Conscious Eating

Transform Your Relationship with Food

Sundari Jensen

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Enlightenment Journal | Summer 2011

HEALTHY LIVING

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ecause eating, like breathing, is something that we all do regularly, it is a 

useful vehicle for raising consciousness. We can transform our relationship 

with food from unconscious to conscious, from mundane to sacred. To raise our 

consciousness around food we can focus on three practical areas: 1) what we eat 

2) how we prepare our food 3) how we eat our food.

What We Eat

“Foods which promote life, virtue, strength, health, happiness, 

and satisfaction, and which are pleasant to the taste, ripe, firm, 

and agreeable, are preferred by those whose nature is sattvic 

(illumined).” [

Bhagavad Gita, 17:8]  This verse from the Bhagavad Gita 

instructs us in the importance of consuming foods that provide nourishment 

and energy to the body. In his commentary on this Gita verse, Roy Eugene Davis 

informs us that, “a simple vegetarian diet is best, with a balance of vegetables, 

seeds (grains, beans, nuts), and fruits.”  When the quality of sattva predominates