She called up in the middle of the night. There was a fight at her home which was not getting in control. She started crying that, today I made food for everyone and instead of thanking me, they are shouting at me. They are also saying, Why did I cook? What wrong did I do? After listening to her cry, I asked her, why did you cook? It seemed like she did not have to cook out of compulsion. She was crying and shared that she wanted to prove to her sister in law that she was better. Better in what sense? Everyone appreciated her sister in law and she felt jealous of her. So she decided to cook today for everyone to put her sister in law down. So that, she could tell everyone that she was better. And whatever she does, something like this always happens. It backfires.
There are a few things here:
- Food is very special. Even water. When we are cooking, we transfer our thoughts and emotions or that energy into the food. If it is cooked with love, it will nurture love in everyone. If it’s cooked with anger or any other form of emotion, it will always create problems. Here she cooked with jealousy and it did not add positive energy to the ones who were eating.
- Whatever energy we are sending out, we receive it back. She was definitely not sending out love. She was sending out her insecurities, her ego, jealousy and anger. So this is what was coming back to her.
- Her intentions were not that everyone will be happy after eating what she was cooking. Her intention was, she would be able to put her sister in law down. Whatever we lay for others, we have to be ready for that. So she was being put down by the family.
So what do we do? Choose the emotions of love. Sort them out. Do it for love. Like in this scenario, rather than how they will appreciate me more than the other lady, she should be thinking or could be thinking, how happy her family would be after eating that, how much it would nourish her children and a few things like that.
Whatever we do, we need to sit and analyze, what would be the right intention and then proceed. if it’s negative, we need to correct it or else, it will always come back. If we want to receive love, we need to fill up everything with love. How is it possible that we add ego and we want to take out love. We may question, that I gave love to that person, but then we must be receiving from one person, may be from someone else. It’s a cycle. We need to see what we are adding more.
