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MINDFUL LIVING/CONSCIOUS EATING WORKSHOP (MLCE)

AN INTRODUCTION TO MINDFUL EATING
During our lifetime, most of us acquire eating patterns that aren’t healthy or balanced, either physically or emotionally. Sometimes these disordered ways of eating seem to come and go unbidden. Sometimes they persist and are difficult to change and we feel upset, discouraged, hopeless or out of control.

The practice of being mindful can facilitate your becoming aware of how you react to internal and external experiences, and how you can access your inner resources to develop new, healthy skills.

Weight, diets and rules are not the focus in this program. The focus is on changing your relationship to food so that eating takes a balanced place alongside other aspects of your life. The intention is for you to feel more in control of your life and your eating, and to fully enjoy both.

WHO THE WORKSHOP IS FOR
Any woman who wants to explore her relationship with food and eating, and has experienced mind, heart or body hunger. If you have used food to comfort, punish or numb yourself and want to develop a healthy relationship with food and your body, this workshop is a place to begin. You do not need to have a mindfulness practice or be a meditator.
 

 


 


Some of the skills you will learn and practice:

  • Learn to bring awareness in a particular way, to thoughts, emotions and physical sensations as a way to guide your choices around eating.
  • Explore different kinds of hunger and see how bringing attention to the senses, moment by moment, can shift your relationship to how, why and when you eat.
  • Understand and work with internal habituated patterns and external cues that trigger behaviors and cravings.
  • Acquire skills to work with emotional reactions that trigger you to eat.
  • Practice looking deeply as a way to bring compassion, appreciation and gratitude to the act of eating and life in general.
  • Understand why you choose certain foods to cope with emotions.
  • Simple mindful guidelines for eating.
     
 


This workshop, which draws from the current work and research being done in the fields or mindfulness and mindful eating, is set in a supportive environment. It is experiential so that you have the opportunity to learn skills you can use in everyday life. This includes instruction in simple mindfulness meditations, mindful movement, eating awareness exercises, a CD of meditations, handouts and suggested related readings. Call 860-402-9333 for more information.

PROGRAM SPECIFICS
Next offering TBD.
 

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