In the literal sense, the concept of nourishing ourselves while nurturing our world can simply imply taking into account the choices we make to feed ourselves and families, to provide the most nutritional benefit, while also looking to understand how these choices affect the more expansive picture of our world. However, our ignorance, or choice to ignore, what best serves us, and what will correspondingly result in a lower impact or greater collective result, is one often based on time, convenience, financial constraints, or even pure lack of will, laziness or ambivalence.

There are many practical ways in which we can look to care for ourselves, while supporting each other and our world, for example: plant-focused or plant-based eating (I like to promote a plant-focused approach, which allows more flexibility for those who are new to the concept, or are not able to manage a fully plant-based diet); choosing organic where possible, being mindful of quality over quantity, considering packaging, and more.

By awakening into the understanding that all is connected, the concept ‘to nourish ourselves, whilst we nurture our world’ takes on new meaning.

We can expand our awareness into considering that nourishing ourselves does not literally mean what we choose to ingest, but that this ‘nourishment’ consists of each and every choice we make for ourselves.

From the food and drinks we ingest, our consumption habits, the choices of what we expose ourselves to on television, media, news, the people we spend time with, the daily habits we partake in or undertake, and even the ‘way’ we undertake them, all define the concept of this nourishment.

Nurturing our world (or conversely, neglect, or downright abuse) is a by product of these choices and can refer to not only the ‘world’ as we may perceive it, our earthly home, Mother Nature, but also the experience of all beings who reside in this interconnected multiverse.

With this deeper awareness, we can better discern the potential ripple effects of each choice, in each moment. And with even further perception, it becomes clear that the infinite ripples may be beyond our current understanding, but that premise is clear...for every action, there is a reaction, the universal concept of cause and effect. From here, we can make the decision to take responsibility for our choices.

Delving even deeper, for me, there is also an esoteric meaning in the philosophy of nourishing ourselves while nurturing our world. Caring for our Self at the deepest level is to reach a point of pure awareness and silence, which is direct connection with God, liberation of the Self into Source. Through this pure connection comes a stillness, a harmony which exudes from the very essence of our Soul, the nourishment of which cannot fail to correspondingly nurture all that surrounds, and which feeds out into the way in which we exist on a day to day basis.

This concept could even go as far as to encompass the cornerstone commandments which Jesus shared, to love God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourSelf….