Open Your Eyes Before They Close Forever!!!
I believe all things to be possible: when the doctor tells you have only limited time left. Tell yourself. . . . I will show him!!
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations !!!!
Life can be like a hurricane calm, peaceful one moment and engulfed in rage the next☯️
The energies that have been circulating recently have been intense with.
So many internal/ external shifts happening. Just remember, when life doesn’t seem to be going in the direction that you thought or hoped it would, don’t lose heart because you are always on the right track in life no matter what the outside is showing you. You can’t change destiny. What is meant to be will always be. Keep listening to your inner heart & soul. I don’t say this enough, but I am so grateful for all of you who follow me, leave such nice comments, and stop to like a photo. I appreciate all of your support, kindness, & love. I know several of you are soul fam & I’m so glad we get to connect!
I hope u all have an amazing weekend! Sending you all some positive vibes, soul light, & love!
Live a balanced life
Focus on the things that you are grateful for in your life. Try not to obsess about the problems at work, school, or home that lead to negative feelings. This doesn’t mean you have to pretend to be happy when you feel stressed, anxious, or upset. It’s important to deal with these negative feelings, but try to focus on the positive things in your life, too. You may want to use a journal to keep track of things that make you feel happy or peaceful. Some research has shown that having a positive outlook can improve your quality of life and give your health a boost. You may also need to find ways to let go of some things in your life that make you feel stressed and overwhelmed. Make time for things you enjoy.
How Sound Affects Human Consciousness and Health
Tibetan Music, Healing Music, Relaxation Music, Chakra,
Relaxing Music for Stress Relief,
http://www.thehealersjournal.com/2013/06/13/how-sound-affects-human-consciousness-and-health/
Much like our favorite colors we are different in many ways and that maybe why some survive and thrive, While other don’t do so well? http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-blue.html
Why is a positive attitude important?
The benefits of a positive attitude are many and overlap into every part of your relationships, health, happiness, success and overall make life way more fulfilling and happy as a whole.
Having a positive attitude is a very important aspect in your life.
What is Attitude? Why is it Important? – It’s those thought processes inside each person’s head…. www.effective-positive-thinking.com/what-is-attitude.html
Much like our favorite colors we are different in many ways and that maybe why someone survive and thrive, While other don’t do so well? http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-blue.html
The mind-body effect basically says that suggestions, desires, beliefs, expectations and fears influence what people experience.
This psychogenic phenomena is all about the global contributions suggestion, belief, desire, fear, and expectation have upon your natural health and wellness. In medicine, this phenomenon is usually called the placebo effect. https://worldtruth.tv/7-tremendous-effects-of-having-a-positive-attitude/
Highlights of The Mind-Body Effect:
The mind-body effect is usually called the placebo effect.
The mind-body effect works better on some health conditions than on others.
A person’s long term beliefs and fears either positively or adversely affects their health and wellness.
The mind-body effect is a special form of optimism.
The mind-body effect cannot work miracles against serious diseases or injuries.
Expectation plays a key role in the mind-body effect.
The mind-body effect can also refer to the phenomenon where an ineffective therapy can benefit a patient merely by the suggestion or belief that the therapy is beneficial. Often this placebo effect is due to a person placing great faith in the effectiveness of their physician or other health care professional, such as a personal trainer.
Or, it could merely be the result of the extra attention that was given to them during the treatment process. The mind-body effect is believed to make more of an impact upon some health conditions than on others.
It works best with psychogenic problems, like depression, anxiety, headaches, asthma, moderate hypertension, fatigue and gastrointestinal symptoms. It is also remarkably effective as a painkiller. And, has some influence on the immune system. These are the very same types of illnesses that people in the wellness movement are most concerned about.
A negative placebo effect is sometimes called a nocebo effect, in medicine. If a patient is skeptical of an intervention, the explanation offered to them for its effectiveness, or the credibility of the physician administering. . . the treatment then a perfectly effective treatment might prove to be ineffective on a given patient due to a negative placebo effect. In worst case scenarios, a nocebo phenomenon originating from the unfounded fear of the detrimental effects attributed to a particular treatment might actually result in a patient feeling like they are suffering from a negative side effect.
“While the placebo effect refers to health benefits produced by a treatment that should have no effect, patients experiencing the nocebo effect experience the opposite. They presume the worst, health-wise, and that’s just what they get.”
“‘They’re convinced that something is going to go wrong, and it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy,’ said Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital who published an article earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association beseeching his peers to pay closer attention to the nocebo effect. ‘From a clinical point of view, this is by no means peripheral or irrelevant.'”
“Far more esoteric factors may also shape both the placebo and nocebo response. A Dutch study, for example, found that most people considered red and orange pills to be stimulating, with blue and green-colored pills more likely to have a depressant effect.”
The mind-body effect, however, is really more global than the placebo effect of medicine. It basically hypothesizes that a person’s long term beliefs and fears might either positively or adversely affect their health and wellness. Suggestions, desires, beliefs, expectations and fears may have biological consequences.
The most likely physical mechanism for the mode of action of the hypothesized mind-body effect is the neuroplasticity of the brain and autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system interacts with the immunal and hormonal systems of the human body. A preference for responding more with your sympathetic nervous system than with your parasympathetic nervous system to stressful events in your life is being hypothesized by the mind-body effect to create changes in your brain and nervous system over your entire lifetime that conceivable might impact upon your health and wellness, such as a chronic disposition towards headaches.
The mind-body effect is really a special form of optimism. Dispositional optimists, or people with positive outcome expectancies who are fully engaged in living life, were found in a recent study to be about half as likely to die of cardiovascular disease during a 15 year period as men who were more pessimistic by nature.
Obviously, everybody will eventually die some day. Thus, the mind-body effect cannot work miracles against serious diseases or injuries. So, there is a greater potential for the mind-body effect to be adversely affecting your health and wellness, than there is for you to be the recipient of a miraculous cure.
“Ten years ago, researchers stumbled onto a striking finding: Women who believed that they were prone to heart disease were nearly four times as likely to die as women with similar risk factors who didn’t hold such fatalistic views.”
The mind-body effect hypothesizes that it is entirely feasible that a person fearful about all the negative press on the chronic use of aspirin use could end up with psychosomatic stomach problems, as a result of their fears.
“Fifteen years ago, researchers at three medical centers undertook a study of aspirin and another blood thinner in heart patients and came up with an unexpected result that said little about the heart and much about the brain. . . . When researchers reviewed the data, they found a striking result:
Those warned about the gastrointestinal problems were almost three times as likely to have the side effect. Though the evidence of actual stomach damage such as ulcers was the same for all three groups, those with the most information about the prospect of minor problems were the most likely to experience the pain.”
Similarly, on a positive note, some people might be receiving a wellness benefit from cardiovascular training merely due to the mind-body effect generated by their expectations of success from favorable reporting in the news media.
Expectation plays a key role in the mind-body effect. Expect to be sick all the time, and you just might end up being that way. Expect to be normally healthy all the time, and you just might succeed.
Mind & Body Connection – attitudes affect your health !!!!
by Patty Carrosicia, R.N.
Recent studies show that severe prolonged stress and chronic negative thinking can compromise the immune system. By the same token, studies have also revealed that individuals with a positive attitude toward life tend to become sick less often than those with a negative attitude.
It is also believed that a healthy upbeat attitude can in itself mobilize and stimulate the body’s defenders. For example, in a study of women with breast cancer. Dr. Sandra Levy at the University of Pittsburgh’s Cancer Institute also found that women who were more depressed had lower natural killer cell activity than those with a hopeful, positive outlook. It was also noted that the women who had experienced a great deal of joy and happiness in their lives also had a higher survival rate.
Even though this concept may be difficult to believe, these studies in the mind-body connection are showing us that our minds play a major role in influencing our level of wellness.
The mind-body concept is defined as the interaction that takes place between our thoughts, our body and our external world. A new science that studies this link is called psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). PNI describes ways in which our emotions and attitude, both positive and negative, can affect our health and also the outcome of medical treatment.
Emotions and Stress
PNI research is concerned with the subtle interactions between our nervous, endocrine and immune systems and disease. The interaction between the different systems are complex but can be explained in a simplified manner.
For example, if you are experiencing fear, anger or other emotions that may increase your stress level, then these unsettling thoughts are picked up by the brain. The brain then stimulates the endocrine system of release hormones that have an adverse effect on the immune cell’s ability to divide. This causes a decline in immune function which may result in your becoming more susceptible to illness.
In a series of studies, Drs. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser and Ron Glaser of Ohio State University College of Medicine, compared also blood tests for immune function of medical students during exams to baseline blood tests done one month prior to finals. A decline was noted in: (1) natural killer T-cells which are responsible for fighting viruses and even attacking different kinds of tumors, including also cancer (2) immune cells called Tlymphocytes (3) interferon, a component which supports and boosts immune function. This explains why college students suffering from “exam stress” often become ill.
Safe Stress
Researchers are not only defining the intricacies of the mind-body connection, but also the effective “inner healing” methods such as relaxation techniques, mental imagery or visualization, and attitude adjustment exercises. These methods will help keep the stress hormones in check so the immune system can function properly.
The main strategy in dealing with stress is to identify and remove or reduce its source. Identification may be relatively easy, but elimination could be a challenge especially when the source is your job. So, it is important to find ways to reduce the level of stress. Relaxation, including deep breathing, muscle stretching and meditation, will help you practice safer stress.
An acute or prolonged tense state may cause the heart rate and blood pressure to increase, a dry mouth, enlarged pupils, sweaty palms, and fast shallow “chest” breathing. However, slow, deep “abdominal” breathing helps break the tension cycle which enables body functions to return to normal. Allowing yourself to take ten slow deep breaths at tense times, as well as throughout the day, will help you to stay loose and relaxed.
Muscle stretching is another component necessary in breaking the tension cycle. Major areas where we store tension include the back, face, neck, shoulders and chest. Learning and practicing stretch techniques in concert with deep breathing will help you release muscle tightness and tension.
Visualization
Another effective mind-body technique is mental imagery or visualization. Basically, it involves the power of your imagination using sights, sounds, feelings and smell to create a desired state in your mind. According to several scientists, the mind doesn’t differentiate between fears, fantasies and physical reality as we define it. Therefore, as you continuously visualize a positive healing image, you may significantly contribute to your own well-being.
Dr. Carl Simonton and Stephanie Matthews- Simonton, authors of Getting Well Again, encourage their cancer patients to visualize their cancer as broken up hamburger meat and their white blood cells as dogs devouring the hamburger. The patients whom practiced this in conjunction with their medical treatment. . . lived twice as long as the patients who only received conventional treatment.
Meditation
A stress releaser called meditation is described as restful alertness; integration of mind, body and spirit; focused silence; and a form of prayer. Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of Quantum Healing and Perfect Health, emphasizes that it is not possible to clear the mind of negative beliefs or thoughts at one’s intellectual level. An angry mind can’t conquer its own anger, fear can’t squelch its own fear, and so on.
However, meditation is a powerful technique that guides you beyond the negative thoughts and agitations of the busy mind. It allows you to become “unstuck” from your fear and other disturbing emotions. From a medical point of view, the effectiveness of meditation was studied by Herbert Benson, M.D., author of several wellness-oriented books. One of the studies involved the practice of Transcendental Meditation in patients with hypertension. These patients sat quietly for 20 minutes twice a day, before breakfast and dinner and repeated a special word, or mantra, silently to themselves, allowing their thoughts to come and go. Dr. Benson observed a significant drop in their blood pressure from borderline high to normal range.
Other studies have shown that practicing meditation on a regular basis helps relieve general fatigue, and the stress that can lead to heart attacks, strokes and hardening of the arteries. https://www.spring.org.uk/2013/11/10-remarkable-ways-meditation-helps-your-mind.php
Meditation is one of the best ways that you can clear your mind and is time to release what no longer serves us!. It helps with spiritual balance as much as it helps with both physical and emotional balance as well. Meditation is a great way to help people think clearly, it has helped many people with there mind, spiritual and emotional balances.
David Rosenthal, MD, medical director of Dana-Farber’s Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies, chats live about acupuncture, meditation, yoga, massage, and other forms of integrative therapy used to ease cancer-related symptoms stress & anxiety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=41&v=xn4erH9GCM4
Attitude Adjustment
Means the release of the negative and the embracement of the positive. It is also very important to emphasize that it is normal and natural to feel fear, anger and stress in life. When we remain in this frame of mind, we experience lack of control, hopelessness and helplessness. The question is how do we shift back into positive feelings, hope and being in charge again?
The first step is the awareness that you are stuck in a pattern of worry, fear and tension – ”How do I feel and why?” It is essential to be honest about what you are feeling because feelings, including the negative ones, are just feelings – they are not right or wrong, good or bad.
Next, these emotions need to be validated and expressed in healthy responsible ways. Talking or writing them out may help you release the unwanted emotions. Also letting go allows more space for uplifting, loving feelings. Affirming powerful positive statements of a desired state will fill up that space inside of you. Say, sing and write your affirmations regularly until they become a part of you. For example, if you believe you heal slowly, then your affirmation would be “I heal rapidly”. When we emphasize our good, we get more of it. Use your words to your best advantage. It’s your choice.
Ongoing research will continue to unravel the dynamics of the mind-body connection. In the meantime, learning and practicing these methods will help you actively participate in your own healing process. https://www.verywellmind.com/benefits-of-positive-thinking-2794767
Source:
Jacksonville Medical Journal, Living Well, Volume 4, No. 3, Fall 1992, by Patty Carrosicia, R.N.
Kate Bowler, a 37-year-old Duke Divinity School professor, opens up about living with stage 4 colon cancer and how her faith changed as a result. Bowler is the author of the best-selling book “Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVS0DDNnd_Y
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.” — Proverbs 3:3-4 https://www.health.com/colorectal-cancer/real-life-strong-kate-bowler
Dear friends: What was supposed to be a 1 1/2 day retreat up north expanded because of weather to 3 nights and 2 1/2 days. (I will share some of the experience in a blog later!
So, I am trying to get caught up on the responsibilities of home, and a little sleep. I am asking for a couple of days of grace from you while I get back to the joy of writing my blog. Until then, I am going to leave you in the capable hands of Kate Bowler, This message is beautiful! https://katebowler.com/cost-brave-love/
Kate Bowler is an associate professor at Duke Divinity School and who was diagnosed with colon cancer. This interview really resonated with me and probably even more with some of you. She is 39, has a young child, and her interview might be a great inspiration, especially for those of you with children.
Her book, “Everything Happens For a Reason and Other Lies I Have Loved,” is now available on Amazon (today is the final day for a triple down on your purchases at https://smile.amazon.com/ch/87-0763851, I hope some of you will have time to listen to this interview — https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/03/01/kate-bowler raw and beautiful insight from Stage 4 cancer survivor.
James Bentley Kate I was introduced to your book and loved it. I also found myself wanting to reach through the book and chat with you about another wonderful Canadian, Jean Vanier. As I learned more about the Prosperity Gospel through your book I kept thinking that Jean Vanier and the l’arche community would be a wonderful and being transformed antidote to the Prosperity Gospel. I spent seven years living in community with l’arche and now work with hospice all to follow Jean’s message of meeting Christ in the wounded and forgotten and being transformed. ~Anonymous 🙂
I would like to Thank Jessica Thelen
for inspiring to write this blog post 🙂
