HOME EXPLORATION
HOME EXPLORATION
Week 11: Somatically Experiencing Food and Interrupting the Urge to Binge
What am I feeling in my body as I notice this craving / urge to eat, and before eating the food?
What sensations do you notice within you?
Is there contraction/activation?
How is your breathing? Posture? Muscle tension?
Do you notice any emotions present?
Am I responding to something that’s just happened, in the present moment? Or is this a response to something in the past or future?
2. Set a timer for 15-20 minutes and begin to notice what happens when you don’t eat the food straight away.
What sensations do you notice within you?
What emotions arise?
Does your body start to move in some way or is there an impulse to move?
If you need to, use the ‘Tracking the Breadcrumbs/Activation’ practices.
When the alarm goes off, notice whether there is still a desire to eat the food and/or whether the craving or urge is still there.
3. If you don’t want to, turn to your resources and ‘Tracking the Safety’ practice. If you do, go ahead and eat the food and see whether you can do this through somatically experiencing it. If not, no worries, just notice that too.
This practice isn’t coming from a goal oriented approach to not eat the food. It’s simply an exploration into really getting to meet and experience what’s there. We’re not trying to deprive your body of the food, if that’s what it really wants. But we’re here to give room to anything else that might want some space.