As a follow-up to our book excerpt from If The Buddha Came to Dinner, Halé has these practical tips for daily nourishment practice:
1. Ask your body what it needs in this moment.
Take cues from your body—not what you crave or your mind wants, but what you genuinely need for strong energy and mental clarity.
2. Fuel up instead of fill up.
Use the fuel test to notice how you feel 1-2 hours after a meal. Energy strong? Thoughts clear? Heart Open? If so, then you know that food is good fuel for you.
3. Free yourself from the salt and sugar pendulum.
Expand the tastes you eat every day: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and spicy.
4. Eat land and sea vegetables.
Increase the amount of land and sea vegetables to keep your body and spirit feeling vibrant and light.5. Don’t just feed your taste buds.
Let food nourish all of your senses. The more engaged you are with the smell, textures, colors, even the sounds of your food, the more deeply food will satisfy you and the less likely you will be to overindulge.
6. Give your body a rest from digestion.
Give your body a rest from digestion so it can have a chance to repair and rejuvenate itself. A 12 hour rest from digestion is ideal, try not to eat late in the evening.About Halé Sofia Schatz
Halé Sofia Schatz has been inspiring people to nourish their bodies and spirits for more than 30 years. As an author, nourishment educator, consultant, her pioneering work with food, health, and healing offers a joyous and supportive approach to the intimate questions about how we feed ourselves. She is the author of If the Buddha Came to Dinner: How to Nourish your Body to Awaken Your Spirit (Hyperion, 2004).Visit Halé's website at www.heartofnourishment.com.
