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Pavel G Somov PhD - Reinventing the Meal: How Mindfulness Can Help You Slow Down, Savor the Moment, and Reconnect with the Ritual of Eating

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Theres nothing quite like a hot, soothing bowl of soup. Its a leisurely meala purposeful one that offers pause for reflection between every savory spoonful. What if you approached every meal as if it were that delicious bowl of soup?

In Reinventing the Meal, youll learn how to reconnect with your body, mind, and world with a three-course approach to mindful eating. Inside, youll find mindfulness exercises to help you slow down and enjoy your food, pattern-interruption meditations to infuse presence into your eating life, and unique stress management tips to prevent emotional overeating. In addition, youll discover a wealth of philosophical perspectives that will inspire you to focus on the quality of your eating experience, rather than on the quantity of what you eat. Designed to help you embrace the ritual of eating (and discover the power of mindful meditation in the process), this book will ultimately change the way you view your mealsas not only sustenance for the body, but for the soul as well.

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Pavel G. Somov, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Pittsburgh, PA. He is the author ofEating the Moment, Present Perfect, The Smoke-Free Smoke Break, and The Lotus Effect. Visit his online Mindful Eating Tracker at

www.eatingthemoment.com/mindfulness-tracker.

Foreword writer Donald Altman, MA, LPC, is vice president of The Center for Mindful Eating and author of One-Minute Mindfulness and Meal by Meal.

Just as food breaks down to give us a savory experience and fuel us - photo 1

Just as food breaks down to give us a savory experience and fuel us, Reinventing the Meal breaks down the art and science of mindful eating to teach us how to enjoy and get what we need from food. Its a guide to using positive life precepts to enrich each and every dining experience from first whiff to final swallow.

Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, MEd, is the author of four books on eating, including The Food and Feelings Workbook

For years when Ive talked to friends about my mindfulness practice, Ive paraphrased a line of Thich Nhat Hanhs: You can eat the tangerine like this, says the Buddhist monk nonchalantly. Or, he suggests, enunciating with care, you can eat the tangerine like this. How satisfying to find a whole book that shows me the sublime depth of eating. Reinventing the Meal is a mindful pleasurea dessert from start to finish, and a delicious reminder of the power of awareness.

Stefanie Marlis, author of rife, fine, cloudlife, and other poetry collections

Pavel Somov brings together mindfulness practices and wisdom from Eastern traditions with scientific insights to thoughtfully challenge and inspire the reader to higher consciousness, all within the arena of the most basic of human activitieseating. He delivers a bounty of food for thought that compellingly assists us in re-imagining ourselves, as well as the meal. In an era of fast-food and fast-paced living, Reinventing the Meal offers a well-needed path toward health, serenity, and a meaningful connection to life.

Jeffrey Weise, PhD, psychologist specializing in the treatment of eating disorders with a private practice in Pittsburgh, PA

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Publishers Note

This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books

Copyright 2012 by Pavel Somov

New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

5674 Shattuck Avenue

Oakland, CA 94609

www.newharbinger.com

Cover design by Amy Shoup

Text design by Michele Waters-Kermes

Acquired by Melissa Kirk

Edited by Jasmine Star

All Rights Reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Somov, Pavel.

Reinventing the meal : how mindfulness can help you slow down, savor the moment, and reconnect with the ritual of eating / Pavel Somov, PhD ; foreword by Donald Altman, MA, LPC.

p. cm.

Summary: In Reinventing the Meal, renowned psychologist Pavel Somov presents readers with a plan for mindfully reconnecting with the comforting rituals involved in preparing and enjoying food. Chapter by chapter, this guide helps readers reinvent their relationship to food and eventually see each meditative mealtime as an opportunity to reconnect with the body, the mind, and the world at large-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-60882-101-3 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-60882-102-0 (pdf e-book) (print) -- ISBN 978-1-60882-103-7 (epub) (print)

1. Food habits--Psychological aspects. 2. Eating (Philosophy) 3. Awareness. I. Title.

TX357.S65 2012

394.120019--dc23

2012014107

To my mother, Irina, who fed my body and taught me love, and to my father, Georgy, who fed my mind and taught me freedom.

Foreword

The robotic behaviors and fixed mind-sets that drive daily eating habits and mealtime rituals are so deeply ingrained in our livespersonally, psychologically, socially, and culturallythat they often defy attempts to reshape or modify them. How many times, for example, have you heard that its better not to watch TV and eat at the same time because distraction causes you to eat mindlessly? But did your behavior change?

Heres another example: Do you have certain foods that you tend to eat and others that you avoid? Do you remember the first time you really, really tasted something? How about that first grape or the first time you ate a pea? Mentioning those foods now probably brings up a well-established group of thoughts or memories about grapes or peas as something you either like or dislikea taste you find pleasant or unpleasant. Its normal that sometime after those first tastes of a new food during childhood, we develop sets of rules or concepts about whether or how to partake of various foods. But if you stopped really tasting most of your food a long time ago, how do you start tasting it again? How do you rediscover eating?

This is the distinct challenge of mindful eating: to break free from entrenched mindless habits and experience things as they really are, including the true sensation of hunger, awareness of flavors, and numerous memories and emotions that arise while you eat, and to be present with each unfolding momentor morsel, as the case may be. The act of eating can serve as a sacred process that awakens you to all aspects of life and all of the connections that life engenders. Awakeningeven a little bitto the true nature of food, eating, and your own participation in the food chain is no small accomplishment.

As a longtime professional and author in the field of mindful eating, I rarely happen upon writings that so clearly illuminate what is at the core of all mindfulness practice: the awakening of possibility and the possibility of awakening. Pavel Somov has accomplished this in a way that is simultaneously surprising, powerful, fresh, and effective. In Reinventing the Meal, he presents a new paradigm for eating by serving up a diverse mindfulness menu consisting of appetizing anecdotes; a savory stew of fascinating scientific research, ancient wisdom, and down-to-earth mindful eating practices; and a delightful dessert of wry humor. In doing so, he stretches the limits of mindful eating, providing approaches that can help people break out of limiting styles of eating and antiquated ways of viewing themselves and the world. No matter how stuck you may feel, this book will metaphorically cleanse your palate, allowing you to start anewwith an empty plate and, more literally, a mind empty of preconceptions about food.

This book offers innovative methods for finding peace with eating, inviting self-reflection, and reconnecting with natures sacredness. In his quest to reinvent the meal, Pavel conducts a freewheeling exploration that includes such concepts as oryoki, a centuries-old Japanese eating meditation, and ahimsa, the Hindu concept of doing no harm, bringing a twenty-first-century slant to these ancient practices. And why not? We greatly need to both embrace and transcend old forms as a means of discovering new forms of expression.

Pavel doesnt sugarcoat the realities of eating, and he refuses to be limited by current concepts. Rather, he takes an imaginative leap and breaks down old models of the meal to concoct a rich new recipe for making food matter again. He asks that instead of opening your mouth, you open your mind. Prepare to be challenged (I know I was!) as

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