Reinventing the Meal

Somov, Pavel G

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781608821013
• eBook ISBN: 9781608821037
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Self Improvement

There's nothing quite like a hot, soothing bowl of soup. It's a leisurely meal—a purposeful one that offers pause for reflection between every savory spoonful. What if you approached every meal as if it were that delicious bowl of soup?

In Reinventing the Meal, you'll learn how to reconnect with your body, mind, and world with a three-course approach to mindful eating. Inside, you'll find mindfulness exercises to help you slow down and enjoy your food, pattern-interruption meditations to infuse presence into your eating life, and unique stress management tips to prevent emotional overeating. In addition, you'll discover a wealth of philosophical perspectives that will inspire you to focus on the quality of your eating experience, rather than on the quantity of what you eat. Designed to help you embrace the ritual of eating (and discover the power of mindful meditation in the process), this book will ultimately change the way you view your meals—as not only sustenance for the body, but for the soul as well.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Escape from Circularity
• When the Meal-Wheel Rolled In
• First Course: Reconnecting with Your Body
• Second Course: Reconnecting with Your Mind
• Third Course: Reconnecting with Your World
• Reclaiming the Calorie
• Reinventing the Oryoki Meal
• Reinventing the Dessert
• Reinventing Fasting
• Reconsidering the Ahimsa Meal
• Reconciling Social Eating and Mindful Eating
• Rethinking Obesity
• Reinventing the Iconography of Eating
• Reinventing the Species
• The Sapience of Eating
• References