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What’s the difference between a neurotic compulsion and a healthy habit?
Paul asks this interesting question…
“I saw a website yesterday and from the looks of it, exercise and dietary habits can be classified as neurotic compulsions. What’s the difference between unhealthy and neurotic compulsions and healthy habits?”
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Our human minds are wired for conditioned responses.
This is of course, essential. Otherwise we’d need to learn to walk, speak, dress, etc every day.
Unfortunately, these conditioned responses don’t always serve our best interests…
At best, they can keep us in bad habits for years. At worst, they can manifest as neuroses or obsessive compulsions… Read more
What to do when you’re not happy with your life
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It can be so hard to figure out what to do when you’re not happy with your life — to get to the TRUE causes, the REAL reasons.
Maybe you arrived here with a specific health-related problem you’d like to solve.
Perhaps you’re overweight, suffering from depression or struggling for energy…
Or maybe you just feel generally dissatisfied, that you’re not getting the best out of life? Have you ever asked yourself…
“What am I doing wrong? What’s wrong with me? I just want to be happy. When did it get so HARD?”
If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you’re NOT alone… Read more
How to look good and feel good every single day
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The benefits of a healthy life are incredible. When you live a lifestyle in line with your genes — the lifestyle you were designed for, you just plain FEEL GOOD.
When you really think about it, it makes total sense. Would we ever feel bad if we’re doing what’s totally natural? No, that’s crazy talk.
But we often think about health in an abstract way. Perhaps like something to acquire — like a car. “Oh, I gotta get me some health.” But health should be your natural state.
Honestly, we are in a bad, bad, way right now. As a whole I mean, the whole population…
Disease rates are spiraling out of control, prescriptions are handed out at alarming rates and the worst part is that we are stuck in a place where there is no joy for life. Depression is rife… Read more
Jamie Oliver’s ministry of food
Jamie Oliver
Poor old Jamie…
The ever-enthusiastic celebrity chef and food missionary has really got his work cut out with this one.
His last valiant effort to improve school canteens hasn’t really made a very big dent has it? Although bless him for trying…
The woman who fed burgers and fries through the school bars to scupper his efforts, returns in this show to actually help Jamie change the eating habits of a “typical British town.” Not sure Rotherham is typical! But anyway… Read more
