{This is part 2 in a 3-part series on your self-love diet, feeding the deeper desire instead of going for food. Did you miss the one before this where we define differences and identify emotional eating? Catch that here.}
Cultivating Pleasure Visualization
Let’s do a little exercise.
We're going to create pleasure without the extra food
I’m going to tease you and your mind with images of food indulges.
I want you to get into the sensation of the pleasure, even if momentary. This is about identifying the good sensations the food you crave brings to you. That’s the point of this exercise.
I ask that you just FEEL, and not eat anything out of urgency that you crave. Please. Treats are defined differently for each of us. I will ask you go through a couple of moments as if you are indulging in your favorite treat, whether sweet or salty, but rather than eat it, just feel it.
Think of this as a reading visualization. While you take in the following words, allow your consciousness settle lower in your body, going into a deeper place of feeling.
Start now by slowing your breath. Center your self where you are sitting (if you’re not sitting, please do now.) Feel a calm energy. Even go grab a cuppa tea (or slowly sip the one you got) if that helps bring in subtle awareness.
Awareness Eating Meditation
It’s the end of the day and it’s time for a little relaxation.
One of your favorite things to do is curl up on the sofa with your favorite blanket and watch a movie. Or even allow the mind to go unconscious and watch a silly show. You deserve it, right? You also enjoy a little organic dark chocolate. Maybe even with caramel and sea salt. Mmmm… can you smell it?
{Before you dash off and check your stash, please stay with me on this.}
Adding the chocolate to our moments with ourselves is another way to get momentary bliss. But it’s so fleeting; you know this, don’t you darling? Your lips touch the deep earthy sweetness and you want more. It feels so good to have the sweet and chewy sensation melting in your mouth and sliding down your throat.
Ahhhh…. Come on, I want you to get into this with me. 
{Can you do it now if you didn’t above?}
Take a few moments and cultivate the feeling you have when you are indulging in the goodness, or the feeling you are looking for.
What is it that you’re really tapping into when you sink your teeth into that pumpkin bar? Those salty flavor-intense sprinkled chips?
Try and make it not so much about the specific food, but about the pleasure you gain from eating. Allow yourself to fully experience the imagined moment of pleasure. Be in that moment and feel it in your body.
Feel it where you want to.
Hold yourself in this space for the next few moments and notice the pleasure you can allow yourself to FEEL.
How much can you receive?
This is YOUR moment. Energetically infuse yourself with it. It’s not about the food, but the feelings of goodness you can allow yourself to receive.
Can you gain that without the food? Can you receive it?
If you can get in touch with your pleasure, without putting food to your lips, you can conquer the majority of emotional eating, and transform in a new way. It is the pleasure, the love, you are craving. The food momentarily satiates the longer need, but is never lasting.
When you find the desire to eat without physical hunger or awareness, tap into this source of being able to feel your deeper craving for true self-love.
Stay with me, we’ll journey even deeper, beyond earthly pleasures of nourishment. You will learn how to nourish our souls and inner beings way beyond your wildest foodie dreams!
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