{"id":63,"date":"2016-01-06T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/?p=63"},"modified":"2021-01-17T21:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:12:31","slug":"2016-01-06-nourish-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/2016-01-06-nourish-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"January 6 &#8211; nourish yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>One of Sharon Salzberg&#8217;s &#8220;stealth&#8221; meditations is<br \/>\nEat a meal mindfully, noticing the colors, the flavors, the texture of what you are eating.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I tried mindful eating was the &#8220;raisin meditation&#8221; in Jeanne&#8217;s MBSR class. Here are some instructions for that simple exercise (text; exercise takes ~5 minutes):<br \/>\n<a class=\"postlink\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160203053053\/http:\/\/hfhc.ext.wvu.edu\/r\/download\/114469\">http:\/\/hfhc.ext.wvu.edu\/r\/download\/114469<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0b\/Single_raisin.jpg\/320px-Single_raisin.jpg\" alt=\"Image\"><br \/>\nEvery time I try this, I&#8217;m still amazed at the amazing nature of a raisin! Who knew that a raisin made &#8220;that sound&#8221; when you gently roll it between your fingers?<\/p>\n<p>On a similar vein, you can check out The Headspace meditation podcasts: Eating, which discusses mindfully eating a something like an orange. (~12 minutes)<br \/>\n<a class=\"postlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/audio\/2011\/jan\/26\/headspace-eating\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/audio\/2011\/jan\/26\/headspace-eating<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning to attentively eat an apple at lunch today. What about you?<\/p>\n<p>With best wishes,<br \/>\nAndrea G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, One of Sharon Salzberg&#8217;s &#8220;stealth&#8221; meditations is Eat a meal mindfully, noticing the colors, the flavors, the texture of what you are eating. The first time I tried mindful eating was the &#8220;raisin meditation&#8221; in Jeanne&#8217;s MBSR class. Here are some instructions for that simple exercise (text; exercise takes ~5 minutes): http:\/\/hfhc.ext.wvu.edu\/r\/download\/114469 Every time I try\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/2016-01-06-nourish-yourself\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,132,32,48],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2016","tag-daily-life","tag-eating","tag-jeanne-corrigal","tag-sharon-salzberg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}