Mindfulness - recommendations

Mindfulness within holistic nutrition has more and more studies that support its effectiveness. Each practitioner of this technique finds its particular way to carry it out, since what may work for some may not be useful for others. The truth is that the most important thing is to keep in mind what is the purpose we pursue with its use, so we will know when we are doing things correctly and what actions bring us more results than others.

The following guide will be dedicated to offer a series of general and practical recommendations when carrying out Mindfulness, are a group of simple steps that will be very useful, especially in your first approaches.

Avoid distractions while you feed yourself

It is essential that we understand that the process of eating our meals should be taken seriously, by this we mean that it is not a space to dissociate our attention on other things like the cell phone or television, you must create a quiet and favorable scenario for your brain to focus on the activity you are doing. When we watch TV or use the cell phone while we eat, our concentration is dissociated in attending to what our eyes are seeing, which is why the hunger satiety signals are slowed down and digestion may be affected by the emotions that what we are watching transmits to us.

Drink water before eating

There may be many people who do not find benefits in drinking water before eating, but in general, drinking water as a daily habit before each meal can serve as a signal to your brain that you are about to begin a special process. This continued practice over time can be a way to mark the beginning of each meal and to cease whatever activity you are doing.

Chew well and watch what you eat

Chewing well is of utmost importance for our digestion, when we chew our food correctly, we manage to divide the food that enters our body into smaller portions, this facilitates that it can be broken down easily and can be obtained more easily the nutrients needed by our body.

On the other hand, observing what you eat is the easiest way to involve one more sense to the eating process, this will allow some improvement in appetite and transmit valuable visual information to our brain regarding the amounts of food we have eaten.

Chewing and observing the food are two tips that interrelate very well, since again the visual information that our brain receives will allow it to anticipate the degree of intensity of our chewi