Emotional Eating or Anorexia: The Mood-Food Connection
Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under Popular Diets | Leave a Comment
Emotional Eating
Emotions are not only a factor in overeating; they contribute to undereating, too. People who suffer from anorexia nervosa have emotional distress that prevents them from eating anything, healthy or not.
Anorexia is considered by mental health professionals to be a distinct mental health condition. Symptoms of anorexia include an obsession with food and with being thin, and people with anorexia maintain a weight that is noticeably below normal for their ages and heights. Although it centers around food, people with anorexia are often trying to cope
Seven Indicators That Meditation is About To Go Mainstream
Posted on March 5, 2008 - Filed Under Meditation | Leave a Comment
Although meditation is thousands of years old, it is relatively new in the west. Here in America, new ideas seem to introduce themselves at three levels. First, a new idea is viewed as threatening and it is feared. Later, it is made fun of, ridiculed and laughed at. And finally, it is accepted as the unique idea of those who originally ridiculed it! Meditation is presently making a turn from the second to the third level, where we find humorous depictions of people meditating on all kinds of advertising. This is a hint that just around the corner will be… Continue reading
Read More..>>The Untamed Heart
Posted on March 5, 2008 - Filed Under Alternative | Leave a Comment
Our heart is the body’s life source. The muscle that pumps blood carrying precious oxygen and nutrients though our body to keep us alive. Without this organ we would be void of life.
I’ve often wondered why this organ, the core of our being reacts so to our inner most feelings and desires. Is the heart where love is generated from or does our mind generate love? There is the old saying about following your head not your heart. Is it better to let your head make the decisions or follow your heart?
I recently lost my… Continue reading
Read More..>>Emotional Freedom Technique
Posted on March 5, 2008 - Filed Under Alternative | Leave a Comment
Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT for short is a psychotherapeutic tool based on the theory that the negative emotions would be caused by the disturbances in the body’s energy field and that the tapping on the meridians would keep thinking of the negative emotion which alters the body’s energy field, it then restores the balance to it.
EFT was made by Gary Craig in the 1990’s. It was meant to be a simple and improving of the Roger Callahan’s thought field therapy techniques.
The EFT can claim that it will relieve a lot of mental and physical conditions, this includes depression, anxiety… Continue reading
Read More..>>Managing Psychological Performance
Posted on March 4, 2008 - Filed Under Mental Health | Leave a Comment
Our world is a game of perceptions. We experience the world through our senses whose only function is to transmit an electric signal to our brain. The task of our brain (mind) however, is gigantic since it must analyze and… interpret the (electric) information transmitted by our senses.
In the world of athletes where performance constitutes the ultimate objective, the athlete forms his interpretation of a situation by evaluating the gap between his current state (his current capabilities) and the task to be accomplished. In order to bridge this gap successfully, the athlete must possess the necessary resources and qualities to… Continue reading
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