Thank you, Ken...guess we are not aware of the wholesome effects our bodies and hearts feel when we do this..at first....when we are starting this "practice"...which I am trying to do now...it helps to hear this because it gets my mind thinking in the right direction and kind of inspires me to go forward..even if results are not even apparent at all....for a very long time...although I do conceptually know it is true and maybe know it intuitively from my past experiences but forgot...that the difference will be apparent and welcomed...and to just keep going although no positive end is in sight in anything I am doing in my life ..at all now in the present moment. So what you said here provides an interesting way of looking at emotional eating...whatever degree it is ....piques my curiosity...and investigative way of looking at life...and gets me motivated and inspired to look at a new adventure...to experiment with...and enter into...which I find fun...instead of the old way of...looking at my overeating as... 
 
oh no, another flaw I have to work with....there are so many flaws and obstacles I have to deal with...do I have to do this one, too? This going for wholeness is overwhelming in all I have to deal with...but actually I remember now and had forgotten that I am refocusing on physical health now to come into balance and dropping my focus on inner emotional work..to bring a pendulum shift to more outer practical grounding things....as part of the practice...which is emotional too...but it is a healthier way for me to go forward now...for a time...just a shift in emphasis on the path...to correct myself from going too inward and getting caught in the emotions...and returning to Aryuvedic info and diet, exercise, physical health, which I have neglected due to the stress I have been under....I am grateful for your offering here..it reminds me that I need to look for my mindful eating book I bought 2 years ago and didn't read...and to buy an Aryuvedic book recommended to me. I am grateful for the support on my present shift on my path. And just to make little small consistent steps in overeating and be kind to yourself always...and not to expect huge changes and not to force yourself to do big steps..but to make small changes and to just do that consistently...day by day..little by little...which is very much of a challenge for me...I am going to end now...and rest...my body and mind and emotions are giving me signals telling me that...I am not going to go back and see what I wrote and attempt to edit it...I may have goofed and been unclear...I am just going to end now and rest instead... 
 
take care, all, and love to the world...thanks so much, Sharon

An added comment to show kindness to anyone reading the above...I value clarity in communication especially regarding spiritual matters...I guess it is to me a way of practicing one of the Buddhist precepts of right speech...I don't do it to practice that precept...but perhaps that is a way of describing what is important to me so you can understand it better for yourselves..and benefit from what I say here in your own lives... 
 
one of the ways of showing love and kindness to others...and to myself...is to be mindful and clear in whatever I say...whether in verbal interaction or in writing..maybe in my thoughts too!.. 
 
 
 
Now here is the important part for the reader...the part I intuit you will find most beneficial.. 
 
please take what I write here...ever...with a grain of salt...and decide for yourselves what is true...for you...what I express is what is true for me...and may or may not be true for you...I do not know...and I am not expressing myself and thinking clearly these days...and haven't for at least a year and most likely 2 years before that.....I have lost so much clarity...so please do not go by what I say...I can't even truthfully do that anymore with very much certainty with my own thoughts, etc....like I could before...in my life...I have lost so much consciousness and clarity and contact with my true self...and I believe my own confusing thoughts and things I say and do...and right now I don't even know anymore very well 24/7 what is coming from ego and what is coming from my authentic self or divinity....what thoughts those are...and buying into and believing 
 
things that are untrue both within myself and in others and in all I say, think, and do....I don't even know what is true and untrue, ego and divine...in all I think, feel, do, say, etc....so of course I am no longer at the stage of knowing what to buy into and what to believe...so  
 
 
 
please...find your own clarity and make up your own minds....I do not wish any confusion or chaos for you...not that I can control or affect really what anyone does or how they react to what I say and do...I can't do that...that is up to others to decide for themselves..so I guess it is just a caring or a loving thing I am attempting to do here...to say...please...to tell you where I am coming from so it will maybe help you in your journey..it helps me to know where others are and where they are coming from...so I offer the same to you.... 
 
I am in chaos and confusion...my thinking and verbal expressions are unclear...unclearer than maybe 3 years ago...so perhaps if you can keep that in mind, it will help to not add to your own confusion and chaos by listening and taking on mine....and by seeing the truth and who you are truly with a clear and not a foggy lens...look to your own lens and do not look through mine...which is foggier now than ever... 
 
maybe this is good...because it puts people in the position of looking within to themselves and not to others, like me, for what they need and seek....which to me is where all wisdom lies and is the place to look....which I am learning, too...like everybody else... 
 
so now, like me, everybody, me included, must look within for their own answers, about themselves, their life, life's mysteries...I'm lost and confused now, too...have almost no answers for myself...anymore...or have forgotten what I knew or maybe it was all a sham....I don't even know that....for sure....so please do not look to me for any answers or advice or wisdom...because I am plumb out....and would hate to add to anyone's going astray from their path by anything i say or do...now....or maybe ever have said or done.... 
 
and I truly don't know how to communicate with anyone...except for perhaps one or two people... 
 
and know what anyone else can understand or hear..and I am an emotional empath...words fail me almost all the time now... 
 
I do know 2 people wiser than I am..and maybe 2 people beyond that who can help though in finding the way out of the prison of the mind and know more than I do! Meditation seems to be the only way for me now....a regular meditation pratice. If anyone wants their names or websites, I'd be glad to share them....you can ask them! Hopefully they can assist me to find my own answers....and if they can assist me...I am very certain they can help anyone else! Ha! Ha! Of course, please don't take my word on that either...ha! Ahhh..isn't samsara fun? It's like lost in space...maybe there was a TV show or movie called that.."lost in space"...I don't remember....samsara again...not good "space" but...."outer space"? Too lost to answer that question! ha! Take care...all...thank you for the opportunity to express myself...whatever self is doing the expressing..and I wish you all well on your journeys...I am grateful for this chance to have some fun tonight... 
 
Love, Sharon 
 
Observation...I wrote here for maybe an hour and a half...I now feel foggier than when I started writing an hour ago....the best part was the joking around...the rest was not of value to me....I learned...silence is preferable...silence is golden...and I need to go meditate now and do it more and keep to that..and talk and write less...and listen and be silent a lot more....and do that for myself above everything else...and let others find their own answers and way...and right now focus mostly entirely on me...so I can become clear again and then perhaps help others do so, too....without my putting the oxygen mask on myself in the airplane first, I can't put the oxygen mask on anyone else......so that is what I am going to do from now on..take care, all...Love, Sharon