Are you an emotional eater.

I think this may have come from Dr. Phil's book.
ARE YOU AN EMOTIONAL EATER?

Look through the following questions. Check off the reasons you eat on various occasions, according to whether the statement is a frequent cause for you to eat, it serves as an occasional reason; or it never serves as a cause to eat. Answer all 25 questions.

REASON FREQUENTLY OCCASIONALLY NEVER
1. I munch when I get bored. ( ) ( ) ( )
2. I like to eat with my friends, even if I am not hungry. ( ) ( ) ( )
3. I eat so the cook will not be offended. ( ) ( ) ( )
4. I eat when I get depressed. ( ) ( ) ( )
5. I eat when I am lonely. ( ) ( ) ( )
6. I eat when I get anxious about something. ( ) ( ) ( )
7. There are times when my eating is out of control. ( ) ( ) ( )
8. I like to nurture other people with food. ( ) ( ) ( )
9. I will eat my way through a difficult time (divorce, job
loss, illness, broken dream). ( ) ( ) ( )
10. I eat when I feel my energy go down. ( ) ( ) ( )
11. I crave some foods. ( ) ( ) ( )
12. I just like to have something in my mouth. ( ) ( ) ( )
13. I eat even if I am not hungry. ( ) ( ) ( )
14. I like to celebrate with food. ( ) ( ) ( )
15. I think about food a good deal of the time. ( ) ( ) ( )
16. I have a tendency to binge. ( ) ( ) ( )
17. I eat to be polite. ( ) ( ) ( )
18. I am embarrassed sometimes by how much I eat. ( ) ( ) ( )
19. I eat to relax myself and relieve stress. ( ) ( ) ( )
20. I get upset if I overeat. ( ) ( ) ( )
21. I eat because I get angry. ( ) ( ) ( )
22. I am displeased with my weight, but I overeat anyway. ( ) ( ) ( )
23. I eat everything that is placed in front of me and always
clean my plate, so as not to waste food. ( ) ( ) ( )
24. I need high levels of sugar in my system. ( ) ( ) ( )
25. Eating is my main enjoyment in life. ( ) ( ) ( )

SCORING

For each "frequently" you checked, give yourself 2 points; for each "occasionally," give yourself 1 point; and for each "never," give your' self 0 points. Total your points for a score in the range of 0 to 50. This is your "emotional eating" score.

INTERPRETATION

This questionnaire is designed to give you a quick view of whether you are an emotional eater. If your overall score (your emotional eating score) is more than 35, it is likely that you have serious trouble with emotional eating, and regardless of what else is working, you must get the self-defeating nature of your emotions under control. If your score is between 15 and 35, you struggle with emotional eating at times, and you have room for improvement. There may be isolated areas, such as stress or depression, in which you can change.

Overcoming Addictions Using Kundalini Yoga

Breaking Addiction by Rearranging Your Subcoscious Mind

Sometimes the drive to use drugs, alcohol, overeat or other addictive practices in our lives is an attempt to change one's consciousness or fill an inner emptiness.
As the negative behavior continues, negative neural pathways are actually created in the brain, leading to addictions that are hard to break.
In the book, "Kundalini Yoga," by by Shaktu Parwha Kaur Khalsa, there is a meditation that helps rearrange the subconscious mind and negative neural pathways.
According to Khalsa,imbalance in the area below the pineal gland upsets the pulsating radiance that regulates the pituitary gland. Since he pituitary regulates the rest of the glandular system, the entire body and mind go out of balance when the pineal gland is dormant. It is imbalance in this area that makes mental and physical addiction almost unbreakable. This meditation corrects the problem. It is excellent for everyone but has been particulary effective for rehabilitation efforts in drug and alcohol dependence, pornography, mental illness and phobic conditions.
Begin by writing down the mantra "SA TA NA MA," in large letters. Practice chanting the rhythm. Tape the mantra on the wall in front of you. Sit in a comfortable place and make sure the first six lower vertabrae are locked forward. Make fists or both hands and extend the thumbs out straight.Place your thumbs on the temples where there is a small indentation about and inch beyond the eyebrows The pressure exerted by the thumbs triggers a rhythmic reflex current directly under the stem of the pineal gland.
Lock the back molars together and keep the lips closed.Vibrate the jaw muscles by alternating the pressure on the back molars with the rhythm of SA TA NA MA. A muscle will move underneath the thumbs. Feel it massage the thumbs and apply a firm pressure with the hands. You shoul also feel the roof of your mouth vibrate. Continue 5 to 7 minutes, working up to 30 minutes over a period of daily pratice sessions.
Make a chart to check off this daily routine and how many minutes a day you
are performing this meditation. Human habit patterns are set or broken in 40 day-day cycles. More deeply ingrained patterns may take longerto correct.

Emotional Freedom Technique, a quick overview

EFT- Emotional Freedom Technique

EFT can be used to lose weight, reduce fear, anxiety, and heal the body and spirit.


Verbally measure your pain, fear, anxiety, or whatever problem you have on a scale of one to ten. Ten is feeling really bad, one is very mild.

Find the tender spot about a hands width below the neck and at the end of fingers. It is just above the armpit (about two inches over) and about three or four inches to the inside of your body above your breast bone. Press or massage this spot (the spot will be tender) with your fingers as you say--

1.Now, say, “Even though I am in pain,” I truly love and accept myself.”

2.Begin tapping seven times each, start above the eyebrow.

3.Below the eye

4.Below the nose

5. Below the lips

6. On your side, under your arm pit, about where the bottom of your bra strap will be for women.

7.Find the spot on your hand between your little finger and ring finger and about one inch up between the fingers and tap there as you

8.Move your eyes to the right as you tap seven times

9.Move your eyes to the left as you tap seven times

10.Move your eyes in a rotating circle around your nose to the right

11.Then eyes to the left in a rotating circle

12.Then close your eyes and tap seven times

13.Open your eyes and tap

14.Sing happy birthday as you tap seven times

15.Count to five as you tap

16.Sing happy birthday again

17. Tap to the left of the sore spot

Now measure your pain, or fear –or whatever else on a scale of one to ten. If it hasn’t improved, repeat the tapping process and measure again, on a scale of one to ten.

Keeping Love Alive in Marriage

Marriage –Keeping Love Alive

From the book Five Love Languages
A brief review.

How do you keep love alive in marriage?

Five Love Languages:

1. Words of affirmation

Mark Twain once said, “I can live two months on a good compliment.
Use words that build up. Look for the good and avoid finding fault.

The object of love is not getting something you want, but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

When we receive positive words we are far more likely to reciprocate.

Use kind words.

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other’s desires.
If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

Make a list of seven positive qualities of you spouse.

2. Quality Time

Quality time means giving someone your undivided attention. That doesn’t mean sitting on the couch watching television. It means talking, going for a walk—just the two of you.
Two types of personalities:
Babbling Brook- talks all the time

Dead Sea- just listens, takes it all in, but doesn’t talk much.


3. Receiving Gifts

A gift is something you can hold in your hand and say, “Look he/she was thinking of me.”


4. Acts of Service

Helping each other
Criticism is and ineffective way of pleading for love.
5. Physical Love

Physical touch can make or break a relationship. It can communicate hate or love.
If your spouse’s primary love language is physical touch, nothing is more important than holding her when she cries.

Write down what your primary love language?
Now, list the other 4 in order of importance.

What is your spouse’s love language?

What does your spouse do or fail to do that hurts you most deeply?

What have you most often requested of your spouse?

What would make you feel most loved?

In what way do you regularly express love to your spouse?

Play a game called “Tank Check.” On a scale of one to ten, (zero being empty)
Where is your love tank? Each you do that check and then ask, “What can I do to help you fill that tank?

Look back to your childhood. Did you feel adequately loved by your parents?
Based upon the results of your life, what impact did they have in the way you express love to your spouse?


Make a list of your parents’ failures and successes in conveying affection and positive affirmation to you. What similarities do you see in how you express affection to your spouse?

Love is a choice.

An empty love tank can be compared to running your engine without oil.
Think of ways that each of you can fill the love tank of your spouse.

Try going one day without finding or thinking of faults of your spouse.
Write down or say only the good things about your partner.

Sunflower Seeds Sprouted

I just finished the cycle of sprouting sunflower seeds. If you send me your email I will email you instructions on how to sprout these small black seeds. pattyb@q.com. They are delicious in salads, on sandwiches, or in juices.
Sunflower greens are a nutritional powerhouse packed with vitamins A, B complex, D, and E; they also contain minerals including calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus and zinc. In addition to these vitamins and minerals, sunflower greens are a rich source of lecithin which helps break down fatty acids into an easily digestible water soluble form, and chlorophyll which benefits many functions within the body, including building blood supply, revitalizing tissue, calming inflammation, activating enzymes, and deodorizing the body (from Dr. Robert Young).
They would be a great item for food storage.

Christmas & the Fairy-God Mother's Wand

Fairy-Godmother’s Wand

It was December, the hospital was festive, decorated with a huge Christmas tree with shiny red ornaments and elegant red velvet bows. Pots of Poinsettias decorated the counters. Outside it was snowing. I fought back my anxiety, felt my racing pulse and the lump inside my heart as I walked through the corridor toward the elevators to visit my husband who was critically ill. He had coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, and was fighting to recover from surgery for kidney cancer. The surgeon had hoped to remove the cancer from the kidney, but because of the cancer mass, had to remove the kidney. Now, my husband was on dialysis.
Wanting to do absolutely anything I could do to cheer my husband, I held my battery operated fairy-godmother’s wand in my hand. I had bought it at a costume shop for Halloween. I figured everyone could use a fairy godmother’s wand, especially one with twinkling lights. Then, in front of me was a tall gorgeous young woman with long flowing blond hair, dressed in white clothing. She looked like an angel. As we stepped inside the elevator, I sensed her sadness and gently asked, “Do you need a fairy-godmother’s wand?” as I waved the blinking wand toward her.
Tears rolled down her cheeks as she nodded in the affirmative. As we stepped off the elevator I reached out to comfort her and listen. She had two small children and was going through a traumatic divorce. Her mother was in the hospital for kidney failure and had been waiting for a transplant for five years, This was just one of her many crisis visits to the hospital. “My mother is tired of fighting for her life. She wants to give up—go off dialysis—and die, but she just turned fifty. My father is dead—I don’t want to lose my mother too.. I feel so hopeless.”
I put my arms around her as she sobbed. She wiped her tears with a tissue. “Would you like to take my fairy-godmother’s wand?” I asked. “You can return it to my husband’s room later this evening.”
Several hours later my husband was delighted and surprised to see a beautiful “angel” with long blond hair tumbling down her shoulders walk into his room. She was carrying the flashing fairy-god-mother’s wand. After greeting my husband, she asked how he was feeling. “This was wonderful,” she said, as she handed me the wand. “Mother loved the wand. She even laughed. We took turns waving it around the room and granting wishes for the nurses who were coming in and out. She granted me wishes—I waved wishes over her head, and we giggled. Mother now has hope and the will to live.”
That moment gave my husband hope and he lived four more years.
Patty Butts

Tips on Flu

I received these tips from my chiropractor, Galen Birdsley.
Since the Flu season is here, I thought it would be wise to give you some tips on how to stay healthy along with some tips to help you if you get exposed to someone with the flu.

Tips on How to Stay Healthy:

1. Get enough rest everyday
2. Exercise regularly
3. Eat a healthy diet - Avoid sweets - viruses thrive on sugar
4. Keep good hygiene - wash your hands often
5. Get regular chiropractic care - it helps stimulate the immune system

If you have been exposed to the flu, what do you do?

Doctors say that it takes 2-3 days for the flu virus to multiple in your nose and throat to cause symptoms.

Tips to help eliminate the virus after exposure:

1. Wash your hands immediately
2. Gargle with GSE (Grapefruit Seed Extract) 2-3 times per day (3-4 drops in water)
3. Use GSE Nasal Spray 2-3 times a day
4. 4. If you don't have GSE, gargle with salt water and use a saline nasal spray

GSE is a great anti-viral and anti-bacterial. I've been using and recommending it for years. I carry the following GSE products:

GSE Extract (drops)
GSE Nasal Spray
GSE Ear Drops
Nutribiotic Lotion
Nutribiotic Toothpaste

Patty's Comments. I use grapefruit seed extract all of the time. Other recommendations to strengthen the immune system and fight off flu are Olive leaf, Vitamin D 3, Pycnognel, Grapeseed extract, DMG (dimethylglcine), selenium, Zinc (with food and not to exceed 80 mg daily), Vitamin E, and colustrum.