A simple eating practice: don't refill your fork until you've swallowed completely. Chew slowly, taste fully, notice what's there. The speaker says this one habit can ripple into how present you are everywhere else.
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Number 1, you don't put more things on your fork or your spoon. You don't refill your fork or spoon until you've completely swallowed what's in your mouth already. This is what gets you to savor and linger with the pleasure you are already experiencing and feel gratitude for it. Otherwise, you just go through life. You see, it becomes a metaphor for your life. So you You chew, you thoroughly chew it, you experience it. It's okay. It's okay even if you're doing something else. You could be watching the podcast while you're doing it. It's all right. You don't have to be so concentrating on your orange, but you don't take the next bite out of life until you've savored the first one. This becomes a practice that expands. You know how in yoga they say you expand off your mat? Well, this is expanding one bite at a time.