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submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Regular physical activity has been identified as strongly associated with a decreased risk for cardiovascular disease and related mortality. However, episodic exercise such as sex, emotional stress, or intense physical exertion carries as much as a 3.5 times additional risk as a trigger for adverse cardiac events. Research documents that the risk of an adverse...
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
According to a study in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fittness in December of 2012, middle school students who are more physically active score better on tests. Most schools are cutting physical activity back and kids are becoming more overweight and at risk for diseases such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, arteriosclerosis...
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Prenatal events have a powerful effect on emotional development. There are methods of taking us back to these early experiences to re-explore them. Looking back to prenatal life is a new concept in managing depression.
submitted by: admin on 04/10/2015
Spousal abuse is far more common that most of us realize. Actually, abuse is common in most marriages; perhaps that is why 50% of marriages end in divorce, 67% of second marriages end in divorse, and 75% of third marriages end in divorce. It is why marriage couselling is so common!
All to often courting leads to both people being on their best...
submitted by: admin on 11/24/2024
Emotional abuse can be as severe as physical and sexual abuse and any form can lead to severe disabilities later in life. This includes belittling, denigrating, terrorizing, exploiting, emotional unresponsiveness, or corrupting a child in a way that jeopardizes safety and often leads to making the child feel worthless, unloved, or unwanted.
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submitted by: admin on 10/16/2013
A Danish study published in April of 2013 of 11,000 patients without heart disease were followed for 16 years and grouped on the basis of mental vulnerability (tendency for psychosomatic problems or poor interpersonal relationships). They found that the mentally vulnerable had a 36% higher risk for a cardiovascular event.
A second study of 14,000...
submitted by: admin on 10/16/2013
Only a minority of patients over 40 with cancer are referred for emotional support. Yet we all need support. Support groups, psychotherapy, and hypnotherapy are very important forms of therapy. There are many studies showing that support groups can work better than chemotherapy. We have much to learn about supporting dying patients and about allocating money...
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Illness is more than physical disability and emotional challenge. In its deepest sense it provides the opportunity to move forward on our spiritual path. Balancing these ends of a spectrum is challenging in today's medicine. Fixing symptoms is important; it is why most of us go to health care practitioners. However, healing is a much deeper concept that has...
submitted by: admin on 11/24/2024
We need to look at harnessing our biology to heal, but we also need to look to the emotional roots to learn the deeper meaning of our dis-ease. Judith shares her early years of emotional challenge very openly. Wholeness requires coming to congruency with all of who we are.
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
A survey of more than 7000 MDs that was published in the August 2012 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine showed that nearly 50% were suffering from burnout. Thirty eight percent had high emotional exhaustion, 29% felt depersonalized, and 12% had a low sense of accomplishment. MDs at the front line of care were at the greatest risk. They work too...
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
HOW TO DEAL WITH WEIGHT ISSUES SUCCESSFULLY
Weight loss programs don't work!
Today's weight management programs don't work over the long haul! Yet there is a $52 billion market that continues to convince overweight people that there is hope if they use the program or product offered by a particular company. This results in yo yo weight changes...
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
There are four types of energy bodies: vital, emotional, mental and universal. It gives us a way of understanding ourselve and staying healthy. Our vital body provides a power supply for our physical body that is different from the chemical energy of the body. This represents about 40% of our energy needs. The chakras transform our vital energy into...
submitted by: admin on 11/24/2024
The energy fields around the body are described. The emotional body's purpose is to connect with people and share our feelings; they can be too big or too small. Our mental body is related to how we think; thoughts are real "things." Thoughts are like magnets. The universal body beyond the other "bodies." The substance of the universal body is "consciousness."
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2014
Love is wanting another person to be happy. It is unconditional. Most of what we call love is meeting our own needs and is a form of self love. Love is not just a personal emotional experience. Generally, we appreciate somone when they make us feel good. However, this is not loving them, we're loving their satisfaction of our needs.
Making...
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Well being includes physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual perspectives. The example of how a tennis player addresses a tennis match is discussed in this regard. What we think can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
submitted by: admin on 11/24/2024
MDs have insufficient knowledge about obesity and it's frustrating to not have the tools to deal with it. Factors such as stress, hormone imbalances, and poor diet are passed along to the psychiatrists.Measuring the basal metabolic rate is a forgotten test. Diets loaded with carbs lead to the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Prenatal factors have been...