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[Yiska Obadia]

Robin and group,

 

Thank you for sharing so much of your experience. Amazing awareness and how awesome you put that awareness into action by creating a practice of eating while sitting, without distractions. I to this day find one of my most useful tools is my committment to not eat with distractions, i.e not in front of the tv, computer, while driving or standing up. The standing up one was a more recent addition that serves to make my experience of eating more mindful, pleasurable and relaxing.

 

It is an ongoing practice, that even when we fall off, serves us to come right back to in re-committment. i can't say enough about how, especially as not eating with distractions becomes as habitual as grazing by the kitchen counter. It will just become something you don't do no matter what as long as you remain committed to the practice for long enough. someone recently said it takes about 30 days to make something a habit. so you're well on your way.

 

The thing about stress and emotions triggering the desire to eat, especially certain foods is amazing. I was just away this weekend and watched my mind go directly, still after all this time, from angry to chocolate! It was hysterical and awesome to watch myself, partly because i have a commitment to only eat a certain amount of sweets regularly that in the pause and observation I was able to say well, if food isn't an option what can I do to deal with these emotions? It was clear I needed to vent and I found a friend to talk to and it all blew over in minutes. I also journal a lot to get my feelings out, stream of consciousness, I vomit on the page, to feel them, get persepective and be in the feelings and the possibility whatever will truly help to resolve the issue, whether it's an action or letting go. I also dance or exercise to help me on a regular basis. you will find your tools and recover the ones you've dropped along the way if you persist and create practices that create the space and possibility of turning directly into your life, rather than food.

 

I love your/our awareness and the willingness to create mindfulness and the pause to observe and transform the reaction and old habits into having food be food, for pleasure, nourishment and satisfaction, not numbing medication.

 

I say this is a worthy journey and we are worthy explorers.

 

Nicely done. Keep it up and sharing. I so love having you on this path with us!

 

Love and blessings for everything you desire in the new year...Yiska

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Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 1:25pm
From: "Robin T."


Hi Everyone,

I've spent a lot of time journaling recently and a definite pattern
seems to be emerging. Eating in the kitchen while standing up =
disaster. Well, maybe not disaster, but definatly consuming more than
I had planned. I thought it was just that I tended to eat too much
after a certain time of day...like after 6 pm I have absolutly no
control, but I seem to do fine if I'm sitting down to a meal.

This pattern/phenomena became particularly apparent this week during a
visit with my in laws for the holidays. For many reasons, over the
years these family gatherings have been some of the most stressful of
my life but in the last couple (since I began at TAI) I am beginning
to see so much I just glossed over before in terms of how I react to
stress. And this time, I was fully aware of each and every time I hung
around the kitchen island grazing on whatever was available. This
happened most often when someone was visiting for around whom I had
emotional reactions. So I would ease on over to the cookie jar and
grab another special K bar, cookie, etc and devour it until I had to
come up for air.


This year for Christmas, my husband gave me my first Ipod. I found
telecasts in several places including one by Dr. Mona Lisa Schultz, an
MD, PhD in neuroscience and a medical intuitive who has also studied
Chinese Medicine (I am a long-time fan of her work). In one of her
podcasts, she discussed the mind-body connection in eating simple
sugars combined with fat and how this combination actually stimulates
the production of neurtransmitters (serotonin) and how you can almost
predict which neurtransmitters will lift a person;s mood based on the
types of food they crave. And that ultimatly whatever "imbalance"
exists in your brain it is ultimatly a result of how we frame the
world or what stories we tell ourselves about what is going on and how
we choose to react. But first comes the change in thinking. (it was
kind of cool that she also is able to associate a person's condition
with a Chinese medical pattern)  and  then the change in perspective
that will shift the physical condition. I guess I just need enough
space between the impulse to graze and the initiation of the act to
think better thoughts.


So I am practicing not eating while driving or standing up...(actually
I;ve been practicing this for 2 weeks but it all went to hell during
the in laws visit). Some of this is just habit, like grabbing
something at the last minute to eat in the car instead of sitting down
to breakfast, and some of it is self-medication. It is the latter that
I struggle the most with...knowing what to do with my emotions in an
environment where I become reactive and how to move through this
peacefully without consuming more than the daily page in my diary can
hold.

I look forward to hearing from anyone out there who can relate...

I am starting the chapter about food energetics and will post again
soon.

With love,
Robin T.



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