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Small Steps
A journey of a thousand miles begins with
a single step.
Lao-tzu
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My husband and I had just finished our meal when he asked "do you want dessert?" My immediate response was "SURE!" because of course I wanted dessert. Only after eating the dessert did I realize that I had been full before my husband asked and the dessert had been too much. I was unpleasantly full.
If the initial question had been "are you full (or satisfied)?" I would have assessed my sense of fullness before making a conscious decision on dessert. Instead, dessert was the focus and my response was automatic.
But instead of blaming myself for eating the dessert that I really hadn't been hungry for, I asked my husband if he would ask "are you full?" before he asked if I wanted dessert. We are still practicing asking a different question, but it is helping me to take those few moments to get in touch with my body rather than jump to eating more than is comfortable.
What different question can you ask this week?
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What did you maintain last week?
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Coaching the Brain -- an article that discusses why change is difficult from a neuroscience perspective.
The power of questioning: Ask "Why?" Five Times by Rosa Say, who wrote Managing with Aloha
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Yiddish Proverb
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