“I just read somewhere that 20% of American meals are consumed in a car!” Sadhguru shares tips on the right way to eat food

People often discuss what to eat and when to eat, but they rarely discuss how to eat. In Indian culture, eating food is a wholesome experience. It is a sensory delight experienced with hands, mouth, and mind. Ayurveda regards it as a spiritual experience. The Indian cuisine has been designed in a way that it plays with all the sensory nerves on the tongue by presenting it with sweet, salty, bitter, astringent, and umami flavors. In the past, saints and sages would eat alone, fully immersing themselves in the experience, and speaking was not permitted during this time. However, things have changed now, and from being a family time experience, it has now become a ‘reel’ time experience. Meals on the go have become more common than one can imagine due to the hectic lifestyles of people. Spiritual leader Sadhguru expresses alarm about this strange shift in habits and says, “I just read somewhere that 20% of American meals are consumed in a car. If 20% of the meals are eaten in cars, maybe another 20% are eaten in bars! I do not know how many people actually sit at the table and eat a meal consciously and with a certain sense of involvement with the food and the people around them. Today, I think there is enough knowledge in the world about the content of the food but people are yet to make the necessary changes.” He says that eating food should be a wholesome and meditative experience and shows the right way to eat food by sharing some tips-