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Psychotherapy can offer specific skills and strategies to reduce stress and cope with symptoms, which can improve metabolism broadly.
Psychotherapy can help people change behaviors. Cognitive behavioral therapists have long known that changing behaviors can sometimes result in changes in thoughts and feelings.
Psychotherapy can help people understand who they are and what they want from life. This can help some people develop a sense of meaning and purpose, which impacts both mental and metabolic disorders.
We all need other people. We need relationships in which we can express ourselves and be ourselves.
Stress Reduction Reducing stress is an important part of treatment.
reduce stress, there are two ways that people can do this on their own: (1) reduce or eliminate stressful environmental factors or (2) attempt to reduce your stress response when it is safe to do so.
A highly demanding work or school environment that is overwhelmingly stressful can be managed. The employee can find a new job,
Creating a life that is manageable, pleasurable, and rewarding is something we should all strive to do.
“stress-reduction techniques,” but instead as longstanding religious practices, such as meditation, praying, and chanting. Additional practices include yoga, Pilates, tai chi, qigong, mindfulness, and breathing techniques.
relaxation response, or RR, is a term they use to describe any of the stress-reduction techniques I already mentioned, such as meditation.
compassion from other humans is required. Job programs and reentry into society are needed. These people have to find reasons to live. They need to feel useful. They need to feel respected.
Our environment and experiences play a critical role in our metabolic and mental health.
Close relationships are important to human health.
Everyone should strive to have at least one role in society that allows them to contribute and feel valued.
This can take the form of being a student, employee, caretaker, volunteer, mentor, or other role. It can be as simple as having household chores.
Society needs to work together to ensure that everyone has adequate relationships, roles, resources, and responsibilities.
All humans are not created with equal abilities, but that doesn’t mean that all humans can’t contribute, be safe and secure, and live meaningful lives.
She often felt that she could never live up to people’s expectations.
She began exercising regularly and noticed that many of her mood and anxiety symptoms were getting better.
she had become passionate about helping others improve their health,
psychological and social aspects of finding meaning and purpose in life, stress-reduction practices, having a social support network, and not letting the expectations of others rule us. We are all different, and want—and need—different things.
When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower. -Alexander den Heijer
there is not a “defect” in the person but in the environment. “Fixing” a mental illness requires identifying the problems and addressing them. The “environment” in this case is writ large. It includes all factors that affect metabolism and mitochondria, such as diet, exercise, stress, light, sleep, hormones, inflammation, relationships, love, and meaning and purpose in life, to name just a few.
Everyone wants simple solutions. We see on television every day that we can fix our problems with a pill.
In reality, the simplistic fixes usually don’t work, at least not fully or permanently.
personalized medicine, which acknowledges that there are many pathways to illness and that one-size-fits-all solutions often don’t work.
the gut microbiome can be affected by sleep, light exposure, and stress.
changing your microbiome might improve your sleep or stress levels.
we need resources to do this work. We need big changes! We need multidisciplinary healthcare teams working together to restore metabolic health in people.
We need a society that is just, fair, compassionate, peaceful, and cooperative. We need to ensure that all people have opportunities to live meaningful lives.
People need to feel safe. They also benefit from feeling respected.
Educating and informing people will take time and effort. You can help by spreading the word about the theory of brain energy.
This movement needs you, your friends, and your family.
Let’s put an end to this suffering, once and for all. Let’s not waste another day. Please visit www.brainenergy.com in order to learn more and get involved.
You inspired me to ponder endlessly about neuroscience, physiology, and human existence.
You forced me to look for better answers. My greatest hope is that this book might represent the beginning of those answers.
