This is the tenth and last article in our series about Weight Management and concerns the emotional aspects and stress of being overweight and being less than optimally healthy.
Stress has a major influence on fat accumulation; primarily through the adrenal hormone, Cortisol - commonly known as the “stress hormone”. Cortisol plays a significant role in weight management especially if it remains elevated long term. High Cortisol also contributes to an increase in appetite, fatigue, muscle weakness, sleep disruption and insulin resistance.
If your fat is accumulating around your midsection it might indicate unbalanced adrenal function. Cortisol contributes to visceral fat storage which is fat that surrounds internal organ such a liver, intestines and stomach.
Robert O. Becker in his book CROSS CURRENTS, plus many ancient and modern philosophers, including Nicola Tesla, have speculated that energy, as vibration, appears first and from that perspective the physical manifests. This becomes our corporeal body.
Becker further postulates that the gateway between the energy body and the physical body is an unlimited, yet measurable body, called the “analog body”, often referred to as the soul or spiritual body. I would like to call it a person’s MatHical Constitution. Becker and other like-minded thinkers state that this body is the infinite layer that is used to facilitate acupuncture, laying-on-of hands healing, creativity, thought, imagination, emotions, prayer, etc.
Maybe we could conclude that: Brain is to thought as spirit is to body.
Candace Pert, Molecules of Emotion, author, joins this genre of thinkers as she speculates that the brain manifests biochemicals, hormones, neurotransmitters and peptides that create our emotions. Sages before us have ventured to speculate that humans are capable of much more than we realize if we can integrate the physical and non-physical aspects of our being. Many thought leaders believe that the nexus of these layers of being is the Vagus nerve.
For many years the theories of BioAcoustic Biology have taught a meditative sound technique that leads to serious altered consciousness. Dr. Alan Mandell offers a YouTube video that demonstrates that a similar exercise activates the Vagus nerve and reduces stress.