Mindful Eating: Improve Your Relationship With Food

     

      We live in a society of stress: disconnected from our life, our body, our needs, and our deepest will. This continuous stress does not allow us to savor the moment, nor lead a satisfying life and encourages us to act compulsively. It also hurts our diet, on which we turn our dissatisfactions and gaps that ends in the form of food anxiety.

     We eat automatically, without being aware of it. Simply because it is time. because there is food on the plate because we go through a cafeteria because the nutritionist says it or a specialist because we feel sad, bored, or anxious to eat. Eating becomes a routine act to which we pay no attention and this makes food a source of anxiety. Conscious or Mindful Eating helps us to get out of this anxiety about eating, thus improving our relationship with food, with our body and with ourselves.

What Is Mindful Eating?

       Mindful eating is a way of eating with the full awareness that helps you overcome food anxiety. It teaches you to bring your full attention to what is happening around you, on your plate, in the situation you are living in that moment, in your life and inside your thoughts, sensations such as anxiety to eat. Without criticism or judgment,

      Mindful Eating teaches you to step back, observe and take distance. A state of greater calm and kindness within you. Mindful Eating opens the opportunity to get rid of those automatic and repetitive behaviors that you regret instantly, increasing the spiral of guilt and anxiety about food.

       Some of the first discoveries that my clients make when applying Mindful Eating are: “I have realized that I eat, but I am not hungry” or “By eating with the attention that sweet tooth that I had so hard to resist, I have identified that I do not I like it".

      Food is one of the primary sources of pleasure, so it is easy to find in it a false "way out," which consolidates the pattern of emotional hunger and/or food anxiety.

      Eating makes you feel comforted, especially if they are sweet. Your brain learns to seek emotional balance through food, but the reality is that emotional hunger is not satisfied with food. This only increases the problems: that emptiness continues, and also, the guilt and frustration appear for eating a lot, for not knowing how to control the anxiety for eating.

       Mindful Eating helps you introduce full awareness into your diet, control food anxiety and regain a healthy relationship with food.

How Can Mindful Eating Help You?

• Learn to identify the bodily sensations of hunger and satiety.
• Differentiate types of physical hunger from emotional hunger.
• Make conscious and more respectful choices about what food to eat, how much and when to stop
• Identify and manage automatic patterns such as pecking, cravings, eating
• Impulsively.
• Have alternatives to willpower and diets when it comes to generating a deep and lasting change in your diet.
• Recover the pleasure of eating and enjoy food without guilt or anxiety.
• Inhabiting the body from the gratitude and pleasure of attending to their needs for food and movement.
• Develop personal acceptance, non-judgment, and kindness towards yourself.
• Nourish your life with moments of fulfillment and satisfaction, inside and outside the food, in connection with the day today.