Zen Gum is a process of achieving personal enlightenment and growth through the experience of chewing gum.

2. Can Chewing Gum Add
Value to Your Life?
Most assuredly, YES!
Expand your mind and awareness
Synchronize with the flow of energy in the universe
Enhance your personal awareness of the world
Activate your creative genius

3. Variety and the Spice of
Life
There are many, many types of gum.
Variety provides for a broad spectrum of
experiences
You become one with the universe through zen
gum

4. There are hundreds of
types of gum

5. Gum comes in different
shapes, colors, and textures

6. The process - sumarized
Zen
Gum
Observe
Envision
Experience
Extend
Reflect
Repeat

7. How Zen Gum Works
Chewing gum is an experience that transcends the
actual “chewing” process
Texture, touch, and feel before and during chewing
Smell
Taste
Visual appearance: color, shape, packaging
Physical and mental state before, during, and after
chewing

8. The process: Getting
Started
1. Select any brand of chewing gum
2. Sit in a quiet place without any distractions:
turn off your phone!
3. Breath deeply and slowly, but don’t stress
yourself. Be comfortable.
4. Focus your attention on the unopened gum
wrapper, or if a gum ball, on the outer shell.

9. The process: Observe
Observe all the nuances of the surface of what
you are looking at: wrapper or gum ball.
Notice the colors, fonts, and how each element
of the surface interacts with one another.
If a gum ball, observe the degree of spherical
perfection, surface texture, color variation,
reflectivity, and so forth.

10. The process: Envision
Now, close your eyes(keep them closed) and
develop a vividly color picture in your mind of
the wrapper or gum ball surface.
Arrive at the surface of the package or gum gall
in person, shrunken to the scale of the gum, and
see yourself on the surface.
Walk about the surface and observe all that you
see in your mind.

11. The process: Envision
Now, visualize what is beneath the surface.
Transcend beneath the surface and envision the gum below:
texture, color, smell. (Your eyes are still closed, right?)
Unwrap the gum and place the wrapper aside.
Feel the surface of the gum: is it what you envisioned? Does
not apply to the gum ball!
How does it smell? It is consistent with what you have
experienced in your mind up to that point?

12. The process: Experience
Now, place the gum in your mouth but don’t chew.
Feel the texture with your tongue. Taste the surface
and note the sweetness, tartness, or whatever
sensation you experience.
How does this fit with your vision of what was below
the wrapper or surface of the gumball?
If gumball, let it roll around on your tongue until the
surface coating dissolves. How does the subsurface
texture match your mind’s vision?

13. The process: Experience
Now, chew the gum slowly. Breath slowly in and out.
Synchronize your breathing with your chewing.
Observe the taste, texture, and muscle and jaw
movement. Notice how your teeth come together.
Envision the elements of the gum that give rise to the
taste and texture. What are they?
Does the gum taste like it was advertised? Is it what
you expected?

14. The process: Experience
Continue to chew and observe the transition of
the flavor and texture over time.
Observe any sounds that arise from chewing.
Change your breathing and chewing frequency
to find the most comfortable state. Adjust your
breathing frequency hat number of breaths per
chewing cycle are equal.

15. The process: Experience
Remember the chewing frequency at which you achieved comfort –
this will be import in correlating your mental state for future
sessions.
Now, think about your emotional and mental state at this very
moment. Are you calm, stressed, distracted, at peace, etc.
Remember this for the future.
Continue to chew and experience the process (eyes still closed),
while at the same time envisioning a flow of energy through your
teeth into the Earth and beyond.
When the texture or flavor has reached a point where you lose
interest in the gum, open your eyes and carefully observe all that is
around you.

16. The process: Extend
Look all around you and select an object on which to focus
your attention.
In your mind, envision texture and feel. Now, envision how
it would taste if it were gum.
What object in the room would taste closest to the gum
you are chewing?
When you have complete the above step, discard the gum.
Close your eyes and review the experience start to finish.

17. The process: Repeat
Repeat this process once per day for as many
days as you wish, year in and year out.
Modify the process by selecting different gum
each day.
Mix gum: take a piece of this, and a piece of that,
and go through the entire process: you can
place the gum in your mouth simultaneously or
sequentially – all the same steps apply.

18. The process: Reflect
Note your chewing frequency and your mental and
emotional state. How do they correlate? Is there a
relationship between them?
To what kind of gum do you gravitate? Why?
Look deep within yourself to ask why you enjoy a
certain type of gum. How does this relate to your
world?
Envision those things in the world that most closely
ally with the gum experience you enjoy.

19. In summary. Zen gum:
:can add value to your life, giving you meditative
experiences that encompass taste, touch, smell,
sound, and environment.
:can give you new perspective of your
preferences in life, and put you in balance with
the universe.
:is a personal program of renewal, adaptable to
your progression through life.

20. Stay tuned …
Stay tuned for Zen gum “the product” at a store near you!
Disclaimer: Respect the environment and always discard your gum in an
appropriate refuse container. Discarded gum may be considered biologically
toxic in some states and countries. Chewing gum may induce physical distress
in some people: if such a thing is experiences, discontinue chewing contact
your dentist immediately. Always chew with your mouth closed; do not utter
objectionable sounds such a popping, smacking, and sloshing, as this cold
result in bodily harm and social rejection. Do not drive or operate machinery
when practicing Zen Gum. Do not drink alcohol or use any mood altering
substances while practicing Zen Gum, as this will negate the effectiveness of
the process. Enjoy Zen Gum, but realize that results may vary according to
the individual, the type of gum, and day of the week, phase of the moon, or
other terrestrial or extraterrestrial event over which you have little or no
control.