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

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Balance your mind through the foods you eat. Seasonal, healthy recipes based on traditional Ayurvedic wisdom to benefit our states of mind--from the author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook. Did you know food can be used not only to promote the health of the body, but also the mind? Ayurveda, India's ancient healing system, describes the three major energies of this universe that affect our mind- Sattva promotes a state of clarity and calm; Rajas stimulates and increases reactivity and excitability; Tamas promotes dull, slow, and stagnant states of mind. This knowledge of how to choose the right foods to balance our states of mind can be used to treat ailments such as sleep difficulties, anxiety, and depression. After an introduction to Ayurveda and the mind and body connection, the recipes are organized into three parts- Recipes for Clarity focuses on cultivating Sattva; Recipes for Relaxation focuses on managing Rajas; and Recipes for Vitality focuses on motivating Tamas. Showcasing seasonal, whole, unprocessed foods, the recipes work to help maintain consistent energy and an inspired state, while also calming feelings of over-stimulation and building energy if feeling sluggish.

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.

"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