Eating for Comfort Puts on Pounds-EEM to Rescue

Last week we addressed eating due to stress, learning tools to assist in providing immediate alternatives to the FOOD!  This week the focus is on eating to find emotional comfort. We all have our comfort foods—meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy OR chocolate OR s’mores over the fire OR just going to the refrigerator to find something appealing.  When attending a workshop with Shawn Corn in San Diego this September, she noted that when she and her staff observed the audience during a presentation, people were continually reaching for snacks as they listened—comfort eating at its best!  So, here is a suggestion to do immediately  when you have the urge to place something in your mouth for comfort—the Triple Warmer Smoothie…

  1. Place all fingers of each hand on each temple. Take 1 deep breath as you breath in through nose and out through Eating for Comfort, woman w lots foodmouth
  2. As you inhale a second breadth, slide the fingers up and around to the top of your ears as you maintain comfortable pressure against the skin
  3. On the exhale, the fingers should be at the top of the ears as you slide the fingers down and behind the ears, press them into the back of your neck as you bring them to rest on the shoulders
  4. While pushing the fingers into the back of shoulders, take another breath or 2. With pressure, drag the fingers across the top of shoulders; bring them to rest in the middle of your chest over the heart chakra. Flatten the hands, with one on top of the other.
  5. Hold this position for several deep breaths, inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth.

This exercise works because it is tracing the Triple Warmer (which governs our flight & fight survival response, while controlling all of our habits) energy backwards to calm the body; enable refocus by bringing blood back into your head; and helping to alter the habit created whenever you are propelled  to eat!
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Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “Eating Compulsively—EEM to Rescue”.  Send questions to Karen at SemmEnergyCenter@gmail.com . Prior articles may be found at her blog or through Island Sun. Learn more at www.semmelmanenergy.com.  EEM does not diagnose or cure illness, but working with subtle energies of the body has been shown to help many conditions.

 

 

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