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liberal_at_heart

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Sun Feb 9, 2014, 02:01 AM Feb 2014

Does anybody else use relaxation techniques to curb cravings?

I had been depressed all day. I was beginning to crave some comfort food. I instead got on the internet and listened to some binaural beats/isochronic tones, and my cravings and my depression subsided. Do relaxation techniques work for anyone else and if so what kind of relaxation techniques do you use?

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Does anybody else use relaxation techniques to curb cravings? (Original Post) liberal_at_heart Feb 2014 OP
Yes actually it does. And one time, after reading some Eckhart Tolle about staying with Maraya1969 Feb 2014 #1
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Maraya1969

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1. Yes actually it does. And one time, after reading some Eckhart Tolle about staying with
Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:39 AM
Feb 2014

the feeling if say, you are in pain I felt a really bad hunger and I had just eaten so I really tried to feel the hunger, (he says these feelings stay because we resist them) and within a couple minutes I was not hungry at all!

Yes I definitely do think relaxation works and also visualization. I have been telling myself what weight I want to be as "I weight 165" instead of "I'm going to weight 165", (which is about 10 pounds higher than I really want to be but it is a marker for me now).

And as I just posted in another thread that I started on this board I bought the coupons for Nutra-system today. I believe if we believe something we will make it come true. I wasn't thinking about that affirmation but somehow I just saw an advertisement of something and decided to do something about it.

I hope you understand what I am saying because I feel like I am talking in circles. To make it clearer many years ago I had to lose a lot of weight also and I started doing a Louis Hey exercise that was kind of like admitting that I was responsible for my situation and I would not continue with the negative self thoughts that created it anymore.

Well after that I found out about a holistic doctor that someone suggested would help with the asthma I had. He put me on a food allergy diet and I lost so much weight and had no problem at all!

I guess it is a matter on intention too. If you intend that the meditation will remove your cravings then it will!

My 2 cents again!

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