Segment taken from the book “Eating the Moment – 141 mindful practices to overcome overeating one meal at a time” by Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D.
The meanin
g we assign to objects around us predetermines their function: a tomato in the hand of a chef means food, whereas a tomato in the hand of a heckler means feedback. You see the objects that we collectively refer to as “food” can mean other things besides being edible. Learning to recognize these other uses and meanings allow us to break the over conditioned associations between food and eating. Here are some ways to look at food as something other than food.
Food as art: inhaling life into nature morte. Food is both the subject of art and an artistic medium. Read the rest of this post
