With the Mindful Eating it is about recovering a connection between the body and the spirit at the moment of eating. Recover a kind of inner wisdom that will control the choice of foods and the amounts. It is like taking a step aside in relation to the drives that push us to eating compulsively. It is about observing how hungry you are, the state emotional before sitting at the table in order to maintain a fairer demeanor. And for this, you have to go slowly.
What this new method brings
The idea is not to make a regime, nor that of restricting, nor eliminating the notion of pleasure. By listening to the body and therefore its satiety, you can lose weight, because the amounts are reduced and you are less stressed. It is about learning to differentiate the signals of hunger and those of anguish, which sometimes resemble each other, stomach pains, tingling, brain fatigue, and so on. With the Mindful Eating, everyone becomes their own expert.
This starts with shopping or preparing meals. Normally we allow ourselves to be guided by the eyes. By connecting to the foods that we eat, we wonder about the modes of production, about the path that this or that product has traveled to reach our plate.
Mindful Eating Practice
The shorter the break, the more the moment of the meal should be appreciated. Digestion will be better and it will also be more efficient afterwards. In fact, it can be done on snacks at first. The problem is usually thoughts and emotions.
Therefore it is essential to start by making big breaths ventral to calm down, then observe if there are areas of tension and dissipate them with the help of breathing, put aside all the questions of the moment, and above all wonder about the feeling of hungry. Do not hesitate to put your five senses at the service of the experience of contemplating the dish, the colors, the smells, the flavors, etc.