| "Food is meant to nourish our body. Love is meant to | | | | is blocked in this center starts to release your |
| nourish our soul." ~~ Vasant Lad | | | | emotional hunger will subside. |
| Everyone has times where they occasionally overeat | | | | 2. Meditate & Breathe. Whenever you feel |
| at a special party or celebration and the usual holiday | | | | emotionally hungry sit quietly and pay attention to |
| feast. | | | | your breath. Take 12 deep breaths and then drink a |
| But if you are trying to curb your cravings or | | | | cup of warm water. This will help dissolve the |
| emotional overeating a few tips taken from | | | | emotional hunger and overeating will be avoided. |
| Ayurveda, the 5000 year old system from India, can | | | | 3. Practice yoga. Yoga postures, done on a regular |
| help. | | | | basis and at the time of an emotional craving will help |
| Do you ever notice when you are with a loving friend | | | | to control overeating. Try Moon Salutations, Camel |
| you can be so happy that you forget to eat? | | | | pose, Cobra pose, and Spinal twist. |
| Remember falling in love for the first time and having | | | | 4. Eat lightly. If you feel you must eat, then eat |
| little or no appetite? You don't feel a need for food | | | | some light food. Try some crackers or some cereal. |
| because you are being fed and nourished by | | | | Or drink some vegetable or fruit juice. That way you |
| something else, love. | | | | won't have to deny yourself when you feel like |
| But when you don't receive the love, emotional | | | | eating but the light food won't put on weight or fat. |
| support, or friendship that makes you feel happy | | | | 5. Try bananas. Eating one ripe banana chopped up |
| often you may feel lonely or rejected and turn to | | | | with 1 teaspoon of ghee and a pinch of cardamom is |
| food as a substitute to comfort yourself and your | | | | effective for pacifying emotional, obsessive eating |
| feelings. Eating to suppress feelings of loneliness, | | | | habits. |
| grief, sadness or depression is the emotional, | | | | Food can be a source of nourishment and love when |
| psychological cause for overeating. | | | | we slow down and share our meals with family and |
| Here are five tips you can to deal with the problem | | | | friend s and encourage the sense of community and |
| of overeating related to emotions. | | | | belonging that we have lost in our hectic, fast-paced |
| | | | world. |
| 1. Express your feelings. Write about your feelings. | | | | The more you attend to and fill your emotional |
| Getting your feelings out by writing or journaling will | | | | needs, the less likely you are to rely on food and |
| unblock the energy in your solar plexus, your energy | | | | overeating to satisfy your emotional hunger. |
| center (chakra) for willpower. When the energy that | | | | |