Geneen Roth argues that how you eat mirrors how you live. She draws on Marion Woodman's idea of "soul speed" to show why slowing down, even for ten minutes, matters. Eating meditations reveal what you actually believe about pleasure, joy, and taking up space.
How we eat is how we live. Our relationship with food is an exact microcosm of our relationship to being alive. The reason I adore working with issues of food and doing those eating meditations is because it's a snapshot of our relationship to being alive. Do I nourish myself? Do I believe I'm allowed to take pleasure in this? Do I believe I'm allowed to have joy? Do I believe I'm allowed to take up space? And actually spend time on myself? Or do I need to hurry up, hurry up, hurry up? Marion Woodman, the Jungian psychologist, talked about going at soul speed, doing your life at soul speed, slowing down. And if you can't do that all the time, you do it for 10 minutes a day.
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