Deepen Awareness With A Chocolate Meditation

Introduction

Eating is something we regularly do mindlessly, out of habit, or while multitasking. When we decelerate and produce mindfulness to our eating, we make space for insight to arise. Practice this chocolate meditation to learn more about your relationship with food, together with your body, and with craving.

One of essentially the most well-known mindful eating exercises is the raisin meditation, attributed to Jon Kabat-Zinn and the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program. This exercise helps us to bring mindful attention to something we typically don’t trouble paying much attention to. The raisin, for most individuals, tends to be a neutral snack.

Chocolate, however, is something lots of us link to craving or indulgence. Practicing chocolate mindfulness can assist deepen awareness regarding the bias, habits and judgements we bring to food and ourselves.