Eat when you feel like eating.
When you start expecting your food, or missing your food is the best time to indulge in some soulful eating.
Take a deep breath before you
start to eat. In the confines of your mind their lies a vast space that bears
no boundaries. Thank the Lord, while the pith of your mind lies in this area,
for enabling you to have your meals.
See the colors of your food. Colors
are beautiful and our foods seldom get the appreciation for the colors they
flaunt. Now let’s not be mean and visualize the beautiful, often vivid, colors
of our foods before we start to eat.
Let the whiff of the succulent
food enter your nostrils. A blend of different aromas can be such a
mood-lifter. At this stage, you would be tempted to wolf down the first gulp.
Start eating slowly, like you are
still learning to eat. This would give your taste buds enough time to
appreciate the farrago of tastes, and a thorough mastication would keep your
digestive system going great guns.
Imagine the processes that had
been involved in making this food. The cultivation of daisy-fresh crops, the careful
plucking of vegetables, the tender treatment in the kitchen, and finally the
decoration with the herbs.
Imagine that the food being eaten
is slowly being assimilated in your body’s systems. Feel the energies being
released gradually; it’s the vital energy of life that you derive from your
food.
Make sure to eat with a serene
mind. Don’t indulge in negative emotions while eating.
You would best experience the
food when you eat without speaking. Concentrating on the eating experience
would make it feel even better.
Make it a point to eat till the
time you still have some feelings for the food. If you tend to overeat, the
feelings that you were experiencing moments ago will vapor away fast. So indulge
in moderation.
