Remember from our Mindful Eating Mini Series, mindfulness
involves bringing one’s full and deliberate attention to what you are doing at
the time you are doing it. Mindfulness embraces a moment by moment awareness of
the thoughts, feelings, and surroundings of ourselves and others. We have learned to create mindfulness while
eating that favors us to stop, taste, savor, and enjoy the experience of
eating.
Despite the awareness of the experience, do you feel like
you are still in a rut? Do you fight to make good food choices and feel
deprived in the process? Just as the powerful intentions we have learned with
mindfulness, what if we took the time to shift our focus? What if we shifted
our focus from frustration and deprivation to thoughts of appreciation and
gratitude? Gratitude includes being thankful for small things- that may simply
be, having food in the first place.
Reflect on your Attitude of Gratitude. Fill in the blanks to
the questions below:
I’m glad for____________________.
I’m grateful for____________________.
I am fortunate because____________________.
I do not have to worry about____________________.
Someone in my life I am very thankful for is
______________________because____________________.
Something I do not recognize that is good in my life as
often as I should is________________.
I am lucky because____________________.
I am blessed to be able to____________________.
I am happy that I can____________________.
Before you sit down to a meal this week, take a brief moment
to appreciate all the different aspects of the food in front of you; the aroma,
the colors, the path, the preparer. Having an attitude of gratitude brings
mindfulness to your eating and meaning to your mealtime.
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