Which foods are good for stress reduction?
The process of thinking causes psychological stress: can we explore the cause? The symptom maybe a psychological focus of attention upon a ”desire to eat”, which in turn leads to ”eating when not hungry”, and ”eating more of one thing in a given time than is healthy”. What is the cause of this symptom? Enjoyment of any activity tends to get translated into the mental image of pleasure, after the feeling of delight has passed. This translation process turns our sensual experience into a neural pattern: this is the process of identification. Enjoyment is quite natural, but the worship of a lingering image in memory leads to the psychological desire to re-enjoy that pattern, unconnected with any physical need. Like any mental image (such as brushing ones teeth in the morning), the image of pleasure can become associated with daily routine, to the extent that certain associations will always illicit attention to that mental image of pleasure. That’s why advertisers spend so much mone
