Molecules of Emotion

Candace Pert, Ph.D., makes her 8 suggestions for living a healthy lifestyle towards the end of her book Molecules of Emotion.
She can also be seen in the film What The Bleep Do We Know.
Her specialty is, after years of research in the area of receptor sites and studying the emotional information that is passed from cell to cell, to help us understand how it all works. Equipped with this information we can make better choices in our lives, directing us towards a healthier future.
Here are her 8 recommendations:
1) Becoming Conscious - full consciousness is physical, mental and emotional. We "listen in" on the conversation going on at the automatic levels of our nervous system, breathing, digestion, immunity, pain control and blood flow. This is where decisions towards health and disease are made from minute to minute.
2) Accessing the Psychosomatic Network - blood flow to our brains can be blocked due to denial, repression or tauma. This can leave you foggy and less alert. By learning to bring your awareness to memories stored in the very receptors of your cells, you can release yourself from these blocks. This is the main benefit of therapy.
3) Tapping into your Dreams - you can integrate awareness of emotions into your lifestyle by developing the daily habit of recalling and transcribing your nighttime dreams. Your consciousness in the form of a dream happens due to the biochemicals of emotion, as the body and mind retune themselves each night. Information you gather from your dreams can be very helpful towards healing yourself.
4) Getting in Touch with Your Body - you can also gather healing information from an awareness of how your skin, spinal cord, and organs are functioning, as another way to understand the role emotions play in our lives.
5) Reduce stress - meditation is the most effective tool for this. It allows the release of stuck emotions that are interferring with our health.
6) Exercising - make sure you engage your emotions and make it fun to workout. This might mean adding music, going for a walk in a pretty place. Make sure there is lots of feedback between your body and your mind to avoid overdoing it and to prevent injury. Keep asking yourself how you are feeling during a session.
7) Eating Wisely - eating is a very emotionally charged activity. That's where the expression "I have a gut feeling about that" comes from. By tuning into your emotions, as information about your digestive process, you can develop your ability to know what your body needs in the way of nourishmet and when.
8) Avoid Substance Abuse - we have our own natural "feel good" chemicals circulating in us at all times. Introducing something from the outside that competes with our own chemicals, causes our natural feedback loop to collapse, leaving only a small number of our own natural chemicals and a craving for those "outsiders".