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Mindfulness can develop much greater levels of self-awareness to our automatic, reactive patterns of eating mindlessly due to
trying to cope with our troublesome thoughts, feelings and emotions. Mindful eating can enable us to become more aware of
what we are eating, why we are eating, when we are eating and to recognize if we are even hungry at all. Present moment awareness
empowers us to fuel our body with nutrients that supports us to take care of ourselves and our health. More importantly we can
recognize what the triggers and responses are to eating food when we are not hungry. When we have identified what these triggers
are we can seek alternative, more effective methods for dealing with them rather than using food. Mindfulness brings greater selfawareness
and enables us to become more aware of the choices that we have in regard to food and habits. In addition, meditative
practice can create spaces between the thoughts that we have and the actions that we take. Asking ourselves; ‘Is it my body that needs
feeding or is it my soul?’ Is it beneficial to rediscovering what our true needs are? We can become aware that we need to feed our soul
and live by our values by perhaps exercising, spending time socializing, helping someone in need or looking after a neighbour. These
are invaluable actions that are important to having a healthy relationship with food and so effectively managing our weight.

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