Health: 10 ways to deal with fear

10 ways to deal with fear

Written by Julie Plenty

10 ways to reduce fear. > > Fear often interferes with our ability to live more fulfilling lives. Fear is repparttar

critical voice in our head saying: "You'll never succeed, so why try?". Fear makes us listen to those voices and give up before we've even started. > > When we let fear rule our lives, we miss out on opportunities and leads us to dismiss people and situations that could help us reach our goals. Fear comes in different guises and different forms - procrastination for example. Here are 10 ways to reduce and break through fear. > > 1.Write down your fears and how they affect your life. > > 2.Are there things that you're holding back on, because you're frightened that you are not good enough or of making changes generally? You have a limited time on this earth. Deadlines are called deadlines for a reason! > > 3.Listen to your self-talk. Many of us don't so much talk to ourselves as make statements ie "I'll never be able to get that job". This cuts your brain dead and gives it nothing to work on. It's gone for a prolonged holiday! > > 4.Start asking yourself questions. For example, ask "how can I make giving this speech an enjoyable experience?". Now your brain has something to do! Don't expect repparttar 115734

answer straight away (but be aware of opportunities and situations that provide clues) - but you're going in repparttar 115735

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habit of asking yourself questions rather than making blanket (negative) statements. > > 5. Redefine "mistakes" and learn from them. Don't beat yourself up over mistakes you've made in repparttar 115737

past and being fearful of starting new relationships, jobs etc. That gets you nowhere. Call a mistake an "opportunity for learning" and seek repparttar 115738

learning in every "mistake". > > 6. Seek repparttar 115739

company of supportive people and reduce contact with those who foster feelings of negativity and have a "fearful" approach to life.

Why are most people in the Western World Unhealthy?

Written by Warren Matthews

I'm going to attempt to shed some shed some light as to why repparttar

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population is overweight and in less than optimum health. I won't bore you with a whole lot of facts as you have probably heard most of them before, particularly those relating to obesity. Observe repparttar 115734

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extent of general poor health yourself...first hand. If you haven't already done so, next time you are in a shopping mall sit down for 10 minutes and consciously observe repparttar 115737

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people passing by you.

Look at whether they are overweight, observe their skin for clarity and firmness, take note of repparttar 115739 way they move...are their movements effortless and appear to have energy to spare, or are they sluggish as if they are carrying a burden? Also look at their eyes... are they bright, clear and alert? I think that you know what repparttar 115740 results of a personal survey such as this will reveal! It will show that repparttar 115741 MAJORITY of repparttar 115742 people that pass by you will either be overweight or have other outward signs of less than optimal health. I am not being judgmental of these people because many of them are in this condition primarily as a result of being fed misinformation through repparttar 115743 media by either misguided authorities or commercial interests. Before I expand on this I should mention that a certain number of these people are nevertheless 100% to blame for their condition.

They know they are doing harmful things to their body and health.

But, what about repparttar 115744 rest of repparttar 115745 unhealthy group who are in this condition primarily due to being fed a constant stream of misinformation! These can be placed into just a few general categories: 1. Psychological.

There is a constant barrage of 'pill' advertising which we are subjected to every day. Consider repparttar 115746 influence that this has on repparttar 115747 general population. If you were to believe repparttar 115748 advertismentss and ignore repparttar 115749 side effect warnings it would be quite easy to get repparttar 115750 impression that there is a 'Magic pill' solution for most ailments.

Added to this are repparttar 115751 constant news releases that talk about new medical discoveries such as being able to grow replacement organs when your own wear out, and don't forget about repparttar 115752 'promising' research for other new 'miracle' drugs just over repparttar 115753 horizon. All these influences combined with a 'busy' society looking for a quick and easy 'fix', it is no wonder that so many people are quite 'slack' when it comes to taking care of their bodies...particularly on repparttar 115754 inside.

2. Dietary Advice. The food pyramid that is recommended people adhere to, haslargely been discredited scientifically but continues to be pushed. Also, an obsession has developed in which people are constantly advised to reduce their fat intake.

The 'official' line is that saturated animal fats are bad for you and you should avoid butter etc, etc... People believe that if you eat saturated fat you will become fat, or if you eat foods containing cholesterol such as eggs you will raise your cholesterol levels, and so on. The reality is quite different but I do not have repparttar 115755 space to examine this further right now. But just as a quick illustration take cholesterol. 80% of your blood cholesterol is manufactured by your liver. In other words only 20% is from dietary sources. So, if you reduced your intake of cholesterol by 25% it would only impact on your overall cholesterol by 5%. By people accepting repparttar 115756 'official' no fat line they turn to alternatives such as margarine and other vegetable oil substitutes. What they are not aware of is that most of these substitutes, which are derived from vegetable oils, are in fact hydrogenated because otherwise they would be liquid at room temperature.

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