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Mindfulness happens when you pay
attention to your body, habits, and
triggers.
It is simple,
and it is about being more aware.
As you become more familiar with your own thoughts and feelings
by increasing your awareness
you are less likely to react to your emotions, thoughts, and cravings.
Do you
eat everything on your plate so fast, you
wonder how it disappeared so quickly?
Become aware of how you eat.
Notice when you are on autopilot.
Autopilot mode is when you act out of habit.
You eat at the same time each day,
you multitask while eating,
you eat the same foods over and over again. Ask yourself,
"Is there something I do
over and over again that lends
itself to mindless eating?"
Ask yourself: "What are you feeling?"
"Am I physically hungry, or emotionally hungry?"
"Is my environment, emotional state, dining companion
helping or hurting my efforts to eat mindfully?
Just be present with your feelings and sensations.
Focus all of your attention on
taste and texture.
Avoid labels such as good and bad.
As your judging stops, you begin to live in the present moment and
increase
your awareness of what you are doing. Mindfulness teaches you to be okay
with the way things are.
You don't have to lie or agree with
the situation. Acceptance is acknowledging a situation
and working with the situation
the way it is
without resistance to the problem.
Susan Albers also quotes: "The key to changing the way
you eat is not to develop discipline over your fork, but to
master control of
your mind.