So we're first going to hold our food in our hand.
Make sure you get one of these as well.
Okay,
So we're going to use the sense of touch first.
We're going to do just kind of as we did with our previous exercise,
Just focusing on what does this feel like with our sense of touch.
You can squeeze it.
Okay,
Then we're going to,
We're also obviously we're using our sense of sight as we're doing this.
If you want to just take a moment to kind of like just go all over with your eyes and then we can bring it up to our nose and smell it.
Might not be a lot of sense of smell since it's dried.
And if you want you can even see if there's any sound.
All right,
Now that we've explored this with more senses than we normally explore our food,
Let's place it in our mouth.
And don't chew.
It's gonna be very challenging.
If you want you can close your eyes,
But you don't have to.
What's the initial physical sensation?
Like what does it physically feel like?
Kind of move it around your mouth.
There are probably some initial tastes that kind of initially you're going to feel.
But if you want to just kind of feel it,
You can kind of feel it.
And then as we take the,
But don't do it yet,
But when you take the first bite you're going to kind of just really bring a lot of awareness.
And again if it helps to close your eyes to be present for it,
You can notice the physical changes.
How it physically feels,
The physical changes of the object,
And the taste changes.
So go ahead and take that first bite.
There might be even thoughts and emotions that come up,
Like I want to keep chewing.
Moving it around in your mouth.
And for the most part we're,
You know,
We have a lot of,
We're mostly focusing on taste and physical sensations in this practice right now.
There might be a little bit of smell that comes up.
Or you might be able to actually hear the noises in your mouth as you're chewing.
And so the practice as we do this really,
Really slow version of eating is the same as the other practice we've explored so far.
We're bringing curiosity to something that we do all the time.
Bringing curiosity and connection to what our body is experiencing right now.
The direct experience of our body.
And acceptance and awareness of that.
Acceptance of that.
As we talked about,
This may bring up like,
Eating often brings up little things of joy and pleasure,
Because eating keeps us alive and so it usually makes us happy.
It can also bring up other things,
All those little things that are fluttering up,
All the kind of associations we have with this moment.
All of them are okay.
Just noticing.
And then probably you're going to notice that you're eating.
Just noticing.
And then probably you may have finished the food,
But if you haven't,
Go ahead and finish it.
And swallow it.
And you can close with some kind of intentional thoughts of gratitude and thinking about how many people it took to get this apple or orange or tomato or peach to you.
The farmers that grew it.
The people that drove the trucks to get here.
The people that made the plastic bags that held the things.
The people that made the easy up to keep the farmer protected from the sun when I purchased it.
There's a lot that went into bringing that little tiny morsel that we just enjoyed for six minutes to this moment.
