no. 9: don't eat another bite 'til you read this

 LISTEN UP.
It's a good reminder for me and us all to NEVER eat when you feel stressed, upset or otherwise peaceful.

WHY?
When you are stressed your nervous system is in "fight or flight" mode, ready to handle a crisis or physical exertion. What this means is that all of the maintenance functions of your parasympathetic nervous system: like digestion of food has been paused. So if you eat while stressed the food will not be properly digested but sit, putrefy, and ferment in your digestive tract. Not sexy, in the truest sense of the word. Undigested food can lead to a host of beauty and health issues like including problem skin, indigestion, mental imbalances. 

NOURISHMENT RITUAL
Prior to diving into your food:

• TAKE three deep-controlled breaths inhaling through the nose as your tummy expands and exhaling through the nose as your tummy contracts.
• GET PRESENT to the purpose of eating: for nourishment, community, pleasure
• GIVE THANKS for the life that has been given for you to live, the grower/preparer of the food. 
• ASK that the food be purified and blessed for the nourishment of your body. 
• EAT SLOWLY, mindfully and in gratitude being present to the sensual experience of eating: the smells, the taste, texture, heat, etc. 

There's a reason many of us where taught to say "Grace" before eating.
Today be an example and REMIND your family and friends to EAT IN PEACE today and see how your eating experience transforms your life. 
 
 ♡ ☆ ♀
Akua

​Day 22 of 9/13 Moons 
Waning Gibbous