Archive for August, 2009

Running For Weight Loss

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

When we say proper diet, it doesn’t mean that you will embrace numerous fad diets that are surfacing the weight loss industry nowadays. Proper diet simply means education yourself about the nutritious foods that you need to eat and foods that you need to avoid. Once you have educated yourself, you will find it easy to adapt to the changes in your eating habits.Click fat loss and aware of many things which you don’t know.

Your body doesn’t count calories the way you do. It sorts them out in order to provide you with the energy you need, and to manage your blood sugar levels efficiently. This can seem a little complicated, but just know that when you eat carbohydrates, proteins and fats, your body has a sorting system, not a counting system.

Skipping breakfast is the number one mistake people make. The second biggest mistake people make is eating a breakfast full of processed foods. These foods are packed with carbohydrates and sugar. The last mistake people make is eating a light meal for breakfast.

When we say proper diet, it doesn’t mean that you will embrace numerous fad diets that are surfacing the weight loss industry nowadays. Proper diet simply means education yourself about the nutritious foods that you need to eat and foods that you need to avoid. Once you have educated yourself, you will find it easy to adapt to the changes in your eating habits.

It doesn’t matter that how much running you do or how much weight you lift, if you do not give your body the necessary nutrients it needs to operate, you will not lose weight. If you are currently working out with weights or on some type of cardio program and you are not seeing enough results from it, it is probably due to your lack of a proper nutritional diet.

When you are searching for a diet for weight loss and you want to find a good program you should know it will not be easy. However, you will have set guidelines that all you have to do is follow. The best programs will also allow you to cheat a little or at least will give you room to work. They will teach you portion control and a balanced diet to go along with exercise.

Aside from proper diet, you should also have good sleep because lack of sleep will hinder your weight loss goals. When you lack sleep, the body stores more fat cells. Thus, if you want to lose weight, try to maintain good sleeping habits.

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Stuttering and Lazy Tongue Improved with Hypnosis Stress Management Techniques

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

Symptoms of twisted tongue or lazy tongue and stuttering can greatly be improved with basic stress management techniques and hypnosis.

The phrase “lazy tongue,” which I coined, basically speaks for itself. When the affected person attempts to speak, it seemsas though the tongue is twisted, lazy and simply doesn’t move fast enough to enunciate what is spoken. The result is slurred speech and or stuttering. It often feels as though the twisted tongue is enlarged and because of this feeling it is often easy to bite the side of the mouth or the tongue–it smarts.

Typically stuttering is not necessarily associated with a lazy tongue, but more often simply stuttering is associated with excessive tension in the mouth. Whereas one can begin suffering from lazy tongue at any age, stuttering is oftensomething left over from child hood.

The issues surrounding both stuttering and lazy tongue are similar. Stuttering is often associated with a less than healthy self image resulting from a conditioning experience of an embarrassing nature as a youngster, or having an overbearing and critical parent. Lazy tongue, on the other hand, is usually the result of a major stressor such as loss of a marriage, death of a loved one, loss of a job…

With both stuttering and lazy tongue, there is a situation of challenged self esteem. However, a boost in self esteem (although helpful) usually will not solve either problem without stress management intervention.

For example, Carl was 19 years of age and away at college. Stuttering since elementary school he successfully stopped all stuttering within three weeks of stress management training. He returned home over semester break and promised his father to organize the garage one Saturday.

For some reason Carl never got around to fulfilling his promise. His dad noticed the garage wasn’t cleaned, and called Carl a “stupid shit,” for not cleaning the garage. Carl’s stuttering returned instantly.

This is a case of having an overbearing, over critical parent who in combination with the son’s sensitive nature, contributed to his son’s stuttering which often makes overcoming stuttering a two part program.

1. Using basic stress management skills involving deep rhythmic breathing, and muscle tensing relaxation exercises for the various muscles of the jaw, mouth, and tongue.

Deep breathing into the diaphragm is for composure. The muscle exercises are to stretch the jaw in various directions, stretch the tongue and press it against various locations in the mouth. It also involves tensing the facial muscles. Each time the muscles are tensed, they are tensed to the point of extreme discomfort–almost to the point of fatigue. Then the tension is then released and self mental programming is done as to which feelings are disliked and which are preferred.

2. Self hypnotic affirmations are used to change the perspective so as to create building self esteem and build confidence. Focus is on dealing with the emotions of rejection, disappointment, and frustration. Through hypnosis the individual moves to embrace the emotion and then move beyond it to somehow benefit from the experience.

An enlightened approach to stuttering and lazy tongue involves more than one approach. Whereas many programs only focus on the mechanical, you wonder why the obvious self esteem issues are left out or only dealt with in passing. It’s clearly a mistake to ignore either the stress management or the self esteem issues. Doing the physical exercises and dealing with the mental issues of building self esteem produces real results.

Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E., NGH certified is a prominent figure in the field of hypnosis and stress management. His best selling cds for managing stress are at http://www.DStressDoc.com and http://www.PanicBusters.com His aim is to raise awareness as to how using basic stress management skills can be used to over come stuttering and lazy tongue syndrome. To find out more please visit
http://www.dstressdoc.com/TwistedTongue.htm or listen to the podcast at http://hypnocast.podbean.com/ in which I share my personal experience with a twisted tongue.