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Emotional Eating Do you control emotional eating or does emotional eating control you?
The secret to control emotional eating is to
recognize and feel the emotion. Sounds easy but... the truth is
that most of us are emotional cripples.
We try to ignore our feelings, pretend that they don't bother us,
pretend they don't exist, think that feeling certain emotions are
beneath us, believe that feeling certain emotions will adversely affect
our health...
Emotional eating is the answer to any emotion whether it be boredom,
upset, anger, frustration, confusion, uncertainty, depression,
happiness, excitement, joy, malaise...
To get to the heart of allowing you to feel an emotion write an
affirmation about the emotion such as:
"I like to feel bored." Then
write down all the reasons why you feel the statement is untrue or a
lie. You might have four or five reasons.
Do this for every emotion--yes even happiness--and you'll have
discovered all the reasons that really keep you from feeling the
emotion.
You then need to challenge each reason. For instance, "I like to feel
angry."
Your responses might be:
• "Anger is beneath me."
• "It's no good to get angry--my blood pressure will go up"
• "They will know that they got to me."
• "To be angry is stupid."
First you might think back to the origin of these beliefs. Are they
"hand-me-downs" from your parents or someone you emulated? Or at some
point as a youngster, did you have a problem with anger? If you can
trace the origin of the emotion and take a moment to analyze the person
from who you acquired that belief, you'll discover that the person was
somewhat crippled when it came to anger. That anger actually ran that
person's life.
What was missing from your education is that the moment you allow
yourself to feel (experience) an emotion it disappears; and this is true
for all emotions. And that's wonderful news.
So rather than resisting an emotion or pretending it's not there, it's
important to get beyond your beliefs about emotions. As you allow you to
feel the emotion your need to dilute the emotion with food disappears.
A progressive approach to managing 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 handle
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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