Mindful Eating: a Cog in the Machinery of Mindful Living

By Pavel Somov, Ph.D. on July 23, 2009 in Food & Nutrition

Mindful eating is an opportunity to infuse mindfulness into our day to day life. When eating mindfully, each meal becomes a kind of “alarm clock” for consciousness. As such, mindful eating becomes an important “cog” in the machinery of mindfulness that counters the machinery of mindlessness. Put simply, mindful eating leads to mindful eating (and vice versa). Click to see a diagram of this thought.

Pavel Somov, Ph.D., author of "Eating the Moment" www.eatingthemoment.com

About Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

My intent is to help you reclaim eating moments of your life with meaning and moderation; to help you leverage self-acceptance and compassion; and to help you rediscover your essential self. Pavel Somov, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and the author of "Eating the Moment" (New Harbinger, 2008), "Present Perfect" (NH, 2010), "The Lotus Effect" (NH, 2010), "Smoke Free Smoke Break" (2011), and "Reinventing the Meal" (in press, 2012). He is in private practice in Pittsburgh, PA. http://www.eatingthemoment.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pavel-somov

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