Mindful eating and Tantric cooking: our body as an alchemist.

There are two essential pillars of Real Food: the love of alchemy and the certainty that everything is information. Why do I relate Journey through the senses with alchemy? I invite you to read the following article

You will find as much information about the senses as there are hairs on your head. And for me, in particular, it is a topic that FASCINATES me. But, right now I want you to think for a moment about the "basic" senses that you know: sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, and Touch. So, very physical and pragmatic.Now I want you to think of your physical body as a great and wonderful structure that contains all of this, interconnected and working as a team…. Our human body is like a giant antenna like those control towers that receive information from everywhere, literally. We are constantly capturing information of the environment and as we’re not an ‘isolated system’ , and because we are not an isolated system, of course we are also exchanging information with the environment ; this information reaches us through the senses, which are responsible for transporting it inside of us so as to be decoded. It happens all the time, whether we are aware of it or not. In the middle of receiving and giving something happens: a transformation, a digestion, ordering, classification and 'use' of that information, this is what I call alchemy.

And What is Alchemy?

In a very simple way, I can say that alchemy is this discipline that unites many worlds to transform something crude, common or ignoble into gold. That is what our body does all the time! And…

Every time you find yourself in front of any food, you will immediately receive all that information: the color, the shape, the texture, the aroma, the flavorl. You know if it is safe or good by smelling the food for the first time! and there is also more than that : you kinda know if it was made with love, if it is delicious, if it is healing. All this information received through our senses is mingled, and are transformed into the actions we carry out in relation to this! And this is THE POINT : all this generates connections that your body will alchemize instantaneously and, whenever you can make it conscious, by paying attention -basicaly being present- , this is rue GOLD FOR YOU, this is where it lies the true nutrition that encompasses all aspects of our being.So, in your brain, it might sound like this:

"This food is good for me because It is brown, it means it is good ,it is natural. Also, I see it is shiny, so I can infer it is fresh. I feel it soft and soft means I do not have to work so hard.. maybe it is sweet, it will comfort me, it will give me energy, therefore it will enter my body in a way that will make me feel embraced and full”.

Of course, all of this is not something you are completely aware of / constantly thinking every moment you have food in front of you, but it is definitely something that your body, the alchemist, is processing.

From this point of view, it may be clear to understand….

1) why many processed products are so “successful” . Just because they are made of substances that stimulate the senses, this information gives us a combination of emotions, flavors and beliefs associated with the most primitive part of our body (but it is something which I will talk about in another article) .

2) what I want to focus on right now . Just because this is really an open door to an entire universe!

By inviting you to become aware of this information, I am not asking you to analyze and try to “decode" every piece of information that your body provides you with complex foods. What I want you to do is the opposite. I simply want you to play and explore the multiverse that is opened to you when trying the simplest and real food ,

And so that you have understood me better, get to practice.

to know how to do it step by step!

It is interesting because doing it this way, you can incorporate all the nutrition of real foods, and that gives you the advantage of, on the one hand, ecstasy, that is, being able to really open your body to receive this wealth of information in an organic way, focused on them. , you are activating our body, you finally connect the red and black cables to make your human body system into play! Isn’t it amazing? and it’s for free! If this does not excite you as much as it does to me, I can mention other benefits such as:

• It saves you from over eating simply because we give space and time for our brain to receive information from the digestive organs that inform us when it is enough.

• You will have optimal digestion, since we give space to process the food that is natural , and consecrate the act of eating, concentrating our energy on receiving this food (the body focuses energy on processing this information, that is, on digesting, and it is not wasting energy decoding thousands of ingredients, synthetic additives that it does not recognize or other stimuli such as cell phone, work, etc.)

• Having information about what you are going to eat and what is correct for our body this is another of the magic that will happen naturally :the palate adjusts, and it will be easier for you to understand what you need to incorporate on that day.

• Without effort, your body will naturally want to consume real foods and reject processed ones. Because, I’m telling you: your body will start having the needs of real foods.

• Once our system is activated, this process will become a habit ,and it will be much easier for you to perceive the “fake flavors" as sugar and hydrogenated oil even without trying it!

Eating with the senses is dedicating ourselves punctually to receiving that information so that it is shown to us so that the wisdom of the body is activated and guides us! In my Feel Your Soul : Tantric cooking and Mindful eating Experience, I seek to ensure that we can find that complete nutrition which nourishes all the spectrums of our HUMAN BEING.

The gold is within us ;)

Thank you for reading! With love, Sol Luciana.