Mistakes of Unconscious Parenting by Shefali Tsabary, PhD
To parent unconsciously means to be unaware that as a parent, we are carrying emotional baggage that is in an overload drive, to be unaware that we ourselves see to it unmet emotional needs that we ourselves haven’t raised ourselves to the level we may need to, to raise another emotional, spiritual being that is our child. When we parent unconsciously, just presuming that we are the greater than, we know more, because we are just older, this is where mishaps happen and this is where we create a dysfunction within the parental child relationship; to enter a conscious state of parenting and of awareness means to understand that our emotional imprints that we inherited from our parents is going to directly impact and bear upon the parental relationship that we have with our child. If we fail to take this into supreme consideration then we will miss the fact that when our child acts out it’s our energy that is in there as well, that when a child has a problem, it’s our energetic imprint that’s in that mix and this is what I see happening over and over again, a feeling of the parent to understand their own baggage in the relationship, they just divorce themselves from the problem and now only the child is the problem and when the child begins to grow up feeling that they are carrying the burden of all problems, that’s when they begin to disconnect with their essence and their spirit and their sense of joy and unlimitlessness.
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Is it really possible to gain fat while doing tons of cardio? by Kate Deering
Yup, it sure it. Here is what could be going on... After about an hour of exercise, your cortisol levels increase and stay elevated until you have finished your extended cardio workout. Cortisol is a major body stress hormone. Exercise is stress. Thus, long duration exercise elevates cortisol for extended periods of time. Elevated cortisol is very catabolic, it breaks tissue down. Once your glycogen stores (sugar stored in the muscles) are used up, cortisol starts to mobilize (burn) not only fat, but also other tissues: muscle, organ, and bone. The longer your workout session, the longer cortisol stays elevated, the more tissue breakdown can occur.
In addition, about 30-45 minutes after you start your workout your thyroid hormones plummet. The thyroid senses the bodies increased metabolic needs so it starts slowing many metabolic processes down (immune system, hormones, digestion) to conserve energy. As thyroid drops, the stress hormones rise so the body can start using its own energy stores (fat, muscle, tissue). Now, don’t get me wrong — initially the long cardio sessions will help you lose “weight”, since you will be burning fat (AND burning some muscle). But at what cost? The cost of valuable muscle, bone, and tissue?
You are losing muscle, so your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR/how many calories your body will burn at rest) drops. Although you are burning many calories during your extended workout, you actually start to burn fewer calories while you are not working out.
Which long term means less calories burned in any given day. Eventually, your body starts to adjusts to the longer workouts by becoming more efficient. Which means an increase endurance fitness level (low pulse), but an overall slower metabolic rate at rest.
Eventually, you find you have to workout even longer to burn the same amount of calories — or you start gaining fat again.
Sound like someone you know?
Bottom line: If you want to have long term fat loss AND health, STOP doing long duration cardio.
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