Use Your Brain!

Woman's Brain

Not only does healthy eating take money and time to shop it also takes time in the kitchen and it takes planning and forethought. This may seem obvious to people who are accustomed to sitting down to three regular planned, prepared meals every day but as a single person I tend to not think about food until I'm hungry and then I just want something good right now. My dining table is completely covered with art projects. I eat at my desk... There are innumerable ways I could bring more mindfulness into my personal food culture.

Olfactory Hypnosis

LimbaSLIM is one way I know I can enlist the use of my mind, imagination and sense of smell as aids to healthy eating. Developed by my friend Rebbecca, LimbaSLIM employs sense of smell along with guided self-hypnosis to tap into the part of the brain associated with memory and emotion. We have all experienced smells that we associate with memories and feelings even decades later. LimbaSLIM works by associating a particular sent with a 10 minute guided journey into our subconscious and our own imagined healthy food experience. Then before shopping or eating or whenever you need to, you can access that positive place by breathing in the scent associated with it.

Limbic System

I know LimbaSLIM works because I've seen the results... (at least in others). I quit using the method when I became a Vegan because I thought being a Vegan would be all I needed to do to lose weight. That was a disappointing mistake in my case. Today I'm celebrating May Day by selecting LimbaSLIM on my ipod and taking that healing deep into my brain.