Starting your meditation with a hot cup of tea can help you to be more present. Start by making your tea, paying attention to every step, the sounds, the smells, the rise in temperature.
Sit with your cup and be with it as you allow your mind to quiet, still focusing on your tea. When it is fully brewed, only taking a few minutes, then start with your first sip and fully explore what you are feeling and sensing.
With each sip, be aware of the changes in your body, your thoughts, and emotions. Feel the center of your body connected with the earth and each breath connecting you with the heavens. Sit in reverence for the tea bushes, the people who have participated in you having your tea, the purity of the water, and your body as a clear vessel to receive.
Here is a recipe for one of our favorite teas! Enjoy!!
Yogi Tea - from CJ
Add to 3 quarts of boiling water
20 whole cloves
20 cardamom pods
20 peppercorns
5 cinnamon sticks
Boil for 10-15 minutes
Remove immediately from the heat and strain
Boil again for 15-20 minutes
Add 1/4 teaspoon of black tea
Measure the fluid
After 2-4 minutes add 1/2 cup of cold milk or milk substitute per cup of fluid.
Drink warm or cool depending on your constitution (hot body drink cold and cold body drink hot).
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Misunderstanding...I do not strain anything until it's ready to be drunk.
So you are adding all the ingredients and straining them out before drinking the tea. Thank you for your question. This may add clarity for
Question...it says to strain the tea before adding the black tea
Do you strain it again after adding the black tea...before adding the milk?