behavior, it's based on the results or the reward of the behavior.

So the first step here is we say go ahead and eat.

And a lot of them are really freaked out by that because they've had food rules forever.

We say don't just eat, you know, mindlessly,

pay attention as you eat, and see what it's like,

see what the reward is as you eat.

And then we have them check in with their body afterwards. What did you get from this? And then we have them check in with their body afterwards.

What did you get from this?

Do you feel content afterwards?

And the piece there is it helps their brains get that accurate and updated information. This is helping their orbital frontal cortex update that reward value and what we found is if you do this

About 15 times that reward value goes from pretty high to close to zero, you know,

imagining the food and then go through the process of actually eating it and

then realizing, wait a minute, this is not that rewarding it was like me

realizing that peanut butter and honey sandwiches were much more rewarding than

eating donuts. That's Dr. Judd Brewer and this is episode 319 of Wellness Force Radio.

Wellness Force Radio, we discover the physical emotional intelligence to move life well.

You can have the same brain states as someone who's done an hour of meditation every day for 40 years.

There's a lot of losses that we go through, so the ability to be able to cope with those losses is very important to build skill in it because loss will happen.

You know you have to have spiritual courage to really grow spiritually because if you really want to take guidance from your soul,

you have to be ready to realize that many of the things that you're asking

for guidance on your ego has some kind of an addiction to or an investment in.

What's up my friend? Welcome to 2020. It's a new decade.

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