{"id":2000,"date":"2014-04-24T22:09:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T22:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2014-04-24T22:09:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T22:09:46","slug":"at-ease-kitchen-thought-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/at-ease-kitchen-thought-for-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"At Ease: Kitchen Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Joyful<\/a>
Enjoy being at ease about food and eating–and why not joyful, too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It can be surprising when spiritual concepts prove useful in the kitchen. Who would have guessed there could be a level of “higher consciousness” hidden in our kitchen cupboards?\u00a0 Take this concept for example:<\/p>\n

“As many Buddhist psychologists proclaim, most people conceal a constrictive array of psychological wounds that they are constantly attempting to avoid or manage, which prevents them from ever feeling deeply at ease inside.”*<\/p>\n

This thought jumped out from a book I’m reading–about yoga! Yet it could pertain as easily to our food, eating and cooking lives.<\/p>\n

How often do we feel at ease about how we eat, what we eat, how we get meals together, are we eating too much, too little . . . . Instead, it seems, freneticism pervades our thoughts and conversations around food and eating, and I am guilty of contributing to this “stew.” As a healthy eating educator, I focus relentlessly on improving our eating habits.<\/p>\n

Certainly\u00a0 we as a nation have plenty of room for improvement, but this reminder about balance is a good one. Here’s permission to take time–tonight even–to acknowledge any and all of the improvements you’ve made to date. Good eating is a continuum and we are all just inching our way upwards in a balance of persistence–and ease.\u00a0 For each inch of progress you’ve made–congratulations!<\/p>\n

*Quotation courtesy of Insight Yoga, p. 11.\u00a0 Photo courtesy of Gale Yeimaya, “Happy Thanksgiving.\u00a0 .\u00a0 . Peace. . . Buddha and fruit”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It can be surprising when spiritual concepts prove useful in the kitchen. Who would have guessed there could be a level of “higher consciousness” hidden in our kitchen cupboards?\u00a0 Take this concept for example: “As many Buddhist psychologists proclaim, most people conceal a constrictive array of psychological wounds that they are constantly attempting to avoid … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}