past two months—and I want to take a moment to explain why.

Sometimes, the most important work happens off the page—deep within. These past two months have been a season of recalibration for me: emotionally, energetically, and spiritually. As someone who teaches about Body Balance and conscious living, I found myself embodying those very teachings more deeply.

I stepped back to realign—to nourish my own nervous system, plant a Spring garden, create and listen to spiritual guidance on what was truly needed next. This included launching Urban Yoga Wear pop up store. I’ve designed unique collections. I can customize something special for you, too. See them here:  https://urban-yoga-wear.printify.me/

I also reworked some of my offerings, refined my wellness manuals and guides, and grounded new ideas that will serve you more powerfully. I re-envisioned my book (“BODY BALANCE: Simple Chef Creations Healthy Life Recipes for Cellular Detox, Immune Building, Weight Release & Lifestyle Maintenance) into a group to serve more deeply. I launched a sacred online space—my new Facebook group, Body Balance: The Nourished Self Collective—where we explore emotional nourishment, food energetics, detox, and spiritual embodiment. If you’re seeking aligned community and deeper support, I warmly invite you to join us there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodybalancecollective

And for those ready for deeper healing, I’m reopening space for 2–3 private clients who feel called to begin a Regenerative Detox Journey with me. This is deep, personal work—tailored for those who are ready to release old layers and restore balance at the root.

If that resonates with you, I encourage you to reach out. The body knows when it’s time.

Thank you for your patience, your trust, and for walking this path with me.

New posts, tools, and teachings are on their way—rooted in integrity and the same multidimensional wellness you come here for.

In Lighted Companionship
Alisa Battaglia
Founder, Integral Life Wellness

Detoxing the Divine Feminine to Birth a “Diamond” Soul

The Divine Mother is the primal creative vibration, usually denoted by the word “Aum” or “Amen.” Therefore for St. John to say, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,” is literally true.  Since the Mother is the core of all avatars, the Word has indeed been made flesh.” 
~Paramahansa Yogananda

 

Women are vessels of pure creational energy. Her womb is a portal for life force to pass through, a vortex that opens to different realms existing within her.  Whether the life force is birthing an infant into the earthen realm, mothering another’s child or an etheric gestation of a creative project to be birthed into manifestation (not every mother has a child), the womb is a creation space in alignment with the spiritual and denser vibrational frequency of 3D matter.  The purpose, however, of this article is for women to prepare her body for new life, rather than gestate a new project, although in a similar way to such, requires a similar process in the commitment of steady care until birth and the next 21 years and sometimes longer.

As such, there are things to understand and take into consideration before she begins her love practice. The first being that, her body is her Temple and that her womb is a gateway and holder of genetic memory. It is both an exit from where the incoming soul life originates and an entryway onto the earthen plane whereupon the soul life mission begins. This great gift of creation descends from the “Divine Mother.” Her sacred lineage passed down through the womb of the female body onto the earth plane into the protective hands and guardian heart of the mother-to-be and stewarded by the Wisdom of Nature, the gateway of Spirit descended into matter – the interface between realities.

The innocence of Children reminds me of what is most precious in the world – the good, the beautiful, and the true. All incoming human souls seek to experience being fully expressed in what they know is true to them, what they were born into the world to accomplish during a particular incarnational phase in humanities collective and Kosmic evolution. While many mature souls perhaps of a distant star are waiting to descend, some are new and have never been to Terra. These incoming souls are preparing and purposely weaving their heightened spiritual consciousness into the planetary creation at precise co-ordinates in universal time and space. These pure souls are arriving at the edge of evolution, aligned with divine purpose and a sense of responsibility to uplift humanity in a truthful, coherent, transparent, free, loving and connected way with a profound wisdom to enlighten our world. Incoming Diamond souls and Diamond children are birthing a consciousness on this planet that has not existed here before. A Diamond child is the future and thus, the extension of creation begins long before birth.

These souls require preparation for their embodiment and evolutionary role and function in the world and yet, there is a great shortage of aware healthy female bodies whose vibrations are high enough to physically accommodate and mother these beautiful souls in alignment with their special mission for humanity.  Women have always held great responsibility as vessels for future progeny of our collective planetary future, but today she is taught to forget herself and her power and instead degenerates and sterilizes herself with acts of hatred.  The feminine is the way shower of the divine in flesh as bearer of life and therefore, gifted the ability to grow a human body inside her. From this space of listening to the needs of the incoming soul for immaculate cells, adults must detoxify physically and emotionally align to shift perception in order to be the parents of this next wave of children with exceptional abilities at the precipice of human evolution.

The ancestral lineages meet to change the identity of humanity, one quantum leap at a time, with each new wave of incoming souls.  Millennial’s are the next lineage of the Divine Feminine to anchor the incoming wave of the new “Diamond” children arriving on Terra firma since 2010 until the year 2025.  Thus, my privilege is to pass on the knowledge overlighted with the Divine Mother to Midwife the Millennial Feminine for this stage of incoming souls by helping to prepare her vessel to birth a healthy child and to understand the energy stamp of the “Diamond light” of this new generation. To recognize the new language, advanced cognitive abilities, heightened empathy, and emotional intensity, behaviors, and curiosities that arrive with them and to help them grow into the fullness of self as they implant a new template of existence or new blueprint for humanity.

It is only in your ability to love, support, nourish, and feed the cells of your child that you can foster those avataristic qualities and meet this soul at its own level.  It takes willingness and courage to change your perspective and outlook on life beyond your own story and self-limiting beliefs, self-imposed boundaries, collective realities and belief system beyond the weave of the old world patriarchal his-story and woke paradigm of parenting, teaching, and healing.  Unconscious parenting that adheres to a dysfunctional blueprint of living can invert a child’s polarity to malcontent, selfishness, unfeeling, and warring behaviors of the old outmoded ways.  

“We live on a Feminine planet overtaken by the evils of misguided principles and inversive realities that make it difficult to discern truth from falsehood. The feminine has averted her authenticity and opened her mouth to spoon-fed lies on how to live in a distorted value system of a toxic patriarchy. She is told what to eat, drink, think, feel, say, do, and how to look and dress in order to be acceptable to the comparison values of a fake reality that has little to do with essence. Too many women have lost her authenticity and traded her feminine identity in usurpation of male goals and masculine identity. She is the goddess who has forgotten herself, how to love her body, and to energetically move forward with her own gifts to share in the world.  She is bottled up with unexpressed desires and unfreed emotions ensnared in a linear paradigm of narcissist masculine influence. Sexually speaking, she gives her love away on a plate with hook-ups. She aligns with the masculine model of human sexuality and while she espouses the virtues of the feminist, she focuses on the superfluous ideation of the masculine – breast size and what sexy is to look like for male attention.  The feminine has lost sight of her power, her true self as guardian and protector of the natural essence of life – always the virtuous, the good, the beautiful, and the true.”

Woman! Take your power back! Unconscious living at every level produces unconscious creation that underlies a spiritually vacant disconnection in the relationship between the spirit of a child and the soul of Mama, you.  When you deeply connect to yourself as a woman and the feminine source of creative power, you take seize of your life so that love fills you and runneth over for those you love and the world at large. A healthy body, healthy mind, healthy expression and healthy love provide the energy necessary for new territory and emotional terrain to run with your little one at their pace and capacity, together as family, creating a new fabric of existence. They need you to fly with them and will give you the wings to do so in the terrain of this new pedagogy.  

“Pre-Conception detoxification provides a celestial vessel for incoming high vibration Souls to reach the goals they developed for earthly incarnation.” 

Love yourself enough to prepare to assure that the gift of life does not become a burden of lifetime care and lost potentiality trapped in a sick body. Your awareness, your choices and health directly influences the outcome of your future baby’s health long before you get pregnant. Rolling the dice on both your futures is like playing Russian roulette, a no win in today’s toxic world. Conception and fetal development are a fragile seeding. The life seed from you and your partner must have healthy integrity for the highest and best outcomes to protect your baby from allergies, eczema, asthma, depression, gut problems, autoimmune disease, diabetes, heart disease, and even autism. Earth and all sentient life are saturated with manufactured chemicals in an event unlike anything in planetary her-story.

Half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, so there is no forethought to cleansing the body. Unconscious procreation produces deleterious effects. Research reveals that toxic burden degrades sperm count and the ability to get pregnant.

“Pesticides, hormone-disrupting chemicals, stress, smoking and obesity are seen as causes, along with too much alcohol, caffeine and processed meat. The chemicals include some used to make plastics flexible and furniture flame-retardant – which can enter the food chain via plants or animals. Experts also blame increases in testicular cancer, the number of boys born with one or both testicles missing, and changing testosterone levels.”

Twenty to 30 percent of infertile couples discover fertility factors on the male side. With male sperm quality, reducing 2% every year the findings are cause for alarm at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. A landmark study last year showed a 59% cut in Western sperm counts from 1973 to 2011. Another 40 percent find infertility factors on both sides. The integrity and quality of sperm are as important for healthy conception and fetal development as is a woman’s body. Detoxification is best as a joint effort of self-care to co-create with cellular purity for the healthiest offspring and lifestyle choices that will serve you and your family for the rest of your lives.

Children inherit the mother’s lymphatic system. You need only look to your mother and grandmother to see what you have inherited and so on for your child.  The state of your lymphatic system preconception sets the stage for your child’s immunity and indicators for early health problems.  Each successive generation gets genetically weaker and today’s health span has decreased by 20 years due to the cells toxic accumulation of heavy metals such as lead, mercury and aluminum, glyphosate, atrazine, herbicides, vaccines, etc.  Infertility rates, miscarriages, premature death, birth defects, and serious delayed onset conditions are due to heavy metals and toxicity through maternal-fetal transfer. Your baby gets more than just your genes. They receive a constant toxic streaming download of the body burden of chemicals accumulated throughout your life and exposed to in pregnancy.

Pregnancy itself increases the mobilization of a number of stored chemicals and heavy metals, for example, lead and mercury, PCBs and dioxins, pesticides, drugs, cigarettes and alcohol all cross the placenta to the developing baby through umbilical cord blood and through breast-feeding. Both are dramatically more harmful than exposures later in life. In fact,studies show that of the 287 chemicals detected in umbilical cord blood, 180 cause cancer in humans and animals, 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests.

The umbilical cord is a lifeline between you and your developing baby that carries not only the building blocks of life, but also your toxic body burden. Heavy metals and toxicity are the cause of infertility, miscarriage, premature death, birth defects, and serious delayed onset conditions after birth. Miscarriages are devastating and traumatic when the incoming soul is the tomorrow you dream about.  With loss, each subsequent conception becomes a seat of deep fear. Understand that infertility and miscarriage is information about the health of your body. New growth is fragile to its host environment. Body function is how your body communicates with you. Are you listening?

Concerns about the hazards of pre-pregnancy and prenatal exposure to the health of baby-to-be are legitimate. It is important to be aware of very real possibilities so you can mitigate it.

  • The more overweight you are, the more likely you are to have pregnancy complications, but there are things you can do before pregnancy to help you have a healthy baby. 
             
  • Balancing your gut flora starts long before pregnancy. A baby’s gut flora is determined by age three, with most of it from your gut flora, a vaginal birth, and breast-feeding producing immunity. When passing through your birth canal your microbiome inoculates your infant. Microbes and the baby’s developing thymus are the first line of defense and future immunity. Microbiome is a crucial part of health adversely affected by C-section and bottle-feeding creating gut dysbiosis linked to specific diseases.

  • Carrying a baby will take everything from your body. Your thyroid needs to be optimum since pregnancy affects its function in the rise of hormones and the fall of them rapidly after giving birth. Risk of depression is particularly high for women during the prenatal period where you feel extreme sadness, severe anxiety, and hopelessness. If you are hypothyroid, the same antibodies that cause underactive thyroid can cause birth defects. You also want your blood to be in pH balance to breast feed your newborn for super immunity in the development of both gut and brain microbiome. Colostrum and breast milk must have a pH of 7.4, which is alkaline, the same pH as the blood flowing through your body. The composition of breast milk is affected by what is in your circulatory system. Because the composition of your milk determines the composition of your blood, in order for your milk to become more acidic, your blood must be more acidic as well.Acidic breast milk can cause your baby to become sensitive to allergens or the byproducts of digested food in your bloodstream. Cow milk is a detrimental substitute since it has a pH below 7.0, thus making dairy an acid food producing mucus and inflammation in the body leading to ear, sinus and respiratory infections and is thus, not for human consumption. Sea moss gel drink in a bottle has been used as a mineral rich substitute for milk.
  • Research has proven that cord and fetal blood have higher levels of heavy metals and toxicity than does the mother’s own body blood at the time of the baby’s birth. Heavy metals are what give tattoo ink color.
  • The developing nervous system of the fetus is highly sensitive to mercury toxicity. Mercury causes birth defects such as cleft palate, cerebral palsy, microcephaly, kidney disease, mental disabilities, brain damage, dysfunctional nervous system, vision/hearing problems and more. Mercury is also in tattoos.

  • Lead toxicity is related to premature birth, low birth weight, gestational hypertension, skin birth defects, neurological disorders, undescended testicles in boys and other conditions that are not pattern specific. Lead is also in tattoos.

  • Endocrine disruptors (xenoestrogens), chemical compounds permeate our environment affecting the way hormones function in the body influencing the critical steps of hormonal, neurological, and immunological development, majorly impacting a fetus still in the process of sexual differentiation and development. The rate of birth defects of the sexual organs of babies, particularly boys, have increased dramatically in recent years. Half of newborns tested were exposed to these endocrine disrupters. Male babies are being chemically castrated and feminized via endocrine disrupters creating sexual developmental confusion.  

  • Metalloestrogens are an entirely new class of metal-based endocrine disrupters that cause cancer include aluminum, antimony, arsenite, barium, cadmium, chromium (Cr(II)), cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenite, tin and vanadate. Aluminum has also been measured in human breast tissues and breast cyst fluids at levels above those found in blood serum or milk. 

Substantial scientific evidence demonstrates that children face amplified risks from your body burden of pollution increasing genetic and metabolic events that will continue to pay forward throughout your child’s life.  Autism and associated spectrum disorders are endemic. Between 2012-2015 autistic rates doubled. Today (2018), One in twenty six children born are Autistic.  In just sixteen years (2032), nearly all children will be affected. That is one in three children will have autism. These statistics are chilling implications for the human species. This is real! Are you listening?

Children are sicker across the board. Environmental health studies reveal that environmental toxins are playing a role in the incidence and alarming rates of allergies, food intolerance, food allergies, gut dysbiosis, asthma, eczema, autism, auditory and visual processing disorders, ADHD, mood and mental health issues, behavior and neurocognitive issues, autoimmunity, obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, cancer and other health conditions largely due to chemical exposures.   

The Blessings of Nature offer solutions to regenerate cellular memory through lymphatic and cellular detoxification using a raw plant based diet, herbs, chelators, and conscious lifestyle changes.

  • The Lymph is the “House” of the immune system and the battlefield of the “good vs. the bad.” It serves as both the police force and part of the body’s septic system.
  • Environmental toxicants from industrial chemicals, herbicide glyphosate, estrogen mimicking chemicals, and heavy metals in food, air, water, and soil along with a processed food diet produce a heavy toxic burden in the body creating inflammation and acidosis of the lymph and organ systems. 
  • Toxins store in lymph nodes, breast tissue, and fat causing cellular constipation. Interstitial lymphatic congestion or acidosis is often overlooked until symptoms appear such as sinus, ear, eye, and lung infections, thrush and Candida, eczema, acne, dandruff and skin issues, viruses and parasites, weight gain, constipation and bloating, PMS, hormone imbalances and chronic disease take hold from inflammation aka acidosis. Drugs only suppress the effects, only making them worse in the end while never eliminating the cause.

While many women assume they are healthy despite that their periods are irregular or heavy, and have terrible PMS, get headaches, a distended belly, acne, mood swings, are constipated, feel depressed and have a hard time sleeping all of which they believe has nothing to do with the health of a growing fetus.  This is either self denial or wishful thinking! If you are planning to get pregnant soon or even far in the future get healthy now, regulate your hormones, remove heavy metals, environmental toxins and inflammation from your body. Forgo processed foods from your diet to ensure natural capacity to conceive and carry a baby to term.  

Many health problems develop before birth due to toxic exposure while in the womb through fetal transfer.  There are things you can do to mitigate the toxic burden that is passed on to your baby by you! Invest a year or two to cleanse your body with healthy lifestyle changes.  This may seem like a long time, but vibrant health and your new lifestyle will create the safest environment for your baby to grow and develop, while providing you the energy to do so. A safe environment that fosters life, health, and well-being for you will also provide healthy patterns of body and mind for the unfoldment of your Diamond child’s incarnational life and mission.

A NOTE ON TATTOOS

With tattoos making it to mainstream society one is hard pressed to take a walk on the street and not see several people sporting leg tats or arm sleeves. Not to mention all the tattooed bodies you see on the beach! Tattoo art, however comes at a steep price, since the ink is made of heavy metals. Heavy metals are highly toxic. Two of the leading tattoo ink manufacturers have warning labels on their product containers, catalogs and websites explaining that “inks contain many heavy metals, including lead, cadmium or iron oxide, antimony, beryllium, chromium, cobalt nickel and arsenic” and that the ingredients have been linked to cancer and birth defects. 

Heavy metals give tattoos “permanence” in the skin and known to cause long-lasting allergic reactions, eczema, permanent scarring, and more serious tattoo-induced skin disorders like sarcoidosis, lichen planis and lupus-like reactions. There are also many reports of sensitivity springing up after years of getting a first tattoo including neurological problems.  In addition, sensitivity to mercury from other sources such as dental fillings or consuming some fish, and reaction to magnetic resonance imaging causing MRI-induced burns inside metal-based ink tattoos attribute to the iron compounds in tattoo pigments. Furthermore, misdiagnoses of cancer in the lymph nodes found containing heavy metals in tattoo ink after removal. (Tattoo Ink Within Lymph Nodes: A Possible Clinical Mimicker of Abnormal Calcifications and 2015 report in the journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology).

American Red Cross restricts blood donations from individuals with newer tattoos done outside a regulated tattoo facility. The long term risks of heavy metals injected into your skin, the body’s largest organ found that “tattoo exposure is associated with HCV (hepatitis C virus) infection, which is 10 time more infectious than HIV even among those without traditional risk factors. All patients who have tattoos are considered a higher risk for HCV infection and other infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, mycobacterium, syphilis, malaria, HIV or even leprosy and life threatening “Staph” skin infections.  (Hepatology Study).

Pointing out the obvious that pregnant women should steer clear of the tattooing process before, during pregnancy and until after breastfeeding in order to eliminate the risk of HIV or Hepatitis B infection and the torture of your baby that feels the tattoo process. Remember that your baby is a part of everything you think, feel, say, and do. You are one. Be kind to yourself.   

With Heart,
Alisa Battaglia
Regenerative Detoxification Specialist

To schedule an Appointment: AlisaBattaglia8@Outlook.com

Alisa Battaglia©2018-2024

Biophotonic Nutrition ~ The Benefits of Eating Raw

By Alisa Battaglia

The study of light’s interaction with biological material is ‘Biophotonics,’ which relates to the understanding of nutrition and vital body processes. Biophotonic nutrition is concerned with the capacity to absorb and store light information in the cell radiated by the sun through the skin and the consumption of raw foods.

The ultimate biological nutrient is sunlight. Without the sun, there is no life and without light, there is no health!

The light energy from the sun is stored in the DNA during photosynthesis and continuously transmitted by the cell. The cells of living organisms emit low-level light waves or luminescence (light with a wavelength between 200 and 800 nanometers). The higher the gradient of light energy a cell emits greater is the vitality and potential for transfer of that energy when consumed.

Dr Norman Cousens cites in “Creating Peace by Being Peace” the biophoton readings of people on sharply varying diets. The average reading of a person eating live or raw wild foods was about 83,000 units, while a person eating a junk food diet only had a reading of roughly 1,000 units of biophotonic radiation. It should be of great interest to learn that increased biophotons in food have the power to order and regulate cells in that it can elevate an organism to a higher oscillation or order of vibration manifesting as a feeling of vitality and mental well-being. This is why eating naturally locally grown fresh sun-ripened fruits and vegetables rich in light energy or biophotons possess energizing and healing properties. 

Since biophotons are light infused living foods that carry electric light codes from the sun that hydrate and nourish the body-mind at all the levels, you will notice significant improvements in your health and energy when you increase the amounts of living raw foods in your diet, especially vegetables. Most vegetables have very low carbohydrate levels that minimally disturb insulin metabolism.

Sunlight is a biological nutrient whose energy of life force is stored in living food (structured water) making fruit the highest vibrational food that has the capacity to regenerate cells. To get the higher-level energy biophotons, eat a diet rich in fiber – raw organic ripe fruits and vegetables freshly picked ideally from your own organic garden or farmers market. The key to maximizing the biophotonic value in wild plant and organically grown foods is eating them raw and soon after harvest, preferably within two or three hours, as the life force measured in units called angstroms, increasingly diminishes after harvest.

Eating foods in their natural state is a great way to detox the body, boost digestion, decrease inflammation, fight chronic disease, and lose unwanted pounds. 

Starting the CARE WELLNESS CELLULAR HEALTH PROGRAM with me is an excellent way to take control of your health and your life!

In the meantime, here are Some tips on incorporating raw foods into your diet:

  • Start slowly if you are going raw and swap out one regular meal a day for a raw food meal. The transition into a raw food diet will helps build healthy gut microbiome.
  • Eat the Rainbow in every meal. Example: Salad greens, red peppers, cucumbers, carrots, yellow beets and radishes and so on to create a colorful nutrient rich meal.
  • Consume your fruits and vegetables in your body temperature range. The ideal is 4 degrees upward or 4 degrees below.
  • Digestion starts in your mouth. Chew your food until it is broken down in your mouth and then swallow. Also, chew your smoothie.
  • Get adequate sunlight, which sets the body’s circadian rhythm that is the true governor of brain-gut health. The function of your entire metabolism is dependent on light

Snippets from my Book soon to be published called

BODY BALANCE
Simple Chef Creations Healthy Life Recipes

© 2020-2021, Alisa Battaglia

Cravings ~ Part 2

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Does this Sound Familiar?

After several rounds of eating your favorite dessert question, “What is causing this to happen’ & “Why do I want this right now?” Pondering these questions en route to the fridge, pantry, special drawer, or better, as you’re entertaining it – will surprise you to learn your answers to these questions.

The key to releasing cravings is to recognize them as they arise. Attention placed on the current emotional state automatically sets up an interruption of the pattern. The interruption is “noticing” the craving. Craving a particular food is an indication that your body already has too much of it. It indicates imbalance in the body, which can lead to food allergy. Sugar, caffeine, carbohydrates, meat, and dairy all affect mood and only lead to health problems in the end so, try not to indulge in negative cravings, as they will always spiral out of control.

Cravings come from the unconscious. They’re patterns that we’re used to and do not think much about because they provide comfort. We all have a need for immediate satisfaction, to seek after the pleasure principle, whose innate response urges us to insulate our true feelings with something – whether with food, drugs, alcohol, sex, shopping, gambling, gaming, or whatever. Whatever one’s delight, it is meant to dissipate physical tension, at least temporarily to soften the edges.

Cravings offer a positive side, too. It’s the way the body sends us messages to maintain balance, to refuel our energy or lift our moods. For instance, the body may require Vitamin C to help heal a cold. Desiring an orange or citrus would be a result of a good craving and positive habit to reach for an orange. Body wisdom is working by sending us messages to maintain balance. Yet, if we ignore these messages for any prolonged period to find equilibrium, the more we get out of control and suffer the negative repercussions of our faulty habits and unresolved emotional cravings.

Learning to listen to the needs of the body is essential, as are the responses we get from eating food that causes symptoms (gas, indigestion, acid reflux, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, skin problems, bad breath, headaches, achy joints, etc). So, whenever the body is craving something, pause for a moment and wonder, “What’s really going on here?” “Is this craving coming from my body or my emotions?”

When we find ourselves impulsively reaching for some food, take a moment to slow down, breathe, and reevaluate the situation and consider what your heart and Soul are really asking for. Remember that the pause alone sets up an interruption to the behavior to overcome the craving. The choice is yours. We may choose to honor our bodies needs with Love or to hop onto the vicious cycle of negative pattern repetition where dissatisfaction, self-loathing, and low esteem await claim.

The point of focus is to look for food imbalances, emotional deficits and behaviors in your life that are often the underlying cause of cravings. Many times what we think are emotional cravings are cravings caused by nutritional imbalances that affect emotion, and vice-versa.

To help move through the emotional impulses and understand the why. I have the tools to help you.  Schedule an appointment to bring balance and well-being into your life.

Alisa Battaglia©2009-2018

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Negative Emotions & Food – Part 1

Every moment of every day your thoughts – all the endless chattering inside your head are manifesting themselves as your reality. If your internal voice is a monologue that constantly criticizes your every move as a failure, you will fail. ~The Intention 

What we put in our mind is as important as what we put in our mouths, just as the exercise of our mind is as important as the exercise of our bodies. This makes sense, as the body-mind is one system where every thought creates a biological reaction in the body. In fact, life-negating thoughts are infectious and have a powerful negative effect on the healing system of the body. For instance, if our thoughts are filled with fear, guilt, anger, depression, or anxiety we often necessitate a physical compensation of eating comfort foods to return some sense of balance despite the physical consequences. Over time these compensating eating behaviors become fixed in the unconscious mind, thereby turning this process into uncontrollable cravings that creates destructive patterns in our lives. Negative emotions acidify the blood – a precursor to dis-ease states.

In my own process to wellness over a span of over two decades, I discovered that there was a direct link between my emotions and food cravings. That the food I ate was only one source of energy – a secondary source of energy in my life because it was secondary to the primary sustenance that comes from feeling good in my body from movement, having healthy happy relationships, a fulfilling vocation, creative outlets and most importantly a spiritual practice.

The quality of my life in all areas directly affected my thoughts and feelings, which were closely linked to what I would eat and drink. When I was bothered by something I gave up a wholesome meal for a small box of chocolates – an impulse buy at the checkout counter. I used food as a way to insulate my pain. I have always exercised and have never been overweight, but assuredly, if I had not worked on my emotional eating patterns and discovered a correction between my negative mood states and the effects certain food had on my physiology, I very well could be. I found, however, that it was not so much about weight, but developing body wisdom and affirming attitude towards life. This important distinction between what primary food and secondary food is makes or breaks quality of life.

No doubt, the kinds of food we eat are essential to our health. The food we digest is assimilated into our bodies and transforms food and nutrients into blood. The bloodstream picks up nutrients from sunlight infused food, the digestive tract, oxygen from the lungs, hormones from the endocrine glands and enzymes from other parts of the body, and transports to all tissues, structures head to toe. It also picks up wastes and transports to the lungs, liver, kidneys, lymph system, etc. for detoxification and eventual elimination. Blood builds, fuels, cleanses, moistens, cools and warms all structure and function.” The energy output of our food that creates our cells, new tissues, organs, skin and hair is a factor held within the pH (acid/Alkaline) balance of our blood directly linked by food and negative emotion.

Most people consider food the only aspect of nutrition, but I discovered that when I was nourished on a deeper level that my body would shift into an intuitive eating pattern. For instance, when I was grounded in my body, I noticed that it would tell me what it needed to feel nourished. When I did not observe my body’s wisdom and ate something other, I often got a stomach ache. This became a trial and error process of what to eat and when to eat. I also discovered that the body self-regulates. Self-regulation—the inner wisdom of my body, lets me know through healthy food cravings that I need to eat more raw food, protein, fruit or vegetables nutrition, and so on. For instance, if I have a craving for salt or sugar, I take note of my monthly biorhythm & what may be temporarily out of balance due to hormone fluctuation of nutrition imbalances. I then seek to fulfill that craving in a healthy way.I find that eating a large tablespoon or two of thick raw honey readily satisfies a desire for sweetness or raw 88% cacao chocolate increasing serotonin the brain.

To activate the body’s self-regulation it is essential to eat when our bodies are hungry and not according to the dictates of the clock.  Self-regulation requires that we no longer ingest toxic foods, sugars and high fructose corn syrup, transfats, chemical additives and highly addictive substances.

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