We all know what emotional eating in general is: eating because you feel uncomfortable emotionally, and you’re not physically hungry.
Sometimes, it feels like a huge cloud of discomfort…and it’s hard to identify what’s even going on.
We just gallop towards the food, in a panic of “feeling” without asking ourselves what’s up?
The other day, I had a surge of something that felt very sad and the voice within said “I need something”….
….like I need love, attention, distraction, soothing, clarity, peace.
I felt anxious.
I know when this happens, the thing to do is to quietly notice my own anxious thinking.
Instead of only being aware of the voice that says I need something and to quick go get something that would help alter my mood….
….I can ask with a listening and open ear to myself and my heart: what’s bothering you sweetheart?
It’s so much more loving AND exciting and interesting.
I suddenly realized a bunch of things that had crossed my world in a short period of time that all added up quickly to the belief and the proof that “they abandoned me!”
They left, they broke up, they dismissed me, they didn’t listen, they died.
Here’s how I handled the moment of troubled feelings within:
I might take credit for having the idea of doing it this other different and more effective way (vs eating, drinking, smoking, escaping) except that I think this reaction came from practicing The Work.
It’s just simply a by-product of wanting to become my own best friend and wanting to understand my own feelings and wanting, most of all, to question my thoughts.
Much love,
Grace