Food, color, and Chakra. All intermingle with the word energy. The food we eat brighten us than just calories, but also an energy level that contributes to our mood, mindset, and thoughts. Ancient medicine refers to these energy center as chakra and modern medicine as our endocrine system. Dr. Deena Minich teaches us on to use color in our food choice to balance our mind and emotions. What if the solution is to eat the energy we want to become? Chakra Chakra is derived from Sanskrit and essentially means "wheel." It relates back to Ayurvedic medicine and many mystical East Indian traditions in which they noticed that there were a lot of activities in the body in certain places. If you look in Western medicine, you would see that the Chakra system is very much aligned with the neuroendocrine system. We've got the Root Chakra or the Adrenal gland, the place of fleeing or being frightened. Then, the Sacral Chakra which is all about reproduction that is the ovaries and testes. The Solar Plexus Chakra is the pancreas which is an endocrine organ that fuses out a lot of enzymes that help us digest and transform. Another one, the Heart Chakra which is connected to the thymus. The Throat Chaka is connected to the thyroid gland. Then, we have the Third Eye Chakra which is the pituitary gland which hangs in the middle of the head. We also have a small gland called the pineal gland which I associate with the Crown Chakra. It's the center of light and how our body regulates light in the finer energies of the day, of the seasons, of the planet. Dr. Deanna Minich calls them the 7 systems of health. Color When people eat a certain way, it separates them from other people. Diets seem to be dividing. They are not unifying. What is unifying no matter what our eating preference is? Color is a unifying force. Color is creativity. It's around us and serves as an environmental stimulus. It impacts our physiology and psychology. Color is physical and psychological. It's powerful and has the ability to change people's patterns. Hence, if we eat food of different colors, our different bodily systems will catch on with the vibration of that color and feel better as well. Last week's episode, Jamie Lerner taught us how to reinvent ourselves by changing our storyline to change our lives. I suggest you check it out! You can listen to the episode here . Be sure to check back every Sunday and Thursday for a new episode, and head over to iTunes   to subscribe so we can freshly deliver new episode directly to your device every time we release a new episode. If you enjoy the show and would love to encourage and support my work leave me an honest review using this link, click here  . For a podcaster like me, reviews are like fuel... I would appreciate hearing from you more than I could possibly say! Here's a quick tutorial on " How to leave a review   "! Links mentioned in this episode : Advance nutrition course : http://deannaminich.com/rainbow-foods-supplements/ The Rainbow Diet Book: http://deannaminich.com/meet-deanna/the-rainbow-diet/ Going Beyond the Food Academy: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/academy/ How you can reach Stephanie: Website: http://www.stephaniedodier.com/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/StephanieDodiernutrition Instagram: https://instagram.com/stephdodier/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/stephaniedodier Email: info@stephaniedodier.com Got a question for Stephanie you'd like her to answer, or just want to join our community of women? Our free and private community: http://www.stephaniedodier.com/community Sponsor Going Beyond the Food Academy End Food Obsession ***For you r information - some links above may be my affiliate links, which means I get a small commission if you click on it and make a purchase. Doing so will NOT entail any additional cost to you, but will help me tremendously. Your support is SO greatly appreciated, so thank you in advance if you choose to do so***