3 Ways Mindfulness Can Help You Stop Boredom Eating
If you’ve been struggling to deal with boredom eating, and traditional methods haven’t yielded results, the most effective solution may well be mindfulness. There isn’t a method more potent than mindfulness to curtail emotional eating. The key lies in its ability to grant you profound control over involuntary actions. That’s why, in this post, I will illustrate how mindfulness can help you stop boredom eating.
Boredom eating is a type of emotional eating disorder stemming from various psychological factors that lead us to believe food can resolve our emotional challenges. We are conditioned to seek solace in food when feeling low or bored. However, terms like “emotional eating” should not overly preoccupy us, as people worldwide associate various emotions with food. This attachment often revolves around dishes triggering cherished childhood memories, while aversions might result from past negative experiences. Personally, I remember refraining from eating popcorn for an extended period after falling seriously ill once, even though popcorn wasn’t the cause. This exemplifies how our minds connect specific emotions to various foods based on individual experiences and memories.
I am sharing all this information to help you comprehend how our psychology operates and why we turn to snacking or overeating when we’re not feeling well. Even though boredom doesn’t necessarily equate to unhappiness, our minds struggle with it because, much like a child, it constantly seeks something engaging. The anticipation of taste and pleasure leads our minds to view eating as a perfect solution to alleviate boredom. Consequently, our minds persistently dwell on thoughts of food when we experience boredom. Continue reading