Guided ManoYatra tool

Mindful Eating

Mindful eating, in its classic form, means giving a single small piece of food several minutes of full sensory attention — looking, feeling, smelling, and finally tasting it slowly.

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How it works

This is the standard first exercise in mindfulness training and it is not really about food. Spending nine minutes on something normally consumed in seconds demonstrates how much ordinary experience passes unattended. Most people find the gap between the two modes surprising, and that surprise is the teaching point.

Grounded in

the raisin exercise from MBSR, Jon Kabat-Zinn.

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