Slow Down and Pay Attention. Eating mindfully offers multiple advantages overeating thoughtlessly. When you slow down and pay attention to the activity at hand, you'll enjoy the taste of the food more fully and enjoy better digestion. It may even help with weight management as you become more conscious of what you're putting into your body. 1: Just Eat. The best place to start is to just eat. As in, make eating the only thing you are doing, and focus on it. This means not eating while watching TV or being on your phone. It means focusing your mind 100% on eating. It also means not chatting while eating. In How To Eat, Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh says, "Refrain from discussing "When you eat mindfully, you're conscious of what's going into your mouth and you actually slow down your breath as you would in meditation, which slows down your bites." Slowing down while you eat is a practice that's been linked to weight loss, a lower body mass index (BMI) and a smaller waist circumference, finds research published in The BMJ. Guided Meditation for Recovering from Food Addiction. 1. 5:20. Guided Meditation for Recovering from Anorexia. 2. 5:31. Guided Meditation for Recovering from Binge Eating. 3. 5:33. Mindfulness has many benefits ranging from stress relief to helping people stop binge eating. If you have no familiarity with mindfulness, please check out this Mindfulness 101 Guide post I wrote, before you dive into the guided meditation mindfulness techniques (and videos!) below. 2. Go slowly. Eating quickly is one of the easiest ways to binge without thinking about it - and it often leaves you uncomfortably full. That's because you don't have time to check in with the food feeling scale, and you often won't know you're full until about fifteen minutes too late! So when you want to start this remedy, here are 10 ways you can master mindfulness meditation for emotional eating. 1. Identify triggers. First, you need to know who your enemies are. Determine what triggers your emotional eating. They say that prevention is better than cure. Reverting back to destructive eating patterns can cause one to feel self-conscious about their body image and overall self-worth. Practicing meditation during eating disorder recovery can calm an Take ten minutes out of your day to listen to this guided meditation with our very own Ellie Herman. Close your eyes, breathe deeply and let all of your tension go. Ellie Pike, MA, LPC, NCC is Clinical Marketing Manager & Clinical Response Specialist for Eating Recovery Center. You can find more simple guided meditation practices here. Eating Ultimately the goal of this meditation is to cut out your binge eating altogether which will change your life in a subtle, yet very powerful way. Take the first steps to a new life today; developing healthy patterns of eating, free from binge eating and naturally losing weight for the long term! Add MP3 to Cart for $24.97 Add CD to Cart for $34.97 General (breath/open awareness) mindfulness meditation, guided eating meditations, and mini-meditations: Binge eating: 95% of MB-EAT, 76% of PECB. 48% of control participants no longer had BED at 4 month follow-up. Size of binges for those who reported still binging at follow-up were smallest for MB-EAT condition (60% binges by MB-EAT = small Instructions: A full body scan takes 30 to 45 minutes, but this brief version only takes a few minutes. Close your eyes and take 1-2 minutes