Mindful Cooking

This short guided mindful exercise invites you to a mindful experience of cooking and preparing food. You are invited to notice the sensations of the tools and foods in your hands, to notice the smells of the food you are preparing, and the colors in your environment.

Transcript

Bringing a mindfulness to your cooking and to your preparing your food. So coming into the present moment and being aware of the feel and touch of anything that comes into your hands, The textures and weight of any ingredients and foods that you're preparing, Any knives or spatulas or spoons or any other instrument or handle of the frying pan, Anything that you're handling just bringing an awareness to those feelings and sensations and noticing how they feel in your hand and also being aware of the smells as they reach your nostrils and the colours, The sights of everything that you're handling in the kitchen as you prepare this food for yourself.