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Did you know that all these symptoms can actually have one basic cause? They are all inevitable results of being emotionally hungry! Just as you would feel shaky, headachy, angry, cloudy-headed or irritable if you were physically hungry… When you are emotionally hungry you experience emotional symptoms such as stress, anxiety, fear, shame, depression, insecurity, and other unpleasant feelings. In contrast, when you are emotionally full, you feel refreshed, like you’ve just had a walk in a warm spring rain, a restorative sleep, a great laugh or the kiss of the sun on your cheek. You feel secure, relaxed, stable, confident. Maybe you’ve never thought about it this way before, but it’s true:
When you’re feeling bad, it could just be that you’re starving for the emotional nutrition you need.
Just as we all need nutritious, healthy food every day, so we need good emotional nutrition every day.
And, just as there are times when physical nutrition is especially important'”during pregnancy or illness, for instance'”so there are times when we especially need emotional nourishment.
Any of the above conditions can throw you into emotional starvation. . . unless you know how to feed yourself the emotional nutrients™ that restore your sense of calm and well-being.
Despite the fact that emotional nutrition is just as important as physical nutrition, few of us are ever taught how to feed ourselves emotionally.
When you’re in any of the situations or states mentioned above, what do you typically do about it?
Maybe you stuff your feelings. You don’t feel anything. You’ve shut down and become numb.
Perhaps you try to ignore your emotions as you instead ________________ (fill in the blank: drink alcohol, smoke tobacco or marijuana, shop, work longer hours, escape into TV, the internet or movies, read romances, or …).
All of these unwanted conditions begin as being emotionally hungry, whether or not you know it!
In fact, 95% of our emotional lives are unconscious and drive us to do things we don’t want to do or prevent us from doing things we want to do!
Failing to deal with emotional needs as they come up can lead to all kinds of unwanted consequences. Everything from exploding on others. . . to turning the upset in on yourself and feeling depressed or getting sick . . . or even taking senseless risks. All of these negative outcomes can be traced back to emotional hunger that is not being nourished.
Actually, it is pretty common to not even recognize emotional needs, let alone know what they are or how to meet them.
If you don’t know what to do to nourish yourself emotionally, listen well: It’s not your fault!
We live in a culture that trains us to stuff these subjective parts of ourselves. Many of us have learned to do this in childhood and we have done it ever since.
In her ground-breaking research Dr. Candace Pert, PhD., former professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University, scientifically demonstrated how our emotional selves actually affect every part of us.
She discovered that our subjective self is constantly creating information molecules that control our health and physiology. In other words, our emotional selves ceaselessly produce physical changes!
In the ten years since her landmark discovery, it has become an accepted scientific fact that chronic stress can manifest in your body as a myriad of health problems that may seem unrelated at first glance:
Yet your emotional needs and hungers motivate your decisions and actions'”whether or not you’re aware of them! That is the bottom line truth, whether you are conscious of your needs or not.
As Dr. Pert proved, “the molecules of emotion color our perception and hence our creation of reality. . . they are the biochemical links between our awareness, our thoughts and emotions and our physical well-being.’�
As you read these words, imagine what it would be like if, instead of all the unpleasant problems and discomfort mentioned above, you could feel wonderfully vibrant and alive.
Yes, there is another way to live, so that you experience genuine emotional health and contentment.
Instead of ignoring your emotional hunger and feeling the stress, sadness and anger that results from that approach, you can fill up on what you’re really hungry for emotionally. It’s like moving from lonely deprivation to feeling you’ve shared a wonderful meal with dear friends or family.
What is your emotional need level right now? That is what determines how much filling up you need.
When you’re really hungry, you can replenish yourself with a luscious four-course emotional meal.
On another occasion, you might want to nourish your emotional self with choices from an emotional buffet spread before you.
As you fill your emotional self with the right nutrition, you feel increasingly peaceful, calm, secure, supported, understood, confident, stable, connected, loving, joyful, in charge of your emotions, successful. . .
You feel open and relaxed, satisfied, confident that you have enough emotional sustenance to meet whatever life throws at you.
As you learn how to fill your emotional tank on a regular basis, you discover what you’re hungry for emotionally and when you’re hungry for it. As you nourish yourself from an always- ready source of emotional sustenance, you will be in a much better position to make the decisions and choices that will help you have a life that works out well. You will be providing yourself what you need to be thriving, not merely surviving.
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