*** Morning walk 20 min
*** I went downstairs to buy a cup of tea and noticed a beautiful design in our new cafe
*** I went downstairs to buy a cup of tea and noticed a beautiful design in our new cafe
*** Home made lunch and chatting with my co-worker outside, in the yard.
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**The Secret of Self-Esteem **
Optimism and self-confidence result from our body chemistry, not our mental attitude.
Sometimes we are ready to take on the world. Other times the bag lady sits at our feet clucking her disapproval of our lives.
Enduring and consistent confidence is a thousand times better than those few moments stolen on the back of a sugar high.I have been fascinated with the beta-endorphin story for years. As you may recall from Potatoes Not Prozac, beta-endorphin is the brain chemical that enables us to tolerate pain. So when I first learned that sugar evokes beta-endorphin, it made perfect sense to me. Sugar as a pain-killer seemed to resonate with what my body already knew.
But I hadn’t thought of sugar as an emotional pain-killer. Reading that first scientific article about sugar reducing “isolation distress” knocked my socks off. When baby mice were given sugar, they didn’t cry as much when they were taken away from their mothers. This wasn’t about physical pain, this was a whole different story. I wanted to piece it together.... read more
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