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Category: Health & Wellness

Denial of Feelings Can Lead to Irrational Actions

Many people who deny their feelings in order to make rational decisions are inadvertently making emotional decisions.

If you ignore, suppress or deny the emotional aspect – you will end up being totally influenced by the emotion.  All the while, you’re thinking you are using reason and being totally rational!

The best decisions are made after taking into account how something feels – then making an optimum decision that includes logic, reason and emotion.

The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease

“More than half of Americans suffer from one or more chronic diseases. Each year millions of people are diagnosed with chronic disease, and millions more die from their condition. By our calculations, the most common chronic diseases are costing the economy more than $1 trillion annually – and that figure threatens to reach $6 trillion by the middle of the century.

“Yet much of this cost is avoidable. This failure to contain the containable is undermining prospects for extending health insurance coverage and for coping with the medical costs of an aging population. The rising rate of chronic disease is a crucial but frequently ignored contributor to growth in medical expenditures.”

– An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease (courtesy of Milken Institute)

Low Fat Diets Can Make You Depressed

New research has indicated that there is a link between drastically cutting down on all types of fat and an increase in the symptoms of depression.

– Mood Food Project

Psychic Projection

The definition of Psychic is: 1. Relating to the human mind. 2. Outside the sphere of scientific knowledge. The definition of Projection is: 1. The act or process of protruding. 2. The projecting of an image or picture. 3. The unconscious ascription of a personal thought, feeling or impulse to somebody else, especially a thought or feeling that would be considered undesirable.

So a Psychic Projection is a mental or emotional image that is consciously or unconsciously projected onto another person or group of people. Are you aware of what you are projecting onto others, and what others are projecting onto you?

What Made the Difference?

Three children grew up in the same household, one year apart. They had the same education, the same opportunities, the same upbringing, the same parents, the same genes – and yet, by the age of 40 – each had done very different things with their lives.

What made the difference? The answer to this question is the answer as to why some people are more successful in life than others… It has to do with our response to what happens to us. One response is to feel like a victim at the effect of everything – and take everything personally. A second response is to go into denial, forget and pretend that nothing happened. The third and most powerful response is to see the truth of what happened, and take personal responsibility to change what can be changed.

One in Three Women Die of Cardiovascular Disease

More than one in three women will die of cardiovascular disease… The numbers are staggering. Many women think that heart disease primarily affects men; however, it is the number one killer of women in the industrialized world.

Are you familiar with the warning signs? Do you know what action to take that could save your life or the life of a woman close to you? Cancer is the number one killer in Singapore and the UK (and the number of cases are on the rise) whereas cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in Australia, Canada and the USA.

The Impact Our Genes Have on Our Health

Our predisposition to certain types of disease has been handed down to us by our ancestors via our genes. If your family has a high incidence of heart disease – then you have a higher chance of getting heart disease than if your family has a low incidence of heart disease. Knowing your family health history is critical to empower you to take preventative actions before you become another family statistic.

Mood Food

There is a direct connection between the food we eat and our mood. Some foods cause us to feel sleepy, while others make us alert and awake. If you are ready for bed – by all means eat food that helps you sleep. However, if it is lunchtime and you have an afternoon of work to do… Wouldn’t it make sense to avoid the sleep-inducing foods?

Dealing with Stress

Most people turn to one of three methods to deal with stress: the band-aid approach, the stress management approach or the denial approach.  Unfortunately, none of these approaches work long term.  The most effective way to handle stress – without drugs, relaxation exercises or stress management techniques – is to recognize and deal with the underlying causes.  These underlying causes are often unsolvable problems.  Solve the problem, and the stress goes away.  Without solving the problem – no amount of relaxation or management techniques will prevent the stress from returning…

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