Cooking with Love & Intention

Cooking with Love & Intention

By Yecenia Currie

This recipe requires 1⁄2 tsp of cinnamon and a heaping tablespoon of Love & Intention.

It’s not sufficient to simply cook dinner nicely.

Right here’s what I wholeheartedly imagine: Once you cook dinner, your power or state of being transfers into your meal, and that power can both improve or inhibit the therapeutic and nutritive qualities of the meal.

So, what are you imparting? As a result of, good or unhealthy, whoever’s consuming that meal is actually taking all of it in.

This idea may appear just a little “tacky” to some, however the easy act of taking note of the

temper or frame of mind you’re in earlier than making a meal for your self or a liked one is fairly highly effective. And whether or not you notice it or not, it will possibly have a major influence in your well-being.

You may additionally take into account making use of this idea to different actions or acts of service you take part in.

We will say or do a factor performatively to mannequin an outward show of kindness, but when our coronary heart isn’t in it and our intentions are impure—that’s what’s felt. That’s what actually reveals by means of.

I’m not suggesting that you simply cook dinner your meals with a “Stepford Spouse” smile plastered throughout your

face. It’s additionally not a slight to attenuate the truth that all of us have unhealthy days or moments of not feeling our greatest, so I’m not asking that you simply transfer from a spot of inauthenticity.

I’m speaking concerning the easy act of noticing:

Simply that consciousness, by itself, makes such a distinction in the way you perform the duty. As a result of you then’ll be current sufficient to watch and alter your behaviors in real-time. Like—oh dang, I’m in right here slamming cupboards and over-salting the meals… perhaps I want a minute.

My husband has referred to as me out about this on a number of events. For instance, if I’m aggravated, upset, or in a really “outwardly seen” funk. He may say one thing like, “Are you alright?” to which I’d reply with a brief and mildly aggravated, “I’m high quality, why?”

After which he’d reply in a really “jokingly-serious” method, “I’m simply not feeling the LOVE…Hear, I don’t need no matter’s on you proper now to finish up in my meals, so [waves around exaggerated hands in my direction] … do no matter it is advisable do to repair that earlier than you begin cooking, please.”

Then, after we’ve got a superb chuckle about him utilizing my phrases in opposition to me, I give myself a second to permit these detrimental emotions to dissipate earlier than I begin making ready our meal. That doesn’t imply I used to be being dismissive of how I felt moments earlier than. It simply means I made a acutely aware choice, in that second, to alter my power, my present state of being, to make sure we received essentially the most out of the meal. As a result of it’s essential to us, and we really feel higher for it.

Cooking, like many different day by day duties, may also set off your internal autopilot settings, and you’ll simply be “there” bodily cooking, however your thoughts is out on a lunch break. All of us do it. It’s regular human habits. However you possibly can rapidly convey your self again to the current second and job at hand. One thing so simple as feeling gratitude for the nourishment you get to arrange for the individuals you’re keen on. Or letting your self get misplaced within the aromatic aromas of the deliciousness you’re creating can function mild reminders to be proper the place you might be.

For me, very like my yoga follow, cooking is a shifting meditation. So, as a substitute of it being a secular chore or job the place I daze off into boringness, I attempt to add some present-mindedness and circulate by means of it from a spot of creativity and contentedness—with intention.

So be the power that you simply wish to obtain. Be what you’d like others to obtain. Let your time within the kitchen be an providing, a prayer, an act of affection.

I hope this idea of Cooking with Love & Intention encourages you to look at and elevate the power you convey to your cooking house and introduces a brand new or contemporary perspective on pouring love into every part you do.

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Yecenia Currie has adopted a plant-based eating regimen for over 13 years. Her coronary heart for wholesome dwelling is modeled by her dedication to honoring her temple and treating it with the utmost care and reverence with the intention to dwell a full, vibrant, “Candy & Savory Life”! Yecenia efficiently accomplished a holistic diet and culinary coaching to additional her data and incorporate the therapeutic advantages of acutely aware cooking. In 2014, she grew to become a licensed yoga teacher to deepen her day by day follow and assist assist others on their mind-body wellness journey. She and her husband, Roger, have traveled to over 45 international locations to this point, and people travels have impressed lots of her creations within the kitchen. Yecenia is from Upstate New York and presently resides in Los Angeles. “Candy & Savory Life” is her first cookbook. For more information, go to her web site.