Observing Feelings and Healing Emotional Eating

Observing a feeling is not experiencing the feeling. Observing will do little to change overeating, but experiencing feelings changes everything.

If you're trying to stop eating to suppress emotions, is it about observing them instead?

The answer is no, observing your emotions won't make an impact on your compulsions with food.

Observing emotions doesn't move the emotions, and what we need to heal overeating is to move the emotions. We need to move them out of stagnation and into movement.

Observing emotions does not get the emotions into movement.

The only thing that gets our emotions from stagnation and stuckness into movement is experiencing the emotion.

To experience an emotion is to have a whole-body, whole-soul, overwhelming expression of that emotion. It's all-encompassing, it takes over, and it's often messy or loud.

When you begin experiencing your emotions — something most of us have not really done since childhood — you will start seeing changes in your compulsions with food.

You'll start finding that it's easy to wait till you're hungry to eat, and effortless to stop when you're full (but not stuffed).

You'll find that you naturally want to eat mostly healthy food, and it takes no effort to make that happen.

You'll find that heavy or previously "tempting" foods and drinks can be right in front of you and you'll find it easy to say no to them. Just like if you're not a smoker, you probably find it easy to say no to a cigarette. It will become like this.

Ignore people who think that experiencing emotions makes you unstable. The truth is, suppressing emotions is what makes us unstable.

You might observe that you have an emotion as a natural first step at times. But don't stop there. The next and vital step is to move into experiencing, and thereby getting moving, your emotions.

When we experience our emotions, they literally release from us. To experience emotions is to heal emotions.

For more information on this, I recommend checking out the resource that has inspired me the most: the Divine Truth YouTube channel or visiting www.DivineTruth.com

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