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The Pain of Instant Gratification
By: Paula Altare
What a great world we live in. You want something, you get it! You need something, you buy it! You don’t have money, you charge it! You don’t deny yourself anything……do you? Why should you? If it feels good -do it! Right? WRONG! As we have found out over the years, feeling good and being good for you are two different things. So, let’s take this one step further. As our DietDivas members already know, “A minute on the lips-a lifetime on the hips!” That is so true. It tastes good for one split second. But it ruins your whole mental outlook. So that one second of instant gratification just cost you more than you bargained for. It really cost you a few extra pounds, it cost you a feeling of dismay, it will probably cost you the whole day of “cheating” on your diet.Is it worth it? If your Doctor told you that eating that bag of chips would cause you to keel over in pain right away…….would you still eat the chips? Of course not! Well, I am telling you that eating that whole bag of chips will cause your mind to keel over! Eating that bag of chips or cookies or pint of ice cream right now will set off the following signals to your brain: 1. I am a failure
2. I knew I couldn’t stick to anything
3. I will never lose weight
4. This just doesn’t work
5. I will remain fat forever! All of the above signals just hit your brain. Was that instant gratification really worth it?If you can step back for a minute and just think about it you won’t eat the foods that are hurting you. Count to ten before you open that bag. Drink a glass of water and take a walk before you eat that candy bar. Send the correct signals to your brain. I WANT TO SUCCEED! This will be a great year for you. Paula Altare
Director
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How to Benefit from the Mind-Body Connection
(excerpt)
You are about to gain insight into the
mind-body connection. The number of
people who truly understand these principles on our
planet are relatively few.
There is an undeniable connection between our minds and
bodies, you can learn
to use this fact to your benefit.
Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of "Love, Medicine and
Miracles" was once a
distraught cancer surgeon until he
began to understand the greater principles
of the mind-
body connection. He felt dragged down by the artificial
barriers
that existed between patient and doctor, and the
helplessness he often felt as
a result of his inability
to effectively serve those patients. Eventually, those
barriers
were disintegrated by Dr. Siegel's recognition
and growing understanding of the
mind-body connection and
how it could serve his patients and himself.
Dr. Siegel, or Bernie as he began to have his patients
refer to him, had some
startling realizations as a cancer surgeon. He found that
there were actually
quite a few people in the world that successfully beat
the statistics on cancer
survival. He began to recognize that a patient's ability
to defeat something as
serious as cancer had to do with the patient's mind and
attitude about their
disease.
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copyright 2004 - David Snape
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