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Experience by a Journalist from Pakistan about Ayurvedic cooking - 2006
You are feeling low and the chocolate ice cream or packet of crisps ‘calls’ out to you – it seems the ideal solution to drown your sorrows in. Hold the thought right there, this ‘call’ is your enemy, as a junking frenzy is guaranteed to make you feel even worse. The ‘comfort’ factor will be very short-lived as the food we eat has a profound effect on the way we feel. And only eating the right kind of food will enable us to use food as a very important key to feeling and looking great.
Kaushani Desai was here from India
Kaushani conducted a four day course (comprising of three hours per day) which focused on re-educating her audience about food and nutrition. Ayurveda (Ayu "LIFE" Veda "KNOWLEDGE) "and to maintain this kind of life an Ayurvedic diet is very helpful.
These method integrates your favorite foods-into your favorite healthy foods.
Food which helps our body to maximize its potential for wellness.
These food can be fun for the whole family to explore. Healthier more adventurous and creative new dishes.
Hence, the right food is more than a matter of just adding those extra inches to the waist line. Its actually about knowing what you are eating and how its going to effect you and having a bit of self love to move away from what makes one low towards what gives you a high! A natural high!
To sell the teachings of a healthy diet, many tasty recipes were prepared. After all, motivating someone to try something new means it has to be do-able and taste great because you cannot be on a perpetual diet of bland pumkin bhaji’s and expect yourself to sustain it. But all this can only be done if one is motivated to do this and sometimes motivation can paradoxically come with knowing how something is effecting you adversely – so a key action point of the course was ‘awareness’. The ‘knowing’ about how what one is eating is effecting the Psyche can serves a two-fold purpose – deterring you from eating the wrong food and motivating you towards the right food.
Hence the words discipline and dieting are not part of the healthy food dictionary.
Dieting, implying depraving the body is counterproductive as using will power to resist something only results in giving in to the temptation with almost a vengeance. Hence, its suggested to try to satisfy the craving by giving in just a little bit and then getting back on the right track again.
To counter the concept of thinking health-food-is-bland-food, romancing the taste buds is taken as a challenge, and many alternatives like seeds, jaggery, honey nuts, different spices, herbs, used to jazz up food. You could happily get lost in the host of healthy chutneys and dressings that can be created in the kitchen.
Actually, following all of this can make life quite easy. You no longer have to look and ponder about the varieties of food lining the supermarket shelves – the goodness of food is to be found in natural wholesome foods and that’s where we need to look.
Almost all of the learnings of this course are those that are well known, a course like this brings a new awareness and dare-one-say a wake up call to sit up and listen to what our bodies are saying before they start screaming to us with dis-eases. Applying even a few of the learnings consistently will have solid effects on better health.
We would all like better mood management and doing this with what we are popping in our mouths is a pretty easy option, compared to other complicated and expensive ways. Healthy food, tastefully prepared and eaten calmly with awareness will ensure that every morsel contributes in increasing the quality of life.
Art of Living Foundation, established in 1982 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is one of the largest humanitarian and educational organizations initiating numerous social projects in more than 140 countries in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Status of United Nations
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