Spirit-Centered Drinking, Part 2

Spirit-centered drinking is drinking mindful of our own spirit, the spirit of what we drink, and the spirits of others. 

Here is an exercise: Before you drink water, coffee, fruit juice, tea, beer, wine, scotch, or anything else check your spirit. Focus your attention on the center of your chest, breathe in, breathe out. How is your spirit? How does it feel? How animated is your spirit? Is it warm or cold? How would you describe it? After you have a good sense of your spirit, take the next step.

Drink. Take a sip. Hold it in your mouth and taste what you're drinking. Swallow. Notice how it feels flowing down your throat.

Now, attend to your spirit again. Focus again on the center of your chest. Breathe in, breathe out. How is your spirit now? How does it feel? Has it changed? How?

Take another sip and repeat. Hold it in your mouth and taste what you're drinking. Swallow. Feel it flowing down your throat.

Attend to your spirit, the center of your chest. How does it feel now?

Repeat the steps above until you finish your drink.