Chuck Nieman III Ph.D.
I'm an Emotion Coach
5 Ways to Express Emotions for Lifelong Health
5 principles for powerful, deep yoga.
Posted Apr 29, 2021
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Nearly 40 percent of people report that they get about a third of their energy from within their body, and a majority of this energy spends between 70 and 75 percent of your day offline. Within our biosphere, our gut microbes help produce oxygen, but they also play an important role in steering our emotions—particularly for the stress-inducing types. Because our poop travels in our pellet, this might mean that you spend some time in the toilet before returning to work. Conversely, our poop will usually remain in our gut after we return to the office. The more effective our body is at steering our emotions, the happier we are.
Now you know where to start.
Based on a recent three-week randomized controlled trial of over 3,000 participants, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have now ruled out the following:
Power of your own body
Meditation
Cognitive-behavioral interventions (CBIs)
Supplemented nutrition
and
cognitive-behavioral cognitive training (CBTs)
The trial, led by Dr. Megan Mullane of the University of California, San Francisco, USA, measured the impact of each of these categories on daily mood, cortisol, and physical activity.
joint, multi-dimensional adaptive (JAD) meditation, CBT, and mindfulness-based stress reduction (BBS)
Meditation is a state of conscious, enjoyable activity that is also helpful for stress prevention and personal improvement.
Cognitive-behavioral stress reduction (CBT) reaches teaches the brain that it's okay to be (or feel) anxious, and that it's okay to experience distress.
BBS is a type of cognitive-behavioral stress reduction that helps decrease pain in the human body.
The study looked at the impact of a three-week schedule of eight cognitive-behavioral behavioral (CBT) symposia and eight cognitive-behavioral stress reduction (BBS) interventions. The healthy volunteers were divided into three groups:
BBS: 60 minutes of CBT, followed by up to two sessions of BBS, followed by a final session of CSF treatment.
Assessment of outcome
The healthy volunteers gave their diagnoses and were subjected to a inspection. Then the researchers took these examinations, which were independently recorded and rated by trained staff.
The Results
The effectiveness of BBS treatment was assessed. The presence of agitation, withdrawal, and tightness in the muscles was noted as the hallmarks of BBS.
The presence of these symptoms normalized after the two-week intervention, and the symptoms did not significantly change from the pre-intervention assessment. Additionally, the rate of improvement in the CBT group was 40 percent higher than that of the control group.
"Our findings suggest that BBS treatment may be useful for inducing conditioned unease and the distress associated with it. We are unaware of any other form of treatment that can replicate the benefits of an intervention such as BBS, and these results suggest it could be an invaluable tool for helping patients with their thinking," Kushlev said in a San Francisco news release.
In addition, pharmaceutical companies are using this treatment option with many pharmaceutical companies that sell dietary supplements that may have a beneficial effect in reducing the anxiety and nausea caused by COVID-19.
References
Kostadin Kushlev, Samantha J. Heintzelman, Danielle Baldwin. "Eating Healthy: A Process-Supporting Approach to Mental Health Promotion." Psyeth. 2017; 22, 1239-1248 doi:10.1007/s00215-016-0623-0
Kostadin Kushlev, Samantha J. Heintzelman, Danielle Baldwin. "Eating Healthy: A Process-Supporting Approach to Mental Health Promotion." Psyeth. 2017; 22, 1239-1248 doi:10.