- How do you currently relate to food? How do you make choices regarding what to eat? What memories do certain foods evoke? From where does your food typically come?
- How would you eat differently if you were not only feeding your body, but also your soul?
- What is holding you back?
- In what ways can you be more intentional about your food choices?
If the Buddha Came to Dinner, Hale Sofia Schatz
With more Americans overweight and obesity at epidemic proportions, it's become clear that physical health isn't enough of an impetus for people to make changes. I don't know anybody who wants to be regarded as just a mechanical, physical body. So, too, we need to shift our awareness of health from the physical to the total person- body, heart, mind and spirit. Only then can we make the connection that food we ingest directly feeds all parts of ourselves, thereby profoundly influencing the quality of our lives.
(4) And the mixed multitude that was among them had a strong craving; and the people of Israel also wept again, and said, 'Who shall give us meat to eat? (5) We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (6) but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all; beside this manna before our eyes.— (7) And the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium. (8) The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and seethed it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. (9) And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.