All mindfulness meditation has an object and subject.
The object is whatever you focus your attention on and the subject is your consciousness, or what is actually doing the observing.
Most often the thing being observed is the breath, but there can be many different objects to focus on, and in the Zen tradition, one type of meditation is to place a single raisin on the tongue and see how long you can maintain awareness of it there.
This morning I was enjoying a piece of dark chocolate when I realized I’d better get my practice in before everyone else woke up.
Since I had the chocolate in my mouth already I decided to use that as my object of meditation first; watching the bodily sensations due to the dark chocolate (like my heart rate increasing, the range of flavors as the chocolate melted, etc.)
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