Hi Nikki,

Thanks for raising the topic of comfort food addiction, and its challenges, especially at this festive time of year, when it goes into overdrive.

This food addictiondynamic is especially heightened when one is empathic and sensitive. Here's the conundrum: you know what's its doing to you, yet it seems extremely difficult to stop. I know it well from my own earlier journey.

Firstly, the key is to be aware on your being of the impact to sensitivity of the field, and also the harsh density of the 3D at times. As more of the soul infuses, the more you feel it, and so the need to placate it. It's a vicious cycle, which can have you spiralling downward like a roller coaster.

But it needn't be this way, if we work with it.

Crucially, it's important not to self-judge. Because this, of itself, creates a blindspot to the actual underlying dynamic. Self-judgment triggers you out of the feeling in which you most need to be - which is in the discomfort you feel immediately prior to 'self-medicating' with junk food. What do you feel? Where? Is it emotional? Is it physical, mental or energetic? It will likely be entwined through all of these layers. And so you've got to pick apart the strands, one by one.

How to do this?

You have to amplify the feelings of tightness by pushing back the moment where you want to self-medicate - where you're craving the junk food. This is where you need to expand the window and look into the building feelings before either placating or suppresinng them by consumption. This is where intermittent fasting is so powerful, especially where you go into meditation directly before you eat.

Feel the feelings. Ask, "What's the attachment? Why do I need the food? How do I think it's going to make me whole and complete? How will it ease the pain? Ask: "What pain? And where is it?"

Soften into the feelings. Work with the attachments. Unwind into them. Realise there's a massive gain to be realised from the increased sensitivity to the field that you'll embody. Then you'll find the reactivity will ease. It's a bit like easing into a bath that's a degree too hot.

Afterwards, by all means, go and eat. But now do so consciously, with less craving, and more centredness in your natural torus.

Now make conscious choices of what is best for you. Yes, eat the denser foods or the soul-comforting sweetness. But, choose instead a healthier version. Because your soul is now integrating through the experience, you'll find the food doesn't need to be as suppressing, less dampening, and you don't require as much of it.

This approach prevents the downward spiralling, which you then have to work seriously hard to emerge from again.

Let's be clear: the soul needs its food fulfilment experience. It needs the comforting at times. And that's absolutely fine. But what we need to do, is become more balanced in what we consume, how often, and how much. That way, we can open in sensitivity to the field, improve our skills of empathy and intuition, and be fulfilled at the same time. It's a win win situation.

You'll discover ultimately, that by this measured work, you gain far more than you lose.

Bright blessings
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PS - I'm intrigued, how do others experience this junk food dynamic?