Awareness: paying attention to what you're experiencing

• Breathe before eating. 
• Listen to your body and measure your hunger.
• Eat according to your hunger. You can more mindfully choose what to eat, when to eat, and how much to eat. 
• Practice peaceful eating. It’s not easy to digest or savor your food if you aren’t relaxed.
• If you don’t love it, don’t eat it. Make a mindful choice about what to eat based on what you really enjoy.

• Trip over what you want to do. If you intend to do some yoga or to meditate, put your yoga mat or your meditation cushion in the middle of your floor.
• Refresh your triggers regularly - add variety or make them funny so they stick with you longer.
• Create new patterns. You could try a series of “If this, then that” messages to create easy reminders to shift into slow brain.

The ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions. -Salovey and Mayer (1990)

It manifests itself in the kind of statements we make about ourselves, in relation to our emotional skills and success.

Qualities such as confidence, awareness and optimism, come under the umbrella of emotional intelligence.