Feed Your Soul by Carly Pollack

Author:Carly Pollack
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New World Library

Conscious Eating, Conscious Being

A kind of awareness beyond the thinking mind must occur for you to drive your food behaviors from your higher, more intuitive inner guide. To heighten this voice and make it easier to hear, you must practice awareness throughout the day, not just as you eat but as a constant state of being. I’ve never met anyone who was able to consciously eat and then mentally check out of the remainder of her day. This reminds me of an old saying: “The way we do anything is the way we do everything.” To me it speaks to any behavior pattern causing some imbalance in my life. I can immediately ask myself, “How do I see this pattern show up in other areas?” The beauty of this practice is that it seeps into every aspect of your life. As you practice consciousness with food, you begin to practice consciousness of being, awareness of the present moment beyond the mind. This is precisely why it’s impossible to separate permanent health from a deep spiritual path of self-development and exploration. Food is just a touchstone to show you where the work needs to be done for you to be healthier and happier as a whole.

This doesn’t mean you have to be Buddha on a mountaintop to become a conscious eater. I go in and out of awareness all day long, just like everyone else. At times I feel incredibly present and unidentified with my mind’s constant ramblings, and at other times I am staring into space, completely under the spell of whatever nonsense my mind is telling me, utterly unconscious to the present moment. The mark of your success is not how long you can stay in a fully aware and present state of being; it is how quickly you can recover to that place once you notice you’re not there. As Eckhart Tolle teaches, “The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being....Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life.”

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