12 Affirmations to Stop Emotional Eating

Feelings such as stress, boredom, sadness, and loneliness can often lead to emotional eating as a way of soothing or suppressing negative emotions. Affirmations have become my go-to when it comes to reprogramming your thoughts and emotional triggers.

In this article, I give 12 affirmations to help you stop emotional eating and share some of the things I’ve learned in dealing with eating my feelings and how I have begun the process of stopping.

As I took a bite, I felt the instant calm. I just wanted to feel good for a moment. But now I feel something else happening...  I feel the energy leaving my body to the point I can’t even keep my eyes open. What am I doing to myself? Something has to change.

When I stand back and evaluate the “food” that I’m eating on a regular basis, I realize I’m not eating food at all...I’m actually eating death.

This is how Dictionary.com defines food:

“any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc.”

Sustain life? Provide energy?? So if I eat something that literally zaps the energy out of me, can I still call it food? 

I can’t and that leaves me with a serious decision to make.

If mastery of Self is my goal, am I willing to give up the foods that I love to achieve it?

Here’s what I know: Becoming a master of anything requires discipline. 

Over the last few years, I’ve watched these discourses in discipline unfold in different areas of my life. 

At one point I actually called out to the heavens asking to become more disciplined because I knew that discipline really wasn’t my strength. 

And now here I am…

My Divine Agency has created the opportunity for me to discipline myself in this area and I feel like I’m looking down the barrel of a gun. (be careful what you ask for, you just may get it)

So you may be reading this saying, well what’s the problem? Just stop eating the toxic, non-food.

Well, here’s the issue. 

“Food” is not just food anymore.

“Food” has become my emotional crutch—

I use it to get through boring monotonous work…

I use it to calm me during a hectic day…

I use it to gather the tears that I don’t feel like crying…

I use it for everything except what food is meant to be used for.

I say I love the very “food” that depletes me, makes me lethargic and brings imbalance to my physical and energetic bodies.

If this sounds like an abusive relationship, it's because it is.

And I am finally over the drama of yoyo dieting, emotional eating, and being overweight

I choose me…

I choose my health…

I choose balance…

I choose mastery of this aspect of Self.

Are you with me?

If you are ready to take command of your thoughts and stop the emotional eating, Recite these 12 Powerful Affirmations with me:

I love my body.

I will nourish my body with healthy foods.

I give myself permission to feel my emotions without guilt.

I allow my emotions to process through my body.

I choose to be my best self in this moment.

Food is my tool to empower my body.

Today I will sing the praises of my body.

I choose to heal myself.

I choose to be healthy— mind, body, and spirit.

I am in full control of my impulses.

I will use my emotions to support healthy thoughts only.

I am not the victim of circumstance but the creator of the reality I want.

The Power of Breath

“Breathing is the first place, not the last, one should look when fatigue, disease, or other evidence of disordered energy presents itself.”

— Sheldon Hendler, MD, PhD

Let’s think about the rule of threes for a moment…

The average adult human being can survive 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, but only 3 MINUTES without air.

Based on this fact alone we can deduce how vitally important breathing is to our life. There's no doubt that breathing, something we’ve done from day 1, is often taken for granted.

But let’s take it a step further.

As I’m learning more about different spiritual systems and their approach to healing, a common thread amongst all of them is the importance of the breath.

But not just breathing as we know it.

Yogis, monks, shamans, and all healers understand that to control your breath--to gain mastery over it, is to tap into the elemental kingdoms, to gain command over the thoughts and emotions, and to ultimately transcend the physical planes of reality.

In today’s post I will share my 3 favorite breathing techniques and show you how I use them in my own daily practice.

Wave Breath

The wave breath is a breathing pattern that makes use of the abdomen, diaphragm, and lungs. If you have ever taken a deep breath in and out, you have performed this breath.

Begin by inhaling for 3-4 seconds, first filling your abdomen, then your diaphragm then your lungs. Exhale for the same amount of time.

Once you are comfortable with the wave breath, you can build upon it using breath retention, inhaling and exhaling for longer durations, yoga positions, visualization, mantra, and more.

I currently use this breath with a 7-second pattern regularly to deepen my journeys and for daily cleansing and clearing.

Ujjayi Pranayama

This form of breathing, also known as Ocean Breath and/or Victorious Breath is used to warm up the body, clear phlegm and even said to regulate thyroid hormone levels.

I was introduced to this form of pranayama via a yoga tutorial I bought many moons ago.

To perform this technique took a good amount of practice, but I started out by pretending to fog a mirror with my breath while keeping my mouth closed. Now I use this with asana (yoga positions) and during energy healing sessions.

Nadi shodhana

Nadi is a sanskrit word meaning channels—it describes the energy channels that exist throughout the body similar to meridians. Shodhana means purification. This particular pranayama is used to not only clear the energy channels but to bring balance to your entire physical and energetic systems.

Even before I knew the proper name and technique, I would use a form of this at work to stay awake and to clear my sinuses.

With this technique, you inhale into one nostril and exhale from the other nostril going back and forth for several cycles.

As with other pranayamas, this can be enhanced with mudra, visualization, and breath retention.

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So there you have it! These are my top 3 breathing exercises that I have found to be very useful.

What are your favorite breathing techniques?