Stress and Emotional Eating

Stress is linked to increased emotional eating.

What is Emotional Eating?

'Emotional Eating' is when a person turns to food as a way to help with feelings. These feelings can beanxiety, boredom, jealousy, joy or any other feeling. Emotional eating also involves obsession with food, weight and dieting. During dieting, the emotions become more apparent and old habits resurface.

You may recognise yourself in a few of these statements:

“When I feel nervous I eat too much”

“When I’ve done something difficult I feel like I deserve a reward and so I eat”

“When I feel sad or lonely I comfort myself with food”

“When I feel tense for an unknown reason I have a strong urge to eat”

Everyone sometimes indulges in emotional eating, from buying a cream filled pastry when you're feeling gloomy or eatinganother easter egg because you're bored, we've all indulged.

Cheering yourself up with a sweet treat may seem harmless, but it can lead to weight gain. According to Sandy Newbigging, Mind Detox Therapist and author of Life Changing Weight Loss, we 'comfort eat' to avoid having to deal with emotions such as boredom, grief, guilt or loneliness. He states, "It is common for people to keep themselves busy by numbing the feeling with food".

Bach Original Flower Essences has selected 3 essences out of the system of 38 to deal specifically with the emotions linked to comfort eating.

The Emotional Eating Support Kit includes three 10ml essences:

Crab Apple (Malus pumila) – When you feel unclean or dislike something about yourself, Crab Apple helps you accept yourself and your imperfections.

Cherry Plum(Prunus cerasifera)– When you fear you might lose control of your diet, Cherry Plum can help you to think and act rationally.

Chestnut Bud (Aesculus hippocastanum)– When you find yourself repeating the same dieting mistakes, Chestnut Bud helps you gain knowledge from your experience.

Where can I buy the Emotional Eating Kit?

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Bach Flower Remedies for Stress

''Behind all disease lies our fears, our anxieties, our greed, our likes and dislikes," wrote Edward Bach, the father of Bach Flower Remedies.

Dr. Bach based his revolutionary belief upon his personal observations of patients whose physical illnesses seemed to be predisposed by negative psychological or emotional states such as fear, anxiety, insecurity, jealousy, shyness, poor self-image, anger, and resentment.

There is a deep connection between negative emotional states and a reduction of the body's natural resistance to disease. The emotions play a crucial role in the health of the physical body.

…What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body…

René Dubos

The body never lies, and the body is able intuitively choose the most necessary. This is why the Bach Flower Remedies are so effective to reduce stress symptoms – they remove negative emotions and clear up the soul.

Flower remedies directly influence a person's emotional state and help facilitate both psychological and physiological well-being. By balancing negative feelings and stress, flower remedies can effectively remove the emotional barriers to health and recovery.

While there are no scientific studies to support any health claims for Bach flower remedies, after the treatment with Bach Flower Remedies a person changes, becomes happier, more confident and dynamic, more rewarding, thinks clearer and build up plans for future.

Each of the 38 remedies discovered by Dr Bach is directed on a particular characteristic or emotional state.

Simplicity was the Dr. Bach work cornerstone because he wanted everybody to be able to take care of proper health and be able to him/her help self if needed. Everybody is a healer.

Therefore Bach Flower Remedies are created as self - help tool. Each person can select the appropriate remedy for own emotions and personality.

The following is a list of the 38 remedies and their indications:

Agrimony - mental torture behind a cheerful face

Aspen - fear of unknown things

Beech - intolerance

Centaury - the inability to say 'no'

Cerato - lack of trust in one's own decisions

Cherry Plum - fear of the mind giving way

Chestnut Bud - failure to learn from mistakes

Chicory - selfish, possessive love

Clematis - dreaming of the future without working in the present

Crab Apple - the cleansing remedy, also for self-hatred

Elm - overwhelmed by responsibility

Gentian - discouragement after a setback

Gorse - hopelessness and despair

Heather - self-centredness and self-concern

Holly - hatred, envy and jealousy

Honeysuckle - living in the past

Hornbeam - procrastination, tiredness at the thought of doing something

Impatiens - impatience

Larch - lack of confidence

Mimulus - fear of known things

Mustard - deep gloom for no reason

Oak - the plodder who keeps going past the point of exhaustion

Olive - exhaustion following mental or physical effort

Pine - guilt

Red Chestnut - over-concern for the welfare of loved ones

Rock Rose - terror and fright

Rock Water - self-denial, rigidity and self-repression

Scleranthus - inability to choose between alternatives

Star of Bethlehem - shock

Sweet Chestnut - Extreme mental anguish, when everything has been tried and there is no light left

Vervain - over-enthusiasm

Vine - dominance and inflexibility

Walnut - protection from change and unwanted influences

Water Violet - pride and aloofness

White Chestnut - unwanted thoughts and mental arguments

Wild Oat - uncertainty over one's direction in life

Wild Rose - drifting, resignation, apathy

Willow - self-pity and resentment

Rescue Remedy - a combination 5 remedies commonly used for the treatment of panic attacks,shock and other emergency stress related situations in order to be able to calmly and rationaly. Keep it handy in your house, car or purse.

Take Action:

- Think about the current emotional state you would like to heal (change)

- Select the appropriate remedy or remedies according to your emotional needs

- Purchase the remedy (ies) and an empty 30 ml (1 oz) dropper bottle, or any smaller size.

- Prepare your treatment bottle: put in 2 drops of each selected remedy and top up with mineral water plus (if you want) a teaspoon of brandy.

TIP: Do not select more than 6 remedies, because too many remedies together tend to cloud the issue and will not work that well.

- Take 4 drops from your treatment bottle, 4 times a day.Take your first dose in the morning and the last dose last thing in the evening.

The healing period is individual. There are no contraindications.

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