Food is for many a central part of life, and it’s something that we spend a lot of time thinking about, investing in and planning for. However it’s important to remember that food is a secondary source of nourishment and that primary sources of nutrition is just as important to plan and invest time in.

For those of you that eat emotionally; eat when life gets tough, when you feel stressed, angry, sad or bored, you are using food to try to resolve something that food can’t resolve. Reaching for food in moments when you need another type of nourishment can become an ongoing circle of endless eating, guilt, jo-jo dieting, feeling stuck, unhappy and frustrated.

The quickest way to move out from such a circle is to stop. Stop what you are doing and slow down when the urge to eat comes. Then sit down and be present to what is going on. What are you feeling? Where in your body are you feeling it? Focus on the physical sensation and stay with it, and don’t forget to breathe.

The next step is to sit with whatever emotions and thoughts that are coming up and ride it out. This can either have a quick and easy resolution, or it can be a quite intense experience with some kind of emotional release. After such a release you will feel relaxed and calm, and you will see more clearly what it is that you truly want in that moment and what you’re truly craving for.

Love, Intimacy, Forgiveness, Somebody telling you that everything is going to be ok, A warm embrace, a moment of silence and connection to beauty, Creating with your hands, Using your voice, Moving your body or simply Doing nothing for a while.

If you don’t stop and sit down to listen what is going on, and keep using food for something that food can’t give you, you are wasting precious time. Because what is going on is your life, and what you feel, good or bad, is a gift for you to recognise and grow from, so that you then can release that of which is not Love, and allow more love and life energy to flow through your body.

By not addressing what wants to be seen, felt and heard, you prevent your own vibrant health and happiness, and you prevent yourself from taking the next step of a journey leading you closer and closer to home.

The mind chatter about who you are and who you need to be is not who you are nor who you need to become. It’s a story that have been told so many times that you now believe it’s true. It’s often a painful story and when you are asked to feel the pain, sit with it, see it for what it is, and finally see yourself in a different light, accept and move on…then you cramp up again and grab food to not feel… this patterns only means that you are postponing your own life and your own expansion.

Once you realise this, recognise the pattern, and begin to plan and invest in sources of primary foods that will nourish you and feed you with what you are craving and longing for, then you have gone to the bottom of the reason why you are eating emotionally, and now your relationship with food begin to change by itself.

You will experience more and more of joy with food, and less and less worry and guilt.

You will see yourself differently and you will be empowered.

You will shed layers of toxic waste and you will loose weight you have been carrying around.

By choosing to STOP, sit down and not run away, you open the door to something very precious and beautiful…you encounter more of YOU.

As you can see, the “negative” emotional eating, and a destructive relationship to food is not bad, it’s a doorway, as good as any, to know yourself better and to change the way you see yourself.

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