Sunday, August 5th, 2007...10:22 am
Overcoming Emotional Eating
Part of overcoming emotional eating is learning to let go of the emotions and feelings that drive us to eat.
Letting go of emotions is the opposite of holding on to them or suppressing them.
We are born with a natural ability to let go of emotions - think about a little kid who falls down, what does he do? He gets up and immediately looks around to see if there is any reason to get upset? If he feels no one saw him fall he simply brushes himself off and goes back to playing. He let go of his emotion.
While it is our natural ability to let go of emotions, we are taught, at an early age, to suppress them. We are told to sit down and be quiet, stop acting like a baby, and big girls don’t get angry.
As we move into adulthood we no longer need to be told to suppress our emotions because we become quite good at doing it ourselves. We even develop tricks to hold emotions down when we feel them bubble up to the surface, we might find ourselves "spacing out" in front of the TV, paging through a magazine, drinking, or for emotional eaters, EATING!
Eating becomes a way of distracting ourselves so we don’t have to feel the emotional pain of a situation or memory.
But, you don’t need to eat to suppress feelings…
…you can let go of the feeling.
The Sedona Method teaches a simple process of letting go that I use with my clients. If you are unfamiliar with this method I encourage you to look into it.
Very simply, it teaches that emotions are not attached to us, so we are free to release them when ever they get in the way. What it becomes for my clients is a do-it-yourself tool to combat emotional eating.
There are 3 ways you can learn more…
- Go to The Sedona Method website, while there you can subscribe for free to a very good newsletter.
- Email me to inquire about the coaching I do one-on-one with clients
- Register for my FREE Telephone Seminar on Wednesday, August 29th at 7:00 pm by sending a blank email to signup4seminar@sendfree.com
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