Benefits

Diabetes

Knowing Your Brain State

People who have never had diabetes often think that it is logical. It's not a logical disease. The blood sugar ups and downs are controlled to a great degree by illogical forces. Often the emotional brain, the controller of stress responses, is an important factor. Knowing your brain state may be difficult if you are challenged with diabetes, as you must learn to be highly sensitive to the signs of each state. The signals of each state are extreme, but you can learn your personal "thumbprint" of signs for each state. That will give you more control over your diabetes and your daily life.

The Basics

Among Americans who are 40 to 65 years of age, 41% have diabetes or pre-diabetes. At least 90 percent of diabetes is Type 2, which is associated with overweight. Diabetes is treated with oral medications or insulin and dietary and lifestyle management.

The EBT Approach

Brain studies have shown that repeated episodes of stress and cause or worsen obesity. Managing diabetes adds to that stress. With enough stress the brain's reward centers can change in ways that diminish joy and bring on overeating, depression, hostility, anxiety and more. The EBT approach is learn tools to get from stress to joy and train the brain to process stress in a highly effective way. The goal of the method is to rewire the brain's set point for freedom from the whole range of common excesses and an abundance of the joys of an exceptional life.

Getting Started

Take our EBT Basics: Wired for Joy Course. You'll begin to think in terms of brain states, and wires, and learn how to switch your brain from any level of stress back to joy. Continue with the advanced courses until you have what you most want from this training. The rewards of a brain in balance are: sanctuary, authenticity, vibrancy, integrity, intimacy, spirituality and freedom. Choose the reward that matters most to you, and then move through the EBT courses until you have an abundance of it, and your brain is wired for joy.