Oprah Winfrey: “All the money and all the fame and all of the attention and the glamorous life and the success and all of that doesn’t mean one thing if you can’t control your own being.”
Dr Oz: “But let me pick up on something Oprah said that is so beautiful. For her, obesity became an excuse that she could hide behind. And there a lot of folks out there who are carrying extra weight around and use it as a shield to [avoid] deal[ing] with the deeper challenges.
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-Larry King Live, CNN
A resilient Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is able to cycle through various activations (reactions to stimuli) and return to homoeostasis. Throughout the course of a single day there are typically hundreds of activations. One moment we can feel hopeful, the next moment angry, the next moment sad, the next moment titillated, etc., etc., etc… And that is a good thing.
We want to be able to feel! But, most of us believe that if we feel anything, then something is wrong and if we feel nothing, then everything is O.K. We also tend to think that joy and bliss are life’s ultimate goals and if we feel sadness, anger or frustration, then something [outside of us] needs to be fixed. We seem to give greater credence to our thoughts than we do to our bodily sensations and feelings. However, our body’s communication offers us the kind of guidance that would often times better serve us. I’ve come to believe that intuition is literally a ‘gut feeling’ and listening to that ‘little voice’ in the back of my head would mean that I’m crazy.
Seriously, we, as a society, have come to believe that the only thing that we need to survive is Continue reading →
