Mindful Eating

Three aspects to consider when eating:

• Where it comes from?
• Is it organic and ethical?
• Are we rushed or relaxed?

One of the most important parts of enjoying a meal, is to take a moment and appreciate the life that has been sacrificed to become an edible food source, to nourish our body. Whether you're about to munch on an apple, bowl of spinach, chicken legs, or sirloin steak, one of our friends (plant or animal) within our circle of life has been taken. We then process this nourishment and then share the remains and feed it  to our pet, our garden, or our birds.The only strong negative part to this mindful eating is that those of us in the Western society, don't dig a whole in the ground and pass our #2's to the soil. We are spoiled with toilet bowls that pipe into locations many of us have no idea where, and would rather not know.

Appreciating and being thankful for our food is important. If you want to take it one step further, ensure you are helping out our animal and environmental ethics buy choosing to eat organic, GMO, pasture fed, foods. Buy paying the extra dollar for the ethical foods, we are giving thanks to our plant and animal friends.

Ensuring you eat your meals in a calm manner signify mindful eating because you're savoring, enjoying, and also taking into the stress and work your digestive system needs to undergo in order to absorb and break down the food you're fueling your body. Eating slowly, relaxed, and not distracted, will make the digestion process easier for your organs, and you'll be less likely to over eat.