Mindful Eating accordung to your personal needs
HOLISTIC LIVING includes Mindful Eating by eating consciously, what your body needs. Your body speaks with you. We introduce to these signs and explain you, how to react with your choice of food items, dishes and drinks.
Mindful Eating by recognizing your digestion power
Conscious nutrition means knowing your digestion power. Here in tour magazine you will find a SELF TEST FOR DIGESTION. Check your digestion type and then follow the recommendations for nutrition. You should consult an experienced holistic doctor, if you are not completely healthy. In the end, you have to try out for yourself, which food items, dishes and drinks are best for you: Find out, which amount and which kind of preparation is suitable for you. Your nutrition is always right, when you are completely healthy and full of energy.
Mindful eating with the right preparation
Next step is to check, which kind of preparation is ideal for you. For example, if you suffer from digestion ailments then soft-boiled vegetables are best. You need to see, which amount of each ingredient and the meal serve your health. Overeating is the main reason for many digestion problems and obesity. Be also aware of the food you take over the day. Many healthy meals may be also too much for you, so if possible skip a meal or take a broth instead.
How do you feel after eating?
This question may help you to discriminate between right or wrong food for you. Your mood and emotions reveal, which meal or drink serves your health and which harms you. You may feel the reaction right after eating (or drinking) or some hours later. Sometimes it take 24 to 48 hours unless you digested your food and feel something. If you are energized after your meal and healthy in general, you can keep on with your food.
Conscious Eating: Choose Food which Energizes you
Start to be aware of your feelings while eating and right after. If you feel neutral, this meal is ok for you. If you feel energized, this food is great for you. If symptoms occur or are reoccurring you better avoid that. Very significant is an instant fatigue right after having the meal. If you can’t sleep properly at night, it may be also a sign, that food was not so good for you, especially your dinner. This happens when the meal takes a lot of energy to get digested or irritates your body because of some allergenic substances. A food diary helps you to find out which food items you can digest and tolerate well.
Check your tongue before Eating
Check your tongue in the mirror. According to Ayurveda a white coating on the tongue indicates that you have not fully digested your food. Proteins with a complex structure such as the gluten proteins from cereals or milk proteins are particularly difficult to digest.like complex carbohydrates like cereals and starch.
Maldigestion leads to the formation of sticky waste products. They are not only coating the tongue, but also whereever you have weakness in your body like small joints, vessels and heart valves. In order to avoid diseases such as rheumatism or heart attacks, make sure that you only eat what you can digest. Do a little fast with clear soup and ginger unless your tongue is clear.
Your tongue tells you about your digestion power
Mindful Eating: Not Hungry - Skip a Meal or Fast
There are days when we eat but are not hungry at all. Or we eat even when the last meal still tugs in our stomach. Instead of repeating your eating habits, just skip a meal if you feel your body doesn’t need food now. Conscious Eating means to give our body a Time Out. Exception: Not in underweight or severe disease
The moment you feel nagging hunger, your metabolism and your digestive power are “on fire”. The body has to mobilize its reserves. First of all, the waste products are burned, the undigested (AMA), which are deposited in the intestines, on the tongue, on small vessels or joints. Also excess fat gets burned. If you have a small or large weight problem this type of small fasting is just right for you. That means staying hungry for an 4-6 hours. If you are heavy overweight, 1-2 days are fine too, provided you drink water diligently. Hot water supports detoxification and fat burning.
Signs of wrong nutrition: Brainfog
May be you experienced a weird mindstate after eating? You feel dump in your head, as if there is a big bell around you, disconnecting you from the outside world. You have problems to find the right words or to remember something, but after some you get clear again? We call that brainfog. It is a consequence of maldigestion, caused by food items, which are difficult to digest like milkproducts or cereals. Conscious Eating is about avoiding such food items.
No more allergies with Conscious Eating
According to Ayurveda, allergies are caused by maldigestion and food, which can´t be digested or tolerated by the body, like poisonous or synthetic ingredients. Sticky products from maldigestion can be also allergenic for the body, which wants to remove them by activating defense mechanism like inflammation factors and later antibodies.
Strong reactions are most likely in stressful situations, for example caused by unsolved problems. Holistic Treatment includes conscious eating with a special alkaline diet and supplements with bitter substances and also solutions for the problems. Love heals it all and is the solution for every problem.
