For example, when you get a cold you immediately become allergic to some foods – often dairy products – and other substances that you may normally tolerate without any problem. The energy of the cold virus is a foreign energy that displaces some of your own energy in your nose and sinuses. So your nose and sinuses temporarily become hypersensitive.

Of course, a cold isn’t usually a big deal because the presence of the foreign energy is temporary. But let’s consider another example - the officially ‘incurable’ illness, interstitial cystitis.

At least some of these categories sound like nonsense from the point of medical science, which assumes an allergy to be a reaction to a particular chemical. However, from the point of view of energy awareness, an allergy is a reaction to a particular energy – which may or may not be associated with a certain chemical.

Because of the conventional lack of understanding of allergies there is a common presumption that food allergies are relatively rare – e.g. “more than 3% of adults have one or more food allergies.” But this presumption reflects the common lack of awareness of food allergy rather than its actual low incidence.