Understanding mindfulness and mindful eating

Mindfulness as a concept is rooted in the art of meditation. This technique helps one to pay attention to a particular object deliberately and directly, to the exclusion of all other things, including external noise, music, etc. Meditation helps calm the mind and relax the body, or even solve a problem.

It involves placing one's full attention on something done in the present. By being mindful, you use all your senses to imbibe all that's going on inside and outside you and then respond to it by thinking. It can be practiced along with your daily tasks.

Hence, putting mindfulness into context with food and diabetes, mindful eating helps one to place full attention on their food using all their senses and learn how the food consumed affects one's body, mind or even blood sugar.

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