A small yet growing body of research suggests that a slower, more thoughtful way of eating could help with weight problems and maybe steer some people away from processed food and unhealthy choices.
This alternative approach has been dubbed “mindful eating.” It’s based on the Buddhist concept of mindfulness, which involves being fully aware of what is happening within and around you at the moment.
Read the article Mindful eating may help with weight loss – Harvard Health Publications.»
The most popular posts on this blog was Spring Cleaning — 50 Things to Throw Out. If you loved that post, I have a poem that you may love as well.
I picked it a few months ago for my meditation reading for the week’s yoga classes. And by some quirk of the universe, several friends and several students that week mentioned their need to clear out things that were no longer needed, to clean closets, to reorganize their lives.
There is a logic to clearing drawers
throwing out papers, used and forgotten.
There is a reason to clear desks and files
putting aside what has already given of itself;
There is a purpose, there is a logic
there is a reason for everything…
We clear out minds, our hearts, our souls
we give ourselves a chance to start again
we accept the unacceptables
cast aside the imponderables
it is good business, it is life and it is growth.
In his article The Man Who Prescribes the Medicine of the Moment, Barry Boyce profiles Jon Kabat-Zinn, who has brought the benefits of meditation practice to tens of thousands of people .
The core program of Kabat-Zinn’s mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) includes guided instruction in mindfulness meditation and “mindful yoga practices,” exercises to “enhance awareness in everyday life,” daily mindfulness assignments, and methods for improving communication. The program emphasizes working with the body using body scanning and yoga exercises to strengthen the body and release muscular tension.
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