Every meal is a doorway.
What if you paused before walking through it?
This week’s practice is simple — deceptively so.
Choose one meal — just one — and do the following:
Before you eat, pause.
Look at your food. Notice its colors, shapes, textures. Let the eyes feast first.Smell it.
Breathe in the scent. What memories or sensations does it evoke, if any? Let the scent arrive fully before the taste.Take just one bite.
Not to judge it. Not to analyze it. Just to receive it.
Let that first bite land fully in the mouth. Don’t rush to chew.
Notice where it touches — how it feels on the tongue, the teeth, the roof of your mouth.Chew slowly.
And notice when the impulse to swallow arrives.
Can you linger just a moment longer?Then — and only then — swallow.
Watch the food enter the body.
Imagine it becoming part of you — not just biologically, but energetically.Return to eating… or don’t.
If you choose to continue the meal, do so with as much presence as possible.
If one bite is enough to open the door, then sit in that doorway for a while.
Optional journal prompt:
“What did I discover in a single bite that I often miss in the whole meal?”
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