Think for a moment of a food from your past, one that makes you feel good after you eat it for no specific reason. Maybe it is macaroni and cheese, slow-simmered tomato sauce, ice cream sundae or potato chips. Eating these foods (every once in a while) can be incredibly healing, even though your brain may not consider it nutritious.
Food has the power to impact us on a level deeper than just our physical well-being. What we eat can reconnect us to precious memories, like childhood play times, first dates, holidays, our grandmother’s cooking or our country of ancestry. Our bodies remember foods from the past on an emotional and cellular level. Eating this food connects us to our roots and has healing and nurturing effects that go beyond the food’s nutritional content.
Acknowledging what various foods mean to us is an important part of cultivating a good relationship with food. This holiday season when we celebrate with family and friends, it’s very important to realize that we all have a relationship with food-and that this relationship is often far from loving. Many of us deprive ourselves, attempting to control our weight. We often abuse food, substituting it for emotional well-being. Others ignore food, swallowing it whole before we’ve even tasted it.
What would your life be like if you treated food and your body as you would treat your beloved? With gentleness, playfulness, communication, honesty, respect and love? This holiday season make it your intention that when you sit down to eat your soul food, do so with awareness and without guilt, and enjoy all the healing and nourishment it brings you.
Practicing this habit alone will have a major, positive impact in your relationship with food as well as your over all health and appearance!
Take the challenge and love your food like you’ve never done so before!
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