Karmic Muscle Group: Awareness
Today’s Exercise: Taste Your Food
- Pick a meal and sit down to eat it.
- Take one full minute to think about what you are about to eat and where it comes from.
- Take another minute to think about why your body needs the food and that it is about to be part of your body.
- Smell what you are eating even if it is saltine cracker. Chew slowly and think about the flavors you are experiencing.[hr]
Training Note:
We almost never smell or taste our food. We allow ourselves to have a flavor rush, in other words, an emotional response, but we rarely actually think about what we are actually eating as a matter of fact. This contributes to overeating because we too often use food as an emotional pacifier instead of fuel. That is because our eating experience is usually not based on what is actually happening.[hr]
Karmic Benefits:
- Health: Relating to food as a fuel and not as an emotional pacifier is a the basis for establishing a healthy relationship with your body.
- Presence: eating is an important human function and yet most people are barely aware that they do it. Paying attention when you eat, to the process of eating, locates you as an organism in a food chain.
- Connectedness: Food comes from your environment. Understanding your place in the natural cycle of life makes you capable of being a responsible member of the biosphere.[hr]
Share Your Experience:
Leave a comment when you have completed the exercise.
