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Serotonin, mood and weight loss — an interview with Judith Wurtman
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We all want to feel the best we can, right? We want to be happy dammit!
Well, it turns out that feeling good has a whole lot to do with chemicals — brain chemicals called neurotransmitters and one of those is called serotonin.
Dr. Judith Wurtman is an expert in serotonin. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts and has researched serotonin for many years at MIT…
Dr. Wurtman has kindly agreed to help us out with some questions about this whole idea of how serotonin is connected to feeling good but also, surprisingly, to obesity, emotional eating, and binge eating… Read more
How to get rid of unwanted thoughts
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By understanding all the factors affecting your thoughts, you can get really clear about how to get rid of your unwanted ones…
Attitude
Thoughts come back depending on the meaning you previously gave, depending on your attitude to the original event. What meaning did you give? How did you react?
To get rid, you must change the meaning and attitude to “don’t care.”
If your attitude and meaning is fear, you cause your mind to react in primitive ways that are meant to protect you from danger. Anxiety, the fight or flight state is a state to save your life in extreme danger, it’s not a state that’s good for logical thinking.
All kinds of fear cause our minds to react in this primitive way, but our brains are wired for nature, to react in natural wild environments where our ancestors evolved to deal with real fears, real dangers such as lions and attacking tribes.
What you fear, you will see everywhere. That’s just what fear does.
So, many of our modern fears are irrational, dysfunctional — our primitive reactions very often don’t work in the modern world. When fear is dysfunctional you must use your intelligence to see that it’s dysfunctional and override the instinctive program, by choosing to ignore thoughts, impulses and feelings related to the dysfunctional fear. Read more
