Breakfast For One...

I've started this new thing recently of having breakfast with myself...

I've always loved breakfast. It's my favourite meal and I love to eat out as well.

Usually I eat out with my friends because I think eating with people is the best way to get to know them, a few of their habits, likes and dislikes, chat and laugh and spend quality time with them. Truly getting to enjoy their company.

But recently I've taken up reading Kinfolk magazine. They really indulge in the love and craft of eating, work and living.

I read an article, 'Dining For One' in the most recent issue and it was all about eating alone. About letting go of the cliche of it and allowing yourself the opportunity to enjoy the time to really get to know yourself.

I try to always have breakfast at home before I go to work, either in the kitchen when everyone's left, on the porch or even taking my time to leave for work from my guy's house after he's already left. Munching on a hurried toast while putting on mascara.. 

But today I took it a step further and took myself out to breakfast.

I've been reading or rather re-reading a book called 'Living Buddha, Living Christ' by Thich Nhat Hanh and the author spoke about 'mindful eating'. I should tell you that I'm not religious, I don't go to church and I'm not going to say something cliche like 'I'm spiritual' ...

But I would like to think I hold strongly to some morals and teaching that my mother and grandmother passed on to me. And mother would always say, 'Take the good in everything and all your experiences and leave the bad'. So I am naturally open to picking up the bible, Koran, the book about Mary and the book on Buddhism and taking from it whatever helps me through my own life's journey...

But I strayed...

'Mindful eating is an important practice. It nourishes awareness in us.'

In Buddhist monasteries they eat their meals in silence and give their full attention to food. It is a source of quiet happiness. They eat only food that nourishes them and prevents illness.

It's kinda like quieting your mind.

If you've ever tired mediation, it's hard! Believe me I've tried.

To quiet your mind is so difficult with all the hundreds of things we have going on every day in that brain of ours.

But if you've ever noticed how you can disappear into your head when you are doing something you are really interested in or really into like a good book, an activity or cooking. Think of 'mindful eating' like that. — Quiet Time with Yourself.