Lauren from London is a qualified teacher and trauma-informed spiritual healing coach working predominantly online. She has a passion for veganism, travel, conscious living and holistic health.
She aims to highlight how veganism and spirituality are intertwined, and shares how going vegan is spiritually healing in an abundance of ways.
When we ‘wake up,’ we realise being vegan and being spiritual are interconnected.
The link is so clear but not everyone has woken up to this ideology yet, I aim to channel this energy to educate and inspire.
A collective conscious awakening happened in 2020. We realised just how deeply we’d been propagandised and manipulated by the media, government, meat and dairy industries all along.
In that period, we started to seek truth and through doing our own research, we began to take back control of our own health and bodily autonomy. Therefore, so many of us went vegan.
I’m coming up to 4 years now, and can honestly say it’s one of the best decisions I ever made for my life.
Being vegan is living and eating peacefully, it’s often mistaken for a ‘diet’ but vegan lifestyles are known to be high-vibrational, referring to the spiritual energy housed in all life-force that some call chi, and others think of as consciousness.
Everything is energy; when we put animals who have gone through pain and suffering into our body, we then carry that pain and suffering within ourselves.
Ultimately, veganism is reducing suffering.
I know many spiritual non-vegans but I don’t know any non-spiritual vegans. This is because spirituality and veganism are both based on the same concept of ahimsa, meaning non-violence to ALL beings.
I regularly go on vegan spiritual healing retreats, and during one of my meditation sessions, I received a message from my ancestors in which I was told SO clearly to use my voice for the voiceless.
One of the most common reasons for being vegan is “for the voiceless.”
When I started going to vegan only venues, the energy and feel of the spaces felt different. The menus had a story, the quotes all around spoke sense, and the vibration of the place was high.
“Our way of eating can either be very violent or part of creating a larger healing. We get to choose the way.”
This was a quote I saw in a vegan restaurant whilst having dinner in South East Asia by Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist peace activist.
Through my observations of dining experiences, non-vegan restaurants absolutely do not go to the lengths vegan restaurants do – in terms of both levels of customer care and the love that so clearly goes into making the food. This is because veganism is based on compassion.
I’ve never not had amazingly attentive, 10/10 service in a vegan restaurant, where I get to know the staff, as well as fellow diners, as there’s always an open, community feel. The food, service and conversations with people in vegan spaces is purely high-vibrational.
With non-vegans however, there’s definitely some internalised guilt they may feel on a subconscious level, seeing as a common question I’m asked when they’re (graced) in my presence is “are you going to judge me if I eat meat?”
I’m personally not judging, as it was only in 2020 that I decided to unlearn all the myths I’d been taught growing up, like “milk makes your bones grow stronger” etc…
It was proven by Harvard that there is no correlation to drinking milk from a cow and human bones getting stronger.
This was in-fact an advertising ploy and marketing tactic from the dairy industry to sell their product.
Human beings, allegedly one of the most intelligent species on Earth are the ONLY ones on this planet who drink another species milk!!
Another example of a myth in animal agriculture is that eating meat is manly… I suggest everyone watches ‘The Game Changers’ because it shows that men in particular, have been manipulated and brainwashed into believing they get their protein from eating a chicken – but this documentary highlights that the chicken is simply the middle man.
The protein comes from the chicken eating the plants, so vegans just directly get the protein from eating the plants – without harming and killing an animal in the process.
If anything, it’s to be highlighted how media and society heavily influences and controls the way we think and behave, including the way in which animals are consumed by humans.
There’s a reason we don’t see animal rights adverts in the UK, the truth is highly censored because they don’t want people knowing the horrors of what goes into their ‘food.’
We are the authors of our health or dis-ease. Our food is never meant to poison us, it’s always supposed to be our medicine.
When people complain of food poisoning – it has come from eating a murdered animal… so we should question why this is being sold to us as food.
Something I deeply struggled with whilst living in South East Asia was seeing how they treat cats and dogs… it’s the same way the UK treats cows and pigs.
The ONLY difference between a dog and a pig is propaganda!!
If a pig was marketed as a pet, and a dog was marketed as food, people in the UK would be eating DLTs instead of BLTs… or most likely it’d be called another name, as the word ‘bacon’ was created to disconnect us.
Modern society has us so deeply disconnected, we’d eat a chicken’s period for breakfast and call it “scrambled eggs.”
Like we can identify in media propaganda, language embedded in our culture is used in order to control the narrative.
It definitely sounds better to order a “steak & chips” off the menu instead of what it really is… “cows backside & chips.”
It’s only met with disgust to put cat’s milk in our tea because we’ve been so badly brainwashed into believing a cat is a pet, and a cow isn’t. Therefore, we think it’s perfectly normal to stir baby cows milk in our tea… and then wonder why 89% of the population is ‘lactose intolerant.’
Reminder: you are not lactose intolerant, you’re just not a baby cow.
I wasn’t brought up with the truth about health, so I, like the majority of the world – was disconnected from myself and my body.
Animal agriculture causes the most dis-ease in the human body.
We know big pharma to be one of the biggest profit-based cycles in the world, so how would the business industry benefit if we nourished our bodies with wholesome, plant-based, soul foods?
Since I converted to veganism, I noticed my senses majorly heightened, particularly my taste and smell.
Research found it’s widely reported that when we go vegan, our senses increase.
This is because when we as humans, allow our bodies to become accustomed to the natural, subtle range of tastes again, we are re-sensitising ourselves to nature’s own range of flavours.
Personally, going out to eat has always been a sensory experience; I love the aromas, flavours and sensuality of vegan food. To me, eating is sensual!! If we look up the word ‘sensuality’ the first definition example that comes up is “she ate the grapes with surprising sensuality” which we cannot say the same in a carnivore context… because eating dead animals is NOT sexy!!
I’m so grateful to have gone vegan at a time when the movement’s thriving and not short of options. I’m fortunate enough to be in the best city in the world for vegans, and that most of my friends are also vegetarian and vegan.
I’ve travelled the world and been to an abundance of vegan restaurants, and they all put out the same spiritual message; how peace begins with what we eat.
Being vegan is living consciously, and the food we choose is a significant part of that consciousness.
When we go vegan, we feel a deeper sense of empathy to all beings, so actively choose not to support the cruelty towards animals or ourselves.
The abundance of vegan restaurants that’ve popped up around the world within the last few years should serve as a reminder that the POWER OF THE PEOPLE is stronger than the people in power!!
It’s common knowledge that the ability for human survival is not based on strength at all, but on the ability to adapt to change.
Veganism brought me back to my true nature and I’ll be forever thankful to be a part of the worldwide vegan movement.
Anyone thinking they’re just one person and that eating vegan “won’t make a difference” remember a billion others are thinking the same…
To be spiritual is non-violent… the whole concept of veganism is based on a spiritual doctrine meaning non-violence towards all beings.
It’s up to us, when we’re ready to awaken and make the connection.
To raise your vibration, go vegan!!
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