Mindful Eating is …….
Mindful eating is so much more than eating slowly or chewing your food for a long time. In this post I will share with you the 4 principles of Mindful eating and the benefits to you. By eating more mindfully you are ……..
- Allowing yourself to become aware of the positive and nurturing opportunities that are available through food selection and preparation by respecting your own inner wisdom.
- Using all your senses in choosing to eat food that is both satisfying to you and nourishing to your body.
- Acknowledging responses to food (likes, dislikes or neutral) without judgment.
- Becoming aware of physical hunger and satiety cues to guide your decisions to begin and end eating.
Benefits of Mindful Eating
- Reconnect to innate wisdom about hunger and satiety
- Offers the possibility of freeing yourself from reactive patterns around food and eating
- Nourishes not only the body but the heart
- Empowers you to make healthier choices, unlike dieting, which can lead to feelings of deprivation
- Brings awareness of your relationship with other people and beings
- Shifts locus of control from external authorities to your body’s inner wisdom (TCME 2018)
A person who eats mindfully……..
- Acknowledges that there is no right or wrong way to eat but varying degrees of awareness surrounding the experience of food.
- Accepts that their eating experiences are unique.
- Is an individual who by choice, directs their attention to eating on a moment-by-moment basis.
- Gains awareness of how they can make choices that support health and well being.
- Becomes aware of the interconnection of earth, living beings, and cultural practices and the impact of their food choices on those systems
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