Consumption.

What goes into our bodies through our mouths has a direct impact on every area of our life.

We are conscious of the ways food and drink impact what size our body is and how much it weighs.

However, we often forget that also impacted by our food and drink consumption is everything from how our belly feels to how our brain works.

We forget that our energy and even how we perceive the world around us corresponds to what we have consumed. Even the current mood we are in is directly related to what we have fed ourselves.

Also forgotten or dismissed, is how our consumption of non-food related material through our eyes and ears impacts all of the above. Yikes! I know it is a frightening consideration. Yes, the news we consume, the social media we expose ourselves to, the text messages we read, the emails we open, the videos we watch - all of this material we feed on impacts every fiber of our being.

In any given moment our phone is available, we could read a news alert that makes our heart race, we could see a social media post that makes our stomach hurt, we could review an email that immediately takes our cheerful mood to one of distress because of the message contained within it.

The other piece of this realization is that every human you interact with on a day to day basis has most likely just consumed something. They may have just read a social media post that was a gut punch or they may have just seen some news that took their breath away. And you, the human they are interacting with now in this moment, has no idea what they have just consumed.

I wrote this today to remind myself of all of the above. Let’s give effusive grace to each other and to ourselves. Remember you and I are delicate beings. You never know what someone has just read, seen, heard or taken it. Breathe deeply and have grace. We all need it.