To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and the solutions.
~ Deepak Chopra
Meditation is about getting still. It is only in the stillness that we can get in touch with who we really are. Our soul speaks to us in whispers. It communicates in the form of ideas, dreams, longings, and images. We may have become such an expert at ignoring these that we don’t even notice them. But they are there. Our lives cannot turn out properly if we don’t listen to ourselves, heed our own wisdom, and follow the promptings of our hearts.
Sadly, over the years, I’ve learned that many people will do just about anything to avoid themselves. And certainly, eating is a way to escape yourself.
How many times have you tried to escape what you were feeling or what was happening in your life by overeating? What if you could meet the moment without trying to hold on to it, escape it, or push it away?
This is what true freedom around food or in life is all about. How you do food is how you do life. It’s about meeting life head on - life on life’s terms - without wanting or needing the moment to be different than it is.
This is the gift that meditation gives you. Meditation brings you fully into the present moment.
Those of us who eat compulsively, do so out of reactivity. Reactivity is when thoughts, emotions, and body sensations are channeled into behavior. Compulsive overeating and binge eating is a way to regulate emotions like boredom, anger, sadness, anxiety, and even happiness.
