50 Ways To Soothe Yourself Without Food - Plot & Excerpts
soothingyourself with distractions In terms of stress or emotional eating, you can use mindfulness skills to help you cope by focusing on whatever is bothering you in an open and curious way. So some might think that distraction is the exact opposite of mindfulness. But in this context, distraction means something quite different. When you want to eat for emotional or stressful reasons, distracting yourself means to actively focus your attention on something other than food. When you distract yourself, you are not avoiding or escaping your feelings as you do when you act mindlessly. Distracting yourself means to strategically divert your attention away from an emotional situation to a more neutral activity. It can be a very helpful coping skill when you can’t seem to free yourself from stress eating. Distraction is especially helpful if you are not truly physically hungry. Engaging your mind in another activity can help you be less caught up in negative emotions.
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