The Eucharist, or Holy Communion, in its symbolic meaning is already the source of strength and nourishment for our spiritual life.  Therefore, Jesus chose specifically the symbol of bread and wine, the daily nourishment of his day, in order to make clear through signs what he wanted to give us: food for our life.

• While meditating eat a piece of dry bread and slowly sip a drink of water or wine .
• Meditate on the mystery of eating and drinking which transforms a material outside your body into the interior: into your body, your strength and your thought....
• Ponder the mystery : "Take and eat; this is my body - drink all of it, this is my blood."

Comment:
In bread and wine the body and blood of Christ becomes a "spiritual symbol" in the most  concrete form one could imagine.

After you have received Communion take ten more minutes (that can be done later at home) and simply let the food received permeate you until it reaches every member and sense within.  In the same way let Communion that has already been received some time ago be "revived" again and become effective.

Comment:
Meister Eckhart  speaks here of the "spiritual communion" which a person can receive a thousand times a day and oftener insofar as he/she has "rightly prepared" themselves for it. Johannes Tauler  is  completely convinced that the full effect of holy communion happens only there where a person in inner composure  ponders a long time after receiving the "holy food" allowing themselves to be permeated by what has happened.