Mindful Eating

Hi, and welcome to day one of mindful eating. So people come to mindful eating for many different reasons, but whatever your approach, know that this is not about achieving something as with all of the Headspace practice, this is about how we change our relationship with the world around us. In this particular instance, how we change our relationship with food. Because unless we're aware of the thoughts that drive our habits, our behavior, our eating, then there's no real possibility of change. We don't even give ourselves the opportunity to change the way we've always related to food in the past. So we're gonna look at lots of different aspects of this over the next 10 days. But the most important thing is awareness, we're gonna train the mind in awareness during these sessions, and I'm gonna encourage you, give you some tips how you can train your mind in awareness during the day as well. And we're gonna use a technique called noting. It is really helpful in realizing when you're getting caught up in a particular stream of thinking, then being able to see it, let go of it and then come back to whatever you're doing at the time. So really useful for stepping out of habitual, conditioned behavior. Right now though, we need to do is to make sure you're sitting comfortably, that you're not gonna be disturbed. And when you're ready, just taking some big, deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth. And with our next out breath, just gently closing the eyes, allowing the breath to return to its natural rhythm, and just feeling the weight of the body press down against the seat or the floor beneath you. And just taking a moment, just to enjoy that feeling of having pause, and just to settle in to the space, to the sounds around you. And just bringing the attention now back to the body. Starting to notice how the body feels right now. Sense of restlessness or stillness in the body. Just noticing as you scan down from head to toe, not looking to change anything, but just noticing how the body feels. So as you scan downwards, as you become more aware of the physical sensations, just starting to notice the movement of the breath in the body. Not breathing in any special way, but just noticing that rising and falling sensation. So for some people it's in the chest, for some people it's around the diaphragm and for other people is in the stomach. If you can't feel anything, just gently placing your hand on your stomach. So just continuing to follow that movement of breath. Just paying a little more attention now to each in breath, each out breath. Noticing when the breaths are long, noticing when the breaths are short, noticing when they're deep, noticing when they're shallow. Just continuing to follow the breath. So as you continue now to gently focus on...