The mindfulness challenge this week is to pay particular and mindful attention to a most important organ of your body––your stomach.
- Pay attention to how your stomach feels before you eat anything.
- Pay attention while you are eating something.
- Pay attention after you have finished eating.
How does your stomach feel across those three points in time? Before you begin eating, how does your stomach really feel? Are you really hungry before you eat?
As you eat, pay mindful attention to how your stomach actually feels. What are the sensations?
- Are you eating until you are completely bloated and full?
- Are you eating only a little and not satisfying that hunger need which resides within your stomach?
- How does your stomach actually feel as you eat?
Afterward – just few minutes afterward – how does your stomach feel? What are the sensations that you connect in with after you finish eating?
Be mindful. Focus on that most important digestive organ. See what valuable information comes through. Most of us are habitually ignorant of how our stomach sends signals that we need to eat or do not need to eat.
What information are you missing? You’ll get it when you become mindful of precisely how your stomach is feeling in the moment.
Have a magnificent week as you pay close attention to the process of eating and ingesting food which resides happily inside your body.
Robert
© Parkinsons Recovery