It takes about twenty minutes. Some people sit down to meals assuming that five to ten minutes is adequate. If a friend says he has something really important to talk over with you and you reply—great, I can give you five minutes—it’s likely he or she will feel insulted. You can’t have a serious conversation in five minutes. You can introduce the subject but you can’t delve into it. In the same way, you can have an appetizer or a snack in five minutes but not an entire meal.
Breakfast is the most forgiving meal because we’re active for a full day afterwards. Dinner is the least forgiving. In other words, if you have a fifteen- minute breakfast, it’s not the end of the world. However, in a manner of speaking, a fifteen- minute dinner is. It doesn’t count as a meal. I’m not talking about solid eating time. I’m talking about the time it takes to complete your meal from the moment you sit down until the moment you get up from the table.
Let’s say you’re standing next to someone at a bar. Even if you don’t say a word to that person, after twenty minutes your energy will be aligned. If you smile at that person, the alignment happens more quickly. If you talk together, it happens more quickly still and the alignment becomes stronger. I hope you can see now that quiet conversation during mealtime, talking and eating together, fosters a strong and deep alignment. If you eat quietly without talking, you become more independent, but not as strongly connected to one another. Whether you eat alone or with others, the minimum time for a meal is twenty minutes. Please make time for meals and you will notice this firsthand almost instantly!
The Complete Macrobiotic Diet is Denny Waxman’s most recent book that will provide more information on making time for meals. It will help if you are looking for more in depth information on this topic. We have other solutions if you prefer video instruction or hands-on experience with meal preparation. These additional solutions for training are possible through our macrobiotic programs.
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