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Full hypnosis download Boredom eating

A fundamental and universal human need is to feel stimulated, interested and engaged by what you do, who you’re with and where you are. When any fundamental ‘primal need’, physical or emotional, is not met, we experience stress. The stress we experience when we find life under-stimulating and lacking in challenge ‘boredom’.

Stress – and make no mistake, boredom is a form of stress – makes us resort to repetitive and compulsive behaviours. Just as caged animals can be seen manically pacing back and forth, stress can make people spend all their time worrying, or thinking obsessive thoughts, and the stress of boredom can make people eat, in order to get a lift.

Unfortunately, the kinds of foods that people misuse when they are bored tend to be the foods that pack the biggest, most stimulating punch because of their effect on blood sugar levels. And sadly, those are the very foods that also lay down excess fat on the body. Foods like cake, bread, candy and so forth tend to be the ‘drug of choice’ for the bored. I’ve yet to meet a boredom eater who compulsively munches on salad and salmon when feeling under-stimulated by life.

Boredom is a signal that we need to change our environment, our attitude or our behaviour. Responding to the signal of boredom by eating is a bit like patting the dog when we cut ourselves. It might distract us a little, but it does nothing to deal with the problem. Our popular stop boredom eating download has been updated, polished and improved and we think it’s going to help a great many more people.

All the best

Mark