How to Eat More Slowly and Mindfully

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hi everybody welcome back I have a really important topic today that I know probably comes up for most people we all come to our eating habits in different ways but for me I notice I eat too fast and so some of you may be slow eaters and God bless you I love you and I wish I could do more of what you do and I welcome you to share your comments below and tell us how you do it but this topic is about how to eat slower and more mindfully so we really do welcome all of you out there who are slow eaters please let know your tricks but for me you know I've I've lived in a a way where I've been just moving really fast and constantly just in this next phase or moving into this next thing that I need to do and that is something that shows up in my food habits as well and so I find myself just sort of sitting down and just chomping going really fast and I also stand up while I'm eating and I'm eating while I'm cooking and it's just all these bad habits become such a big part of my experience with food and so I wanted to give some of the tips that I've been using that have success sucessfully helped though they have to continue to be a daily momentto moment practice but they're really really helpful in becoming more Mindful and centered while you're eating and so the first one is to really invite Spirit into your meal and so you can do this through a prayer you can do this through an intention but just say thank you Spirit Angels guides whoever you believe in thank you for eating with me and so it's this invisible force that you're inviting into your presence into your being and allowing that presence to calm you you and so it steps you out of who you think you are as this crazy fast-paced person and allows an energy greater than you to step in and move through you while you're supposed to be doing something quite sacred so inviting Spirit to eat with you and so you even if you're eating alone you're never alone anymore and then the next step I think this is just a very practical tool that was suggested to me that definitely works is to eat with chopsticks and so just started to eat with chopsticks and I think that that really really has been helping me because it just allows me to be more aware and more mind ful if you're eating with others just start to talk more I find that if I talk more while I'm at a meal I'll eat slower and make sure you're not talking while you're eating because that's typically what I will do is like Chomp while I'm speaking so putting your fork down and having more of a conversation and being more present in the experience of what's happening around that meal not just being so focused on the food and so these are sort of practical and spiritual tips that can all be merged well together but I also want to learn from you this is something I've been struggling with for while and I'd love to hear your tips on how to eat more mindfully so I welcome you to leave those tips in the comments below let us know what works for you if you have prayers if you have meditations if you have just very simple tools like Chopsticks just let us know what they are and put them in the comments below and I send so many prayers to all of you to have beautiful mindful meals have a wonderful day satam