pain Owwwwww. I cheesed my back. Again. It has a lot to do with my weight, which has been trending upwards. I now weigh more than I ever have before in my life. Yesterday was the Dunkirk of my fight against obesity. Matt and Kara came over last night and brought these wonderful brownies. Picture logs being processed by a saw mill.
In meditation, the goal is to be aware. The first things you encounter as you practice this awareness are your own automatic responses. During dinner, I became briefly aware of myself smashing food into my face as fast as I could. There was little conscious thought involved and very little enjoyment, just automatic processing.
To paraphrase something that John Cowan wrote, the way we often try to experience food is to catapult ourselves into a hot fudge sundae. The alternative is to become very aware of every bite and sip while eating, so that a chocolate cookie and a cup of tea can be savored one carefully considered bite and sip at a time and make for a full experience.
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