Loving Your Food Increases It's Nutritional Value!

By Laura Cruger Fox (www.rawinspirations - coming soon!)

We have all heard and experienced that food tastes better when it is made with love. But did you know that the love vibration added to the food actually causes the heart to instruct the cells on how to use the nutrients in it? I find this to be a fascinating concept, and it makes sense to me. I have always enjoyed blessing my food, as I feel it raises its vibration. Intentionally allowing our love to flow into the food when we prepare it may actually increase its nutritional quality and digestibility. I love this idea, and plan to practice it with greater awareness from now on.

Conversely, if we are irritated or agitated while preparing food, that energy may be ingested as well. So ideally, we will find ways to be more aware of how our body is feeling and what we are thinking while we are preparing food so that we can get the most benefit from it, and have greater enjoyment in the preparation and eating process!

Ideas on how to send love to your food:

- Place your hands above the food after it is prepared and imagine light and love flowing into it until you feel complete.
-Call upon the spiritual masters of your tradition and/or the Essence of Life and/or the Mother Earth to join you in blessing the food.
- Bless all of your groceries while still in bags and boxes before putting them away. Imagine love flowing into them or use your hands to pour out a blessing.
- Bless each food item as you pick it up to eat it or prepare it for eating. Just intend that as you look at it and appreciate it, love is flowing into it and it is being blessed.
- Invite the group that will be enjoying the food to join hands and send love to the food before eating it.
- Give thanks for the farmers, the truck drivers, the grocery clerks, the mother earth, the soil and soil organisms, the Spirit of Life/God/Goddess in your own way, and anyone else you can imagine.

It would be interested to experiment with blessing one dish and not another, and then doing a taste test to see which one tastes better. Please report any interesting results and we will post them!