Mindful Eating
How you eat matters too, and it is good to develop this practice during lockdowns.
We are just coming out of a season of feasting and possibly over eating, with Christmas, New Year and other feasting celebrations occurring. It is part of what makes winter easier to get through, and that is traditionally why we invented these feast days. So what do we or how should we eat to be mindful at the same time.
What I eat, or rather what we eat as a couple matters a great deal to us. We do not want to consume things that are harmful to our bodies or to the lives of other beings. It is a balance between sustaining our own bodies and lives and being good mindfulness practitioners.
Mindfulness means consciously aware of all you do, think, feel, and consume, in any given moment. Mindful consumption is one of the main topics in the mindfulness programme I contribute to the teaching of but is not usually written about or talked about elsewhere enough.
Eating is only one of the four dimensions of mindful consumption so I shall address the others in another article, but they include what you watch, read, think, and talk about.
How you eat
Eat consciously, not unconsciously. This is better for your digestion processes and for your awareness of…
