How Chanting Stotras While Cooking Can Improve Your Family's Well-Being

There is a simple and effective way to improve the well-being of your family.

While cooking, chant any stotra or shloka that you know, or do nama japa. Keep chanting the divine names. Saying a prayer before you start eating is something else. Expressing your gratitude to God is another practice altogether.

This method of chanting while cooking works in a different way. It is based on the power of sound and the influence of positive vibrations. You know sound can be recorded on media like CDs, computers, or mobiles. Sound can be preserved and transferred from place to place. It can travel through virtually everything—solid, liquid, or gas. Sound vibrations do not even require air to travel; even in absolutely empty space, they can propagate.

Sound waves are powerful. Sonic cutters are available, which can cut through anything and are even used in surgery. Ultrasound is used for welding. Sound bullets, sound grenades, and sound cannons are all examples of devices that harness the power of sound. These technologies are also used in medicine for therapy.

Sound can heal, cure, balance, energize, pacify, and transform. That is why our rishis have given us so many mantras. These mantras can change you from within and also transform your surroundings and the people around you.

In Ayurveda, there is a branch called daiva vyapashraya chikitsa. This branch uses these techniques in treatments. Medicines are energized with mantras while being prepared and while being administered to patients. They work better that way.

Your husband may not have the time or inclination to undertake spiritual practices. Your child may be too young for that. You can help them by chanting any shloka or stotra while cooking. If you don’t know any, learn one. Chant aloud, ensuring the sound is audible outside.

The sound will get absorbed into the food you are cooking, especially when heating it. Along with the food, this positive energy will enter the bodies of your loved ones. It will be absorbed into every cell of their bodies. It will protect, purify, and energize them. It will instill positivity in them.

Do it with sincerity, and you will see changes happening. Start doing this today if you are not already doing so. This is the technique behind every mantra, shloka, or stotra.

This is the great heritage that our rishis, saints, and acharyas have passed down to us. Be thankful to them. Put this knowledge to practical use and reap its benefits.

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