Mona Sharma and Speaker A argue that wellness rituals like meditation and breathwork stay superficial without inner work and conscious awareness. Speaker A describes how pausing to notice chewing, feel gratitude, and recognize nourishment transforms eating from mindless habit into genuine healing.
I always say it doesn't matter how much green juice you drink. If you haven't done the inner work, you're going to be unhealthy and miserable.
When it comes to wellness these days, treating our wellness rituals becomes like, checklist. It's habitual. So for a lot of people, it's like, you know, every day, all right, meditated, did my breath work, woke up, did my red light, whatever it is. But they're not dropping into the experience. So are they really rooting them or are they uprooting them? Uprooting yourself from feeling great?
Yeah, when you position it that way. But that's one thing that I uproot with, is around food, and it becomes a thing where I don't even know that I'm eating. Sometimes I have the food that I eat, I got it set, and I, like, get that over with. I realized that when I just kind of sit down and actually think about chewing and think about, like, oh, how grateful I am to have food, and, like, how this is nourishing my body and sometimes even like a blessing for the food that I'm eating, it changes things.