Mind-Body Connection

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Health, Mental Fitness And Your Unconscious Mind

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I read a very interesting article on the unconscious mind by Doctor Edward Leyton.  Doctor Leyton’s article was “The Power of the Unconscious Mind”.  In this article the various functions of the unconscious mind were enumerated. 
This following quotation from Doctor Leyton explains the dilemma regarding our unconscious mind and the increasing stress and stress-related illnesses we […]


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HEALTH STARTS IN THE MIND AND FLOWS TO THE BODY

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I am indebted to Jennifer Nicole Lee for the above title of this post.  Jennifer wrote a post entitled “Health Starts in the Mind and Flows to the Body-Retain Your Mind and Clean Out Your Mental House“.
Jennifer had seven very strategies for developing the right mental attitude for achieving success and improving the quality of your life.
The strategies […]


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The Mental Fitness Solution For Emotional Overeating

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Healthabits had a very insightful post “Emotional Eating: When Diets Don’t Work“.
When you stop and think about it, emotional overeating can prevent any diet from working successfully.
If emotional overeating was not a factor, do you think that any or all diets could work for you?
Is it likely that all diets will fail for you, if your emotional […]


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Mental Fitness and Maintaining Weight Loss

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Do you know what the four reasons are for failure to maintain weight loss?  Yahoo Health had an article from The Capessa Blog: Sharing the Wisdom of Women entitled Four Reasons We Regain Weight.
The National Weight Registry reported information on 7000 successful people, who maintained a weight loss of 30 pounds or more for over a […]


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Counseling or Mental Fitness Training

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Counseling or Mental Fitness Training?

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I am often asked what is the difference between counseling and mental fitness training.  This is a very important question.  The differences are significant.  For some people counseling is a better match.  For other people mental fitness training is preferable.
It is very difficult to reduce all forms of therapy into a brief synopsis.  Therapies usually […]


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I Don’t Care!

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Consciously, most of us probably have sometimes been motivated by a “I don’t care” attitude.  Sometimes out of anger, disappointment, fear or anxiety, we say or act-out the “I don’t care” attitude.
Sometimes people are unconsciously motivated by the “I don’t care” attitude.  We see this attitude in people when they are indifferent to their health […]


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Changing Expectations Following Brain Surgery

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This woman has made a remarkable recovery from surgery brain surgery.  She basically has had to relearn all that she had learned before the surgery.  Still she has trouble with her balance, coordination of her eyes and walking.  In spite of these difficulties she continues to exercise and work on regaining her life.
She has struggled with […]


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Which Is More Harmful for Your Health?

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Do you think excess body fat or self-defeating thoughts are most harmful for your physical health?
I read an interesting post, from Physical Fitness 3.  The author made the startling statement:
“Have you ever thought of how much extra, unnecessary thoughts, which are more harmful to you than bodily fat, keeps accumulating in your mind continuously, leading […]


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Are You Shortchanging Yourself?

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How important  is it to treat the mind as well as the body, after a person has been diagnosed with a serious illness?
The American Psychological Association answered the question.  Here is the answer. 
“When people are ill, it’s important to deal with the illness on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels.  If you treat just the body, you […]