Did you ever stop to realize that when you eat, you can also meditate mindfully?  That the choice of the foods you eat assists in formulating your intrinsic connection to your Higher Self?  That you are actually having a conversation with yourself via the food/body connection?

As we eat and digest, each food type sparks a physical chain reaction that inflames or heals, sustains or leaves us hungry.  We literally tell our bodies what we want for ourselves in the form of food amongst other things, such as how we breathe and the way we mentally process our world.  Food is the physical manifestation of bodily nourishment and through the body we can attain access to our Higher Self, or what some refer to as the Soul.

Many are beginning or have begun a path of spirituality in lieu of an unfulfilled materialistic mode of being.  People want to know themselves, not through external stimuli, but by going within.  Yoga, meditation, prayer, and a return to a simplistic life all become vehicles to discover their spirituality.  Each individual’s path is unique to them.

All on the spiritual path have a deep desire to connect to their Higher Self, but with the demands of our Western lifestyle, daily yogic retreats are not always a possibility.  We are lucky if we can practice enough presence of the moment when caught in traffic or standing in the grocery line.  Here is where food comes in….it’s a way to connect, whenever you choose to nourish your body through the language of food.

"Mealtime can be a form of meditation."

Food is Mother Earth’s milk, in an adult formula.  Just as a child flourishs on the pure milk of its mother, we can flourish on the purest food of our shared Mother Earth.   Consider that if there were specks of mud on a window pane, you wouldn’t be able to “see” the whole view of what lies beyond.   Disease and emotional blocks exist as “specks of mud” within us that block our view of communication with our Higher Selves.  Pure food choices can heal the body and can help

achieve a balanced hormonal advantage to tackle our emotional blocks.

Mealtime can be a form mediation for when we don’t have time for any other type of meditation.  By honoring the food that enters our body and the Earth for providing it for us, chewing slowly and deliberately, and eating with a feeling of gratitude we can begin to rebuild our physical bodies from the inside out, helping to heal our illnesses and clear away our “specks of mud” to strengthen the connection to our Higher Selves and ultimately, the Universe.