Finally mindfulness is going mainstream, but mindfulness isn’t only doing meditation and listening to waterfall sounds. Mindfulness is a practice based from Buddhism. Buddhism is one of the world’s largest religions and originated 2,500 years ago in India. Buddhists believe that the human life contain a lot of suffering, and that meditation, Mindfulness, spirituality and good behaviour are the ways to achieve enlightenment.
The concept Mindful Eating has now also become popular as a way of self-calming and as a method of changing eating behaviours. The term “mindfulness” has been defined as “paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally”
Mindful eating is basically paying attention to our food, on purpose, moment by moment, without judgment. When eating food then focus on the sensual awareness of the food and your experience of the food while eating it.
Mindful Eating is good because your awareness will be on your body and the food experience. The concept takes a big step away from modern societies bad habits in calculating every meal in categories like calories, carbohydrates, fat, or protein.
The main purpose of mindful eating is not to lose weight, but gaining new good habits. It is highly likely that those who adopt this style of eating will lose weight – because of the consciousness of listing to the body and choosing healthy foods.
Health professionals are looking starting to see Mindful Eating as a tool to help other individuals with lifestyle/food-diseases like diabetes & high cholesterol. They are doing this because of how effective Mindfulness can change eating behaviours.