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Cure ADD/ADHD

If you knew of a cure for ADD and ADHD that could really change your child for good, would you be interested? I would like to share three simple, inexpensive changes you can make to eliminate or greatly reduce the symptoms of ADD and ADHD.

1)  Eliminate all wheat, cow dairy, and refined sugar from your child’s diet. 

This is easier than ever with so many new grocery stores offering alternatives.  You can replace wheat products with rice products. Linda C’s Kitchen Table and  Elana’s Pantry offers up all manner of wheat and sugar free goodies you can bake to satisfy those yearnings for homemade treats.  Try her brownies or chocolate chip scones; simple to make and amazingly delicious.  Cow dairy can be replaced with almond milk, coconut milk or flax seed milk.  Butter is acceptable.  Goat and sheep cheese can be found in many varieties.  You can use agave syrup, maple syrup or coconut sugar for a sugar alternative. You can do this and it does make a difference.

2)  Use Amber glasses 2-3 hours before bedtime to minimize your child’s exposure to blue light.

We live in a culture with constant noise and unnatural light.  The environmental chaos is bound to have an effect on developing children.  (buy amber glasses here: lowbluelights.com)

Blue-blocking Glasses To Improve Sleep And ADHD Symptoms

ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 9, 2011:

Scientists at John Carroll University, working in its Lighting Innovations Institute, have developed an affordable accessory that appears to reduce the symptoms of ADHD. Their discovery also has also been shown to improve sleep patterns among people who have difficulty falling asleep. The John Carroll researchers have created glasses designed to block blue light, therefore altering a person’s circadian rhythm, which leads to improvement in ADHD symptoms and sleep disorders.

3)  Change a few things in your child’s environment. 

– Fill the child’s environment with your unsolicited, loving, positive, supportive attention.  

In his book, Scattered, Gabor Mate says, “Show me a child who can’t pay attention and I will show you a very sad child.”  He says that environmental factors play a huge part in the development of a child and that children who don’t pay attention have trained themselves to “look away” to avoid hurt or abandonment.  He makes a strong case for the attention deficit child needing “attention” and not getting it and so giving up to look away so as not to feel the loss.  In essence, the attention the ADD/ADHD child is lacking is from the parent.  Your ADD/ADHD child needs your positive loving attention in a consistent manner.  Your child is not deficit in brain chemicals; he is deficit in positive loving attention.  By filling this need in the child, he is more trusting of paying attention.  (Here’s where EPTworks can help the child and the family by releasing the sadness the child is looking away from and helping the family love each other more fully.)

-Enjoy a family meal together at home at the same time each day.

Everyone must sit together and enjoy the meal with healthy family conversation. No tv or devices allowed.  Your child’s brain development is dependent on structure.  Creating one dependable structure in your family routine such as a meal together at the same time each day, will help your child get the positive attention from you he needs and help his brain develop structure of paying attention.

 

 

The Place Where Bad Habit Goes FOREVER and Good Habit Stays FOREVER by Sherry Hamilton

 

by Jenn Ocken Photography

This week I had the pleasure, yes pleasure, to sit through a six hour lecture presented by Bill M. Kelley, Ph.D., from Dartmouth College.  I’ll spare you his titles, but the lecture was about the brain and habits.  How habits are formed, and why changing bad habits into good habits is hard for most people and near impossible for some people.  It really does require more than willpower, and knowing what is happening inside your gray matter can help ease the process.

Dr. Kelley showed that the brain is really good at short-cutting information to speed up your process to get something done.  We were given the simple task to see a word and tell what color the word was printed in.  The first word was “red” and it was printed in red.  Oh, so easy!  All 300 of us proclaimed “red.”  Then we had the word “blue” in blue.  We see the word and tell the color: “blue.”  Then with green we are forming a habit of seeing the word and telling its color.  After a couple of reds, blues and greens Dr. Kelley flashes a slide that is the word “green” printed in the color blue.  One third of the room proclaimed “green” the other two thirds were choking back the word and searching for the correct answer of “blue.”  That pause and need to stop and think about what I’m seeing and what information I’m supposed to be giving was a quick way to show that there is hesitation when something changes and upsets your habit.  The shortcut your brain set up for you didn’t work on every solution, and you paused to figure out your conflict and eventually come up with the solution.    When you want to change that habit, there is a pause. 

This pause is where you consciously have to stop and choose your action for the new outcome you are wanting. 

  1. Your Mind-Body is Smart and Efficient

Your mind-body sets up a habit and speeds up the processing like driving a race car on a super highway.  The more you do the same action, the more efficient you get at doing it.  You think you are driving that race car, but there is a chemical called dopamine who you gave the car keys to.  Dopamine is driving you to “do it again” and you are just along for the ride.  Sometimes you are blindfolded and gagged to represent your feeling of helplessness when you make choices and give into your bad or self-destructive habits.

  1. Your Mind-Body is Super-Duper Efficient

Not only does your mind-body set up your habits on familiar super highways, but your mind-body also keeps track of all the details leading up to your action, and sets them up as habits on super highways in your mind-body too!

  1. Key to Changing Out a Bad Habit for a Good Habit Requires Conscious Effort– Pause, Expend New Effort

Establishing a life-long good habit requires getting your body to agree it is a habit and to build for you a super highway bigger and better than the super highway you have up in your gray matter for your bad habit.  Really that’s all there is to it!  Being aware of what you are doing here is one of the keys to building a successful good habit super highway in your brain and body system.

  1. Make Your Choice More Attractive for Getting Your Greatest Reward:  Love

In EPTworks, making the good habit super highway bigger and better so the mind-body will choose it is based on attaching the positive emotional charge of true love to the new good habit. The Biblical truth that love is the greatest single power source we have access to is mankind’s greatest reward.  When my new good habit is rewarded with the best emotions and aspects of true love, then I will be drawn to choose that habit more often than my self-destructive habit. 

  1. EPTworks Therapy Makes the Bad Habit Super Highway Less Attractive Using:  Forgiveness

            Forgiving myself for believing what isn’t true about this bad habit makes it less attractive to me.

In letting go of a bad habit, there are usually reasons why we want to keep doing it.  EPTworks seeks out the long held beliefs that are giving value to your bad habit and making you want to “do it again”.  Using specific forgiveness for beliefs that aren’t true will neutralize the beliefs and allow the mind to resolve each conflict attached to the bad habit.  Using this therapy makes the bad habit super highway look even less attractive and easier to switch over to the new good habit super highway we are building bigger and better.

By guest blogger: Sherry Hamilton

 

 

Riding On the Gerbil Wheel of Destructive Habits by Sherry Hamilton

 

by Jenn Ocken Photography

(cue sound effects:  eee…ee..eee…ee… a squeaky wheel)

I Can’t Help It!!!  I Have To Do That.  I Did It Again!  I Can’t Live Without That.

  1. Consciously admit what is bad for you or bad for your future: Monthly binge on chocolate chip cookies to point of illness.
  2. Decide to take a different action for a better future: Stop binging on cookies.  Do something else with this time.
  3. Binge on chocolate chip cookies. Feel like a failure for not maintaining decision to not binge on chocolate chip cookies.
  4. Make a new plan with more specific aversion techniques so as to succeed next month: Binge on cookies; feel like a helpless failure and guilty for not following through with plan.
  5. Give up on better future: Give into binging.  Live with feeling of failure. Binge on cookies.  Feeling powerless.  No guilt because I’ve decided: I can’t help it.

About 25 years ago, I realized I had a self-destructive habit of binging on chocolate chip cookies once a month.  I recognized it was self-destructive because I would bake cookies and eat more than a dozen until I was sick and in pain.  I followed the above plan month after month for more than a decade with continued frustration.  I call it a ‘gerbil wheel’ because I went around and around with my inner conflict and my outer display for this nagging monthly dependence on chocolate chip cookies.

My sister, Dr. Annette Cargioli, DC, helped me make the first step in breaking this awful cycle of dependence while she was pioneering EPTworks.  After one 45 minute session, I didn’t binge or have the need to binge for 10 months!  It was freeing and odd at the same time.  I was waiting for the powerless need to drive me to the binge cycle and it didn’t come.  Then after 10 months it did come back.  I called her, and told her the magic stopped and I had a binge.  She explained there are triggers and aspects of this cycle.  The great news was we had effectively stopped the cycle once so we could probably keep interrupting the behavior with continued work.  She was right.  It was a process of a few more years of work with paying attention to what set me off or triggered me into the binge behavior.  I can say that I’m binge-free now, and much happier too. 

I say Annette saved my life because the mental and physical toll of the behavior was making my future good health and peace unattainable.

 

by Jenn Ocken Photography

by Guest Blogger: Sherry Hamilton

 

 

Holistic Weight Loss Program That Works Using hCG

So you want to lose weight. 

I can tell you, I know how to lose weight. I’ve lost over 100 lbs not once but twice in my lifetime. I came to discover there is more to weight loss then losing weight. Here’s how I did it…I did EPT to eliminate the emotional roadblocks which enabled me to take action to  start the hCG diet to lose weight. Each time an emotional block would stall my success I did some EPT. I can tell you, I know without a doubt it works 100% of the time. It’s radical and it takes planning and determination to take action for change. 

Here’s the plan simply:

Per day:

hCG  .5 -.8cc’s homeopathic drops 3 to 4 times a day.

Unlimited coffee and tea

2 liters of water

2 lean meats (from approved list)

2 Veggies (from approved list)

2 Fruits (from approved list)

2 Grissini bread sticks (I leave these off)

If it’s not on the approved list, DON’T EAT IT.

About now you’re probably thinking, “How can I live on so little food? I’ll be hungry all the time! Of course I’ll lose weight! I’m on a starvation diet!”

I know, I had the same questions and thoughts, until I learned that hCG works by using your stored abnormal fat and utilizes the nutrition stored in that fat to fill in all the nutritional gaps caused by a very low calorie diet. Your body consumes 1500 to 2000 calories of your own fat per day by using the hCG homeopathic drops and while eating between 500 and 800 calories. SHAZAM!! Rapid weight loss, safely without becoming nutritionally deficient.  This is why it’s different then the very low calorie diet on it’s own. This is why it is effective 100% of the time, EVERY time!

The diet is done in 2 distinct phases. The weight loss phase is 41 days then the maintenance phase is 21 days at your new lower weight by eating normally with the exception of sugars and starches. If you have not reached your goal you simply repeat the rounds.

This diet is only for someone who is serious about losing weight and fully committed. Remember, hCG targets the abnormal fat in your body and uses the nutrition stored there to fill in the gaps while you eat a very low calorie diet.

Here’s some of the technical stuff as I interpret it from, Pounds and Inches.  Dr Simeon discovered that rehabilitation of your hypothalamus is needed to maintain weight loss. His hypothesis was proven anecdotally through the thousands of patients he healed of chronic obesity.  His hypothesis has been proven in more recent years through medical discoveries. Robin Phipps Woodall refers to this in her book, Weight Loss Apocalypse, Emotional Eating Rehab Through the hCG Protocol  .

Based on these discoveries, obese people have trained their fat cells to maintain their obesity. Fat cells are an organ in your body and respond to the signals they get from the hypothalamus. The longer you are obese the more your fat cells recognize that higher weight as a normal weight for you. In the event you lose, say 100 lbs, as I did a few years ago, Your body immediately responds by signaling your brain to take in extra food to bring your body back into your “norm”, FAT. Following the hCG protocol you lose weight in phases. One phase for weight loss and the next phase re-trains your fat cells and brain to recognize the new thinner you by resetting your bodies set point to the new lower weight.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. I’m writing a different story. If I can rehabilitate my obesity, YOU can too. Email me. I have walked in your shoes and will walk beside you through your rehabilitation.

 Linda Collier

Weight Loss Specialist

~guest blogger from http://lindacskitchentable.blogspot.com/

[email protected]

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Emotional Eating and Forgiveness

“I’m not going to cry, I’m going to eat a bag of chips and quart of rocky road.”

With food so readily available, emotional eating is a common way Americans manage their stressful emotions.  Whether we are afraid, alone, insecure or sad, food can be our go to comfort.

Emotional eating is the way we avoid feeling what we don’t want to feel.  Like other addictions, it is a distraction from our emotional pain or painful environment.  By stuffing yourself to the point of discomfort, you can shift your attention from your emotional feelings to that familiar full feeling.  Feeling overfull in your tummy can keep you from feeling that old broken heart or your deep feelings of shame of being abused by your father.

Many people learn this pattern of eating to not feel, as children.  Some families pass it down by encouraging eating certain foods to make you feel better.  “Here have this brownie. It will make you feel better.”  I grew up with a mom who strictly controlled all the food.  We always had to go through her to get any of the good stuff, like cookies, candy or ice cream.  We were always rationed to small portions while she could have more and helped herself to these scarce food treasures.  I found that as I got older, I would be especially prone to overeat this kind of junk food when anything in my life felt out of control.  If I couldn’t pay a bill, keep the house perfect or keep all five of my kids happy; I would find myself buying and eating the entire bag of Mint Milanos.  It was something I knew I could control.  No one can stop me! I’m in charge! I’m in control! I have power!  Rather than being with my own powerlessness, I grabbed a bag of cookies and ate them all to prove I still had power. “I’m not powerless. I can buy my favorite food and eat it all and no one can stop me.”

Forgiveness is a powerful tool that can change the behaviors that hold you back from a fulfilling life.  Hold your fear release points (directly under the collar bone) and remember to breathe after each statement as you use the following forgiveness statements to raise your awareness and to help you let go of your emotional eating.

I forgive myself for believing I can’t change my relationship with food.
I forgive myself for believing my emotional eating can’t change.
I forgive myself for believing that feeling stuffed is my only source of comfort.
I forgive myself for believing I would rather feel stuffed than feel sad.
I forgive myself for believing the sadness will never change.
I forgive myself for believing that when I feel powerless, eating whatever I want and as much as I want can make me feel powerful.
I forgive myself for using food as a way to feel powerful when I am powerless in other areas of my life.
I forgive myself for making myself sick with food.
I forgive myself for believing I can’t stop overeating.
I forgive myself for overeating.
I forgive myself for hating myself.
I forgive my mother (or other specific family member) for teaching me to use food for control.
I forgive teaching my children to use food for control.
I forgive myself for using food to avoid feelings.
I forgive my father (or other) for controlling my environment with fear so I constantly stored up for future loss and abandonment.
I give my father/mother permission to forgive me for blaming them for my unhealthy relationship with food.

 

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