Diminish Stress, Control Appetite (Was: Obesity and ...)

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Hello Andy and CR ALL,

I found Andy's thoughts about stress insightful. Stress harms

appetite control. Understanding stress is a first step to

overcoming stress. Two causes of stress:

-- Our struggle to meet unfulfilled needs (of all kinds)

-- Our manipulation of people and the world about us.

So, we diminish our needs (be happy with less), and we diminish

our efforts to manipulate (be happy with self, others, the world)

and ...

-----> Less stress.

-- Warren

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On 07 Oct 2003, Andy wrote:

Let me suggest that stress itself is not a function of school (or

work or family or...).

Stress arises when our ingrained ideas, notions, belief systems, (in

other words, our " conditioning " ) don't match what reality delivers.

In contrast, when we are fully engaged in a particular activity,

unconcerned about the outcome, just " loving it, " we may work long,

arduous hours, and yet feel no stress (other than the body's need for

rest -- here I'm talking about psychological/emotional stress).

It is the mental concerns about " results, " " outcomes, " " success, " and

self-image that generate stress. Not school (or work) per se.

~ Andy