by Kevin D. Burciaga Tell me if this sounds familiar: You open a large bag of chips because you want a salty snack. You take one bite, and then you open your e-mail, respond to a few e-mails, read a couple of articles that come into your news feed, then you check your social media […]
How Mindfulness Saved My Life
Posted on November 13, 2019 //
by Hillary Goldthwait-Fowles Life is filled with choices. One choice can send you down a road that is filled with joy, love, and laughter. One choice can send you down a road filled with addiction, shame, blame, and guilt. One choice can keep you in the prison of unawareness. One choice can liberate you to […]
One Bite, Then Another: How to Cultivate a Habit of Mindful Eating
Posted on April 15, 2019 //
by Lakshmi Jagad Our mind is a stimulation junkie. When it comes to eating, it races faster than the tongue can taste and the teeth can chew. How can we cultivate a mindful approach to the simple act of eating? I used to be a slow eater as a child. My mother would lose patience […]
Mindful eating: A way to live mindfully one bite at a time
Posted on March 5, 2018 //
by Anna Fox Mindfulness principles can be applied to eating, as well as to every other part of your life. People often eat without even tasting the food. They eat on their feet or when distracted by the TV or newspapers. They are not aware when they are really hungry or what their bodies need and […]
A Solitary Raisin: The Transformative Power of Mindfulness
Posted on May 20, 2015 //
by Piers McEwan It will be good for you, they said. It will relax you, they said. It will bring you out of that hole, they said. Perhaps it would, perhaps it wouldn’t, I thought. My judgement was cloudy and non-existent, the numbing effect of the SSRIs the doctor had said. Those minuscule pink pills […]
It’s OK To Be Hungry
Posted on October 30, 2014 //
By Vanessa Gobes On Wednesday night, my children and I were out shopping for Halloween. The excursion went on longer than we anticipated. The clock struck 6:00 and we were still on the hunt with no costumes (or dinner) in sight. I proposed a post-shopping, late-evening dinner at the Panera bakery-cafe, which my kids enthusiastically […]
Life after bread pudding…a mindful eating journey
Posted on July 28, 2014 //
By Klia Bassing Bread pudding–that’s what brought me to meditation practice. I remember walking past Marvelous Market in Washington D.C.’s Dupont Circle late in the year 2000. I’d recently decided to give up processed flour and sugar in an effort to curb my nightly cravings and overeating. A friend in recovery from food-related addictions had […]
Three Reasons You Should Eat Mindfully
Posted on July 7, 2014 //
By Chris Bailey 1. You’ll lose weight Overeating isn’t the only cause of obesity, but it’s way more difficult to overeat when you actively pay attention to what, and how much you’re eating. The connection between mindless eating and obesity is well documented, and actually quite profound. For example, according to research conducted at Cornell […]