Food and Mood
We might think our mood just comes and goes. Not realizing that we are affected not only by what happens around us but also by how we nurture ourselves.
Energy drops and mood-swings tend to make us eat erratically. What if we could do it differently? What if we could balance our mood and energy by how we choose our food?
Hormonal imbalances, mood swings, and depression are all related to our foods to some extend. We can work with, instead of against, the current of what is happening within us everyday by learning how to use our foods as a tool for wellbeing.
When we have needs and cravings that tend to run our day we feel powerless. Once we are on the rollercoaster of the ups and downs it is hard to jump off. It might seem to be impossible but it is not. We can learn to both manage our cravings and moods as well as how to avoid trigger situations. We are always challenged by various conditions which then create emotional discomfort and with that the mood-swings. We can learn how to cope and deal differently and instead live with more balance through our daily food choices.
Anxiety
Anxiety is something that has its root in both our life-condition and it the condition of our life. We can indeed learn to balance and lessen anxiety by changing our hormones through food. We might tend to live on foods that stimulate our stress response and therefore find ourselves in a constant struggle of feeling uncomfortable and anxious.
But life also triggers us to respond with certain learned behaviors and thought patterns. Our belief system often keeps us trapped in a mode of reaction where we try to calm ourselves with anything from food to other substances, or with activities that do not necessarily help us find the inner peace and calm but might rather perpetuate the anxiety.
Through food and life-style changes, belief-system awareness and modification, and new habits of self-care and nurture we can find a new sense of calm in the everyday world we live in.
Depression and Bipolar Disorder
The emotional aspects of depression can reach into our lives with disabling effect. We also experience it as something that can be something underlying our everyday life creating a chronic sense of sadness.
Depression is certainly an aspect of our life-condition and conditioning, the experiences we have gone through, and the traumas we have lived through. However, depression is also a hormonal imbalance and many can be helped with changes in food and lifestyle choices as these do affect our hormones everyday. Even if pharmaceuticals are helpful a change of daily habits would still benefit.
Our daily self-care and food choices can both play in to how we feel and how severe the depression might be, and the opposite way around, how we feel affects our self-care and food choices. It is therefore crucial in the care and treatment of depression that self-nourishment is incorporated in the wholeness and healing of our being.
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