Short spiritual teaching (YouTube talk) by David Ghiyam about using mindful meditation while eating to connect with the internal energy of food. The speaker advises pausing before eating, viewing food as nourishment for the soul (described as "certainty"), and claims that doing so transforms physical eating into a source of miracles while avoiding strengthening negative tendencies like addiction, fear, anger, and jealousy.
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When you eat food, any kind of food, here's a meditation you can do in order to connect to the sparks of energy, sparks of miracles that exist within the food. And many people don't know that. If you just eat without consciousness, if you just eat because you're hungry, if you just eat because it is emotional for you to eat, then the energy that you draw from the food goes to your negative side and actually strengthens the power of addiction inside of us. When we eat food and we think it's just physical and not spiritual, we sustain our fears, we sustain our anger, we sustain our jealousy. Next time when you eat, pause, look at the food. Meditate that you are not eating to satisfy your body, consciousness. But meditate that you are satisfying the power of your soul. And what is your soul? It is certainty. Certainty that only this moment exists. Certainty that everything is for the good. So next time, whether it's a glass of water, a smoothie, or a meal, just pause and meditate that you want to connect to the internal energy of that food, to nourish your soul. And by nourishing your soul, you're nurturing your certainty. And with certainty, you'll create great miracles.
