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    www.tcme.

    org Spring 2013

    Food for Thought


    What is mindful eating?
    • Allowing yourself to become • Choosing to eat food that is • Learning to be aware of • Acknowledging responses to
    aware of the positive and both pleasing to you and physical hunger and satiety food (likes, neutral or dislikes)
    nurturing opportunities that nourishing to your body by cues to guide your decision to without judgment.
    are available through food using all your senses to begin eating and to stop
    preparation and consumption explore, savor, and taste. eating.
    by respecting your own inner
    wisdom.

    Free Handout for Individuals from The Center for Mindful Eating
    acceptance is an attitude, a way of not scratch it, we actually allow the
    Finding Acceptance opening to things as they really are. wound to heal.—Pema Chodron
    By Donald Altman, M.A., LPC For example, if you are feeling sad or
    What would it be like for you to open
    miserable, you can accept that you are
    up to the raw experience of noticing
    What is acceptable in your life and feeling sad and miserable. Acceptance
    even the most obsessive food-related
    what is not? Do you spend an does not mean that you will dwell on
    thoughts or cravings? This means not
    inordinate amount of time worrying
    reacting to them, but letting yourself
    about what you absolutely cannot Acceptance means you can notice them in a more open and
    bear to have in your life, such as how
    watch whatever is spacious way—without scratching! Of
    much food you eat, what you eat,
    when you eat, how much you weigh, happening in your life with course, I’m not saying this is easy. If
    you have ever been bitten by a
    and how your body looks? The effort an open heart and an open mosquito (and who hasn’t), then you
    and energy it takes to push away
    what you don’t want is, quite simply,
    mind. know how difficult this can be. But
    then, you also know what happens
    exhausting. How exhausting? it and resign yourself to feeling this when you scratch and scratch and
    Imagine, for a moment, a fish that is way for the rest of your life (or for the scratch.
    painfully hooked by a sharp lure. The rest of the hour)! Acceptance allows
    more the fish fights and resists, the you a kind of safe detachment that Acceptance means you can watch
    more exhausted and stuck he doesn’t leave you exhausted, upset, whatever is happening in your life
    becomes. If that image makes you and feeling worse. with an open heart and an open
    cringe, that’s okay! You are about to mind. Most important, acceptance is
    discover how acceptance can free you Rather than resisting, acceptance is a also self-acceptance, a way that you
    up and get you unhooked. first step toward meaningful change can nurture yourself as you find new
    and reducing your suffering by just choices and healing.
    First of all, anyone can get “hooked.” being present with your very human
    It happens all the time in the form of Donald Altman, M.A., LPC, is a
    circumstances. Take a moment to look
    things we either desire and crave, or psychotherapist, award-winning writer.
    at the following quote:
    in those things we want to avoid. and author of the new book The Joy
    When we scratch the wound and give Compass. Donald consults and leads
    Fortunately, the attitude of openness
    into our addictions we do not allow mindfulness workshops around the
    and acceptance can help anyone
    the wound to heal. But when we country. He currently serves as Vice
    loosen the hold of painful hooks, from
    President of TCME. His website is
    rigid thoughts to compulsive instead experience the raw quality of
    www.mindfulpractices.com. Contact:
    behaviors. To begin, let’s define the the itch or pain of the wound and do
    [email protected].
    word acceptance. For our purposes,

    TCME is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the principles of mindful eating. This handout can be copied and distributed for educational purposes.

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