She is 100% right. I lost 90 pounds by addressing stress first and then making different food choices. I also began leaving when I was not full and eating healthy small snacks. Address stress first and you will lose weight.
Thank you. I know you are so right but so hard to start and then relatively easy. But getting started can take years. And that is why comments like yours are so inspiring.
Michelle, I'v watched your video over a dozen times and, every time, I find something new and enlightening. It is simply WONDERFUL! You are incredible.
This is a great message and worded so well. I knew it already, but I need the reminder so often it seems to be aware and present. Great explanation. I love the reminder that, "these are just thoughts." And that often our thoughts "...only have as much truth as we choose to give them."
Excellent video that makes one aware of the importance of mindfulness/awareness in everyday life, especially with food for those who need weight control. As a lifetime member of WW, I already incorporated this into the program early in the program and really identified what is important for me to be and think healthy. I do at times go to an old habit but then the next meal get back in the saddle because I recognize this is important in the long run. I have minimized automatic pilots or bad habits while eating and I'm enjoying my new life of being 25 lbs less going on 4 years after the program.
Great job Sue....do you ever listen to guided meditations when you practice? I have a few I can share with you that I use in my mindful eating classes....you can email me at michelle@themindfulcenter.com if you would like them....all the best, Michelle
Great to watch. I link it to Zen meditation (focusing on the moment) and Ayervedic eating (in stead of praying, do look and appreciate the food before eating it)
I was watching this video as part of MBSR course (supplementary materials). I started watching it when I was eating my breakfast... a common habit of mine. I also struggle with losing weight. This video has a great message and I will put mindful eating in practice.
In this video, Michelle presents a great introduction to mindful eating and also to MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction). Her classes are very powerful. Even watching this video is powerful.
+Tina Forbes So glad you found it helpful! Eating mindfully can be a metaphor for life, enabling us to be present for the tastes, the textures, the colors, of not just our meals but of our life in general.
OMG - this video was just terrific. The knowledge that I got through this video not only applies to eating, but to other events in the life as well. Hey Michelle, thanks for being terrific and making such great videos to enlighten the bunch of us. I noticed that you haven't uploaded any videos since the last year, so, if you can, please continue to make such awesome videos. There are people who would be interested in being inspired by your knowledge, I'm amongst them. I hope you read this!
This was an excellent video with very clear description of how habitual eating results in overeating (if your typical eating habits result in overeating). Very well done and I hope there are subsequent MindfulCenter videos!
Thank you for making it so friendly to learn more about Mindfulness, a practice i´ve been studying about and practicing of course, and love every minute of mindful living ;) You keep it up with the great work.
BTW The weblink is missing an 'f' . Great video so easy to listen to and watch. Some amazing stuff and so true.... cant wait to practice mindful eating more and more.
Very interesting point about the power of the subconscious/autopilot(which I think applies to all processes done with multitasking). I realized I've always implanted this belief to always finish my plate,overeat especially when conversing with people(and not aware of my body's needs). I also need to slow down, as my habit and chewing is way too fast. Thanks for the insight
That's awesome....things can just shift in such an interesting way when we bring greater awareness to our lives...I'm so happy you're taking MBSR. I'm biased, but I think it's an absolutely incredible program. Hope you have a good teacher! Xo,Michelle
Thank you..Could watch this message over and over again... Inspirational and informative video...I'm Watching From the Highlands of Scotland...(Just to let you know..your videos are reaching near and afar..)😀😀😀
Hi Nessie! Sorry for my delay in responding to you! It's cool to connect acorss the globe like that! If you want I can send you some guided meditations that can help even more....you can email me at michelle@themindfulcenter.com Wishing you the best, Michelle
Hi, Michelle, this is a very nice video, ive learned a lot from this, but because english is not my mother tongue, some of them i dont understand, can you please turn the caption on, i would like to listen more carefully. thanks a lot.
Great video! However if someone needs to gain much weight how is it possible to eat with mindfulness and at the same time eat as much as it is required to gain weight?
Giorgos Thrash Great question...Mindful Eating isn't about restriction...it's about becoming intentionally aware - or mindful - of what our body needs and eating from that vantage point. If our body is undernourished and needs to gain weight...we can feel that too in the scope of mindfulness. If mental habits of restriction and self judgment are getting in the way of being able to fully nourish our bodies, we can practice letting go of these particular habits of mind and move back into direct awareness of what our body actually needs. And we can practice eating from that vantage point rather from the perspective of self judgment, or whatever mental habit got us here in the first place. Does that make sense?
MichelleDuValMindfulness Yes it does actually! However it's just more complicated than the average body weight. In fact in need to move towards heavywheight that's why I'm worried my awareness "won't let me". I just need more weight than normal for now. Thanks for your response!
Giorgos Thrash For me, being underweight is due to not feeling deserving of abundance. Look into that, if you live in a society where access to food is not a problem. Once I feel deserving and worthy of enjoying abundance, my interest in food came back, and I made it a priority to eat my meals on time and not allow myself to get too busy and go hungry.
I am a little disappointed that in this video which I watched simply to understand mindful eating and how the eat mindfully, the speaker is explicitly linking mindful eating with weight loss - in fact most of the video was about weight loss - all I want to do is to develop a mindful mind set and enjoy my food more! Perhaps you might consider better nutrition as a spin off benefit rather than a goal in itself. Just a suggestion.
I totally agree! One of the reasons this video was created was to address the connection between mindful eating and weight loss, not as a comprehensive teaching in mindful eating. If you want to email me at michelle@themindfulcenter.com I can send you a guided meditation that might put you more on the path toward what you're looking for...It's one of the guided meditations we use to teach our mindful eating program at the University of New Mexico. Hope that helps, and thanks so much for the comment! M
Mindfulness is extraordinarily effective for healing anxiety, depression, and other forms of emotional stress. Mindfulness Therapy can also provide a very effective way of working with bulimia and compulsive eating disorders. I teach Mindfulness Therapy Online via Skype. You might enjoy the articles published on my website. Inquiries welcome.
Doctor: "How soon into the meal do you typically feel full and stop eating?" Me: "What? I don't stop eating when I'm full.... I stop eating when I hate myself." Just kidding but I do need to work on my relationship with food, thanks for the tips
este curso es solo para gente de habla inglesa??? entoncesno es completo, el castellano lo habla mucha gente en el planeta y no es obligatorio hablar inglés, o sí???
This video really lost me when you started talking about weight, and implying that weight gain is a bad thing/weight loss is a good thing. Mindful eating should be weight neutral.
Michelle is a "meditation practitioner for years and has taught thousands of people the skills of mindfulness meditation to help cope with the stress associated with jobs, family, finances, health and healing processes, and more" Kudos to her but how many more times are we going to continue listening to yet another meditation guru, nutritionist, or teacher in order to once and for all deal this damn problem about dieting and exercising and eating right and reading diet books and seminar diets and who knows what else!!! I'm sick of it. All this time money spent _AND FOR WHAT!!? What these gurus fail miserably in telling us that we don't live in a vaccum! The social economic and cultural forces impinging on our emotional and psychological well being will never allow the majority of the population to wake the f**k up from the illusion they are in. Infinite consumption, infinite growth, infinite profits, it's all madness and it's killing us physically, emotionally, and psychologically. We will never get healthy until we rise up with outrage at our inept political leaders and food industry and tell them to stop making foods that are an insult to humanity and its evolution. It is an utter disgrace! Why do you think it's so hard lose weight? Because we are freaking brainwashed -deeply conditioned into a certain way _not only eating_by thinking and feeling!! WE ARE ASLEEP IN OUR WAKING STATE and we don't even know it!! So much for mindfulness!! We already know the food we eat are GMO'd and highly processed and like sheep we doing nothing about it. With all due respect to Michelle, your advice scratches the surface and you are not taking into account that the masses are already deeply entrenched in dysfunctional eating habits that no amount of freaking mediation or reason is going to change. Just ask Professor Per Soderston and Dr Cecilia Bergh from the Karolinska Institute what they had to do to change the eating behaviors of women with eating disorders...their results are astounding. They developed a treatment based around a revolutionary theory that eating disorders are not caused by a psychiatric illness: they never were!. Their treatment is (among other methods) taking their patients OUT of the cultural environment and into another one that is CONDUCIVE to relearning healthy eating habits. Dr. Bregh said that these women have _literally_ forgotten how to eat and it's safe to say the majority of the population it's no different and the food industry would not have it any other way. They want stupid, ignorant, unenlightened, impotent, and MINDLESS people to eat their GMO and processed foods and here you are lecturing us about being mindful. bullshit. What we need to GET OFF our meditation mat and raise hell at out leaders and the food industry for their despicable and utter disregard for the well being of the masses who are susceptible to the archaic irrational emotions that keep them in bondage. And stop pointing the finger at us for our obesity with the implication that the food industries are beyond reproach; you are just like all the other gurus. nuf said..
@@mindfuleats4517 I wrote that out of frustration. I’m just tired of seeing yet another person talk about eating right without taking into account the food industry, our politicians, the sugar industry, and other industries that lobby our politicians so that they can continue producing processed substandard foods. We already know, as a scientific fact, that sugar it’s addictive, so why haven’t they regulated it? Why is there so much salt in our foods and sugar in our bread? The problem isn’t another new age diet. The problem is that we have been deeply culturally entrenched since childhood with an unhealthy American diet that runs so deep in us that not even the perfect diet will save us. Some bodybuilders claim that keeping their diet is harder than lifting weights. millions of Americans can identify with that because our diet dysfunction goes far beyond willpower. We all have, more or less, a food addiction. And the only way to get out of it is either change how food is made or leave the country to another one more favorable. A dear friend who is from the Middle East is shocked to see how Americans eat so much unhealthy food. My friend’s diet far removed from what we have in the US and he ad[ted it at a young age, so he’s not tempted by any of the foods from the advertising industry. His exceptional diet makes him immune to any temptations here in the United States and he eats far better than I do and anyone else I know.
She is 100% right. I lost 90 pounds by addressing stress first and then making different food choices. I also began leaving when I was not full and eating healthy small snacks. Address stress first and you will lose weight.
Thank you. I know you are so right but so hard to start and then relatively easy. But getting started can take years. And that is why comments like yours are so inspiring.
Your voice and manner of speaking is very calming
+madogblue I'm so happy you find it that way! Thanks for getting in touch! :)
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Michelle, I'v watched your video over a dozen times and, every time, I find something new and enlightening. It is simply WONDERFUL! You are incredible.
This is a great message and worded so well. I knew it already, but I need the reminder so often it seems to be aware and present. Great explanation. I love the reminder that, "these are just thoughts." And that often our thoughts "...only have as much truth as we choose to give them."
Excellent video that makes one aware of the importance of mindfulness/awareness in everyday life, especially with food for those who need weight control. As a lifetime member of WW, I already incorporated this into the program early in the program and really identified what is important for me to be and think healthy. I do at times go to an old habit but then the next meal get back in the saddle because I recognize this is important in the long run. I have minimized automatic pilots or bad habits while eating and I'm enjoying my new life of being 25 lbs less going on 4 years after the program.
Great job Sue....do you ever listen to guided meditations when you practice? I have a few I can share with you that I use in my mindful eating classes....you can email me at michelle@themindfulcenter.com if you would like them....all the best, Michelle
Great to watch. I link it to Zen meditation (focusing on the moment) and Ayervedic eating (in stead of praying, do look and appreciate the food before eating it)
+Lucienne K That's a perfect connection to make, and it can make such a difference in how we eat. Thanks for commenting!
I mindfully noticed a typo at 8:35 ("awarness")
This an inspirational message that offers what appears to be a great alternative to traditional "dieting."
.. indeed
I was watching this video as part of MBSR course (supplementary materials). I started watching it when I was eating my breakfast... a common habit of mine. I also struggle with losing weight. This video has a great message and I will put mindful eating in practice.
This is great! The video goes so beyond mindful eating. This idea that choice can only happen where there is awareness is very important.
In this video, Michelle presents a great introduction to mindful eating and also to MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction). Her classes are very powerful. Even watching this video is powerful.
Thank you for offering this teaching, Michelle. It is very helpful and wise.
amazing speaker, amazing message. thank you. i needed this
this is great THANK YOU !! mindfulness is sooo important, in many facets of life--eating mindfully is priority for me.
+Tina Forbes So glad you found it helpful! Eating mindfully can be a metaphor for life, enabling us to be present for the tastes, the textures, the colors, of not just our meals but of our life in general.
Beautiful. Thank you
Lovely. I really love mindfulness. 🧡
I've loved watching lots of Sri Avinash Do lately with my mindfulness.
I've found his words really comforting. 🙏
Thank you. So beautifully and clearly articulated. I'm going to enjoy much lunch now 🙏
Another very helpful video on Eating Mindfully.I love it.
am i the only one that watched this video while eating ?
Excellent information!
Thank you...Fantastic post..!!!
Michelle, very interesting video. So many important things. I'm taking it to life!
That's great Edith! Let me know if I can support you in any way! With love, Michelle
OMG - this video was just terrific. The knowledge that I got through this video not only applies to eating, but to other events in the life as well. Hey Michelle, thanks for being terrific and making such great videos to enlighten the bunch of us. I noticed that you haven't uploaded any videos since the last year, so, if you can, please continue to make such awesome videos. There are people who would be interested in being inspired by your knowledge, I'm amongst them. I hope you read this!
very enlightening! thank you.
This was an excellent video with very clear description of how habitual eating results in overeating (if your typical eating habits result in overeating). Very well done and I hope there are subsequent MindfulCenter videos!
Great video, great message, thank you.
+Coach Ozz I'm so glad you found it useful! Thanks for getting in touch!
Thank you for making it so friendly to learn more about Mindfulness, a practice i´ve been studying about and practicing of course, and love every minute of mindful living ;) You keep it up with the great work.
Thank you and I have no doubt you're up to something wonderful as well...keep in touch!
8:34- Awarness.
Is the missing e on purpose?
Outclass
BTW The weblink is missing an 'f' . Great video so easy to listen to and watch. Some amazing stuff and so true.... cant wait to practice mindful eating more and more.
Very interesting point about the power of the subconscious/autopilot(which I think applies to all processes done with multitasking). I realized I've always implanted this belief to always finish my plate,overeat especially when conversing with people(and not aware of my body's needs). I also need to slow down, as my habit and chewing is way too fast. Thanks for the insight
thanks!
+FIny Sheils Thanks so much for watching! And if there's any other mindfulness related topic you'd like to hear a teaching on, just let me know!
Very weight loss centric. After several weeks of MBSR I've started to reduce my meat intake substantially.
That's awesome....things can just shift in such an interesting way when we bring greater awareness to our lives...I'm so happy you're taking MBSR. I'm biased, but I think it's an absolutely incredible program. Hope you have a good teacher! Xo,Michelle
Thank you..Could watch this message over and over again... Inspirational and informative video...I'm Watching From the Highlands of Scotland...(Just to let you know..your videos are reaching near and afar..)😀😀😀
Hi Nessie! Sorry for my delay in responding to you! It's cool to connect acorss the globe like that! If you want I can send you some guided meditations that can help even more....you can email me at michelle@themindfulcenter.com Wishing you the best, Michelle
Hi, Michelle, this is a very nice video, ive learned a lot from this, but because english is not my mother tongue, some of them i dont understand, can you please turn the caption on, i would like to listen more carefully. thanks a lot.
porque no están traducidos los videos y el material de lectura??
Just Lover Her!!!!
Great video! However if someone needs to gain much weight how is it possible to eat with mindfulness and at the same time eat as much as it is required to gain weight?
Giorgos Thrash Great question...Mindful Eating isn't about restriction...it's about becoming intentionally aware - or mindful - of what our body needs and eating from that vantage point. If our body is undernourished and needs to gain weight...we can feel that too in the scope of mindfulness. If mental habits of restriction and self judgment are getting in the way of being able to fully nourish our bodies, we can practice letting go of these particular habits of mind and move back into direct awareness of what our body actually needs. And we can practice eating from that vantage point rather from the perspective of self judgment, or whatever mental habit got us here in the first place. Does that make sense?
MichelleDuValMindfulness Yes it does actually! However it's just more complicated than the average body weight. In fact in need to move towards heavywheight that's why I'm worried my awareness "won't let me". I just need more weight than normal for now. Thanks for your response!
Giorgos Thrash For me, being underweight is due to not feeling deserving of abundance. Look into that, if you live in a society where access to food is not a problem. Once I feel deserving and worthy of enjoying abundance, my interest in food came back, and I made it a priority to eat my meals on time and not allow myself to get too busy and go hungry.
I am a little disappointed that in this video which I watched simply to understand mindful eating and how the eat mindfully, the speaker is explicitly linking mindful eating with weight loss - in fact most of the video was about weight loss - all I want to do is to develop a mindful mind set and enjoy my food more! Perhaps you might consider better nutrition as a spin off benefit rather than a goal in itself. Just a suggestion.
I totally agree! One of the reasons this video was created was to address the connection between mindful eating and weight loss, not as a comprehensive teaching in mindful eating. If you want to email me at michelle@themindfulcenter.com I can send you a guided meditation that might put you more on the path toward what you're looking for...It's one of the guided meditations we use to teach our mindful eating program at the University of New Mexico. Hope that helps, and thanks so much for the comment! M
Mindfulness is extraordinarily effective for healing anxiety, depression, and other forms of emotional stress. Mindfulness Therapy can also provide a very effective way of working with bulimia and compulsive eating disorders.
I teach Mindfulness Therapy Online via Skype. You might enjoy the articles published on my website. Inquiries welcome.
Doctor: "How soon into the meal do you typically feel full and stop eating?"
Me: "What? I don't stop eating when I'm full.... I stop eating when I hate myself."
Just kidding but I do need to work on my relationship with food, thanks for the tips
este curso es solo para gente de habla inglesa??? entoncesno es completo, el castellano lo habla mucha gente en el planeta y no es obligatorio hablar inglés, o sí???
+ana maria Violante tienes razón! Pero yo no se como lo traducir...se puede ayudarme? Muchas gracias por tu comentario....
And here i am eating potato chips.
..well, nothing wrong if you are aware that you are eating potato chips ...:)=
It takes 15 minutes for your brain to recognize that you full.
This video really lost me when you started talking about weight, and implying that weight gain is a bad thing/weight loss is a good thing. Mindful eating should be weight neutral.
That's because 2/3 of American women are overweight or obese. Mindful eating should appeal to all people, not be just people who want to lose loss,
Michelle is a "meditation practitioner for years and has taught thousands of people the skills of mindfulness meditation to help cope with the stress associated with jobs, family, finances, health and healing processes, and more"
Kudos to her but how many more times are we going to continue listening to yet another meditation guru, nutritionist, or teacher in order to once and for all deal this damn problem about dieting and exercising and eating right and reading diet books and seminar diets and who knows what else!!! I'm sick of it. All this time money spent _AND FOR WHAT!!?
What these gurus fail miserably in telling us that we don't live in a vaccum! The social economic and cultural forces impinging on our emotional and psychological well being will never allow the majority of the population to wake the f**k up from the illusion they are in. Infinite consumption, infinite growth, infinite profits, it's all madness and it's killing us physically, emotionally, and psychologically. We will never get healthy until we rise up with outrage at our inept political leaders and food industry and tell them to stop making foods that are an insult to humanity and its evolution. It is an utter disgrace!
Why do you think it's so hard lose weight? Because we are freaking brainwashed -deeply conditioned into a certain way _not only eating_by thinking and feeling!! WE ARE ASLEEP IN OUR WAKING STATE and we don't even know it!! So much for mindfulness!! We already know the food we eat are GMO'd and highly processed and like sheep we doing nothing about it. With all due respect to Michelle, your advice scratches the surface and you are not taking into account that the masses are already deeply entrenched in dysfunctional eating habits that no amount of freaking mediation or reason is going to change.
Just ask Professor Per Soderston and Dr Cecilia Bergh from the Karolinska Institute what they had to do to change the eating behaviors of women with eating disorders...their results are astounding. They developed a treatment based around a revolutionary theory that eating disorders are not caused by a psychiatric illness: they never were!. Their treatment is (among other methods) taking their patients OUT of the cultural environment and into another one that is CONDUCIVE to relearning healthy eating habits. Dr. Bregh said that these women have _literally_ forgotten how to eat and it's safe to say the majority of the population it's no different and the food industry would not have it any other way. They want stupid, ignorant, unenlightened, impotent, and MINDLESS people to eat their GMO and processed foods and here you are lecturing us about being mindful. bullshit. What we need to GET OFF our meditation mat and raise hell at out leaders and the food industry for their despicable and utter disregard for the well being of the masses who are susceptible to the archaic irrational emotions that keep them in bondage. And stop pointing the finger at us for our obesity with the implication that the food industries are beyond reproach; you are just like all the other gurus.
nuf said..
Bit harsh. Where did she try to sell.you anything or blame you?
@@mindfuleats4517 I wrote that out of frustration. I’m just tired of seeing yet another person talk about eating right without taking into account the food industry, our politicians, the sugar industry, and other industries that lobby our politicians so that they can continue producing processed substandard foods. We already know, as a scientific fact, that sugar it’s addictive, so why haven’t they regulated it? Why is there so much salt in our foods and sugar in our bread? The problem isn’t another new age diet. The problem is that we have been deeply culturally entrenched since childhood with an unhealthy American diet that runs so deep in us that not even the perfect diet will save us. Some bodybuilders claim that keeping their diet is harder than lifting weights. millions of Americans can identify with that because our diet dysfunction goes far beyond willpower. We all have, more or less, a food addiction. And the only way to get out of it is either change how food is made or leave the country to another one more favorable. A dear friend who is from the Middle East is shocked to see how Americans eat so much unhealthy food. My friend’s diet far removed from what we have in the US and he ad[ted it at a young age, so he’s not tempted by any of the foods from the advertising industry. His exceptional diet makes him immune to any temptations here in the United States and he eats far better than I do and anyone else I know.