Lose Weight by Changing Your Emotional Diet

by Howard Martin

Our quality of life is largely determined by how we use our vital, precious emotional energy. At present most people are being directed by their emotions instead of consciously directing them. Emotions are more a result of a reaction rather than a choice. Emotions dictate the structure through which we perceive, act and react. As we get more aware and intelligent we can learn how create the structure for the emotions to operate in rather that having them running through our lives like an unbridled horse. As we do, our emotions begin to serve us in ways that add quality, resiliency, passion and a much greater ability to accomplish our goals.
Harnessing the power of emotion is a key and often overlooked aspect of a successful effort to attain your desired weight.

As a friend who’d struggled with her weight for many years told me, "the most successful weigh loss program in the world is the one you commit to from the heart". With that said I believe when trying to achieve your desired weight it’s essential to add the emotional component to the process. It’s just as important to regulate your emotional diet (the feelings you experience) as it is your intake of food.

The key to understanding our emotions lies not in the brain but instead in the heart.

This understanding is the driving force behind researcher Doc Childre who for the last 30 years has been developing the HeartMath System, an inner technology that takes you deep in the heart. The Freeze-Framer® hardware/software program can provide great assistance in gaining emotional balance and it can accelerate the weight loss process. Consisting of specially designed software and a little sensor that fits on your figure, the Freeze-Framer allows you to observe your heart rhythms while practicing emotional mastery techniques. You can actually see your heart rhythms shift from incoherent (i.e. during emotional eating) to coherent as you change emotional states. The system has been validated through twelve years of research conducted at the Institute of HeartMath (www.heartmath.org) and these findings have been shared with tens of thousands of people through training programs conducted in corporations, medical institutions, sports performance organizations and school systems as well as through books, audio/video learning programs and new technology all provided by the Institute’s partners, HeartMath LLC (www.heartmath.com) and Quantum Intech (www.quatumintech.com).