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Are Your Habits Obsessive, Compulsive, Or Addictive?
Everyone performs habitual actions, such as looking both ways before crossing the road, but when our habitual behavior loses rationality and upsets our day to day existence and ability to function, it can be called compulsive. What is compulsive behavior? Compulsive actions afford relief from underlying anxieties. The compulsive behavior neutralizes the anxiety. The urge to alleviate or dispel the anxiety, fear or distress is what lies behind the compulsion. The anxiety can b
March 30, 2008
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Freedom From Obsessive Eating
Extreme effort is needed to stop the unmanageable desire for food. Therefore, improve your fighting skills to overcome compulsive actions. This fight is for freedom; refuse to fail. You can feel ardent emotions and choose not to give in. Order yourself, “I refuse to quit. I will not budge. I refuse to fail.” During the emotional turmoil caused by enticement, ask yourself, “what do I really want?” Eating to unwind is not what you want. What you really d
March 30, 2008
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Defeat Compulsion By Erasing The Past And Being Inspired
Do not live in the past. We all have our mistakes to deal with. We cannot rewrite it but we can ignore it and decide to move on. Pick up yourself from the vicious cycle of the past and empower your life to the brim. Do not justify the past by making excuses. Accept past mistakes but do not be consumed by them. Entrust to God everything. Grant Him to work in you, hoping in the thought that He will totally erase the past. Let go. Have fun. Be unaffected. Never allow the past to
March 30, 2008
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Compulsive Eating Can Be Triggered By Hunger
Feelings of hunger are triggered by hunger and readies the stomach to ingest food. You must be able to recognize if your stomach is hungry, sometimes you may confuse the feeling of hunger for thirst. Try drinking a glass of warm water next time you feel the hunger. You feel you should be full, maybe you ate something earlier. A glass of water 15 minutes before meals lead to eating less. Hunger makes you distressed if it is not properly managed. It could lead to a mild form of
March 30, 2008
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Detoxification Through Fasting, A Cleansing and Juicing Diet Promotes Health, Rejuvenation, Disease Recovery And Weight Loss
Juicing, a cleansing diet and fasting are methods of ridding the body of toxins. 20th century toxins can be powerfully detoxified through fasting. n The toxicity level of our bodies are higher now than before. We consume more toxic substances today than all generations before us. n Our bones have lead 200 times greater compared to bones excavated 2,000 years ago. Our bodies have become receptacles of food additives, pesticides, drug residues and household chemicals. The cells
March 30, 2008