Michelle’s responses above contain a lot of good advice on the subject. The “human energy field” is like the energetic interface between the mind and body. As Michelle points out, it’s affected by numerous factors — your beliefs and thought patterns, emotions, physical health, environment, relationships with other people, and yes, even diet. It’s just been my experience, after 15 years of working with different types of energy modalities, that a week of changing your diet isn’t going to change your energy field over the long term, not unless it’s accompanied by some kind of major psychic shock or trauma. As in other areas of life, effective “quick fixes” are hard to come by. A healthy, balanced diet, accompanied by regular exercise, is still everyone’s best bet for health, longevity and vitality.

But if you’re interested in exploring more on the subject, I’ve got a shelf of books on auras, chakras, energy fields and the like. Somewhere around here I’ve even got a copy of recordings from Rosalyn Bruyere’s work on the human energy field at UCLA. Next time you stop by, you can take a look (or a listen) .

Good luck!

You might also want to consider researching Macrobiotics. I enjoyed it when I did it, and it’s actually quite inexpensive to eat macrobiotically. My food bill was cut in half when I ate macrobiotic foods. In a nutshell, you basically eat food that leans toward the center between yin and yang to balance your body. Eating the extremes tends to create worse cravings. When I ate that way, I felt a lot better, my cravings subsided, and I felt a lot more balanced and nutrionally sound. I quit doing it because I had to cook so much, and frankly, I hate cooking for one person. But you can start slowly, by introducing more complex grains into your diet, start eating miso soup, Bancha tea, getting caffeine out of your system, and stop eating sugar. I also highly recommend getting meat out your system, and including fish only in your diet. I know that is sacreligious to a meat eater like yourself, but it will help too. By the way; remember, meat doesn’t mean red meat. It means meat. Period. Chicken is meat. Pork is meat.

Anyway, you can go on down to whole foods and central market to get what you need. The Epicurean in Austin has a lot of stuff that you will need to cook with. How you cook your food is as important as what you eat. The bottom line is to balance yin and yang foods and yin and yang cooking methods with your food.

It’s not tough; it’s cheaper, and you eat mostly grains, vegetables and small amounts of protein in the form of tofu and fish. Sea vegetables are also used, and I actually kinda liked them. I found that I liked miso soup a lot, and you can make all kinds of really good soups with it. It’s like a stock make of sea veggies. But it tastes good. Bancha tea tastes good too.

Go to the Kushi Institute online and you can read about macrobiotics. There are a bunch of good books you can buy on amazon as well. There is also a restaurant down on Barton Springs Road that serves macrobiotic food only.

Start slowly; introduce a little at a time. It’s not a big transition to eat complex grains and veggies. Start pressure cooking your grains, and that will get you halfway there. Then, eat certain veggies grown locally, if possible, as they match the climate in which you live. Just start there; grains and veggies, and you are halfway there. Work on the caffeine (no Pepsi’s, which makes you a communist anyway), and of course, drink lots of water. I like to put lemon juice in my water. It increases my craving for water and tastes better.

My two cents.

I have a really cool way for you to see how you can feel the chakras. I didn’t believe it a bit. You know how skeptical I am; read and learn first, give it is a shot, and mostly dump it. But this was amazing, and I was shocked. You can use this on your family members and friends. And if you are really in a bind, and you gotta get some help, see a Reiki practitioner. They will channel the UEF into your body, and you will amazingly better in just a few sessions.

Color light therapy does work. So does aromatherapy. It’s not just about smelling. The essential oils do dissapate into the air, and they do enter your system through the lungs. Their restorative and reparative qualities have worked very well for me.

I don’t necessarily believe everything, but any book by Doreen Virtue are ones I would highly recommend. Angels, yes. Fairies and Goddesses, not sure really about that. Not sure I am ready to take that leap. But time will indeed tell.

I am learning about the scientific metaphysical properties of crystals in general (now called quantum physics), and about metaphysics in general. Not the typically-held beliefs about metaphysics (paganism, witchcraft, etc), but about energy and matter, and their relationship. I have learned a lot, and it’s been quite interesting.

Let me know if you want more info. I have a number of books I can recommend to you.

Michelle

Oh, and if you have an emotional eating problem, dealing with that; but I doubt you have that. Of course, if you do, when you start eating right and not bingeing, then your emotions naturally come out. I have had the distinct pleasure of dealing with my stress eating. It’s harde.

You got your stuff together pretty well, except that baseball snafu. So just eat right. And if you are worried about the karma of animals, go vegetarian. It’s not that big of a leap anyway, since you would be eating a ton of veggies and complex carbs, and not much meat.