Articles and E-Books on Wellness Topics
My articles and guides are now available on-line.
Just click on the link to download the PDF file. I hope you find the tips in my articles and guides useful. Send me a brief message if the article gave you a new perspective, changed your thinking or made any other impact on your life. I would love to hear from you.
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Dr. Schafer’s Articles on Wellness:
- Eliminate Your Cravings Within Minutes with EFT
- Overcome Your Emotional Overeating with EFT
- Do Your New Year’s Resolutions Go Up in Smoke?
- The Key to Successful Cancer Treatment: Integrate Body-Mind-Spirit
- Get Grounded to Release Stress and Regain Balance
- The Hidden Power of Forgiveness
- How to Really Re-charge Yourself During Vacation
- How to Transition Easily from Work to Family
- On Being Perfect: Part 1: Peer Pressure… Or Inner Calling
Dr. Schafer’s Wellness Guides:
Click on the guide title to download the PDF file of the guide.
Positive-Thinking-Guide
How to stay positive in tough times: Part 1-3
Get Grounded to release stress and regain balance
How to transition easily from work to family
Starved for “Me” time
Unclutter-Guide
Create Space for Miracles:
Clear Your Physical, Emotional and Mental Clutter
5 Steps to Overcome Procrastination
Wellness Articles
Eliminate Your Cravings Within Minutes With EFT
Does that chocolate bar enchant you against your will?
Does that cigarette seduce you into smoking – even though you know you should quit?
When you just gotta have it, you know it’s a real craving – a powerful and overwhelming urge triggered by emotions, anxiety or stress. Your rational mind says “No!” but your subconscious mind screams “Do it!” — and so you do. Your willpower withers and you reach for that candy bar or cigarette.
Overcome Your Emotional Overeating
“Diets never work for me! There’s no way I will ever reach my goal weight.” Sound familiar?
Diets fail because they don’t address the underlying emotions at the root of your weight problem. Understanding and releasing the emotions that drive you to overeat is the key to long-lasting weight reduction.
In part 1 of this article, Eliminate Your Cravings Within Minutes, we explored how to stop cravings as the first step to weight loss. Now we will see how the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) can help you release the emotions that keep you from success in managing your weight.
To read more download the full article as PDF file: Overcome Emotional Overeating
Do your New Year’s Resolutions go up in smoke?
“Dear Freya: It’s driving me nuts! I’ve tried to stop smoking for three years in a row but every time my New Years Resolutions just go up in smoke” wrote one of my readers, Karl. “I stop cigarettes for maybe 3-4 weeks, start gaining weight, sneak in a smoke and then I’m back in just as bad as before. What can I do to break this cycle?”
The Key to Cancer Treatment: Integrate Body and Mind and Spirit
Does the word “cancer” scare you?
Do you feel anger and hopelessness about cancer?The life-threatening aspect of cancer is so overpowering that we often overlook that it is a signal of our body that our emotions are stressed – and out of balance.
Negative emotions, anxieties and stress disrupt our body’s energy system and aggravate (and sometimes even cause!) serious diseases such as cancer.
To regain a balanced and healthy body it is important to look at your whole being and integrate your body with your mind, emotions and spirit.
To read more download the full article as PDF file: The Key to Successful Cancer Treatment
Dear Freya, “When I am stressed I feel out of kilter and un-centered. How can I stabilize myself?”
This is a typical question I hear in my coaching sessions. When we are stressed we are filled with unresolved emotions: feeling impatient, disconnected, irritated, frustrated, restless and even scatterbrained.
The energy of these emotions bounces through our body and throws us off balance. Like an electrical instrument, we need grounding or we might burn a fuse. “Burning out” in the human body translates into a weak immune system and increased risk of developing a serious disease.
One effective way to regain balance is to ground yourself – and you can do it within a couple minutes. Here’s how… To read more download the full article as PDF file: Get Grounded to Release Stress and Regain Balance
The Hidden Power of Forgiveness
“Dear Freya: I hang on to old grudges and don’t know how to let go” wrote one of my readers, Elizabeth. “Especially during the holiday season I feel I should forgive but I am overwhelmed with resentment and hurt”
Hanging on to resentment and old grudges costs us a lot in emotional energy – it creates a constant low level of stress and wears us down over time.
Forgiveness and acceptance are often confused with condoning behavior that we believe is wrong. It can feel like being weak and giving in. However, forgiving is a very courageous act of freeing ourselves to be at peace with others – and with ourselves.
To read more download the full article as PDF file: The Hidden Power of Forgiveness
How to Really Re-charge Yourself During Vacation
Do you have mixed feelings about vacation?
Do you return from a break needing a break?
Make your personal “well-being” a top priority. Ask yourself “What relaxes and recharges me?” “Which activities bring the most joy?” “What nurtures my body, mind and spirit?”
To read more download the full article as PDF file: How to Really Re-charge Yourself During Your Vacation
“Dear Freya, It’s really rough going from work to home” writes one of my readers, Maria. “What’s the trick to really leaving work behind so I can fully enjoy being with my family?”No doubt about it, transitions are often hard, but the key is to make these transitions consciously.
On Being Perfect: Part 1: Peer Pressure… Or Inner Calling?
Do you really want to be perfect?
Are you constantly alert to the imperfections and failures of yourself and others?
Do you pay meticulous attention to details and try to control every situation?
If you’ve been trained since childhood to strive for perfection, to avoid mistakes at all costs and to look strong in all situations, you’ll spend an enormous amount of energy trying to be perfect – and you’ll miss out on the fun side of life.
Instead of being on autopilot and blindly moving on the path to perfectionism, take a moment to question, assess, clarify and evaluate where you are going – and why. By clarifying your motivation and your goal or endpoint you can save yourself from wasting a lot of energy on a foggy path to perfectionism.
To read more download the full article as PDF file: On Being Perfect: Part 1: Peer Pressure … Or Inner Calling?
