EATING + INTEGRATION
CONTEXT
This is an excerpt from the tail end of a recent Dietary Regimen Analysis. It touches on a principle that remains fundamental to my own everyday experience + points at perhaps the most important benefit of the Dietary Regimen itself. I hope you will enjoy it.
TRANSCRIPT
You know, it’s interesting. We set aside time for journaling our gratitude. We set aside time for meditation, reflection, or prayer. But this whole idea of dedicating time to practice is remarkably inefficient. It can blind us to the opportunity of real life - that very most fertile ground of human experience.
In my case, I have built a life on this philosophy of integration. I honestly don’t believe that we need to ‘set aside time’ for any of these things; in fact, I think it may do more damage even than good to segregate practice or learning to these little pockets of time or place in our experience.
And this is such a subtle thing, you know? We go to the yoga class when in fact we’re using our bodies all the time. Do you see? It’s not what we learn in the class that transforms us; it’s how we make use of the learning in life. True practice can never be separate from everyday life.
CONTINUED…
So how do you integrate such deep practices into ordinary, everyday acts of living? How do you let life itself become the ground of an ongoing practice? How can you cultivate mindfulness, gratitude, love in the moment to moment progression of life?
Well… that’s what you get to do now thanks to something as simple as eating.
SHALL WE BEGIN?
If you are ready to illuminate the ordinary act of eating, I invite you to book a Dietary Regimen on the other side of this button.