Feeling emotions on purpose is one tool that can help you to regulate your nervous system and help you reach your goals. You will learn the usefulness of processing feelings and how that process helps you in the pursuit of your weight goal.
Feelings are always taking place in the context of habits of thinking. So, if you have urges to eat when you are not hungry, your work is to become aware of these thinking patterns. Some common patterns of thinking that can drive overeating are:
- worrying
- hypervigilance
- overdoing
- identifying with being 'broken' or constantly needing fixing
Many of us who have trouble losing weight have developed habits of thinking that create chronic tension that we look for relief from by overeating.
We want to process our feelings/emotions when we feel in a way that we are resisting, reacting to, or avoiding.
We use meditation as a proactive tool to prevent those negative habits of thinking from creating so much momentum that it feels too hard to resist the urge to overeat in order to feel better.
At minute 28:40, I take you through an intentional processing emotions exercise.
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