Articles
One Way To Deal With Negative Thoughts
by Alex Barton
We all know that our emotions affect our physical health and
vice versa. We know that stress and depression are
associated with poor immune function and disease and that
happiness is associated with a strong immune system and
longer life. This is because our emotions create certain
hormonal states in our body.
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Nutrition and CFS/ME - Frequently Asked
Questions
by Alex Barton
Anyone who has anything to do
with CFS/ME agrees that a good diet contributes to recovery.
However, many of us are understandably confused about what
we should and shouldn’t be eating given the many different
opinions we are bombarded with. My view is simply that if
you are in doubt common sense should prevail.
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Why You Should Set Goals When You Have ME
by Alex Barton
As human beings we are naturally goal-driven. Our brain
needs to have goals in order that we know how to behave. For
example, we wouldn’t get up in the morning and get the bus,
if our goal wasn’t to get to work. We wouldn’t eat if our
goal wasn’t to relieve our hunger, we wouldn’t clean our
shoes if our goal wasn’t to get them clean. There is nothing
that you do which isn’t goal-driven. We need goals in order
to function as a human being.
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The Elephant and ME: A story of what it is like
living with chronic fatigue syndrome
by Alex Barton
Imagine feeling dreadful with the flu – really off work
dreadful, having to be in bed dreadful. You feel horrible.
Your muscles ache and are all weak and wobbly. You know the
feeling, it’s like walking on two sticks of jelly when
you’ve just completed a marathon. You feel completely
drained – not just tired and exhausted, but utterly drained.
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An Old Chinese Taoist Story
A very old Chinese Taoist story
describes a farmer in a poor country village. His neighbors
considered him very well-to-do. One year the weather was
very good and his crops grew strong and all his neighbours
told him how lucky he was to have such a fine crop and he
replied “maybe”.
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