Eat to live or live to eat? While most of us will discuss about the fact, reality is that we spend a quarter of our life shopping, cooking, baking, roasting, biting, chewing, tasting, gulping, ingesting and digesting food.
Consuming food is not just another path to survival. It involves a lot of mental energy, healthy thoughts, and good habits about nutrition. It plays a basic role for our minds, bodies and higher consciousness. This is your life source, your sustenance.
Your diet is a powerful tool to increase productivity, improve your quality of life, and increase positive experiences. Here are some easy practices and rituals, why might overlook sometimes, that will help you create a healthy and joyful relationship with food:
1| Be grateful. You are blessed to get food at a time when you are hungry. Do not take a single bite for granted. Every time you sit down to eat take a moment to thank the Universe, the creator, the life force, or whoever/whatever you believe in, or simply thank yourself. Each bite is precious.
2| Cook consciously. Food nourishes you. There is a difference between surviving and thriving. It’s the quality of the life that we live which matters, so treat your kitchen like a sacred place. Keep it clean, ventilated, and loved. When you cook, think beautiful thoughts, or put on relaxing music. If you have seen Dr. Emoto’s experiments with water you definitely know what it is all about. Sending good energy to your food while cooking will help your food not just fill your belly but nourish you.
3| Eat as a ritual. Take it as time to yourself, put away all other distractions, and savour. Do whatever it is that makes you feel good about your food. It is a time aside for celebrating yourself by nourishing your body with good food, love, and happy thoughts.
4| Chew it good. Chew it real good. We have 32 teeth to chew every morsel 32 times before we eat it. Why make your intestines do the work of your teeth? Don’t eat with stress, tell your mind that the food is going to help you relax, make you more productive, or improve your cognition.
5| Hydrate yourself. We are 70 percent liquid. Not having enough water can hamper your ability to think clearly, cause feelings of anger, helplessness, and anxiety, as well as contribute to sleeplessness and general unhappiness. It is also a major fact behind poor digestion and feeling hungry. Drink at least 3 litres a day, making sure this isn’t immediately before or after your meals.
… extra tip… Go organic. Yes, organic products are 3 times more expensive than their poison-infused counterparts. But here’s the deal – too many people are busy counting calories and too few are counting chemicals. We don’t blink twice before buying a cup of coffee at Star-bucks or spending big real money for a meal at a regular restaurant, but organic food feels too expensive. It’s time to make that plunge. Switch to a complete organic lifestyle and you will have a lifetime of rewards.
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