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How to Eliminate Boredom Eating The Truth to eliminate boredom eating is to manage your emotions.
Yet managing emotions is not such an easy thing to do.
With all the practice we as humans have had--that's centuries and
centuries, we're still pretty much in the dark ages.
And it just doesn't make sense for we are emotional beings. In fact our
limbic emotional brain was developed before the reticular analytical
brain.
What is known is that all through out history, man has tried to
"control" his emotions. The reticular portion of the brain has attempted
to suppress the emotional limbic brain. There hasn't been to much gray
about it--you're either in control or you're not. So it's been more of a
black and white thing.
One way to control emotions is to deny them.
It must be from the Victorian age where everyone was in a looking
glass being observed by everyone else. God forbid an emotional outburst.
It would be associated with evilness.
Where ever it came from, i.e. the poor handling of emotion, the result
is that in this century of advanced technological accomplishments, most
of us are still emotional cripples.
Thus when we are tempted to eat, we don't look to the predominate
emotion we're feeling like boredom, we look to it being a food or an eating problem.
Yet, until we learn to manage our emotions the end result is weight
gain.
Rather than make it into a food or a weight gain issue, the goal is to
acknowledge which emotion is speaking to you. To eliminate boredom
eating is to first recognize the boredom that's associated with food.
For in reality, you're not eating food, you're eating your emotion. Food
dilutes the boredom. After all, when you're eating, you're not thinking,
"Gee I feel bored and I hate this feeling. This is a terrible feeling
and I wish I knew what to do about it. Blah blah, blah..."
No, you're thinking about how good the food tastes or how you're only
going to eat a little of it, or how you'll not each so much tomorrow to
make up for it, or how you shouldn't be eating it, or how little control
you have...
That's diluting the emotion. You're thinking is mostly about the
consequences of the food and very little about what you're feeling.
But how do you stop diluting the emotion and take the emotion straight?
The answer is to simply feel the emotion. The problem is that we have
had virtually an unlimited amount of training on how to avoid feeling
the emotion. And it doesn't have to be bad emotions--this is also true
for emotions such as happiness.
A progressive approach to losing weight involves asking important
questions "What is missing? Why are you not getting the results you've
been promised?" It is clearly insane to keep dieting when the results
are so poor. It's more important to gain a grasp on how to stop
emotional eating--eating emotional stress than it is to read the scale.
Besides focusing on the scale doesn't empower you to be a better more
enlightened person, whereas learning how to overcome emotional eating
empowers you in all aspects of your life. If you're a sales person,
you'll be a better sales person. If you're an assembly line worker,
you'll be a better assembly line worker; a mother, a better mother...
Overall, you'll build self worth and find that what you really want to
eat is far more nutritious and less in quantity than you ever before
imagined possible. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Resource Box: Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E. NGH certified, a prominent figure in the personal development field. His goal is to provide all the tools one needs to successfully deal with emotional eating.
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