Am I Really Hungry? by Jane Bernard

Author:Jane Bernard [Bernard, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781461098768
Publisher: Booksurge

Often smells make food seem irresistible. The sense of smell is located in our brain in the same place where emotions are born and where emotional memories are stored. Studies show that smell memories are strong and long lasting.3 That’s why smells of foods trigger emotional reactions. That’s a physical reason why it’s hard to resist emotional bookmarks.

Because intuition is always in the present, using the tools refreshes perspective to give a protective way to respond to bumps caused by emotional bookmarks. Intuitively you’ll choose to get back on the wagon. Realizing that failure is easy, and willingness to try again, shows determination and being honest with yourself. Being true to yourself is using grace. Tenacity backed by courage is how to reconnect with dignity. Bravo!

By trying again, “what can be earned is a certain nobility- not in the sense of aristocratic status but in the sense of striving for quality and dignity of behavior in living.”4 Peter Leschak

Dignity confirms a fall off the wagon can be a learning experience releasing old self-defeating habits and an opportunity to change. An intuitive solution in a difficult situation doesn’t allow self-abuse. When you observe choices with your senses, mind and heart and measure them with care it’s obvious that you’re in control to make a fresh choice that feels good.

Being true to yourself is maintaining control. It is paying attention to what you’re eating and why. Because life is not predictable you intuitively adapt eating to fit needs and pressures. It is intuitive to have empathy for yourself, forgive bumps in the road and trust that you will achieve your goals.

Everyone falls off the wagon. We live in a pressurized world that promotes gluttony and selfishness. Advertisement and commercials urge us to gratify every craving and experience every taste sensation, but at the same time to never get fat. That is not possible and when overwhelmed by pressure outside of ourself, we lose touch with common sense.

Instead of responding to needs and respecting our physicality, we strive to look like models whose image is often airbrushed and not real. Having a distorted body image and a misplaced relationship with yourself is an intuitive disconnect. For many who ride the tide of dieting, food is seen as reward, compensation or even a weapon.

For intuitive eaters food is a tasty way of fortifying daily life. But for many, food is an obsession. Obsessing can be a way of avoiding. If you’re obsessed with food then you need to ask yourself, why? Perhaps thinking about food is a way to avoid thinking about other things? When I’m depressed or frustrated I will often play solitaire on my computer.

Letting myself obsess with the game gives me a false sense of being free from the discomfort of what’s bothering me. Of course since it’s not true, it’s not healthy and what I’m avoiding doesn’t go away. Still, I allow myself a 1/2 hour of indulgence and then very consciously restrict myself because I know in my mind that life just isn’t that dark.

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