If you get a quarter from someone with a cold, you can "catch" the cold from the quarter. Even if the infected person is long gone, you can still get sick from exposure. Did you know that emotions carry the same risk, even when the person is not in your presence?
You can feel people's needs and demands and they can create emotional and physical confusion in you, especially in close relationships, and even with people you haven't seen in ages (like your mom who you've been meaning to call). I'm sure you have many stories of feeling uneasy, only to find out that someone close to you was in trouble or simply down.
You may be treating someone else's anger, depression, anxiety or even hunger, by eating! Food is a drug. Long before we could go to Walmart and fill a prescription, we gravitated to certain plants and foods to treat illness and discomfort. For example, a dose of starchy, sugary food will medicate your brain for depression -- the old serotonin boost -- while expanding your thighs. That's why we tend to crave these things when we feel low.
As children, we learn to have good boundaries and a clear sense of who we are separate from other people's feelings and expectations. However, though some of you did have a healthy childhood that would foster that (I may have met this person once), many of you, like myself, are human sponges for other people's feelings, expectations and needs.
This Can Make You Fat!
When you practice good boundaries, you can quickly reverse this problem. Here's how:
If you can master your body, with something as difficult as eating -- which unlike many activities you are programmed to do to sustain life -- you can master any relationship, audition, interaction or challenge. It is good training for life!
Laura Day is the "New York Times" best selling author of six books, including her most recent, "How to Rule the World From Your Couch."
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