When it comes to cooking, the ingredients in your mind are as important as the ones you're prepping or simmering.

This Everyday Mindfulness practice explores how intention can change both your experience in the kitchen AND increase your ease as you practice mindfulness.

Remember that mindfulness involves both your presence as you navigate an experience, pretty much any experience, and your observation of the feelings, emotions, frustrations, resistance, or whatever else comes up as you do what you mindfully do.

Cooking can raise some of that fluster and resistance, especially since we've somehow learned to see this important brain-balancing activity as one that's an inconvenience or a duty. As it can sometimes be – yet mindful cooking helps you reap the many benefits that time in the kitchen can deliver.

There's an awesome resource page with a few special ingredients at www.thebrainandbeyond.com/episodes/8.

Remember that Everyday Mindfulness practices are like meditations. Listen in only when it's OK to let your mind and attention wander. Thanks for tuning in and come back soon.

Ellen
Neuroscience Educator, Author, and Coach
www.ellenleanse.com

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