Made With Love

The Dinnertime – or Breakfast – Rush Can Be a Stressful Time, but by Cooking Consciously You Can Rediscover the Therapeutic Benefits of Being in the Kitchen

- Elli Jacobs

While what we eat is important to maintain health, how we prepare it is also important. According to ancient wisdom our state of mind while we’re cooking directly affects the vibrational energy and the quality of the food. Therefore, just by cooking consciously in the kitchen we can turn every meal into a healing medicine. Here experts teach us how.

In many cultures there’s an emphasis on intention and emotion in cooking. In the Greek tradition it’s customary to cook and serve food with ‘agapi’ (unconditional love) for good energy, and the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Hindu scripture, teaches that the intention or mood of the person when cooking is actually transferred to the food.

So it seems that to manifest a delicious meal that nourishes both body and soul, positive vibes are vital ingredients.

“Cooking becomes therapeutic when we practice kitchen mindfulness – a state of active, open attention to the present moment which awakens us to the experience of nourishing ourselves,” says Melanie Albert, US-based intuitive cooking expert at EXP Nutrition and author of A New View Of Healthy Eating.

“Therefore, by consciously thinking about the ingredients we choose, their preparation and the way we cook and eat, it can become a joyful act with many health benefits,” says Melanie.

Chara Caruthers, founder of Bliss Body & Soul and author of the upcoming book Eat Like You Love Yourself adds, “Life is sacred and cooking should be approached from the point of view that we’re feeding that, so our mindset when we enter the kitchen should be ‘I am feeding my joy.’” 

COOKING AS A RITUAL

A sacred vibe in the kitchen means you’re creating a space that feels good and the energy is interacting with the process of cooking on a positive level.