Did you ever think of Prayer or Intention as an aid to weight-loss? Prayer and/or Intention make the food we eat take on a holiness. We benefit when we honor the food we eat.
An Intention is a form of Prayer. Some pray before a meal, others pause for an intention of appreciation. Have you noticed when observing a family that prays together before a meal, generally there is not an extreme weight-management issue?
Some say a prayer of thanks before eating a meal, a way of honoring that meal or food, communicating with God, honoring that you appreciate that he provided food as nourishment for your pleasure and to keep you healthy, alive and beautiful. The meal, then, takes on a more sacred identity, instead of merely being something to satisfy a hunger pang.
Prayer or Pause for Intention becomes an act of honoring the fact that, before God ever brought Man into the world, he prepared the earth for Man. He jump-started the vegetation and all the cycles of nature so that the earth and nourishment and beauty would already be thriving when he brought man onto the scene.
We honor the meal with prayer or an intention to appreciate what it is: nourishment, beauty, Life!, nurturing our body and our being. This helps keep food in a sacred place. We will be more likely to give attention to how we eat, how slowly we eat, how our meal is used by our body and mind, and how our body will tell us when it has had enough!
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