Body Awareness for Weight Loss

Body awareness is your relationship with your body. Your body awareness is important to weight loss.

Many dieters are concerned with what they see on the bathroom scale, or with the body shape they see reflected on the mirror.

Body awareness helps you to optimize your breathing, which facilitates the removal of toxins, and a toxic body is an impediment to weight loss.

Body awareness is more than mindfulness of your breathing. Body awareness is adapting your lifestyle to help your body to get what it needs. For example, body awareness is mindfulness of how eating makes you feel:

* Be aware of the taste of the food: how it feels in your mouth.

* Be aware of how you feel as you eat the food, especially after have eaten it.

You can further enhance your body awareness by the following:

1. Lie on your back on the floor, wearing no clothes.

2. Be aware of your body, how it feels against the floor, especially your spine.

3. Start focusing on your feet - how do your toes feel?

4. Then, slowly shift your focus up your body - from your legs to the upper parts of your body until you come to your head. Are you aware of any tension? Do you feel relaxed?

Practicing body awareness on a daily basis will fine tune your body and awaken an internal awareness that will help you in your food choices. Remember, you should eat what you want to eat, and let your body tell you what you want to eat. There are times you want to eat certain food (what you call "forbidden" food), but you eventually decide against it, or at least you end up eating much less than you originally intended to - this is your body awareness working for you. Surprisingly, freedom of choices in food may help you overcome your food cravings, leading to weight gain or failure in weight loss.

For more information, go to my web page: Weight Loss for Longevity.

Stephen Lau

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