Chocolate Meditation

Have your favorite piece of chocolate or snack ready for this sensory exploration meditation. This simple guide will allow for a new way to cultivate mindful moments throughout your day and set the path for noticing more opportunities to take your time with activities you would typically be on autopilot for.

Transcript

Hello everyone. Today we are going to mindfully eat. I will refer to chocolate in this meditation, But feel free to fill in the snack of your preference. So once you have that ready, Let's begin. We'll start as we do with each meditation practice, Adjusting our bodies, Connecting to our breath, Noticing tension release just by our awareness of this moment and everything that we're experiencing right here and right now. Feel free to set any intentions you may have. Perhaps you'll want to feel more curious about all your sensory cues in this practice. Maybe you're really going to want to take your time with each sense. Once you've set that intention, Start to attune to your observations of the chocolate or snack that you have in front of you. Allow yourself to inhale the scent. Really take your time noticing what it's like, Observing if any other part of your body is responding. Next, Really take your time looking at the chocolate or snack in front of you. See how that affects all of your senses. See if you notice something that you wouldn't have. Anything that surprises you about your observations of the chocolate. And of course, Anything that is familiar as well. What is it like to observe that? To appreciate what's to come as you break a piece off and continue to examine all your sensory cues around the chocolate. And if you're comfortable, You might close your eyes to really focus on your other senses, Especially our sense of taste as we slowly take a small bite of the chocolate, Letting it sit on your tongue and melt slowly in your mouth. Notice the flavors becoming completely absorbed and all the other sensations surrounding taste, As well as how your breath and your body are feeling in this moment. See if it's possible to hold the chocolate on your tongue, Letting it melt, Noticing any struggle with that, Any craving or desire to chew the chocolate, To finish it up quickly. Notice all the different flavors in this one bite. And then when it feels right for you, You can slowly swallow the piece that you have now. Take your time reflecting on this practice, Really allowing yourself to hold space for any thoughts, Sensations, And emotions surrounding this experience. Perhaps inviting other seemingly simple, Mindful activities to arise throughout the rest of the day. Ready to take a few more deep breaths and trust your ability to see these opportunities to be more present throughout the rest of the day. Thank you for your practice.