30 minutes isn't long enough to eat a meal. That's the time we get on break, to punch in & out, take a pit stop, maybe say hi to the nice peeps in floral, grab some tea...
And eat. Thich Nhat Hahn says to chew each mouthful 50 times to be mindful and to prepare it for its journey through the digestive system. It's a beautiful thing, if you can do it. I can only make it to 30 at best. Even that is a really, really, really long time. And what is there to do then but take it in? Fully.
We seem to either think too much about our food -- calories, fat, carbs, whatever -- or we think nothing of it, shoveling it in while we drive, watch TV, text... or blog.
My call to action is to have us BE with our food, thoughtfully -- not as an object to be obsessed over or overlooked but as part of us. Because it is. It is the stuff we are made of.
If we love our food, we love ourselves. I believe this.
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