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October 30, 2022
TLDR: 12 Principles of Wise Mind Nutrition
Wise Mind Nutrition offers a holistic approach to eating and well-being through these 12 key principles:
Non-Attachment: Be flexible in your eating approach
Consistency: Develop regular eating habits
Integration: Address past trauma for healing
Neutrality: Avoid extreme hunger or fullness
Ancient Wisdom: Connect with food preparation
Variety: Eat from all food groups
Color: Consume diverse, colorful plants
Quality: Focus on food quality over quantity
Peace with Body: Improve body image
Dialectics: Accept yourself while striving for growth
Nature: Recognize our connection to the natural world
Nutritional Identity: Develop your unique approach to eating
These principles emphasize a balanced, mindful, and individualized approach to nutrition that goes beyond traditional dieting. They encourage a deeper connection with food, body, and nature while promoting mental and physical well-being.
[Read full article for detailed explanations of each principle]
1) Non-Attachment
Don’t become too attached to any one way of eating, as it should evolve over your lifespan. Don’t become too attached to any guiding principles, instead let them guide you.
2) Consistency
Consistency with food leads to consistency with life. Welcome some uncertainty into the equation. Meanwhile, try to be as consistent as possible. Remember that change is a process, not an event.
3) Integration
Getting the right trauma treatment can make all the difference. The embodiment of stress and adversity can create the illusion of separation. The goal of healing work is integration. Heal from the past so you can start to fully live in the present.
4) Neutrality
Remember the mantra: “Never Hungry, Never Full” which strives to gain a position of neutrality where there is safety and protection. There are no active threats at this moment.
5) Ancient Wisdom
Connecting with food at the store, washing and cutting produce, and creating delicious meals at home is one component in healing a disordered relationship to food. Access ancient wisdom.
6) Variety
By consuming a range of foods from all the different categories, you can be confident that all your nutritional needs are being met. The key is balancing out all the food groups to access all the nutrients that Mother Nature has to offer.
7) Color
Increase bacterial diversity in your gut by increasing the variety in your eating. Now that you’re feeding your microbes, it’s not about you anymore! Consume plants from all color categories to access the wide range of polyphenols that occur in Nature.
8) Quality
Instead of focusing on what to restrict, focus on what to increase. You don’t need to “count” to thrive. Abandon the math and experience food freedom. Be less concerned with the quantity and more concerned with the quality.
9) Peace with Body
How we think about food and our bodies is also an essential part of mental wellness. Making peace with the body is critical to making peace with food. There comes a time in our lives when sanity must come before vanity.
10) Dialectics
You’re perfect just the way you are, and there’s always room for improvement. Put positive energy into the world, and positive things will come back to you.
11) Nature
As human beings, we have a depth to us that we often ignore or forget. We often fail to see ourselves as small parts of an integrated whole, or parts of a collective consciousness. Eating represents our most profound interaction with Nature daily.
12) Nutritional Identity
You have every right to act in accordance with your emerging nutritional identity. Remember who you are: we don’t just live in Nature. We are Nature. Embrace it.
Learn more about the Wise Mind Nutrition manifesto.
