Food, the most common guilty pleasure. I love munching something delicious at the end of a challenging day. (That's because our willpower energy gets sapped during the challenging moments, and don't exercise it later. Plus, indulging feels so rewarding.)
i've been replacing bad habits with good habits, and since i'm unwilling to go sit in abstinent meditation after a challenging day, i have made my binge-choices better. I just wanted crunchy, so I went for plain almonds and put a baby spoon of trader joe's 100% desert mesquite honey in the bowl with it. Every time I bit down on the crunchy crystals it was guilt free pleasure.
Saturday 26 January 2013
"relapse" The path of conscious nourishment
When we aspire to an ideal, we can hold a vision quite rigidly of what it would look like. I was aspiring raw vegan, but in listening to my body I kept going back to what my body wanted. Many of these cravings satisfy parasitic relationships that are not symbiotic, such as any craving for sugar or wheat. I can tell because when I give in to those cravings and indulge in it, my body after a while feels bogged down.
I aspire, in my path of consciously nourishing my body, to feel elevated by what I eat. I know I don't have to eat as much as I do, and I'd like to mindfully cut out the excess and eat only what I need to feel good and lightly energized, nourished, and restored.
Many of us don't wait to get hungry before eating again. I enjoyed experimenting with Mary Oliver's eating schedule which is to eat something light in the morning and then really work up an appetite for lunch, and then have a small supper before bed and then repeat. I discovered I love being hungry and having a voracious appetite. But then what do I choose to nourish myself with? Well, therein lies the bad and good habits. It is still a process of discovery to truly know what nourishes us, and what we need minimally and what is destructive in its excess.
As I write this I am munching at 7:30pm on a banana mixed in with cinammon, a big handful of raisins, a sprinkle of walnuts, in almond milk/coconut water mixture. Its hitting the spot gooood.
I aspire, in my path of consciously nourishing my body, to feel elevated by what I eat. I know I don't have to eat as much as I do, and I'd like to mindfully cut out the excess and eat only what I need to feel good and lightly energized, nourished, and restored.
Many of us don't wait to get hungry before eating again. I enjoyed experimenting with Mary Oliver's eating schedule which is to eat something light in the morning and then really work up an appetite for lunch, and then have a small supper before bed and then repeat. I discovered I love being hungry and having a voracious appetite. But then what do I choose to nourish myself with? Well, therein lies the bad and good habits. It is still a process of discovery to truly know what nourishes us, and what we need minimally and what is destructive in its excess.
As I write this I am munching at 7:30pm on a banana mixed in with cinammon, a big handful of raisins, a sprinkle of walnuts, in almond milk/coconut water mixture. Its hitting the spot gooood.
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