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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.
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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.
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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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