Meditation Before Meals

Historically, people throughout history have had time of silence meditation before they eat a meal. Just doing some simple breathwork, box breathing. Four seconds in, hold for four seconds out for four seconds, say a little mantra, this food is healing. It's amazing. I will digest it well. Or say a prayer. People have done that for thousands of years. Doing that for about three to five minutes before you eat a meal will actually calm down your sympathetic nervous system and actually get your parasympathetic nervous system ready to digest your food. Just the experience of being at your meal, smelling the food, experiencing the stuff around you, releases about 25% of your digestive enzymes. So something like a pre meal meditative prayer practice for about three to five minutes can have a massive impact on your meal, how you digest it, and its effect on your body.