Rest and digest

Rest and digest Blog Body Fuel Nutrition and Movement Ballina, NSW
 

Spend time in parasympathetic status (rest and digest). This nervous state increases motility and secretion by digestive organs, relaxes sphincters to allow foodstuffs to move through your tract! It also increases glucose uptake from blood and excited the gallbladder to expel bile! = better digestion and assimilation of nutrients from your food for more energy and health 🌱

‘Mindful Bite’ is one of my favourite apps to encourage enjoyment of taste, texture and eating with awareness. Try it out 💕

Just ate my lunch with this app and it’s great! People often comment that I am a slow eater but I’m rhythmic with this app 😋. Comment below if you’ve tried it ...

 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

https://www.bodyfuel.org
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