Welcome to 'Peaceful Eating Techniques', I look forward to supporting you on your journey to food freedom. 

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Along with your 8 week programme there are 3 techniques that can really help you make great changes to your eating habits and how you feel about yourself.

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They are Mindful Eating, Affirmation Tapping and Breathing Techniques.

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The first technique is Mindful Eating. Which is a simple process of focusing on what you are actually eating and eating food mindfully, so you are allowing your body to listen to the signals that your brain is sending and noticing when you are feeling hungry and when you are feeling full.

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There are 4 simple guidelines that can really help you take control of emotional eating.

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1. Eat only when you are physically hungry. (Do 'Peace Breath' if you want to eat, but you aren't physically hungry)

2. Eat really slowly and savour each bite of food, and chew every mouthful at least 20 times.

3. Eat whatever you want, not what you think you should eat. 

4. Eat when you are hungry and not over hungry and stop when you feel full

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MINDFUL EATING - Learn more

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Breathing Techniques

 

The second technique is Coherence Breathing.  Coherence breathing brings a smooth, harmonious heart rhythm pattern, that calms and balances your nervous system, and you experience increased emotional stability, mental clarity and resilience.

The techniques are designed to shift your emotional state, regulate your nervous system and bring your heart rhythms into a more coherent state. 

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Benefits of being in a state of Coherence:

• Balances the nervous system, immune, digestive,

• Activates rest and digest

• Reduces fight and flight

• Lowers stress levels

• Reduces anxiety, anger, overwhelm

• Lowers blood pressure

• Better sleep

• Balances mind and body for physical, emotional and mental wellbeing​

• And can stop food cravings and emotional eating.

 

By listening to our needs and thoughts, we can begin to address them and change patterns easily and the more we do this, the more we are sending signals to the brain to say, 'I am okay' and then relax again, without the need to swallow our emotions. You may find it surprising when you start to listen to your thoughts and feel your emotions and realise how easy it is to let them go.

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They may be stressful feelings around the following, so just notice throughout the day, take a little time out and see if you have a negative thought, it may be about:

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Inner critic - This is the biggest stress when it comes to emotional eating. When we are feeling stressed with self-judgement, guilt and criticising ourself with our personality and body, it becomes an inner cycle of constant shaming ourselves and we often don't notice it, it just becomes inner dialogue. But when you begin to listen to your inner thoughts and feelings, you can begin to acknowledge them and then change them. 

Work stress - someone upset you, or put pressure on you to finish something, feelings of overwhelm, anger, judgement etc. 

Self Image Stress - feel uncomfortable in your body, self judgement, seeing yourself in a mirror and sent you in a spiral of negative thoughts, not feeling good enough.

Illness & Pain Stress - If you have aches and pains, it can leave you feeling low and stressed. not feeling 100% for any reason can leave you feeling stressed and tired.

Family & Friend Stress - worried about what you said, or text message not answered or read wrong, being left out, annoying friends.

Relationship Stress - Worries about relationship issues, feeling trapped, unappreciated, hurt, jealous, unloved and isolated.

Past Diet & Food Stress - feeling guilty for eating something, feeling deprived, yo-yo dieting, telling yourself not to eat certain foods, saying "I will get fat for eating this", "I mustn't eat this", "I should have exercised today", "Ill start eating better tomorrow" and so much more that can cause food stress.

Judgemental thoughts of others - negative thoughts about others can bring our vibration down and make us feel low. By noticing and acknowledging it is rewiring your brain to think more positively. 

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There are so many little stresses in our lives, that we don't realise how much of a negative affect they can have on our emotional state and wellbeing. By noticing and applying a simple breathing technique can make great changes to your eating patterns and your life.

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Here are the links for you to bring these simple techniques into your life, and when combined with the energy healing, you will soon be making great changes.