360 Degrees of Mindful Living

Sunday morning: trigger time – paper on the doorstep, coffee brewing, snowed in (still, kinda), so, nowhere special to go – a recipe for a mindless eating morning.

I get a glass soup bowl and warm up some lentil soup. As I notice the second-day jelling of soup flavors and the aroma of the toasted sprouted grain bread (yesterday I totally missed out on its smell, must’ve been the flavor of the fresh-made soup that got my attention), I am seeing the fingertips of my right hand that craddles the glass soup bowl as I spoon with my non-dominant (left).

Each spoonful, more of my hand emerges, now the palm becomes seen – the hand empties, stomach fills up and the mind still stays open to what is.

I skip on Stevia as I get a second cup of coffee (this time with almond “milk”) – sweetness (whichever way you get it) tends to trump other flavors, eclipsing the eating experience.

And here I am (pausing to take a sip of coffee), punching in my “mindful tracker” card.  A mindful breakfast with consciousness still online.

Are you tracking your mindfuls? Are you journaling about your mindful eating moments?

JOIN THE ONLY ONLINE NONSTOP MINDFUL EATING MINDSTREAM – 24/7/365 -  NO SIGN-UP REQUIRED – EACH TIME YOU SHARE A MINDFUL EATING MOMENT, YOU’RE LEADING THE NEXT MIND (THAT’S READING ABOUT IT) BACK TO ITSELF – SOMEONE’S ALWAYS EATING… JOIN THE MINDFUL EATING CIRCLE … BREAK THE BREAD OF MINDFULNESS TOGETHER… POST… READ… FOLLOW… LEAD…NOW:

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and the author of "Eating the Moment" (New Harbinger, 2008), "Present Perfect" (NH, 2010), "The Lotus Effect" (NH, 2010), "Smoke Break" (in press, 2011), and "Reinventing the Meal" (in press, 2012). He is in private practice in Pittsburgh, PA.

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    Last reviewed: 9 Jul 2011

APA Reference
Somov, P. (2011). Breakfast of Consciousness Again: Tracking Mindfuls. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 14, 2012, from http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2010/02/breakfast-of-consciousness-again-tracking-mindfuls/

 

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