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You eat a wholesome diet, you take the time to cook your food in healthy and delicious ways, but you still aren't getting adequate nutrition? Not surprising. In today's stress-filled world, our bodies are shutting down digestion because of over-active sympathetic nervous system activity. Let's change things so we can get the most out of every bite!
This episode’s Action Points:
Skip the TV and other media an hour before and after eating and avoid table trigger topics — Almost all media is stress-inducing. Imbibe of it before or after eating (or even worse, during), and you’ll reduce nutrition. Skip those things and you’ll have more time and more food goodness! Same goes for talking about emotional trigger topics during meals — plan those “important” talks for another time.
Do positive food research — If you’re eating whole foods, don’t look up what is bad about those foods — instead, find websites that point out the positive about the foods you’re eating. You’ll feel better eating them (leading to more nutrient absorption) and you’ll harness the power of placebo to get even more health benefits.
Gratitude — Practicing gratitude is good for us on so many levels. Do it before you eat, and you’ll get yourself into rest-and-digest mode more easily.
Eat whole food — Of course, none of this works if your food doesn’t have nutrition in it in the first place! So start your journey by making the switch to whole foods.
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4 thoughts on “Unleash Your Life Episode 19, Rest and Digest”
Relaxing and eating mindfully is so important and so neglected. It should be obvious but it is so easy to crowd out in our lives that are so stupidly busy. We have so much available to us both in the grocery stores and the fields and woods around us. Thanking God for our food was a ritual at every meal as I grew up and while I call it a ritual which may imply it was done more by habit than thinking about it, we did make that break in the day to focus on the meal. Not a bad habit. But hard to maintain the discipline to keep that practice going in my crazy adult life and I’ve done myself and family no favors by skipping that few seconds of quiet as we sat down together which has gotten increasingly difficult to even eat together. Kids do eat better when they are part of getting the food together but who has time to even fix a meal when you’re trying to get the garden planted between rain showers and YouTube and FaceBook? And trying to get all those wild greens gathered?
Crazy busy indeed! That’s the big challenge — and oddly, I’ve often found that by slowing down, I have more time. It’s weird, but when I’m in a rush, and I stop and take just two minutes (which can seem like an eternity!) to stop and breathe, suddenly time opens up. I guess for me that rushing often means a lot of displaced energy, which makes it feel like I have less time than I really do =)
“Never rush that which must be done quickly” because haste makes waste. That’s something I learned a long time ago when working as a Tool and Die Maker apprentice. The more you tried to rush a job, the more scrap you made.
My wife and I have transitioned to almost 100 % whole food. (We still cheat and have pizza on Friday nights though). This time of year is great. The garden is producing our salad greens and soon the other veggies will be starting to come in.
We both notice a difference in how we feel and our energy levels. I find just being out in the garden kind of meditative and stress reducing. (Except when the squash bugs destroy the crops)
Thanks for another good podcast.
Rob, it fills our hearts to know you and your wife are eating from your garden and partaking of almost 100% whole food! Woohooo!
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