Chocolate croissant for breakfast, cookies for lunch, ice cream after dinner or instead of dinner and in between bread with butter.
That was literary one of my days this month. Absolutely terrible thing to do to your body, I know.
My excuse? Some days I just really need a little sugar to give me quick energy and keep me going. This past month was especially bad for me because my mom came to visit with a suitcase full of Slovakian sweets (as it was instructed to her), it was also my husbands birthday (we had two birthday cakes). Plus two days ago we just HAD to go to fabulous Jean-Georges restaurant mainly because of their Warm Chocolate Cake. Yes it was amazing! The most basic recipe executed to perfection. Even vanilla bean ice cream was out of this world, made slightly tangy to compliment the sweetness of the chocolate cake.
I realized that I might have a problem and that’s why the beginning of lent seems like a perfect time to eliminate sugar until Easter.
As coincidence would have it, my friend who tried one of my video meditations asked me if there is a meditation to help her hold off from sweets.
That’s when I remembered, of course there is. Thanks to Amantha Tsaros who made me remember.
Whenever you have a presence of mind before you’ll go for something sweet, take 3 deep slow breaths. After that you are less likely to overindulge on an ice cream or a cake and if you do, it will be your fully conscious decision.
Your breath is directly connected to your soul which is always striving for your highest good. When you breathe consciously you will live consciously and eat consciously.
I’ll definitely be practicing this technique a lot in the upcoming weeks. Wish me luck.
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