Have you found yourself looking down at your empty plate, but barely remembering eating? Has eating and thinking about meals just become another thing that you need to get done?

Mindful eating will allow your mind to refocus, to enable to you concentrate and make intentional choices for your overall health and wellbeing.

Join Dr Neera Dholakia for a guided mindful eating session to taste, experience and enjoy every bite, in this Episode 11 Impactful 10: Savour the Flavour - Mindful Eating and Enjoying Every Bite.

Your Better Mental Wellbeing is a weekly podcast helping you to manage stress and build resilience with easy evidence-based tools.

We're your hosts, Neera and Soen.

Dr Neera Dholakia is a GP for Boots Online Doctor and the NHS. She is an expert in mental wellbeing and has extensive experience designing mental health services whilst working for NHS England, Healthy London Partnership and mental health trusts. As well as promoting self-care, she also works to improve mental wellbeing in the workplace.

Soen Trueman is a full stack developer with Boots Online Doctor, specialising in graphics design, user experience, and user behaviour. Soen’s interests in behavioural analysis extends to psychology and further to neuroscience, which he is currently studying at Harvard University.

This week's tools:

[00:51] The problem with autopilot eating

[01:19] How eating mindfully can enable productivity and efficiency

[01:37] Guided Mindful Eating exercise

[06:39] Applying eating mindfully to other areas

Join us next week when we discuss how to improve your sleep.

Find our more:

Mindful Eating - Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World (Mark Williams and Danny Penman)

https://franticworld.com/

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The information in this podcast is not intended to replace your own GP or other doctor’s professional medical advice.