Pre-eating Meditation for Healthy Body

If you want to put yourself in the right frame of mind for eating, try a meditation beforehand. Don’t let the word scare you. This is very help to your body health. A meditation can be anything you focus your physical and mental attention on. By saying aloud the message you want to program into yourself right before eating, you increase your potential for responding to it while you’re eating.



While eating fast food has been linked to America's skyrocketing obesity rates, eating too fast also contributes to our national weight gain. It takes approximately 20 minutes from the time a person starts eating for the brain to signal that the stomach is full. So when we gobble down our food on the run, in a restaurant or in front of the TV, chances are we have consumed considerably more calories than our bodies need to feel satisfied and to function normally.

Here few ideas to how eat slowly. feel free to create what suits you, because your own words will speak most passionately to your heart.

“I am relaxed and peaceful and anticipate enjoying a glorious meal. I will choose foods to enjoy, then savor them. I will honor my body by giving it as much nourishment as it needs and as much pleasure as I want. I will listen to my appetite and trust it to tell me when I am approaching satisfaction and fullness and when I have reached these points. Then I will contentedly stop eating because the moment will be perfect.”

“My mind and body will stay totally connected while I’m eating, though I will be talking and listening to other people. I will hear loudly and clearly my body’s messages about enjoying food and feeling full and satisfied, and trust and respect what my they tell me.”

“I am choosing to eat a food I love and will enjoy it until I’m satisfied and not one minute more. My mind and body will be in harmony while I’m eating this food, and I will entertain only pleasurable thoughts about it and about my eating experience. Guilt, shame, and fear will be far away as I embrace total sensory delight and satisfaction.”

You can meditate on any aspect of eating. Depending on what your issues are (All of them, I hear you saying!), script a meditation to fit. First, write it down. One woman I know had one laminated on a small card, with the rules of “normal” eating on the other side. If you repeat your meditation prior to every food encounter, and your meditation is short, soon you won’t need to read it because you’ll have it memorized. Best not to say too much, anyway. Instead, create a message that is short (30-60 seconds), to the point, and targets the behaviors you’d like to engage in while eating.

With seriousness, focus, and deep feeling, say your meditation slowly, (preferably) aloud or to yourself before you eat whether you’re about to dive into dinner, bite into an apple, or spoon some sherbet. Repeat it before every single food encounter.

By Karen R.Koenig