3 Benefits of Gratitude Meditation for Emotional Eating
Gratitude Meditation is essential for sustained long term change from emotional eating. When we are healing, we often spend a lot of time focusing on what we need to fix, and less time appreciating what we already have in our lives that make us less anxious and feel more connected to the world.
It’s a fine balance when learning how to rewire the brain, and it takes an equal amount of inquiry and self love.
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Below are some of the benefits of Gratitude & Self Love when overcoming emotional eating
Helps to pull you out of your negative narrative. Its so easy to get caught up in the loop of judgement and criticism. Sometimes its our own and sometimes it other people’s experience seeping into our psychic energy. Emotional eating can be a result of this.
Helps to set good boundaries . Gratitude helps to keep you centered in the worth you have in the world. It trains your cells to feel good and believe that the world is working in your favor. In attuning to this, it becomes easier to create healthy boundaries and take healthy actions in service of your worthiness without feeling guilty as guilt can often be the sleeper emotion when it comes to emotional eating.
Helps to Create Better Relationships. Being appreciated is one of the greatest feelings in the world. But, appreciating someone else can sometimes feel even better! Gratitude offers the container in which we can get comfortable with being generous. This is important in emotional eating because the feeling of scarcity is often what triggers anxiety and this eating behavior.
Getting in touch with the abundance in your life - people, things, attributes, helps to fill our cup. In doing this, we become much less dependent on food to bring the feeling of comfort and safety. We can drop in to the trust that there is love abound and it is right at our fingertips. Or maybe it is our fingertips :)
