Food – at times we love it, we hate it, we ignore it, embrace it, judge it, desire it, even get angry with it! Sound familiar? It is a relationship that has it all!
So much of our life if centred around food, and rightly so, as we need it to survive. If you are like me, some of your most treasured memories probably happened around food – Family celebrations, birthdays, Christmas or other religious festival, a business deal or perhaps a romantic dinner.
Food is literally part of our being where we chew it, we digest it, we assimilate it, we eliminate it and part of it even becomes part of us.
It's Not Just The Food That We Eat
Eating is so much more than consuming food. As we eat we consume the conversations, we consume the atmosphere, we consume the connections, we consume the emotions and we even consume our thoughts. Each of these also have their unique “flavours” and “nutritional” characteristics that need to go through the process of being chewed, digested, assimilated and eliminated. These, too, also become part of us.
The modern fast paced life has reduced the experience of eating to eating on the run, eating while working, fast food, processed food and pre-prepared meals. And it is the fast pace, the stress, the anxieties, the focus on everyone else and the disconnection from self that also gets chewed, digested, assimilated and eliminated. How we experience life also becomes part of us and consequently affects our well-being. Our mind and body has an amazing connection. This is how the Human Body works.
Eating, like all relationships, requires presence, attention, desire, self-love, honesty, emotional connection and more. There is more to eating than just chewing some food.
As a Mind-Body Eating Coach I see the weight challenges, the chronic dieting, the binge eating, the overeating, the cravings, the emotional eating, digestive issues, the anxiety around food and more. Eating, like all relationships, requires presence, attention, desire, self-love, honesty, emotional connection and more. You see, there is more to eating than just chewing some food.
Make Eating and Intimate Experience
The next time you decide to eat pause, breathe, ask your body what it would like to eat. Find a quiet place and be there, relax, chew slowly, smell the aromas, taste the flavours, feel the textures of the food in your mouth. At the end of the meal notice how the food feels in your body. This process maximises eating enjoyment and promotes a healthy digestive, assimilation and elimination process. Eating is a whole body and mind experience.
For your free 30 minute personal 'Relationship with Food' check-up, from anywhere in the world via Zoom, please email: barry@thehumanexperiencecoach.com.au
**** Coming In November ******
Mind-Body Eating Freedom Program
This 12 week online Group Coaching program takes a holistic approach to overcoming chronic dieting and eating challenges. Eating will never be the same again!
Email for details or visit www.thehumanexperiencecoach.com.au
Barry McElhinney is Founder and Human Behavioural Coach at
The Human Experience Coach.
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