Emotional Diet Neglect and its High Cost
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The consequences of neglecting your emotional diet are just as serious as neglecting your food diet. This is true regardless of the fact that most of us don't even know what an emotional diet is. It consists of messages we take in about ourselves, either from others or from what we tell ourselves. Check out the following five examples, followed by what to do to avoid them, so you can start improving your own emotional diet immediately.. .
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 emotional diet neglect and its high cost by pamela levin teaching &amp supervising transactional analyst emeritus t he consequences of neglecting our food diet&mdash of bad eating habits and poor nutrition - are well known to most of us that s why we pay attention to when we eat, how much we eat, and the quality of our food t hat s why we pay attention to when we eat, how much we eat, and the quality of our food but another kind of diet is at least - or even more important our emotional diet ignoring, neglecting or abusing our emotional diet can lead to all kinds of dire consequences here are five of the many such examples, followed by what to do to avoid them 1 increasing stress, 2 relationships going sour, 3 greater number and intensity of physical illnesses, 4 increasing failure to achieve goals, 5 rising feelings of frustration, bad moods, increased anxiety, anger and even depression the good news is that not only can we avoid these miserable consequences, we can also create massive positive changes for ourselves by paying attention to, and then improving the quality of what we take in emotionally since our emotional diet is made up of the emotional food messages we ingest, we escape these negative outcomes by taking in messages that support our emotional health and eliminating the ones that are toxic to our emotional well being to start, we first need to become aware of the two sources of these messages one is supplied from within ourselves in other words, these are self-generated we feed them to ourselves internally the other source is composed of messages we take in from others once becoming aware of what we re currently consuming, we can decide how and what to slowly change about what we ingest why make these changes gradually a food analogy answers this question well if we ve been starving for food for a long time, no doubt we have developed a nutritional backlog from starving still, to suddenly stuff ourselves would only produce more illness our bodies are not capable of taking in everything we need all at once a starving person absolutely can return to a peak nutritional state -by taking in very slowly - especially in the beginning or suppose we ve been eating junk food, or even toxic food and now we want to improve that diet our bodies would probably go into shock if we tried to change too quickly, even though the change would definitely be for the better if our emotional state is like either of those examples, we will need small and frequent feedings at first to review we start by becoming aware of our current emotional diet status i ve heard people who started to do this remark that, i didn t realize i was starving emotionally or, i can t believe how much emotional junk food i ve been living on no wonder i feel so emotionally weak or, i m stunned to realize i ve been consuming emotional toxins my whole life long in fact i m so accustomed to them, i m not sure i would even know what to do with some real emotional food then we need to allow ourselves to take in some yummy, messages that nourish our emotional self to sample some of these very messages, go to http //www youremotionalnutrients com and click on the audio sample and don t worry, you can make profound changes in all aspects of your life by improving your emotional diet i ve seen it happen again and again