Mindful Eating: The Inner Game of Chewing offers a strategy to reawaken in us the fundamental sense by which all Nature’s other creatures thrive. This sense knows innately what supports life, what to eat, and when to stop.

Our internal signal of satiety may go unheard amid the sheer volume of food available to us, and the noisy, hectic pace of modern times. Yet it is one well worth listening for, and listening to, if only for a moment, to restore a modicum of balance back into our lives.

Like any movement habit, the way we chew can become a fixed set of mechanical gestures and pre-programmed attitudes. Closely examined, our personal pattern of chewing both conceals and reveals our addictive eating habits, and our loss of control over them.

We can learn to overcome this loss of control in an easy, non-confrontational manner: not by a regimented path of discipline and self-denial, but by listening to the whispers within. When using awareness to identify our organic signal of satisfaction, we spontaneously come to heed it.

Guided to explore non-habitual options for eating and moving, we find indirect ways to wean ourselves from the neuromotor aspects of stuck, counterproductive habits of self-nurturing. This experiential approach to learning awakens and restores trust in our inner compass — with which we ultimately detect the authentic urges within ourselves that resourcefully place us back on the path of natural nourishment and nutrition.

(above excerpted from http://movementintelligence.org/MET.html)