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Eating more food than
our bodies can handle
is not the antidote to
global starvation. Let
the food go if you truly
cannot eat it.
and causes your body to pay attention.
3. Practice hara hachi bu. The Japanese rule of mindful eating
is, “Eight parts out of 10 full.” While putting down your utensil,
check in with your body’s fullness. Don’t worry if you can’t tell
right away; keep practicing and reaffirming your desire to know
and it will come.
4. Complain (kindly). If I had today’s lunch to do again, I
would have mentioned to my food server that the salad was way
too big. Most retailers know if five customers ask for something,
it’s time to make a change. Be one of the five. Speak up.
5. Stop cleaning your plate. As Frances Moore Lappé said in
her groundbreaking book, Diet for a Small Planet, “Hunger is not
caused by lack of food but by lack of democracy.” Eating more
food than our bodies can handle is not the antidote to global
starvation. Let the food go if you truly cannot eat it.
Recovering the natural dignity of our bodies and reclaiming the inherent sanity of our eating habits opens the portal to
a transformed self and a healed world. Buddhist teacher and
scholar Trungpa Rinpoche wrote:
“When you make an effort to eat mindfully, you find that life
is worth much more than you had expected … You find that life
is more sacred … People found the same thing two thousand
five hundred years ago. They found it and they taught it to u