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Mindful Eating:


A Way to a Consciously Lived Life


By Marianela Medrano, PhD, LPC


made us wage a war on ourselves and many of us live without joy and self-awareness. We suffer constant anxiety. More often than not, to deal with our stress, we use food as a palliative, a way to soothe ourselves.


D Mindful Eating (ME) helps people re-establish a healthy and


joyful relationship with food and eating. The approach does not advocate diets or focus on weight but guides individuals in the practice of self-awareness, gentle movement, meditation and other exercises which when implemented daily have the potential to bring their lives into balance.


Eating is a natural, healthy, and joyful activity that has been turned into a weapon of control in today’s food-focused, diet-ob- sessed culture. To eat mindfully is to eat with intention, awareness, and without judgment. The practice of ME is an ancient one that has become relevant in the present time of fast-paced living. In ME we eat to nurture the self, not merely to satisfy our hunger. When people slow down they become aware of their eating patterns and have the opportunity to change them.


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o you have an adversarial relationship with food and eating? Has weight become an insurmountable preoccu- pation for you? You are not alone. Our frenetic lives have


Emotions can be healthy guides The human body has a wisdom that is different but not sepa-


rate from that of the mind. Our emotions, which manifest as physi- cal sensations in the body, can help us make wiser choices if we are aware of them. ME helps individuals cultivate nonjudgmental attention to emotions and to the physical needs of the body so they can make informed decisions about self-care.


ME also focuses on recognizing the triggers that are not con-


nected to physical hunger. People who eat mindfully find new ways to meet needs that are not related to physical hunger, more effective ways than food consumption.


Can ME solve disordered eating problems? Identifying the kinds of hunger is the first step in developing a healthier and more joyful relationship with food. ME is an effective way to end the tyranny of disordered eating, which is most often an aggressive form of self-aversion. Most people struggling with eating patterns eat on automatic pilot in order to satisfy physical hunger. Eating, under those circumstances, is done as a response to unexamined triggers. The practice of mindfulness brings non- judgmental awareness to patterns of behavior. For instance, a person practicing mindful eating will pause and ask who is hungry in there? What am I noticing? What part of me needs to be fed? Then she will determine what actions to take in order to exercise self-care and self-compassion or kindness.


Jan Chozen Bays, MD author of Mindful Eating: A Guide to


Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food, has identified nine kinds of hunger, including eye hunger, stomach hunger, and heart hunger. According to the author, in order to assess the nine hungers it is imperative to get in touch with the senses, as well as with the emotional experiences in the present moment. Developing awareness of the nature of our needs enables us to make wise choices. Each one of the nine hungers has a voice. The practice of intentional listening to what the voices say is the be- ginning of exercising discernment when choosing how to live our day-to-day life. Once individuals identify the nine hungers, they are able to hear the different voices, weigh what each voice says, then make an informed, wise and compassionate decision about what to do next. This way, the individual gets to decide, for instance, if the kind of hunger would be satisfied by food or something else.


The problem with our fast pace Often we eat quickly to get on to the next thing. Fast-paced eating impacts the satiety hormones that kick in after 20 minutes of eating and signal to the brain that you have had enough to eat. Rapid eating can impair our judgment on how much to eat, thus


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