Energy TechniquesThat Support Your Body.

Cravings, Addictions means that you are using false power to keep going because it takes energy to hold onto the stress and to keep going.

How much energy does it take to have a craving, an addiction?

How much energy does it take to hold onto something from the past?

How much energy does it take to escape yourself or escape your fears?

More energy than you have. What?

That is correct it takes more energy than you have to keep the story going of cravings, obsessions, compulsions, clutter (emotional and physical), escaping. The reason why I know it takes more energy to keep this cycle going is because for all those events or habits you and most people have this deep desire and habit of one of the following: Eating too much, Sleeping too much, eating too much sugar, eating junk carbs, smoking, drinking alcohol, pornography, excess work, excess sex, excess church, excess exercise, prescription drugs, illicit drugs, excess internet, excess gaming, excess worry, excess blaming, excess frustration, excess pain. And for those that are restrictive of yourself then excess self-shame, self-blame, vomiting, herbal pills, self help books, etc.

All of those have the common denominator of excess. All those have similar use of too much adrenaline, tight muscles, sleep issues, closet feelings, lack of control, worry, issues with the neurotransmitters of dopamine and serotonin.

It takes less energy to keep the body healthy than to have the body be sick dealing with addictions. Hyper is not healthy energy, Fatigue is not either. Vitality and zest of life that comes from a balanced body and mind that is the energy that lasts and lasts.

With The CraveEaze and BodyEaze Techniques you help teach and train your body gradually and slowly. It will not scare your body if you are consistently and carefully coaching your own body through a series of energy techniques that support your body.

What would it be like to calmly touch your body and say an affirmation several times while taking deep breaths? Imagine it would feel wonderful.

Let’s change that to: your body will feel wonderful when you start to apply the techniques of the BodyEaze and CraveEaze techniques. Your body will start to relax that tight neck and tight shoulders. Your body will get more oxygen to your brain. Your body will start to sleep better. Your body will start to connect to God. Your body will start giving you a choice.

Your Brain and the Addictive Pathways

Cravings all start in your brain—in your brain’s chemistry, and also in your emotions..

Your body is designed to work perfectly. This perfect natural design includes brain cells called neurons that keep you alive, efficient, and balanced. This balance is called equilibrium, and that equilibrium comes from a special area of the brain,the hypothalamus.

Your hypothalamus makes sure your blood, digestion, hormones, and other endocrine functions are always perfectly balanced.

Also, your hypothalamus and its companion nuclei {do we mean neurons?] are affected by your emotions, including fear, sadness, anger, frustration, and stress.

It’s a delicate balance between emotions and chemicals in your hypothalamus, this area of the brain that keeps your daily life working perfectly anytime you experience a significant emotion, your brain will include the hypothalamus in its pathway of checking the past to compare that emotion to events stored in your memory.

Anytime you have a surge of chemicals foreign or in excess, the hypothalamus has to adjust and at the same moment, compare what happened in the past with what is going on the present in order to find the easiest path to restore your body’s balance.

Now, any time you take an addictive substance, the brain will store the memory of the effects of the substance along with emotions that went along with the experience. Over time, your emotions become so woven into the experience of the addictive substance that they become just as important as the substance—and maybe even more when it comes to how the brain stores your history of habits, and how the brain can learn to release bad habits. Because deep emotions are embedded in the experience of addiction, your body has a difficult time letting go of its dependence. Emotion plays a major role in the brain and its maintaining your equilibrium.

Let’s put this all together.

When you take a substance such as sugar, junk food, or a harmful drug, the hypothalamus has to deal with the chemical change in the brain and body. Your body experiences the chemical as an assault—and it resists! But if taking the substances gives you pleasure, your body ignores the pain in favor of that pleasure.

Unfortunately, most of us aren’t in the habit of listening to our bodies, so we often miss the initial stress of taking the chemical substance, and the mixed body sensations of pleasure and pain start to confuse us. It becomes more and more difficult to decide what’s good for us, and what’s hurting us.

Obesity causes 100K cancers annually in the United States.

The American Association for Health Freedom (AAHF) is currently in the process of merging with the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) to become the Alliance for Natural Health US. And Two recent, jaw-dropping epidemiology reports barely made a ripple in the sea of healthcare information. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research, every year obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the United States; and the Gallup-Healthways Well-being Index reported that more than 11 percent of Americans are diabetic and, given that trend, at least 15 percent or Americans will be living with diabetes by the end of 2015.

Obesity, cancer and diabetes have profound effects on quality of life, and their financial cost — for individuals and the entire healthcare system — is staggering. These three conditions exemplify how lifestyle choices affect genetic expression: that is, we can activate or deactivate genes that determine why one person gets cancer or diabetes and somebody else does not. Healthcare reform without a focus on wellness does little to address why a land of plenty is so ineffective in addressing obesity, cancer and diabetes. As Pulse of Health Freedom pointed out in an article dated Oct. 20, 2009, our dollars are ill spent if we fail to champion medicine that can truly prevent and reverse conditions stemming from lifestyle choices. On the bright side, legislation like S. 1640 (the Take Back Your Health Act of 2009) does support lifestyle therapies that have significant impacts on obesity, cancer and diabetes — diseases that drain us financially while impairing quality of life.

KLS News Says There Are New Facts To Consider about Sugar

There's no doubt Americans love the sweet stuff. We consume more sugar and sweeteners than any other country in the world. However, at what point does a sweet tooth become a sweet fix? Some researchers believe too many sugars can hijack the brain, stoke the appetite and lead to chronic overeating.

Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Robert Lustig of UCSF says there are very specific effects of sugar on the reward center of the brain. He says the problem is the fructose, a molecule found in sugars and sweeteners. Lustig says if you binge on sweets, all that fructose unleashes a surge of dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a major role in addiction.

"You need more dopamine, and the only way to do that is by consuming more food," Lustig explained.Former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler, who is also at UCSF, has a different take. He believes it's not just sugars, but processed foods and drinks loaded and layered with sugars, salts and fats that are the problem. He calls the phenomenon "conditioned hyper-eating."

"What we see are areas of the brain become activated. The dopamine levels rise and they don't habituate, they don't shut off, until all the food is gone," Kessler said.

Both researchers believe changes in the brain are leading to chronic overeating that's feeding an obese nation.

The Sugar Association says sugar is not addictive, that the claim is a myth and that dopamine is released whenever you consume any food or beverage, even sugar-free sodas.

Dr. James Rippe is a cardiologist who speaks for the Corn Refiners Association. He says when it comes to America's obesity epidemic, don't blame high fructose corn syrup.

"Rather than saying 'Gee we're eating too much,' or, 'We're not active enough;' it's very convenient to try find a smoking gun. It's very convenient to say, 'Well, it must be high-fructose corn syrup.' Convenient, but wrong," Rippe said.

As for the Niles couple, since their weight loss their cholesterol and blood pressure are now normal and they're no longer pre-diabetic. When they want their daily sugar fix, they're hooked on fresh fruits.

Debbie believes there is nothing more delicious than eating apples or strawberries. She also carefully reads food labels and won't consume any product that has more than 5 grams of sugars per serving, which amounts to a little over a teaspoon.

KSL News Reported Is sugar addictive?

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Stay On Top

Do you have times where you are driven to act out a craving addiction? Do you get overwhelmed with the need to eat or do other behaviors that affect the quality of your life? Do emotions control your life and then you have to live with the consequences?

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Are you Listening to your Body

You recognize your body’s needs for that ice cream or chocolate or that drug or behavior. But do you recognize what the body is really telling you? Are you really listening and understanding what the body is saying to you? Or is it just noise that you try to keep at bay by feeding it cheaply?

What your body is saying to you may be a clue to your real happiness.

The alarms that the body is setting off with those cravings might be keys to understanding your lack of power to change, or your feelings of helplessness, and lack of confidence in regards to your deep cravings.

The deep cravings bubble up when you are stressed. If you never had stress the cravings would be very different. Even boredom is stress, because acting out a craving under boredom indicates that your mind is not comfortable with the stillness of the moment. CraveEaze technique,that lets your body teach you what it is really saying to you when you crave. If you are scared of what the messages might be, let it come to you gradually. It is amazing how so many have used the techniques and later in the week they suddenly have thoughts of awareness of what the body is really speaking. Also, they feel empowered to be true to themselves.