The number one obstacle preventing most people from overcoming emotional eating is that they don't want to face and feel uncomfortable emotions. Yet, when you avoid emotions by overeating, you create another form of discomfort and suffering. This suffering involves weight gain, not feeling good in your body, lack of energy, low self-esteem, health issues, depression, and food and weight obsession.

 

It's not a very good trade off is it?

 

Here's another truth. When you don't face your darker emotions, you cut yourself off from your joy. They are two sides of the same coin. 

 

The best thing to do is to begin to make some space for your emotions. Get curious about them. Learn to sit with them. Even if only for a few moments at a time. Gradually increase your tolerance for feeling uncomfortable feelings. You will learn they will pass quickly once you begin to pay them some attention.

 

Ask them what messages they have for you. Feelings are important messengers. Without them, you really don't have an internal compass that guides you through life. You're just going through life on autopilot, a victim of your unconscious programming. 

 

Feelings are energy states in the body. When you began to feel your feelings, take note where you feel them in your body. Try breathing into that area so that they begin to move and the feeling lessens.

 

 

The primary focus in Mindfulness Meditation is the breathing. However, the primary goal is a calm, non-judging awareness, allowing thoughts and feelings to come and go without getting caught up in them. This creates calmness and acceptance.

1. Sit comfortably, with your eyes closed and your spine reasonably straight.
2. Direct your attention to your breathing.
3. When thoughts, emotions, physical feelings or external sounds occur, simply accept them, giving them the space to come and go without judging or getting involved with them.
4. When you notice that your attention has drifted off and becoming caught up in thoughts or feelings, simply note that the attention has drifted, and then gently bring the attention back to your breathing.

It’s ok and natural for thoughts to arise, and for your attention to follow them. No matter how many times this happens, just keep bringing your attention back to your breathing.

 

 

Would you like some support so that you can be successful at making changes in your life?  I offer a free consultation. Contact me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your mental attitude determines how successful you will be with weight loss as well as with any other endeavor in life. Unfortunately, when you have self-limiting beliefs, thoughts, and attitudes, you’re defeated before you even start.

In this 6 session recorded coaching series, I am going to show you solutions to the common mental traps, attitudes, and beliefs that keep people from being successful.  As a weight loss coach who has been practicing over a decade, these are the ones I come up against over and over again, and once people overcome these mental hurdles, weight loss can become fun and be almost effortless!

 

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