Welcome to Mindful Eating

Eating and moving are interdependent of supporting or sabotaging each other. Excess food eliminates motivation to move, in the best case, and makes moving practically impossible, in the worst.  While lively, springy, easily flowing movement, succeeds to overcome even the consequences of over eating. But mainly in Western culture over eating is the dominant trap.

About Mindful eating

In this program I speak neither about healthy food, nor counting calories: not a word about food combinations’ theories, or how glycemic rate making the fattening insulin hysterical. I don’t teach how over eating certain foods  stimulate acid reaction and disrupt PH balance,  which trigger the impoverishing of bone minerals, in attempt to reestablish body homeostasis, nor do I get into the argument of pros & cons Genetically Engineering of food, I don’t criticize Food Industry regarding their additives, Chemical fertilizers, systemic pesticides or Hormone spray on fruits.  I don’t present charts of statistics correlating life span with body weight, neither do I discuss food supplements, or organic produce. Especially  there isn’t ever a word about disciplined diet.

What I do, instead, is dealing with the mechanic behavioral style of actual eating, exploring priorities of pace and intensity in real time meal, which conceal in them the counterproductive habits. It is much easier to change the physical gestures aspect of eating, than to confront the under currents of the blind obsession.
 
There is a helpful insight in watching wolves as they crowd around their prey. Each wolf is programmed to grab as big piece of meat as possible, to swallow it as quickly as possible, and to continue craving for more. As food being scarce in wild nature, survival wired the wolves to be ready to devour  almost ceaselessly.
 
I tell people: If you choose to eat in the wildlife style of wolves, The biggest piece and its quickest swallowing, then with the easy availability of food in the supermarket you will end up taking in ever more food, and yet, you will always be hungry and crave for more.  This lifelong evolutionary biological survival code can defy any attempt to be controlled by the young aged Homo-sapiens’ willpower.
 
If you are interested to get off this vicious cycle you can learn how to change your behavior of handling the food. The leading formulae that I offer is:

Means:  your body weight is as high as the quantity of the food you take in, multiplied by the speed with which you eat it, divided by the amount of pleasure you derive from chewing it. The more pleasure you manage to elicit from a given food, the less mass your body will put on. On the other hand: The more food you load on your fork and the quicker you swallow it, the less pleasure you will allow yourself to receive, and the larger your body mass will become.
 
 
In effect what you accomplish in the Mindful Eating program is learning to accumulate as many acknowledgements  of pleasure  from the actual taste of the food, while it is in your mouth, as well as learning to detect the subtle

message your body is indicating to you the signal of “Enough”. If this signal had not been respected in your growing up or in your years long maturity, It takes patience to learn to identify it.

This workshop in not about yet another frustrating theory, unable to overcome your organism. It is about transforming your mechanical handling of the food, your adopted habits, which like any other addiction, have a chance to be reprogrammed not by discipline of ever struggling against the powerful primordial drives of your organism, but on the contrary, by mindfully securing pleasure to your sub conscious body, which can only be convinced by actual experience of gratification. 
 
I am trying to tell you in many words, what is difficult to get through words.
It might be better to try a small example of a practical device, if you will,
named: Clean Hands, as the Italians say: “Mani Pulite”
 
Unlike its reference to cleansing corruption in Roman politics, in the context of eating this Italian phrase, taken literally, means that you eat with the agreement that you can eat whatever you want, and however much you want, but with the sole condition that each time that there is food in your mouth, your hands must be free of holding on to food. Not a fork, not a piece of bread. Whenever you are chewing, you agree to put down anything from your hands and give yourself the opportunity to truly take in the experience and appreciate the taste of what you chew in your mouth.

You might be amazed to realize how the intention of your hand, while still  holding a fork, is triggering the compulsion to take the next bite.
 
Implying the next bite means being in the future, ribbing you off the satisfaction you could have reaped from immediate pleasure, that can only exist in the here and now. The moment food goes down your throat, the opportunity for pleasure has already been lost.
 
 
This process may not be as easy as it sounds.  Trying just this one of many devices used in the program,  —  interfering with the blind, habitual aspect of chewing — you can feel how you are directly confronting your habits, attitudes, your personal archive of life-long lessons you have adopted since childhood— all of which are stamped into the physical dynamics of your self-feeding  routine.
 
You may ask how can you go through this frustrating temptation without losing your nerves? The answer is: because you are gaining more pleasure of the pure delight of the food, eventually accumulating the building up of the complete signal of “Enough”, when your gut knows and you spontaneously  know that you don’t want any more.  It is impossible to win over pleasure.

Mindful Eating Program for Professionals

Professional Mindful Eating mentors program: 

– Graduates of the 18-hour Part 1 program receive a letter of attendance.

– Upon completion of Part 2 — another 18 hours — along with a 12-hours Didactic,

for a total of 48 hours of instruction, graduates receive a Mindful Eating Mentor certificate,
and are able to coach individuals and groups.

It is essential that Participants of the program who wish to become Mindful Eating Mentors,
but who are not graduates of any of the Bones for life, walk for Life or Chairs programs,
are required to attend at least 20 hours of any Movement Intelligence program.

All Mindful Eating program graduates, at all levels, are warmly encouraged to practice right away
this material personally, as well as to share it with others, as part of their development
as a Movement Intelligence Mindful Eating Mentor.  

Please remember that the instructional materials for this program
are the intellectual property of Ruthy Alon, and that they should be presented under her name.

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Mindful Eating – The inner game of chewing – 1.20 hours

$39.00

The Inner Game of chewing

 

Using the tongue tasting the food while interacting with the pallet than emphasizing the sharp and swift biting of teeth

Eating for pleasure, losing Mass and re-creating the lost satisfying signal of Enough.

 

Mass = Food x Velocity/Pleasure

The video recording (1.20 hours) is an example out of a 30 hours program.

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Download Info

The file you are about to download is a PDF document with all the details and explanations about the program. Inside the PDF you will have an access link and password to a series of videos on the web.

List of Processes

1. Intro – Rediscovering the “Enough” Signal

2. Guided Imagery

3. Getting in Touch with Attitudes & Beliefs

4. Guided Imagery Sharing

5. Guided Meal – The Inner Game of Chewing

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