Our emotions can be one cause for eating too much. We have many emotions that cannot be expressed freely. So we divert them into inappropriate channels. We’re repressed-so we eat too much ! But that isn’t all. The actual repression causes physical trouble- perhaps in metabolism or digestion. So we get fat from that, too! A double dose of blubber because we worry! We eat too much because we’re not well adjusted. We get into trouble with our metabolism because we are not well adjusted. And the fat piles up !

Only proper thinking can work a cure. Actually a double cure-just as we had double trouble. Once we find the cause and correct that, then we stop eating too much. And we stop worrying too much. When we stop worrying, our metabolism improves. When we stop worrying, we stop eating too much. With improved metabolism and smaller food intake, we become well adjusted-well physically and slender, all at the same time. We prove, simultaneously, that mind and body work together, that fat makes food and that we can think ourselves thin.

This is one cause of obesity. It may not be the cause of your obesity at all. Psychosomatic-as a term-only means the method of approach, both in research and in therapy. And Dr. Alexander points out, “For example, nostalgic longings and the desire to receive help and affection also stimulate gastric activity.

They represent certain brain processes, yet they can be described meaningfully only in psychological terms, because receptive longings cannot at this time be identified by biochemical, electrical or any other non-psychological technique. These brain processes are subjectively perceived as emotions and can be conveyed to others by speech. They can be studied psychologically, and, what is more important, they can be studied adequately only by psychological means.”

There are innumerable examples to show that people may be ill because of mental distress. One patient suffered from a gastric neurosis connected with chronic hyperacidity. Whenever he saw a motion picture in which a hero was fighting, or was a dangerous, aggressive character, he had acute heartburn. He identified himself with the hero-but retreated from fighting to get security and help. Such desires for security are closely and intimately connected with the wish to be fed, and so produce increased activities in the stomach.

According to Dr. Alexander, the large group of so-called functional disturbances of the gastrointestinal tract belong in this classification. One of the first emotional tensions perceived by a child is hunger, which, when relieved, is followed by a pleasant feeling of satiation. This starts a pattern for relieving unsatisfied needs. So adults, under emotion, frequently eat too much. And this, in turn, may cause carbohydrate metabolism disturbances. And there we are again!

So, say the experts, any emotion may cause an organic disturbance, and, because we’re interested principally in obesity, we can find out, from the experiments that these experts have made, that frequently actual causes of obesity may be deeper than appear on the surface. We eat too much. And if we eat too much because we are disturbed, then the actual disturbance may cause a meta-ballistic disturbance. Repressed hostility, erotic impulses, frustration, inferiority or guilt feelings may actually cause vegetative disturbances in themselves-besides causing us to eat too much. Psychologically, our experiences vary. We may wish to be catered to, petted, praised, encouraged or loved. And these very desires, natural though they are, if they are repressed may cause actual physical trouble-a disturbed metabolism. So, when we eat-and under the circumstances we’re apt to eat too much-our food does “turn into fat” far too easily.

There is a very real relation between emotion and certain vegetative innervations. They are not vague or mysterious at all, but very definite. For example, our present sophisticated idea of living puts great stress on personal accomplishment-therefore, there are many peptic ulcer patients among the active, ambitious go getters. So many of us are emotionally unsure, unhappy, dissatisfied. And so many of us are overweight, too. If we become emotionally balanced and satisfied, a lot of the vegetative troubles would take care of themselves.

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