This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking Conscious Eating — the art of more fully enjoying your eating experiences and relating to your food in healthier ways.
We explore how rushed and unconscious eating tends to stoke body’s stress response, and also how it undermines digestion.
We look at how distracted eating robs you of satisfaction and numbs you to your body’s natural satiety signals.
We share some practical techniques for bringing more awareness to your pacing, posture, breathing, and sensory experience.
Finally, we offer you some experiments that invite you to begin developing your own approach to conscious eating — starting with your very next meal.
Get full show notes and resources at http://livingexperiment.com/conscious-eating/
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about Body Image, and exploring the challenges of maintaining a positive self-regard in our body-shaming culture.
From disturbing statistics about widespread self-loathing to pop-culture and media trends that appear to be making matters worse, we explore the individual and collective costs of promoting unachievable, hyper-perfected body ideals.
We also share some of our own body-image insights, including the places we struggle to shape healthy values and viewpoints in the face of dysfunctional social programming.
Finally, we offer you some experiments to help you develop more awareness about your own sense of body-image, and to evolve it in ways that work for you.
Get full show notes and resources at http://livingexperiment.com/body-image/
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about Astroturfing — the insidious and increasingly common strategy by which special interests create the illusion of grass-roots movements in order to manipulate public opinion, promote unpopular policies, and even subvert elections.
From shady mis-information campaigns waged by Big Business to the rise of “fake news” and fake social-media feeds created with the express purpose of dividing a nation, we’re seeing the emergence of a new and highly effective form of public brainwashing.
So here, we explore the potential this sort of dis-information has to undermine our media and democracy. We look at how astroturfing is being used to mess with our minds, influence our behavior, and to subvert our common interests.
Finally, we offer you some experiments to help you get wise to how astroturfing works, and where it might be showing up in your own life.
Get full show notes and resources at http://livingexperiment.com/astroturfing/
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about Television — the often too-dominant role it has in our lives, and the opportunities we have to right-size its presence in our reality.
We take a look at just how much time Americans are spending watching TV, and why that might be. We also look at the high cost of all that screen time, and we explore some more rewarding alternatives.
Finally, we offer you some experiments to help you evaluate your own relationship with television, and how you might like to see it evolve.
Get full show notes and resources at http://livingexperiment.com/television/
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about Feeding Healthy Kids — the challenges involved with doing that, and the choices that matter most.
We talk about overcoming the unhealthy eating habits today’s children are culturally programmed to adopt, and how parents can successfully sway their children toward healthier preferences — even in the face of dietary mixed messages and misinformation.
We explore how nutrition can influence both kids’ current health status and their future health outcomes.
Finally, we offer you some experiments to help you nudge your own family in healthier directions.
Get full show notes and resources at http://livingexperiment.com/feeding-healthy-kids/