Eating and Talking

This is a response to Katie Sopher's March 2 post. The reason it is so hard for newbies to do an exercise in which you have to truthfully eat a meal while having a conversation is because they (the newbies) are over-focusing on the conversation. Most of the time when you are eating, you are focused on eating, not on talking. The conversation just happens. Try this next time and see how it goes.