Anger and Weight Gain: Break the cycle?
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Anger and Weight Gain…yep there is a connection.
Ever notice when you are encouraged to experience a topic, suddenly you hear about it from multiple sources. If you read my last blog, you’ll remember my mention of the word anger. Now my D.O.M. has for months been encouraging me to re-connect with my feelings. I tried lots of stuff but still seemed consciously resisting the anger connection.
So last week, I made more of an effort to watch my feelings. I knew I was really angry with myself. Talk about that later. Maybe a decade from now. I started noticing other minor ripples of this emotion. I spent some time journaling and actually felt being angry.
Then I was off to my usual activities and before I knew it I was in a confrontation that really irked me. I was at work, and buried it until later. When I arrived home, I noticed my whole body was hot. I was furious. So I rationally asked myself “WHY?”
Read my earlier blog. Bullying at work from 2 co-workers for over a year.
Well, I knew I had a meeting at work with the store manager to discuss the situation. I wanted to be cool and be able to discuss things rationally, calmly. I went to do an EFT (emotional freedom technique) lession online. Guess what part of the discussion was about? Yep. Anger.
The body creates a shield for us when we feel we are in danger. It literally creates a layer of fat. This can happen even to people who eat and exercise right. That’s enough to make anyone angry! When we are angry with our body, it does the same. It’s trying to protect us.
That’s point one. Now if we are under stress as well, you guessed it the body creates more fat. One solution to change this is to become the reassuring and loving inner parent. If we accept our situation (the fat), and describe how you or I am not really in danger, and allow more loving energy to flow then adversity can become an ally and as the body (us) relaxes so does the melting of fat. Hey I’ll sign up for this one. The second experience is that as we (you/I) feel less fearful, it is easier to find solutions to problems that just don’t smell like roses.
Hopefully this will give you some perspective how anger builds fat
This is great, may be a bit upsetting but is great! Listen up!
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