Chocolate Meditation

This is one of my favourite meditations! I think you can guess why. Chocolate meditation helps to bring a focus and includes the use of all your senses. Chocolate will release happy endorphins into the brain meaning it will de-stress and leave you feeling happy. All you need is a bar of chocolate, but choose carefully and note why you have picked it.

Start by getting into a comfortable seated position, this could be on a chair or on the floor. Place your chosen chocolate in-front of you. Take a moment first to lift and lengthen through the spine and roll the shoulders back and down. Take a few deeper breaths to relax breathing in through the nose and out through the nose.

Now look at the chocolate bar, notice the packaging, the colours and the writing. Does this make you think of anything?

Pick up the packet and look closer. Does the packet make a sound? Is there anything you see you haven’t seen before? Notice how you feel, are you excited to open the chocolate?

Open it and listen to the sound the packet makes. How does the chocolate feel? Is it smooth? Smell the chocolate and imagine what its going to taste like in your mouth. Brake off a square and again listen. Do you like that sound?

Place a square in your mouth and just let it dissolve, try not to bite it. How does the chocolate feel in your mouth? Is it what you expected? Does it taste how you imagined it? Are there any flavours you didn’t expect?

Once the square has melted in your mouth notice if you want or need any more? Was that one square enough? If you do want more, again take your time, notice all of the flavours in your mouth. Do you still like this chocolate? Has the reason you picked it changed? Will you pick the same bar again?

We so often open a chocolate bar and chuck the wrapper away taking no notice of the work and thought behind it. The packaging is important, it needs attract the target audience. We then eat the chocolate quickly not noticing the flavours with detail, therefore overeat. I previously had a client take a chocolate infused with ginger as they had it before and enjoyed it, but by the end of the meditation realised they had never tasted the bar properly.