How Do You Relate With Eating?

If I was to ask you right now what is your relationship with food like, how would you respond?

Would you say it is healthy and that you eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full or would it be something more complicated and difficult like:

• It’s a love/hate relationship
• I know the calorie count / nutriontional value of every morsel I eat
• I obsess about food 24/7
• I try to avoid eating but can’t stop eating
• I go on diets, then fail, feel guilty, eat too much, then go round and round in the same loop
• I feel ashamed and guilty about eating
• I am terrified of gaining weight, I finally got down to a size X but if I let one extra piece of food pass my lips all my effort will be down the toilet
• I hate food but can’t stop eating it and I hate myself for that
• I try to control others around me on what they eat so I don’t lapse into “bad” eating habits
• I have a naughty food list and a good food list

Eating is a natural act but it has become a complex thing that is no longer connected to natural nourishment. I have experienced all or some of those statements above until last summer while reading some Osho books and his insights on eating, I experienced a painful epiphany. Yet something beautiful happened too because out of that the course OSHO Relating with Eating came about.

On 29 April, I share a free taster to introduce this course changes the focus from “what” we eat to how we relate with food. Using insights and meditations from Osho and some practical, experiential exercises, I share an approach that is working for me.

Over six weeks, for 1.5 hours per week on Zoom, we will go on a journey to:

• Drop the self-judgements on what we eat.
• How our environment impacts our eating (compare eating at your desk vs eating at a nice table with flowers and see which one you would choose).
• Eat consciously to experience the taste of food.
• Try different food types to access your body’s wisdom and recognise the right foods for your individual body.
• Understand what is eating from the mind vs eating naturally.
• Experience the connectedness of food and feeling immense gratitude for it. Osho describes an apple as “packaged sun,” when I heard that, my relationship with apples transformed.

During the beta testing of this course, the participants who took part shared that their relationship with certain foods changed without any of the effort they normally used, and one said the guilt dropped. 

If you are sick of dieting, thinking about food, caught in a loop of eat then shame, eat then shame, join me for the free taster for an alternative approach. This is not about losing weight but gain some inner compassion and clarity so you can enjoy eating food naturally.