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- Would You Marry Someone with Bipolar Disorder? - by Submitted on Oct 01, 2012 from Richard KuhnsWould you marry a man or woman with untreated bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder is characterized by mental highs and lows. For some sufferers, the highs and lows can last for months. For others, it's relative in that the highs can last for hours and the lows can last for hours. Dating a ...
Views: 3492 - Four Easy Stress Techniques to Manage Stress - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2012 from Richard KuhnsThere are several basic stress techniques to use everyday to deal with: 1. Physical factors 2. Nutritional Stress 3. Climatic Stress 4. Emotional Stress Physical factors: Whenever we are stressed to meet deadlines, deal with interpersonal relationships that are tenuous--children mis ...
Views: 1250 - Three Tips on How to Control Binge Eating - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2012 from Richard KuhnsThe first step on how to control binge eating is by being aware. That's right, the first most effective means of dealing with binge eating is awareness. Typical awareness techniques are: 1. Counting calories. 2. Using food equivalents. 3. Behavioral modification techniques such as: ...
Views: 1292 - How to Control Binge Eating as Part of Your Personal Improvement Plan - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2012 from Richard KuhnsComfort and boredom eating are two contributing factors to over eating. Obesity along with all the associated health and no self worth issues is the cost of lack of food control. In fact if all overeating were because of habit, it would be easy to lose all the weight one wanted to and keep it ...
Views: 1354 - Ego and How to Build and Improve Self Worth - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2012 from Richard KuhnsAccording to Freud ego is an important aspect of humanity. Over the years ego has become equated to one's sense of self and more often related to one's importance in the scheme of life. Most often it was assumed how to build and improve self worth was to build one's importance. The more ...
Views: 6085 - Mid Life Crisis and Self Worth - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2012 from Richard KuhnsOften we think of a mid life crisis striking in the middle of one's life. And maybe it's called middle life crisis because that's when most of them strike. Yet today, that age could range easily between 30 and 60 years of age. Carl Jung, psychologist, described the middle age crisis as part and ...
Views: 3768 - How To Build and Improve Self Worth - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2012 from Richard KuhnsThere are two ways to build self worth—the old way and the new way. The old way was the one I was taught. I was taught how to improve self worth by making myself better—like I was defective and needed correction. Self worth only became an issue in my high school years. In fact I really didn't ...
Views: 1558(1 vote) - Answers to Your Prayers in Your Personal Growth and Personal Change Program - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2012 from Richard KuhnsWhat is the difference between a wish and a prayer in your personal growth and personal change program? Maybe they are the same. But those who don't believe in God, since they relate prayer with some kind of religious experience, would not agree. For that matter, could you say a goal is a wish? ...
Views: 1554 - Should We Celebrate Muammar Gaddafi's Demise From a Personal Growth Point of View? - by Submitted on Sep 30, 2011 from Richard KuhnsIt's time for another celebration. The bad guys are falling--Bin Laden, Hosni Mubarak, and now Muammar Gaddafi. Who's next? From the beginning, man has believed the that God is apart from himself. It's what I was taught and everyone I know. An Eastern, more spiritual point of view, is ...
Views: 1462 - Morgellons and Other Itchy Skin Parasites That Doctors Don't Know About - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2011 from Richard KuhnsI was first exposed to itchy skin parasites and Morgellons in 1994. I was pulling vines from trees in my back yard and shook loose a cloud of dust that floated down upon me. Little did I know that that cloud of dust would alter the rest of my life as I took a hot shower and thought nothing more ...
Views: 3101 - Eight Tips to Overcoming the Fear of Networking - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from Richard KuhnsOne of the best ways of inexpensively marketing your business is networking with other professionals. Networking with other business leaders enables you to get to know your prospects and they get to know you as a person. The truth is that people are far more likely to do business with someone ...
Views: 1191(1 vote) - Building Self Esteem Requires Guidance - by Submitted on May 22, 2011 from Richard KuhnsBuilding self esteem is getting to know who you are and liking who you are. The way to get there is with some basic guidance. In the evenings, rather than tweet or write on walls, I usually write on my computer as I watch TV or promote my websites. Every now and then I hear a gem of a ...
Views: 1378 - Should We Celebrate Bin Laden's Demise From a Stress Management Point of View? - by Submitted on May 12, 2011 from Richard KuhnsFrom a stress management point of view whether to celebrate Bin Laden's demise is a question? Whether to release the photos of his dead body is also a big question. Let's look at this issue from a spiritual perspective. Since the beginning of time, man has had the predominate idea of God ...
Views: 1066 - Emotional Eating--The Stress of Emotions - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Richard KuhnsEmotional eating has been identified as the single largest reason people gain weight back after they lost it and it's a well known fact that 95% of all those who lose weight gain it all back. Everyday I read articles or books featuring a means of overcoming emotional eating. At first I was ...
Views: 1234(1 vote) - Emotional Eating--The Real Holiday Stressor - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2009 from Richard KuhnsEmotional eating and losing weight take second place with holiday stress. But the real holiday stress is not the rushing around (not that there isn't any of that) but it's the uncertainty of all your plans working out for the season. Aside from uncertainty there's certainly the pressure to ...
Views: 1331(3 votes) - Lose Weight by Breaking Free From Emotional Eating - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2009 from Richard KuhnsBreaking free from emotional eating to lose weight is to start by understanding that the brain has two built-in directives: pleasure seeking and survival. Which of the two determines our eating habits? Both! The Pleasure-Seeking Program First, Since you were a child, how many holidays have ...
Views: 1436(1 vote) - Emotional Eating to Feed Your Feelings - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2009 from Richard KuhnsDo you feed your feelings with emotional eating? If you over eat when you feel upset, down, bored, excited, happy, confused, joyful, uncertain, malaise, bored..., then you are feeding your feelings. Is it possible for you to think of each of these emotions as a different persona? Sound ...
Views: 1342 - Stress Management Training--The First Step in Managing Stress - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2009 from Richard KuhnsThe first step to manage unhealthy stress that you learn in Stress Management training is not Tylenol, Motrin..., but instead deep breathing. Caution, if you suffer from panic/anxiety and or agoraphobia, this technique is not recommended until after the symptoms are history. The reason this is ...
Views: 3654(6 votes) - Emotional Eating can Ruin Your Life - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2009 from Richard KuhnsEmotional eating can ruin your life with dozens of extra pounds. Emotional Overeating can affect your self worth causing you to contribute to low self esteem, constantly sell yourself short, and miss out on a social life. The good news is that when you know how to deal with emotions ...
Views: 1579(1 vote) - Sleep Aid for Children -- Reduce Anxiety in Children - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2009 from Richard KuhnsTrue--there is a natural non-chemical sleep aid for children. Moments that you spend with your child before bedtime can be very precious. It's story time and they pass too fast for "Jimmy's parents let him stay up until eleven o'clock." The whining goes on and on. You begin to feel like a ...
Views: 1818(1 vote) - The Truth Behind Emotional Eatng - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2009 from Richard KuhnsYou can only conquer emotional eating when you know how to handle emotions. The problem is that we label emotions as good or bad. And even the emotions we label as good--like happiness and joy--are often an excuse to eat. The problem is that we understand so little about emotions. In fact, ...
Views: 1016(1 vote) - The Truth Behind Emotional Eatng - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2009 from Richard KuhnsYou can only conquer emotional eating when you know how to handle emotions. The problem is that we label emotions as good or bad. And even the emotions we label as good--like happiness and joy--are often an excuse to eat. The problem is that we understand so little about emotions. In fact, ...
Views: 1016(1 vote) - Finding Lost Items with Hypnosis - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2009 from Richard KuhnsAmong the numerous uses for hypnosis, one is for finding lost items. Whether its been recently lost or it has been missing for years, you may have consciously forgotten where the item is, but your subconscious remembers. However please note that if what has been lost fell out of your pocket, ...
Views: 1788 - Emotional Eating - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2008 from Richard KuhnsDo you control emotional eating or does emotional eating control you? The secret to control emotional eating is to recognize and feel the emotion. Sounds easy but... the truth is that most of us are emotional cripples. We try to ignore our feelings, pretend that they don't bother us, pretend ...
Views: 1057 - The Truth to Conquer Emotional Eating - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2008 from Richard KuhnsThe Truth to conquer emotional eating is to manage your emotions. Yet managing emotions is not such an easy thing to do. With all the practice we as humans have had--that's centuries and centuries, we're still pretty much in the dark ages. And it just doesn't make sense for we are emotional ...
Views: 1759 - Conquer Emotional Eating To Manage Your Weight - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2008 from Richard KuhnsTo conquer emotional eating it's important to understand the difference between eating out of habit and emotional eating. The easiest way to understand eating out of habit is to relate with the person who stops at the bagel shop every morning on his/her way to work. It's a habit. Or the person ...
Views: 1335(1 vote) - Feeding Your Feelings With Emotional Eating - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2008 from Richard KuhnsWhat do feelings and emotional eating have to do with each other? Answer: Everything! When we speak of feelings we usually mean how we emotionally feel. The problem is that we have lots of practice ignoring feelings and little practice really dealing with them. For instance, how do many people ...
Views: 1232(1 vote) - Emotional Eating And Binge Eating--The Connection - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2008 from Richard KuhnsEmotional Eating is the association with food and emotions. They can be pleasant or unpleasant. The quantity of food consumed can be small or large. Binge eating is related with a large quantity of emotional eating-akin to stuffing one's face-finishing the whole bag of potato chips or the ...
Views: 1156(3 votes) - Conquer Emotional Eating And Stop Wrecking Your Life - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2008 from Richard KuhnsTo conquer emotional eating is the secret to stop wrecking your life for every time you go to put on your clothes, the uncomfortable reminder of those excess pounds is there like a wrecking ball flying through space and hitting you square in the stomach. But what do you do when that ice cream ...
Views: 1169 - How To Stop Emotional Eating To Lose Weight - by Submitted on May 22, 2008 from Richard KuhnsEmotional eating is by far the single largest reason people over eat. Yet, there is very little focus on how to handle emotions. It's like we are still in the dark ages. Just because we all have emotions, we're expected to know how to handle them. And what little training we do receive is more ...
Views: 979 - Lose Weight by Stop Eating Emotional Stress - by Submitted on May 11, 2008 from Richard KuhnsEating emotional stress is one of the single largest reasons people over eat. Stress is with us everyday and so is food. For that matter, a lot of other things such as cigarettes, booze, and drugs are too. So we are not looking for a means to stop emotional eating and have it only switch to ...
Views: 924 - Causes of Over Eating--Emotional - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2008 from Richard KuhnsCauses of emotional overeating are always traced back to childhood--maybe even to our genetic map. Just as with baby turtles, fish, snakes... they instinctively know what to do and where to go to survive. Whatever the souce of the progromming, humans instinctively have the drive to survive and ...
Views: 1163 - Eliminate Stress Eating To Lose Weight - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2008 from Richard KuhnsEliminate stress eating to lose weight requires self love among other characteristics. The concept of an overweight person loving oneself is an alien concept and is sure to confuse. Why? It is simply because those suffering from being overweight have learned to "Hate" their overweight condition ...
Views: 1108 - Conquer Emotional Eating With Smart Thinking To Lose Weight. - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2008 from Richard KuhnsTo conquer emotional eating it's first important to manage one's thinking and self communication. Otherwise, one's efforts will be in vain. We could begin with managing emotions and invest years of training in how to embrace emotions and experience them to leave overeating out of the picture. ...
Views: 942 - Understanding Emotional Eating To Lose Weight - by Submitted on Apr 02, 2008 from Richard KuhnsOnly within the last decade has the idea of emotional eating being a contributing factor to obesity been considered. And this is largely because emotions in general have been ignored for centuries. We've had far more training in how to ignore emotions or pretend that we don't feel them than ...
Views: 969 - Skin Parasites From Hell - by Submitted on Mar 28, 2008 from Richard KuhnsSkin Parasites that make your skin crawl are here to stay. They appear to itch from under your skin and are impervious to all standard medical treatments. Elimite and Quill will give you a four day reprieve and then the itching returns and it's relentless. The only thing that helps are hot ...
Views: 1261 - End Emotional Eating To Lose Weight - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2008 from Richard KuhnsTo end emotional eating is a matter of knowing how to conquer your relationship with emotions. Maybe emotional eating could be called a disorder. Eating emotional, however, is actually a compensation for the inability to recognize that eating is a means of handling both comfortable and ...
Views: 919 - Overcoming Emotional Eating To Lose Weight - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2008 from Richard KuhnsOvercoming emotional eating is the piece of the "Lose Weight" puzzle that's relatively undefined. In fact I read an article just a few days ago to conquer emotional eating where the author shared that anger was the issue that caused her to over eat. She learned that if she took that anger and ...
Views: 969 - Eliminate Detrimental Eating Habit To Lose Weight - by Submitted on Mar 10, 2008 from Richard KuhnsEliminate detrimental eating habit by being aware. That's right, the most effective means of changing eating habit is to be aware. Typical awareness techniques are: 1. Counting calories. 2. Using food equivalents. 3. Behavioral modification techniques such as: a. using a smaller plate. ...
Views: 1006 - Change Eating Habit (Life Awaits You) To Lose Weight - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2008 from Richard KuhnsChange eating habit and change your life. Food has become a habit for millions of Americans. The latest obesity statistics are: * 58 Million Overweight; 40 Million Obese; 3 Million morbidly Obese * Eight out of 10 over 25's Overweight * 78% of American's not meeting basic activity ...
Views: 1143 - Human Skin Parasites That Make Life Hell - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2008 from Richard KuhnsHuman skin Parasites can appear seemingly out of no where. One minute you're feeling fine and the next minute you're itching incessantly. Within minutes the itching is accompanied by a biting sensation. The itching and biting is over your entire body with some areas more intense than others. ...
Views: 1926 - Control Eating Habit--Portion Food Wisely To Lose Weight - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2008 from Richard KuhnsLose weight--control eating habit. Portion your food is just one of many techniques to eliminate the eating habit. Obesity along with all the associated health and self image issues is the cost of lack of food control. In fact if all overeating were because of habit, it would be easy to lose ...
Views: 1108 - Stop Emotional Eating To Lose Weight - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2008 from Richard KuhnsStop emotional eating by understanding the difference between eating out of habit and eating emotional stress. Yes, at any given time you can be eating from habit or eating from emotion. How can you tell the difference? And what is habitual eating? Habitual eating is the habit of being at a ...
Views: 1114 - Breaking Free From Emotional Eating To Lose Weight - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2008 from Richard KuhnsBreaking free from emotional eating is to start by understanding that the brain has two built in directives: pleasure seeking and survival. Which one influences our eating behavior? Both! The Pleasure-Seeking Program First, how many holidays have you celebrated since you were a child? Add to ...
Views: 995 - Conquer Emotional Eating To Lose Weight - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2008 from Richard KuhnsEating emotional feelings is the largest contributing cause to being overweight. The true way to success is to conquer emotional eating. Yet, decades of approaching the weight problem with diets (an awareness technique) has most overeaters hypnotized into believing that they really have an ...
Views: 914 - Managing Stress Everyday - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2008 from Richard KuhnsThere are several basic elements to managing stress everyday: 1. Physical factors 2. Nutritional Stress 3. Climatic Stress 4. Emotional Stress Physical factors: Whenever we are stressed to meet deadlines, deal with interpersonal relationships that are tenuous--children mis behaving, supervisors ...
Views: 925 - Itchy Skin Parasites That Drive You Crazy - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2008 from Richard KuhnsRare skin parasites, causing relentless itchy skin, suffered by thousands of people world wide are becoming more common. The itching is so intense and relentless that the only relief is to take near scalding baths several times a day to keep the vermin at bay. How are the itchy skin parasites ...
Views: 2374 - Lose Weight With Smart Thinking - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2007 from Richard KuhnsNow that the holidays are gone, you can lose weight by thinking smart. That's to say that there is ineffective non productive thinking. In fact much of how you think can actually keep you from losing weight. Truth is that we can hypnotize ourselves into losing weight and we can hypnotize ...
Views: 1039 - Overcoming Depression With Stress Management Hypnosis - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2007 from Richard KuhnsDepression can be hell. Basically three scenarios contribute to depression. The first is an identity crisis. Example: John, my client, (referred to me by his doctor), sheepishly looked at me and said, "I just can't get the energy to get up from bed in the morning. As I look at my 90 yr. old ...
Views: 1611 - Typical Mistakes Made In Formulating Suggestion For Self Hypnosis - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2007 from Richard KuhnsSelf hypnosis is a powerful force that can be used in the attainment of goals or to bring about change in one's health. Best results are done by repeating a suggestion for approximately three to five minutes while in a relaxed state of mind. How your suggestion is formulated is important. ...
Views: 1341 - Eight Tips To Manage Stress During The Holidays - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2007 from Richard KuhnsFor some Holiday Stress is a joyous fun time whereas for others it's figuratively the straw that breaks the camel's back. In addition to your already ongoing everyday stress, the holidays bring extra stress. Thus you are more likely to suffer from stress related issues such as stomach problems, ...
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