Heart Diseases: strong vessels - long life

I was a psychologist for 20 years when I started to severe pain in the chest. Before I could say, "Wait, I'm too young!" I had my chest cracked open and Quadruple bypass surgery.

This should not be a shock, because I had been warned that my life was killing me. My doctor asked me to exercise more, lose weight, and smell the roses. I followed this advice for a while, but soon I was back to my old ways.

After the operation I have a book, a change of heart, and opened the Center for Cardiovascular Wellness. My second book, Cardiovascular Wellness: How to lifestyle changes that you need for a healthy heart, is based on my experience counseling hundreds of cardiac patients in the last 11 years.

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lifestyle disease, we understand that heart disease is primarily a disease of lifestyle. No less an expert than Dr. Dean Ornish says, "Many people can start to their heart disease just by a change in their lifestyle."

But understanding alone is clearly not enough to motivate people to heart healthy lifestyle changes. Consider these alarming statistics cited by Dr. Edward Miller, dean of the Medical School at John Hopkins University

"If you look at the people after coronary bypass grafting two years later, 90% of them have not changed their lives."

Why reasonably intelligent people like me, not to changes in the way of life they need to make them alive? The vast majority of my patients were simply too exhausted and decimated to the benefit of lifestyle.

Energy and Self Control

It takes energy (glucose) to fuel all of your activities. Self-regulation is one such activity. Without energy, you can not even exercise or willpower. It is impossible to create a healthy way of living without self-control.

But even in a limited energy source. You can get it up in one area and not for the next area. Will is like a muscle. If you use too much, it will be worn, and can not.

"If you're at a party and energy trying to maintain a good impression, you are less likely to resist the potato chips"

Roy Baumeister, Ph.D., Florida State University.

Good news

The more you exercise the willpower muscle, the stronger it gets. At an exercise program or control spending and you have more energy in order to fight against junk food, tobacco and TV.

Spirit training is not too intense to be effective. Simple rituals of self-regulation, as noted, if you are not judgmental, disbursements are on the way the next time they are tempted.

profile of a cardiac patient:

? Heart patients are fighters. You are in the middle of the battle problems, toxic emotions and unanswered questions of the past

? Exhausted, there is little energy for self-

Two-Prong Approach to a heart healthy lifestyle

1) Stop the energy-channel by false beliefs

2) Here the 9 steps to strengthen the will power your muscles.

Incorrect beliefs drain your energy by choosing to suppress or avoid unpleasant feelings, thoughts and actions. My heart patients often these 8 false beliefs as "helpful" guidelines to live.

1 - Keep on - are not endangered.

2 - Put on a happy face - big boys do not cry.

3 - We are our genes - it is not my fault.

4 - Keep up with the Jones-They can not be enough

5 - Bite Tongue - Keep your feelings to themselves

6 - Simply logical - emotions only through

7 - What has happened is - forget the past

8 - Keep your act together - your weaknesses

The nine steps will power your muscles, which will take you through the exercise of self-discipline.

1 Open your mind - recognize Defensive

2 Tune in to your thoughts - listen to all sides of your dialog

3 Responsibility - You are not a victim. You can

4 accept what is - be grateful for what you have

5 Let the demons sharing reduces their feelings of power

6 is authentic - Let others know that you, warts and all

7 Live in the moment with past and future worries hurts

8 we love to take your mask

9 Create a new mission - Let your values guide actions

A new mission in life is more than a change in what you are doing. It is a change in who you are matters. You do not see people in the same way and wrong beliefs tend to disappear. Energy that was bound in self-defense is free to healthy choices, you are one in ten who are able to sustain a healthy lifestyle heart.

Lawrence A. Decker, Ph.D.
The Center for Cardiac Wellness
312 Morris Ave.
Spring Lake, N.J. 07762
732 -359 -7024
http://DrLawrenceDecker.com

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