Wellness Tip

I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a Wellness continuing education seminar today. I love this coaching tip and felt it can be used in everyday life as well. When you ask a question and the answer is "I don't know" ask back "What if you did know?" This can open up the possibilities. Try it on your co-workers, your friends, confidants, children.

Mindfull Eating - Week #3

How To Be Someone Who Eats Mindfully:

• By acknowledging that there is no right or wrong way to eat
• Being aware of the different degrees of experiencing food
• Accepting your individual eating experience
• By looking at the immediate choices and direct experience with food & eating - listening to your bodies needs now - not the distant health outcome of that choice
• Is aware of the effects and have the ability to counter mindless eating
• Achieving desire insight to achieve specific health goals and becoming fine tuned to experience eating to match these goals

In essence Mindful Eating is listening, tuning in, gaining insight and connecting with your body and it direct needs every time you eat.

I have positive feelings that everyone can achieve this power most of the time. Go for IT!

Mindful Eating in 3 weeks - Week #2

Mindful Eating Involves:

1. Recognizing and allowing yourself to become aware of the positive and nurturing opportunities that can be made through food preparing and eating. Learning to respect your own inner intuitions and wisdom
2. Making food choices that are both pleasing and nourishing. Allowing your senses to connect with these food choices, savoring, tasting and enjoying the selection.
3. Acknowledge how you feel about food, your responses to the food, liking it, disliking it, not having an opinion on it.
4. LEARNING TO BE AWARE OF PHYSICAL HUNGER AND SATIETY CUES to help guide you in your decision to eat, not to eat or to stop eating.
   

Mindful eating is INTUITIVE EATING as we all once had the ability, as infants, to allow our bodies to guide or appetites and food selections. Give this some thought and I will add some more food for thought next week.

Mindful Eating in 3 Weeks - Week #1

Definition of Mindfulness:

1. deliberately paying attention, non-judgementally
2. a practice that includes both internal & external environments.
3. being aware of what is present for you, mentally, emotionally & physically in each moment
4. with practice can open the possibility of freeing yourself of reactive & habitual patterns
5. promotes balance, choice, wisdom and acceptance of what is

How great is that? Now read on next week how to apply this to eating mindfully.