There are types or forms of stress. Eustress is stress that we like (basketball games, running, etc). Distress is stress that we do not like (bills, conflicts, difficulties with work etc). Both can be harmful if we do not give ourselves a break. Take a look at what the doctors say about stress.
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Eating Right
Eating right is a matter of quality and quantity. Our diets should be rich in foods with an abundance of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. A healthy diet also includes low-fat sources of protein, moderate amounts of complex carbohydrates, and limited fats. Eating right means choosing fresh, whole, unprocessed foods and avoiding foods that are over processed and contain high levels of simple sugars and saturated fats. The dōTERRA philosophy of eating right also includes the daily consumption of dietary supplements to ensure optimal levels of key nutrients that are essential for longevity and wellness.
Exercising
Regular, moderate exercise is essential for optimal physical and emotional wellness. Coupled with eating right, regular exercise can help one maintain healthy body weight and composition. Healthy activity begins with taking the stairs, walking to lunch, and generally having a “mentality of movement.” A more complete exercise program includes aerobic activity, flexibility exercise, and strength training.
Rest and Manage Stress
Living healthy includes appropriate time for rest and relaxation. Regular sleep is an often skipped, but essential practice for optimal health. Managing stress is also important to maintaining good health. When we do not allow our bodies appropriate time for rest and regeneration, we can compromise our immune defenses and may become more prone to infection and disease. Chronic stress remains a significant health threat and has been tied to numerous degenerative conditions.
Reduce Toxic Load
In spite of our best efforts to practice good wellness habits, we can be exposed to toxic environmental stressors that can have deleterious effects on our health. Common toxic stressors include overexposure to UV rays, toxic ingredients in products throughout our homes, and chemical pollutants in our air and water. Being aware of these toxic threats to our health and choosing products that provide protection and peace of mind from such toxins are also important to optimal wellness.
Informed Self Care
When we experience sub-optimal heath conditions, there are many self-care alternatives that can provide safe and effective relief of symptoms and long-term solutions to problems. Reaching for a prescription or over-the-counter drug may not always be the best first alternative to taking care of one’s self when sick. dōTERRA’s therapeutic-grade essential oils and other wellness products are formulated to support the body’s own natural ability to keep itself healthy and can be used effectively in combination with traditional and alternative medical practices. (dōTERRA’s wellness products have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.)
Proactive Medical Care
When a person is suffering from acute sickness or has been diagnosed with a disease, it is important they seek out competent and qualified medical professionals for immediate help. It is also important they take a proactive role in their personal course of treatment by learning as much as they can about their health challenge and choosing a physician who will both inform and be open to information.
Following these healthy practices of eating right, exercising, resting and managing stress, reducing toxic load, practicing informed self care, and taking a proactive role in one’s medical care, coupled with the regular use of dōTERRA’s essential wellness products will help one live a healthier, longer life.
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Just being quiet while someone talks DOES NOT constitute good listening. To be capable listener, you MUST collaborate in the process by asking questions and getting feedback from the speaker to determine if you are understanding him or her correctly. The goal is to give the speaker the feeling of having been HEARD.
The first step to becoming a good listener is to become aware of the ways in which you distract yourself from giving your complete attention to the task. The following is a list of the twelve blocks to good listening. Some of them you may recognize as ways you typically block yourself from effective listening.
Trying to figure out, while the other is speaking, who is better/has more/does something less, etc. in any number of categories.
Ignoring what the person is saying and trying to figure out what he/she really means. You may just assume that you already know what is going to be said or what the speaker means without using any paraphrasing or asking any questions to confirm YOUR belief.
You are so busy rehearsing what you are going to say next, that you don’t pay any attention to what is being said.
You hear only that which you want to hear and you screen out everything else.
You discount the speaker’s value for you and, having thus written him/her off, you don’t pay much attention to what he/she has to say.
You listen half-heartedly until something the speaker says sends you off into your own world, thinking about some similar aspect of your own life.
As the speaker shares his/her experience, you relate it back to your own life. (This is similar to dreaming.)
You listen to only a few sentences and then begin to search for and offer advice. Frequently, you miss hearing the speaker’s feelings and/or the full scope of what the speaker hoped to get across, leaving the speaker feeling misunderstood when you offer your premature advice.
You focus on finding things to disagree with and then begin arguing and/or debating with the speaker. The speaker never has an opportunity to feel understood because you are so quick to disagree.
You will go to any lengths to avoid being “wrong,” including reciting a litany of the speaker’s past errors, shouting, rationalizing, making excuses, and accusing the speaker of other transgressions.
You change the subject if you get bored or uncomfortable with the topic being discussed. The more anxious or bored you get, the more frequently you change the subject.
You agree with everything the speaker says in order to be liked or to avoid conflict. You turn on your “Awn-Haw Machine,” and half-listen, but only for questions such as “What do you think?” To which you may respond, “I’m not sure” or “I don’t know, you’re probably right.”
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According to Dr. Axe, the top five foods you should be eating will help with hydration, muscle building, recovery, and overall higher energy levels are:
1. Coconut oil
2. Chia seeds
3. Quality whey or collagen protein
4. Anti-oxidant rich berries
5. Coconut water
If you want to increase your athletic performance, then start consuming more of these top five foods!
This past Monday’s training on their weekly webinar was called“We Are Diamond” & “Cedarwood Essential Oil”. Check it out. Usually these are for our team but the training section was SO great I thought I would share it for everyone. Maybe your ant will get bigger than your elephant!
I just got back from the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting, so my notebook is loaded up with material from lots of interesting talks and posters, which I’ll be blogging through over the next few weeks. Some of the results, particularly from posters, are considered preliminary—i.e. they haven’t been peer-reviewed yet—so consider this a preview of results that will likely be published over the next year or so.
First up, a look at some early data from Jeff Volek’s FASTER study. He and his colleagues brought in 20 elite ultrarunners to their lab at the University of Connecticut (Volek has since moved to Ohio State): 10 runners following a traditional high-carbohydrate diet (on average 58 percent carbs, 15 percent protein, 28 percent fat), and 10 following a low-carb, high-fat diet (11 percent carbs, 19 percent protein, and 71 percent fat).
The headline result, presented in a poster by Patrick Davitt, is rates of fat oxidation, testing the claim that adapting to a high-fat diet will teach your body to burn fat at much higher rates than typically observed. Sure enough, during a progressive treadmill test to exhaustion, the high-fat group was able to burn fat at a rate of 1.54 grams per minute, about 50 percent higher than the high end of normal, compared to a maximum rate of 0.67 grams per minute in the high-carb group. The high-fat group also reached their maximal rate of fat burning at a higher relative intensity (70.25 percent of VO2 max) than the high-carb group (54.89 percent of VO2 max), which means they’re able to run faster while still burning fat at a high rate.
Another poster from the same study, presented by Catherine Saenz, found no significant differences between the groups in testosterone levels before, during, and after a three-hour run. Baseline levels were 11.3 nmol/L in the high-carb group (with 95 percent between 7.4 and 15.2) and10.2 nmol/L (7.0 to 13.4) in the low-carb group.
Of course, there’s a flip side to fat adaptation. The high-carb group was able to burn carbs at a higher rate: 7.83 g/min versus 5.65 g/min. Which is better? That might depend in part on whether you’re able to ingest carbs while running without any problems.
Another interesting point to consider is how quickly you need energy. The faster you run, the faster you need to supply your muscles with energy. For a 100-meter sprint, you won’t be burning any fat. Same goes for an all-out mile. The longer (and slower) the race, the more you’ll be able to rely on fat. Trent Stellingwerff, of the Canadian Sport Institute – Pacific, tweeted out an interesting slide from a talk he and Louise Burke gave at the conference:
On the right, the graph shows the number of calories per hour you can get by burning 1.54 grams per minute of fat (the figure from the fat-adapted runners in the FASTER study), and compares it to the caloric demands of an elite marathon or Olympic road cycling race. By his calculations, that calorie rate is sufficient for a 60-kilogram (132-pound) marathoner to run just over three hours. As noted, the longer the duration of the event, the closer you get to being able to meet your caloric needs with fat, which is why ultrarunners have been the most enthusiastic adopters of the high-fat approach.
Stellingwerff also presented a nutritional case study from three very elite ultramarathoners (unofficially, the subjects were Rob Krar, Max King, and… not sure who the third one was). On average, during 100-mile races they reported consuming 76 grams per hour of carbohydrate along with “minor” amounts of fat and protein, for a total of 333 +/- 110 calories per hour. That’s a total of more than 5,000 calories of carbohydrate during a 16-hour race, which, as it happens, is right in line with the recommendations of conventional sports nutrition. It certainly seems to work well for Krar and King.
The bottom line? It’s good to have research on this topic, rather than just anecdotal reports. For elite athletes in the vast majority of contexts, I remain skeptical that a low-carb approach is useful. But I do think the region on the far right of Trent’s graph above is interesting: once you get to Ironman durations and beyond, the numbers start to look a little more reasonable. And in contexts where refueling is difficult (e.g. long wilderness expeditions), it’s an intriguing idea.
Triangulation can be defined as indirect communication where one person acts as messenger between two others, often times altering or fabricating the message to suit the tale bearer’s objective.
We can see this in families when one family member will not communicate directly with another family member, but will communicate with a third family member, forcing the third family member to then be part of the triangle.
In the most dysfunctional sense, triangulation can also be used as a label for a form of splitting in which one person plays the third family member against one that he or she is upset about. This is playing the two people against each other, but usually the person doing the splitting, will try to obtain emotional support by vilifying the person the are speaking about. They do this to preserve their self-esteem, by seeing the self as purely good and the others as purely bad.
This can also be seen in the workplace, as well as, any group setting.
Some reasons why this is ineffective include:
1. When the message is for a person it is not directly delivered to it can become amplified or dulled (distorted).
2. There is no guarantee that the middle man will deliver the message or assist with a productive bridge to help correct a problem.
3. It can easily turn to gossip and the message (which may be distorted) may be carried to others who may not be productive in resolving matters.
4. The communicator may have misjudged or incorrectly interpreted the other person’s behavior or intentions. Taking the communication directly to the person is much easier that the round about route.
5. It interferes with growth. The person being talked about doesn’t have the ability to connect with or address the one who is expressing hurt. The person avoiding direct communication would likely be empowered if encouraged to communicate directly with the one they are speaking about.
6. It is very likely that the other person will be hurt or may become defensive when they find out that communication is occurring about them without them.
7. If forgiveness is needed, it becomes blocked.
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Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area.
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