Our thoughts help us to reflect and lead us to the way we react in face of conflicts and unforeseen events that life presents us daily. The big problem is when these thoughts become limiting, hindering our actions.

It does no good to think you can achieve a certain goal if you don't feel capable of doing it. Don't let negative thoughts and feelings limit you. Renew your way of looking at life. There is always so much more to live, to experience, to learn and to accomplish.

"Descartes' phrase shows how vital "thinking" is for human beings. We travel without even leaving the place.

Thought puts us in front of something to be evaluated, understood or chosen without actually having it in front of us. It elaborates concepts, idealizes, gives meaning, creates judgments, and makes us have within us a very peculiar universe.

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Consciously or unconsciously we are all thinkers, according to researchers our mind can produce between twelve thousand and sixty thousand thoughts a day. Many are the thoughts and most of them are unwanted and the consequence of this is a great weariness, a mental fatigue because it does not bring any benefit.

Most of the time we use thoughts as ammunition against ourselves. We create problems that don't exist, we remember things that put us down, within minutes we destroy ourselves, we become tormented and accumulate unnecessary thoughts.

Dealing with our emotions

Leaving emotion aside is impossible, so accepting what we feel and also the causes is a fundamental step in the search for balance.

In psychology, emotion is often defined as a complex state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence thought and behavior

Emotions such as fear, anger, sadness, and joy are part of development and contribute directly to the survival of the human being.

The ability to regulate, to control emotions is necessary in order to persist in a certain goal. Controlling the competing emotion is necessary to prevent it from leading you to behaviors that will be pleasant in the short term, but harmful in the long term.

How have you been feeding your energy field, your emotional field? If you don't feed these fields, you will possibly need a lot more food.

So we can say that, when we understand that we are being dragged to the exaggerated consumption of food, due to our emotional state, we are able to interfere in our free will, changing this preference by opting for healthier foods that increase our well-being and quality of life.

Hunger, the name given to the physiological need for energy, is not always linked only to the maintenance of the body's functioning. It often serves as an escape valve for various other emotional problems .

When feelings affect our stomach when it is time to eat, causing anxiety, anger, and sadness to increase our appetite, some care must be taken. This is because eating driven by feelings can bring serious health risks.

Bringing emotions to the plate is a danger to binge eating, so know how to identify where the problem is coming from.

Tips on how to healthily nourish our thoughts

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Beware of your distorted negative thoughts

Positive thoughts recharge us, while negativity and pessimism consume energy and attract more negativity into our lives. Thinking too much doesn't work either, does it? Have you ever solved a problem just by thinking? Almost always the answer is 'no'. So, change your attitude.

Reassess your beliefs

Beliefs, which are often developed during childhood and reaffirmed during experiences, are ideas and perceptions of a person, considered absolute and true by him/her, but many times are no longer consistent with reality, becoming limiting.

Beliefs are rules, and you usually follow the rules. You do what you do according to what you believe. Therefore, beliefs become your reality.

You see what doesn't exist, but act as if it does. You hear what hasn't been said, and act as if it has been said. These imprecise thoughts are usually used to reinforce negative thinking and/or emotions by telling us things, it's our internal dialogue. Which only serve to make us feel bad about ourselves.

Avoid mind reading, don't make assumptions

This is a very common one, in everyday life we do this a lot: we try to guess what the other person is thinking. We jump to conclusions when we do this reading, this guessing.

It happens that many times we associate the situation with our own feelings, our insecurity, fear, etc., it's the way we look at the situation and ultimately give our interpretation, making wrong predictions.

We need to make a reasonable assessment of the situation to predict the outcome in a coherent way without exaggerating.

Look inside yourself

The big obstacle to identifying and recognizing our own emotional states is that we almost never stop to pay attention to them.

Emotions provide us with information, data about our judgments, how we are evaluating some situation, people, ideas.

The best way is to stop turning all your attention outward, outward, and concentrate inward, so that you become aware of the messages sent by your body.

To ponder...

When we talk about emotional health, we are referring to our ability to manage the emotions and feelings that make us feel good, or not.

There is no decision that does not involve rationality and emotion, reason and heart, functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Even if we do not want or know, there will always be an emotional component in our decisions.

Emotions and feelings are the true spice of life. Just as too little spice makes life dull, too much spice leaves us without resources and atrophied when it comes to a full life. Seek balance. Take care of yourself!

Linda Vieira - Clinical Psychologist with Phenomenological-Existential approach. Experience in: depression, phobias, stress, anxiety, sexuality, relationships and fears. Partner in the Tecnonutri Weight Loss Program.

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