Savoring Moments Through Mindful Eating

Written by Deva Ratnakara


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As you serverepparttar food and place it on your plate, be mindful ofrepparttar 129992 fact that this will be nourishing your body. Whatever you choose to place on your plate will ultimately serve as fuel for your activities and contribute to your energy and wellness.

Now, take a bite ofrepparttar 129993 food you have served yourself. Chew slowly, and pay attention torepparttar 129994 flavor and texture of this bite. Feelrepparttar 129995 food sliding down your throat, and consider how it will be digested by your system to create energy for your body. With each bite, noticerepparttar 129996 sensation of chewing and swallowing. Savorrepparttar 129997 taste. Swallow completely before taking another bite. As you takerepparttar 129998 last bite, pay attention torepparttar 129999 fullness in your belly, and noterepparttar 130000 satisfaction of completing a mindful meal.

Try eating mindfully during one meal a day for a week. For your regular, faster meals, notice when you find yourself eating without paying attention. Intentionally slow down so that you can enjoy that one bite before speeding up again. Doing this regularly will give you a much better understanding of what you are feeding your body—and how.

By becoming more mindful of our eating, we learn to pay attention to what feeds us, both literally and figuratively. Our food choices affect our wellness, and our approach to eating spills over intorepparttar 130001 way we handle our work, our relationships, and our lives in general. We must learn to recognize patterns in our behavior in order to create more awareness and harmony.

Mindlessly chewing whatever we fork into our mouths is akin to ignoring our actions in general. With a few moments of daily mindful eating, you will develop a much greater awareness of your choices and their power over all aspects of your life.



Deva Ratnakara has been teaching mindfulness and yoga for over 20 years. He lives in Sri Lanka where he is the head of a 500-member meditation group. To learn about the retreat he is offering in February 2005, please visit http://truemindfulness.org.


Best Places To Live, Enjoy Life, Start a Business, or Retire: A Novel Approach.

Written by James Clayton Napier


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So, based on her advice, here I am — writing this article from Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas. The company I work with is located in Phoenix, Arizona.

Perfect? No place is perfect, but I do sense many ofrepparttar difficult aspects of my birth chart, as pointed out to me, are eased and opportunities are opening. Relocation astrologers — notrepparttar 129991 kind who sellrepparttar 129992 “cheapy” reports —repparttar 129993 real ones who work with you personally and care about your life, are onrepparttar 129994 cutting edge exciting developments in astrology.

The psychologist Abraham Maslow spoke about our human need for money, security, home — a sense of place, community and belongingness — our desire for love and appreciation, for expression of our creativity and our desire for self-actualization (becoming what we may be in this lifetime).

For most of usrepparttar 129995 prospect of a start in a new location reinvigorates us.

I’d like to share with you my personal favorite definition of security. “Security is not a place of ideological stability but a direction inspired by curiosity.”

The teenage boy living in a rural Ohio community, of course, had no idea his dreams & travels and moves (which were business and family related), would turn out to be invisible threads leading to relocation/locational astrology and a new way to make life choices.

I wish you allrepparttar 129996 best in your life choices. Consider relocation astrology if you feel stuck where you are currently living.

Joseph Campbell,repparttar 129997 great writer and lecturer told his audiences, “Your sacred place is where you find yourself again and again.”

Helping us find our best or sacred place to live, work, retire, and enjoy our lives as we desire to enjoy them is what relocation astrology is about. I suggest you look into it when facing or contemplating a major life change.

“Afoot and lighthearted I take torepparttar 129998 open road, healthy, free, andrepparttar 129999 world before me. The long brown path before me treading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune, strong and content I travelrepparttar 130000 open road.” --American poet Walt Whitman, The Open Road

Life, indeed, is quite a journey isn’t it? Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote: “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”

I’ve donerepparttar 130001 traveling hopefully part. There is much to be said, I can tell you, for ARRIVING and getting SETTLED IN!



As a television broadcaster, James Clayton Napier has shared meaning-filled conversations with film stars, recording artists, US Presidents and first ladies, state governors, world-famous authors, scientists, and people from most every walk of life. He is presently Media Director for an educational corporation.

http://www.astro-earth-relocation.com/james%20by%20phone.htm

e-mail: jamesbyphone@aol.com




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