Inspiration

Mindfulness can be developed through the exploration of our relationship to eating and food, physical health and movement by bringing awareness to these sense gates.

In this episode of Health Matters, Lana Marconi, Ph.D. explores mindful eating, weight loss and fitness.

In this 9-minute video by Michelle DuVal, you will be introduced to an entirely new approach to weight loss, healthy eating, and stress reduction.

Each of us makes food choices every day, several times per day. But are those choices automated or conscious?

The empty path welcomes you,
fragrant with grass and little flowers,
the path paved with paddy fields

This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival
A joy, a depression, a meanness

The bud
stands for all things,
even those things that don’t flower

Roaring, raging Hunger.
Swallowing me Whole.
Sometimes she whispers silence-turn this Ache to Gold

Food is essential.
Food is life.
Food is fun.
Food is a gift for some.

With your mindful breathing,
practice touching the Earth deeply.

Suddenly it is August again, so hot,
breathless heat.

In the minute it took
to fetch the blue bowl
from the kitchen

If your goal is to change me,
Then your efforts are bound for resistance.
But if your goal would be to love me …

Pale gold and crumbling with crust
mottled dark, almost bronze,
pieces of honeycomb lie on a plate.