A Portland Food 4 Thought Meal with Ian Rubin

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I am very excited to be holding a local Food 4 Thought Meal in Portland on September 24, 2010 at 6pm – 9pm. Here are the details.

The “Food for Thought” part:

Experience mindful eating and discuss the thoughts, feelings and ideas that arise about the important role food plays in [...]

You can change your life and culture one bite at a time (video & 8/31 replay)

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If we change our relationship with food, we change our culture and our future.

How? Two ways.

The first is changing our relationship with food from the inside (mindful eating and the practice of eating) and the other is changing our culture by choosing to making food and mealtimes important parts of our daily lives. [...]

Change In Personal Habits = Change In Culture = Change in Personal Habits (8/24 replay inside)

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We had another very insightful Virtual Food 4 Thought Meal last Tuesday, August 24th.  Here are a few of my thoughts on why I keep talking about culture, or as one of the participants called it, our environment.

Our conversation covered a lot of subjects- We talked about the food elementary schools serve to kids, the lack [...]

How We Eat Is How We Live (Video and Replay)

Tonight’s Virtual Food 4 Thought Meal was very insightful. One of the callers, Terry, seemed to have got it (with some help from another caller, Eva). This video is a few of my thoughts regarding, “how we eat is how we live.” [...]

Your relationship with food is not your fault

Becoming aware that our stories regarding our relationship with food were written by our culture is the first step to healing that relationship. [...]

Our culture is making us unhappy

Our culture is one of busyness and disconnection which is causing our unhappiness. Instead of sleeping, exercising, and eating with friends and family we are in a constant pursuit of acquiring things [...]

Something a bit more personal

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So, I feel a little weird writing about this but a video doesn’t feel right either. Let me know what you think.

I was eating a casual dinner with my wife Sarah and watching Rick Steves doing a show on Saltzburg Austria and the surrounding rural areas. Twice during the show I had a powerful [...]

Our relationship with food: Why I care. . .

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Why do I care about our relationship with food?

We spend 1000s of hours a year thinking about food. Most of those thoughts are negative. That is a lot of energy on negativity.

Imagine if you could turn that negative energy into positive. Imagine being so relaxed about food that you don’t spend much energy [...]

Making The Practice of Eating Therapeutic – Food 4 Thought Meals

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A Food 4 Thought Meal is the practice of experiential learning that can heal our relationship with food. “We don’t think of food the way we do about meditation, yoga, prayer and/or journal writing but we ought to.”

Experience Ian’s July 27th Food 4 Thought Meal by clicking link below video.

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Join me for my Free “Virtual Food 4 Thought Meal” on Tuesday, July 27th

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Start to rewrite the “story” about your relationship with food by experiencing a meal and discussion about food that is truly enjoyable and without shame, blame or guilt.

AGENDA

* Who is Ian Rubin and what is a Virtual Food 4 Thought Meal
* Enjoy a brief mindful eating experience
* Listen and/or participate in the conversation surrounding the experience [...]