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November 2, 2019
Mindful Eating The Japanese have a concept of mindful eating called ‘Hara Hachi Bu’. This concept comes from Confucian teachings and roughly means to eat only 80% of your food. The idea is to eat slowly and focus on the tastes and textures of your food. Rather than assuming that a plateful is your allocated amount of food, you only eat until you’re 80% full. This helps ensure that you don’t eat too much as eating slowly helps give the...
October 9, 2018
What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is often confused with meditation as the two concepts overlap significantly. But, what is mindfulness? Meditation is the actual practise of medicating, while mindfulness can be practiced all the time in everyday life. Jon Kabat-Zinn refers to mindfulness as "Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally". Mindfulness is being aware of the moment that you’re in while you’re in that point in time. A good example is someone who...