I’ve done it. I’ve come back from long vacations and business trips and had to throw away virtually everything in my refrigerator. I am greeted by the smells when I first walk into the door. I plug my nose and survey the damage. There’s dry curdled milk, brown wet lettuce that is still tucked away in its bag, wrinkled tomatoes, and soiled ground beef that smells like rotten eggs. I hurriedly shove all the food in a bulk scented trash bag. But the odor from the distillation of rotting foods remains, like a bad after-taste.
Then, I feel guilty. My Caribbean relatives would be so disappointed in me. I didn’t know what would kill me first, the rotten foods, or my relatives who never let anything go bad. They hated wasting money, and they would always preach to me that I have to eat food before it goes bad. But how can I possibly explain to them that food going bad is really inevitable? How can I explain the deterioration of food is analogous to the deterioration of life, and that it is nature’s way of evolving?
In Ifa, we talk about reciprocity. It is a process of give and take. Nature gives us so much, in particularly food. But if we don’t eat the food, then nature will take it away. Sounds pretty easy right? Well, it’s about to get a little complicated.
A small piece of fruit has a great deal of free energy. Our digestive system converts this energy into sugars and then into glucose. Glucose is converted into motion and our muscles use this for exercise and physical movement. According to the laws of science, the intake and outtake of energy should be the same. In spiritual terms this concept is called balance.
When food sits for a while, bacteria starts to take over like a gangster in a bad neighborhood. I would think that most foods have a little bit of bacteria. However, the bacteria start to spread at an alarming rate through collisions. These collisions enable atoms in the bacteria to communicate and then infect other atoms. This is what causes food and energy to go bad.
The elders in Yoruba and other African religions say that life and death is born through chaos. This is very much true. For chaos is representative of the collisions of atoms and the spread of information or disease. So in a nutshell, negative energy, is energy gone bad. Scientist calls this kind of energy mutations. For these forms of energy have failed to evolve. Or they have failed to be converted into other types of energy that are beneficial to the evolution of the human species. For example, the food that rotted in my refrigerator could have been used to feed several starving children in Africa.
The deterioration of energy explains the aging process, sickness, and the tipping points that cause people to sway one way or another. We can see this with celebrities who have everything, and suddenly their lives and careers just crumple. We ask ourselves. What happened? Now we can understand that many of these people were suffering from deep-seated issues. These issues spread like a bacteria, infecting their mind, body, and soul.
There is a great deal of validity to the phrase “God giveth and God taketh away. We are all giving a certain amount of energy to fulfill our purpose in life. However, if we don’t work to fulfill our purpose, bacteria will start to spread and eat us up alive. This is all part of natures’ plan. Just remember, energy is very much like the food in your refrigerator, you have to eat it, before it goes bad.
Yamaya Cruz is the author of When The Shadows Began To Dance. She writes about African spirituality, chakra healing, shamanism and much more. For more information go to removenegativenergy
