Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 141 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

I'm really excited for the topic of this episode,

as it's something I've become increasingly passionate about, and I think it's a great way

to be more mindful in everyday life. So the topic for this episode is conscious consumption,

and there are a few different ways you can practice this. In this episode, I'm going to focus on conscious

consumption in the areas of food and drink, content and resources. I hope that you'll discover

some new and really meaningful ways to practice mindfulness in this episode, so let's just dive straight in.

First of all, I'd like to talk about food and drink consumption.

There are so many ways we can practice mindfulness when it comes to this type of consumption.

You can eat your food in mindful ways by noticing the aromas, tastes, textures and temperatures of what you're eating.

You can drink a cup of tea or coffee mindfully

by feeling the warmth of the cup in your hands or by noticing the sensation of the liquid in

your mouth or by experiencing the flavour. However, there are a few other ways that food

and drink consumption can be important. You can listen to your

body so you can stop eating when you're feeling satisfied, keeping in mind that it can take around

20 minutes for your brain to register that you're full. You can also chew your food slowly to

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