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The symptoms of stress can cause negative emotional and physical dysfunctions. Weight gain from emotional overeating is one of the poor results of being stressed. Weight control can be an even more difficult task when chronic stress is involved. |
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The symptoms of stress can cause negative emotional and physical dysfunctions. Weight gain from emotional overeating is one of the poor results of being stressed. Weight control can be an even more difficult task when chronic stress is involved.
Chronic stress-in tandem with a junk food diet-can lay fat on your belly. Scientist at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington and in Australia and Slovakia have shown in mice that stress activates the hormone neuropeptide Y (NPY), which leads to fat accumulation.
But researchers are finding that changes in the body triggered by stress, such as elevated cortisol levels, can cause insuline resistance and weight gain. Source: Nutrition Science News
With all the new research pointing towards an obesity epidemic here in America, parallels can also be drawn between the relationship of unhealthy lifestyles and stress. People tend to take worst care of themselves due to their apathetic and pessimistic outlook on life, which in turn will cause lack of motivation to exercise or be active and eat right.
Most people spend their lives avoiding pain and seeking pleasure in order to find that comfort zone where stress is best well managed. If we fall out of that comfort zone due to a stressful situation or event, we reach for something to make us feel better like sugary foods, or a drink and a smoke etc.
More and more people are seeking natural alternative methods that don't require drugs that usually end up not working in the long term.
Doing any form of vigorous exercise or activity can relieve stress. Your brain will release chemicals called endorphines that will give you a natural mental state of well-being. Exercise combined with a psycological and emotional change will give you the desire to maintain a healthy lifestyle while relieving stress and enable you to lose weight and keep it off.
Two natural alternative solutions that can be taught and used at home and becoming a conventional remedy for many of todays ailments and stress related weight gain symptoms, are hypnosis and yoga.
Unfortunately, many individuals have a hard time sticking to a conventional diet, especially since it usually involves elliminating a lot of your favorite foods and requires a lot of dedication not only to a strict diet but a full healthy diet program needs to include exercise also.
Hypnosis and yoga are being noticed for their overall health benefits and are becoming a mainstream solution for stress related ailments such as overeating and the lack of ambition to get physically active.
Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness, in which you enter a trance-like state.
Only individuals with a willingness and an complete dedication to their treatment goals will be successfull with hypnosis.
When a person is under hypnosis, they will enter into a state of mind similar to when someone is totally unaware of their surroundings while listening to music or while driving or running.
Until Western medicine began to view hypnotism as a beneficial means to relieve people of chronic pain, overeating, smoking, anxiety and all of the byproducts of stress, hypnotism was looked down upon as a parlor trick performed by unsavory charlatans.
For Hypnosis to be effective to control weight, the individual needs to undergo a mental transformation that will get rid of the food cravings and reinforce their resolve to eat better by avoiding unhealthy food choices and the motivation to be physically active with exercise or some form of fat burning activity.
Hypnosis is no magic trick. Success to reach your treatment goals depends on the use of a natural physical state that affects your subconscious and is only obtainable if it is something you sincerely want.
Yoga means union, an experience of oneness with your inner being. Yoga originated over 5000 years ago in India and has been modified through generations. Yoga has become highly relevant in todays stressful society.
Hatha is a style of yoga that involves the more physical type of poses. The most physical type being Ashtanga, that utilizes the both physical and powerful asanas poses.
Power Yoga is a more widely used term today and is being practiced by people from all walks of life, including atheletes and fitness models due to it's intense and physically demanding poses. The consistent movement (flow) reenergizes the mind, body and heart and increases flexiblity.
For a complete fitness regimen of yoga only, it must be vigouros enough and long enough to have a cardio, fat burning, weight loss result.
With the stress relief and physical benefits associated with yoga and exercise, many people are combining yoga with other forms of exercise such as aerobics, walking and many other forms of fat burning activity workouts.
Like all forms and styles of exercise, if it isn't performed on a regular basis, all of the benefits will be lost and just like starting a new workout routine, you need to start out slowly at first to avoid injury.
Hypnosis and yoga are both mainstream alternatives for managing stress and it's related symptoms. As long as there is a true desire to reach your goals, your efforts will be rewarded.
Rob R. c/o ruff raun
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Health and fitness training for 35 years. More health , well-being, fitness and weight loss tips, services and products at http://www.6topsystems.com
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