Dr. Bradley Nelson
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Veteran holistic physicia Dr. Bradley Nelson (D.C., ret) is one of the world’s foremost experts on natural methods of achieving wellness. He has trained thousands of certified practitioners worldwide to help people overcome physical and emotional discomfort by releasing their emotional baggage. His best-selling book "The Emotion Code" provides step-by-step instructions for working with the body's energy healing power. A newly revised and expanded edition of "The Emotion Code" is now available (May 2019, St. Martin's Press). For more information and a free Emotion Code Starter Kit, visit www.emotioncodegift.com.
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10 Ways to Stress-Proof Your Health: Overcoming negative emotional energy can help you live a calmer, more peaceful life
Chronic stress puts our health at risk, damaging our body’s systems and contributing to irritability, anxiety, depression, headaches, insomnia, and other diseases and ailments. But there are ways we can disarm the harmful effects of stress naturally and holistically. At its root, stress is an imbalance of energy, partly conscious and partly subconscious. The energy that you spend focusing on negativity and fear may be directly proportional to your stress level. What many don't realize is that this is something we all have conscious control over.
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Rooting Out Causes of Emotional Distress
Do you struggle with sadness, worry, loneliness, or other emotional distress? Fighting these feelings day in and day out may be harmful to your health and well-being. Research has linked feelings of isolation and loneliness to higher risks for high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, anxiety, depression, weakened immunity, and even premature death. Persistent feelings of worry and anxiousness also increase stress levels and prevent people from living life as fully and joyfully as they might otherwise.
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Six Underlying Imbalances Connected With Discomfort and Distress
Thousands of years ago, ancient physicians were astute observers of the human body. They determined that people whose lives were dominated by a certain emotion would have corresponding physical ailments. For example, people whose lives were ruled by anger seemed to suffer from liver and gallbladder trouble. People who dealt with excess grief would often suffer from lung or colon trouble. Fearful people seemed to have kidney and bladder problems. Eventually, they established a correlation between various emotions and organs of the body.
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Don’t Let Emotions Bully You – Reroute Them!
Most of us were not taught how to understand or deal with our negative emotions appropriately. This may be because we just haven’t known that our feelings have a purpose, or that we can exert control over them. Old habits and lack of emotional skill may cause us to become overwhelmed by a negative emotion. This can feel like we are being pushed around or bullied by our own feelings. If this happens repeatedly, we may start avoiding those unwelcome feelings. We may deny the emotion even before we fully feel it.
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Emotional Keys to Overcoming Loneliness: Tips to Help Beat Holiday Loneliness and Stress
In a recent AARP survey, 31 percent of respondents said they had felt lonely during the holiday season sometime during the past five years, and 41 percent reported they had worried about a family member or friend feeling lonely during the holidays. Feelings of isolation and loneliness are a major cause of sadness and stress for people during the holiday season. Other major causes of holiday stress include: • Family drama and dysfunction. • Pushing ourselves too hard and trying to get too much done. • Having unrealistic expectations of ourselves and others.r
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4 Healthy Daily Practices To Be Your Best Self
People gain an average of five to seven pounds over the winter months, a fact blamed on everything from holiday sweets, drinks, and comfort foods to cold weather and Seasonal Affective Disorder. But if we start healthy daily practices now we can feel better and weather the winter months healthier. A healthy diet, exercise, and mindfulness can all play key roles in a healthier body, mind, and spirit. Here are four practices you can start today to help you maintain health and vitality through the busy holidays and cold winter months:
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5 Ways We Sabotage New Year’s Resolutions
Research has shown that about half of all adults make New Year’s resolutions, yet less than 10 percent manage to keep them for more than a few months. Why do we have such a difficult time sticking to the goals we set for ourselves? One of the biggest reasons people have trouble keeping resolutions — whether it is losing weight, improving relationships, or managing finances — is our tendency to sabotage ourselves
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Lonely for Valentine’s? Dismantle the Wall Around Your Heart
Valentine’s Day is almost here, but it won’t be all sweets and roses for people who feel heartache over relationships gone wrong. When people experience a bad breakup, divorce, death of a partner, abuse, or other traumatic events, the pain of those experiences can cause them to close off their hearts. This may prevent them from giving and receiving love, block them from forming new relationships, and lead them to feel lonely and isolated. We call this condition the Heart-Wall™. The Heart-Wall: What It Is, How It Hurts, and How to Release It
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Overcome by Anxiousness? 5 Simple Steps That Can Help Reduce Your Stress Levels
We are living through a very emotional time. People are stressed that they may lose their jobs, anxious that they may catch or spread the virus, and worried about protecting their families and loved ones. On top of that, they may be dealing with loneliness and other effects of social isolation, along with fear and uncertainty over what the future holds. This is on top of many of the worries that ranked Americans among the most stressed-out people in the world before the coronavirus pandemic.
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Finding Calm in a Crazy World: 10 Steps for Fostering Inner Peace During Turmoil
These days as we face ongoing uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic, one thing we can all use more of is inner peace. We need ways to stay calm and focused on what matters most to us amid a barrage of news that’s often unsettling, sad, or scary. In this crazy world of seemingly constant chaos, we sometimes let negative energy steal our inner peace. But at its core inner peace is really about self: self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-love, and self-care. And those are all things we can control — no matter how chaotic things around us become!
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Coping with Loss in Pandemic: 5 Keys for Healthy Grieving
New research predicts 1.7 millio Americans will be grieving close family members by the end of August due to the pandemic. Many others are grieving lost jobs, lost time with family and friends, lost celebrations such as graduations, and loss of “normal” life. For every person who dies of COVID-19, nine close family members are affected, according to a new study on the pandemic’s toll on grieving family members. With social distancing thwarting some traditional ways people gather to process grief, it’s important to understand the process of grief.
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