Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Simple Sattvic Recipes

by Kate O'Donnell, Cara Brostrum (Photographer)

Overview

Eat your way to increased energy, balanced emotions, and an overall state of calm and relaxation.

In Ayurvedic medicine there are said to be three main energies that affect our mind:

   • sattva, the state of contentment and calm;

   • rajas, the state of reactivity and excitability; and

   • tamas, the dull, slow, and stagnant state of mind.

The good news is that there are direct ways of bringing these states into balance through what we eat. The recipes in this book are simple, seasonal, and delicious, while bringing the traditional foods of Ayurveda into the modern kitchen.Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind uncovers the true potential of food to heal not only our bodies, but our minds too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780834841321
Publisher:	Shambhala
Publication date:	03/27/2018
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

KATE O'DONNELL is an Ashtanga yoga teacher, a nationally certified Ayurvedic practitioner, an Ayurvedic yoga specialist, and author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook. She is on the faculty for the Kripalu School of Ayurveda and for Ayurvedic Health Education trainings. She lives in Boston.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind 1

Part 1 Ayurveda and the Body/Mind Connection

1 A Brief Introduction to Ayurveda 7

2 The Mind 19

3 The Maha Gunas: Mental Energies 39

4 Food and Mind 55

5 The Sattvic Lifestyle: How to Beautify Your External and Internal Worlds 81

Part 2 The Sattvic Kitchen

6 Cooking for Clarity: Healing Your Mind with Food 103

7 Basic Recipes for the Sattvic Kitchen 109

8 Recipes for Sattva, Contentment, and Clarity 145

9 Recipes to Relax and Calm Rajas 207

10 Recipes to Vitalize and Motivate Tamas 253

Appendix 1 Dinacharya (Daily Routines) 296

Appendix 2 Mind-Cleanse: A Three-Day Reboot Program 304

Appendix 3 Tools and Techniques 309

Appendix 4 Table of Foods and Maha Gunas 314

Glossary 316

Resources 320

Acknowledgments 322

Index 323

About Us 334

Editorial Reviews

Building on her achievement with The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, Kate O’Donnell turns her focus onto the modern mind, exhausted by overstimulation. This new cookbook lays out in tasty detail how a healthy diet can promote lucidity and how unwise food choices can compromise mental acuity. Using recipes whose ingredients and preparation methods have been adapted for today’s conditions, O’Donnell offers friendly and detailed guidance to all who are willing to expand their culinary capabilities in a mind-improving fashion.”
—Dr. Robert Svoboda, Ayurvedic physician and author of Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution
 
“Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind provides a delicious way to turn eating into a path of living wisdom.”
—Scott Blossom, LAc

"One of the best healthy cookbooks to read for ultimate mind body balance.”—Women's Health Magazine

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