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When we measure, we gain transparency, resonance, and peace of mind. Measuring allows us to build a logical understanding of the external world and internal experiences. Scanning our emotions avoids anxiety and ambiguity about the intrinsic unpredictability of our lives.
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Erik Pevernagie
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You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.
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Pawan Mishra
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Anxiety is like being in freeway traffic all the time. There's the constant sense of dodging and darting, seeking your chance to cut in, the irritation of others pulling ahead of you. You hit the accelerator, you slam the brakes. You scout and scan for danger.
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Deb Caletti (A Heart in a Body in the World)
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The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.
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Pawan Mishra
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The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the sloth was amazed by the change; it shunned the deck and spent its time below. Jack was in his cabin, pricking the chart with less satisfaction than he could have wished: progress, slow, serious trouble with the mainmast-- unaccountable headwinds by night-- and sipping a glass of grog; Stephen was in the mizentop, teaching Bonden to write and scanning the sea for his first albatross. The sloth sneezed, and looking up, Jack caught its gaze fixed upon him; its inverted face had an expression of anxiety and concern. 'Try a piece of this, old cock,' he said, dipping his cake in the grog and proffering the sop. 'It might put a little heart into you.' The sloth sighed, closed its eyes, but gently absorbed the piece, and sighed again.
Some minutes later he felt a touch upon his knee: the sloth had silently climbed down and it was standing there, its beady eyes looking up into his face, bright with expectation. More cake, more grog: growing confidence and esteem. After this, as soon as the drum had beat the retreat, the sloth would meet him, hurrying toward the door on its uneven legs: it was given its own bowl, and it would grip it with its claws, lowering its round face into it and pursing its lips to drink (its tongue was too short to lap). Sometimes it went to sleep in this position, bowed over the emptiness.
'In this bucket,' said Stephen, walking into the cabin, 'in this small half-bucket, now, I have the population of Dublin, London, and Paris combined: these animalculae-- what is the matter with the sloth?' It was curled on Jack's knee, breathing heavily: its bowl and Jack's glass stood empty on the table. Stephen picked it up, peered into its affable bleary face, shook it, and hung it upon its rope. It seized hold with one fore and one hind foot, letting the others dangle limp, and went to sleep.
Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt to the sloth, and cried, 'Jack, you have debauched my sloth.
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Patrick O'Brian (H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin #3))
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The Sleep Problem today is not as much about being able to sleep for 7 hours; it is more about being able to sleep when you are ready to.
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Pawan Mishra
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Our beliefs are merely stories in our minds that we ourselves wrote long ago. Knowing that, don’t you feel empowered to rewrite them if they no longer serve you? Scan your mind for viruses called fears, anxieties, judgments, doubts, hatred and despair, and put a little note next to them that says “Outdated; no longer valid.” I’ve learned so much from my mistakes, I think I’m gonna go out there and make some more! —Anonymous
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Timber Hawkeye (Buddhist Boot Camp)
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If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too.
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Pawan Mishra
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Many of us are speeding up and skipping over, missing the important as we scan for the urgent. The irony is that in our anxiety toward not missing out, we are losing the most meaningful moments of life.
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Jeff Goins (The In-Between: Embracing the Tension Between Now and the Next Big Thing)
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Hypervigilance is a fixation on looking for danger that comes from excessive exposure to real danger. In an effort to recognize, predict and avoid danger, hypervigilance is ingrained in your approach to being in the world. Hypervigilance narrows your attention into an incessant, on-guard scanning of the people around you. It also frequently projects you into the future, imagining danger in upcoming social events. Moreover, hypervigilance typically devolves into intense performance anxiety on every level of self-expression.
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Pete Walker (Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving)
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We tend to be both easily disturbed by sound in our environment, and unable to tell when a noise actually merits our attention, at the same time.[44] I often brute-force my way into paying attention to something by shutting the rest of the world out. I think it’s also likely that lifelong masking has rendered me hypervigilant, almost as a trauma response. My sensory system is used to scanning the environment, to determine whether I’m alone and thus “safe” enough to be myself. Trauma survivors often become hypervigilant, which tends to come with intense sensory issues.[45] Some researchers have also theorized that sensory issues in Autistics are, at least in part, caused by the anxiety and hypervigilance we experience from living in a world that doesn’t accommodate us, and often treats us with hostility.[46]
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Devon Price (Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity)
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Our faster than ever evolution has resulted in our undermining certain incredibly important aspects of humanity—like our sleep.
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Pawan Mishra
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Our problem-scanning machine (amygdala) and our serenity-now mood tape (prefrontal cortex) are at war.
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Neil Pasricha (The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything)
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When functioning correctly, the amygdala scans the environment and decides whether to trigger a threat response (fight, flight, or freeze) or give the all-clear signal to the brain to “Move along, nothing to see here!
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Sheva Rajaee (Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships)
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They say money doesn’t buy happiness. That depends on how you define happiness. It sure does buy time, convenience, childcare, breast scans, and professional opportunity, all of which can lead to greater happiness. So I’d like to amend that saying, if I may: An excess of money doesn’t buy happiness, but having enough money does, and not having any money whatsoever buys nothing but fear, anxiety, and life-threatening heart palpitations.
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Deborah Copaken (Ladyparts)
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Let’s imagine a running washing machine. Let’s imagine the dirty clothes in the machine and how the liquid detergent is getting the dirt out of clothes and draining it to the waste outlet. Now imagine brain surrounded by a large pool of cleaning fluid called CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). Imagine CSF pulling the wastes from inside the brain and draining it into the blood, which routes it to the waste outlets. CSF clears waste many times faster in sleeping brain than in the waking brain.
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Pawan Mishra
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As a traumatized child, your over-aroused sympathetic nervous system also drives you to become increasingly hypervigilant. Hypervigilance is a fixation on looking for danger that comes from excessive exposure to real danger. In an effort to recognize, predict and avoid danger, hypervigilance is ingrained in your approach to being in the world. Hypervigilance narrows your attention into an incessant, on-guard scanning of the people around you. It also frequently projects you into the future, imagining danger in upcoming social events. Moreover, hypervigilance typically devolves into intense performance anxiety on every level of self-expression
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Pete Walker (Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving)
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Our brain scanning experiments in healthy individuals offered reflections on the relationship between sleep and psychiatric illnesses. There is no major psychiatric condition in which sleep is normal. This is true of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder (once known as manic depression).
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Matthew Walker (Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams)
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Hiking calms. According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a ninety-minute walk through a natural area led to lower levels of brooding and obsessive worry. Brain scans of the subjects found that there was decreased blood flow to the subgenual prefrontal cortex. Increased blood flow to this region of the brain is associated with bad moods. Everything from feeling sad about something, to worrying, to major depression seems to be tied to this brain region. Hiking deactivates it.
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Sarah Wilson (First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety—A Personal Journey Through Anxiety and Self-Discovery)
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Far more than a quest for pleasure, chronic substance use is the addict’s attempt to escape distress. From a medical point of view, addicts are self-medicating conditions like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress or even ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Addictions always originate in pain, whether felt openly or hidden in the unconscious. They are emotional anaesthetics.
Heroin and cocaine, both powerful physical painkillers, also ease psychological discomfort. Infant animals separated from their mothers can be soothed readily by low doses of narcotics, just as if it was actual physical pain they were enduring. The pain pathways in humans are no different. The very same brain centres that interpret and “feel” physical pain also become activated during the experience of emotional rejection: on brain scans they “light up” in response to social ostracism just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli.
When people speak of feeling “hurt” or of having emotional “pain,” they are not being abstract or poetic but scientifically quite precise. The hard-drug addict’s life has been marked by a surfeit of pain. No wonder she desperately craves relief.
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Gabor Maté (In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction)
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Reproductive hormones aren’t the only hormones that affect how you look and feel and think. Among the most influential are the hormones produced by your thyroid gland. Too little thyroid, and you feel like a slug. Hypothyroidism makes you feel like you just want to lie on the couch all day with a bag of chips. Everything works slower, including your heart, your bowels, and your brain. When we perform SPECT scans of people with hypothyroidism, we see decreased brain activity. Many other studies confirm that overall low brain function in hypothyroidism leads to depression, cognitive impairment, anxiety, and feelings of being in a mental fog. The thyroid gland drives the production of many neurotransmitters that run the brain, such as serotonin, dopamine, adrenaline, and noradrenaline. A
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Daniel G. Amen (Unleash the Power of the Female Brain: Supercharging Yours for Better Health, Energy, Mood, Focus, and Sex)
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Her new fever, her anxiety which changed itself to anger was even more of a toy to him. A part of his attention, secret until now, leaned forward to scan every pore of her Halloween face. Somehow, irresistibly, the prime thing was: nothing mattered. Life in the end seemed a prank of such size you could only stand off at this end of the corridor to note its meaningless length and its quite unnecessary height, a mountain built to such ridiculous immensities you were dwarfed in its shadow and mocking of its pomp. So with death this near he thought numbly but purely upon a billion vanities, arrivals, departures, idiot excursions of boy, boy-man, man and old-man goat. He had gathered and stacked all manner of foibles, devices, playthings of his egotism and now, between all the silly corridors of books, the toys of his life swayed. And none more grotesque than this thing named Witch Gypsy Reader-of-Dust, tickling, that’s what! just tickling the air! Fool! Didn’t she know what she was doing!
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Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes)
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Her new fever, her anxiety which changed itself to anger was even more of
a toy to him. A part of his attention, secret until now, leaned forward to scan
every pore of her Halloween face. Somehow, irresistibly, the prime thing was:
nothing mattered. Life in the end seemed a prank of such size you could only
stand off at this end of the corridor to note its meaningless length and its quite
unnecessary height, a mountain built to such ridiculous immensities you were
dwarfed in its shadow and mocking of its pomp. So with death this near he
thought numbly but purely upon a billion vanities, arrivals, departures, idiot
excursions of boy, boy-man, man and old-man goat. He had gathered and
stacked all manner of foibles, devices, playthings of his egotism and now,
between all the silly corridors of books, the toys of his life swayed. And none
more grotesque than this thing named Witch Gypsy Reader-of-Dust, tickling, that’s what! just tickling the air! Fool! Didn’t she know what she was doing!
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Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes)
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The journaling helps because your brain stores trauma, unfinished actions, and powerful memories in areas that can trigger strong emotions and subconscious stress responses. Often these unresolved events can trigger anxiety for no apparent reason. When you convert your feelings into words, it prompts a neurologic change. MRI scans have proven that the act of speaking or writing about feelings that are top of mind can move stored experiences away from the emotional reptilian parts of the brain, where they continually recirculate up to the rational parts of the brain, where they begin to dissipate. This effect can be invoked any time you convert ideas into words, regardless of whether you are speaking, writing, or typing and regardless of any feedback you receive.
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Alan Christianson (The Metabolism Reset Diet: Repair Your Liver, Stop Storing Fat, and Lose Weight Naturally)
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Two things must happen to partake in this mindset of non-judging so that we can start dealing with stress better and gain greater well-being. Don't get angry at the little weirdo doing its thing. Be like, "whatever I don’t mind." Continue to bring your attention back to the song that you play. Feel the sound vibration. When you meditate, all kinds of thoughts and experiences will come up. Patience: understanding that growth happens in its own time. The mantra therapy session will clear your head and make you happier and brighter and relaxed and free of anxieties–these results are pretty instant. Yet, the meditation's long-term objectives including self-realization, liberation from fate, jumping out of the reincarnation loop... those don't happen overnight. We have a lot of karmic baggage from who knows how many lifetimes of gazillions. Don't overemphasize development. Be rest assured it will happen. Beginner’s mind: a mind that is willing to see everything as it is for the first time. The cornerstone of mindfulness practice lets us catch the "extraordinariness of the ordinary" of our perceptions of the present-moment. This mentality encourages us to "be able to see everything as if it were the first time" Critical for practicing and participating in organized meditation practices, such as body scan, yoga, meditation, this sort of open-mindedness to new experiences "helps us to be receptive to new ideas and keeps us from getting stuck in the rut of our own wisdom, which often thinks it knows more than it does." They have no assumptions resulting from past experiences with the mind of the beginner. This reminds us that every single moment, by definition, has unique possibilities. The subconscious of the novice is working as de-clutterer. With it, we can see, witness, hear, and learn of our universe's beings, places, and stuff, as they really are and in the moment. Our ideas, feelings and desires no longer filter or place a curtain on our everyday lives. Trust – No Imitations, Live Own Life, and Honor Own Feelings, Intuitions, Wisdom, and Goodness An integral part of the training and practice of mindfulness includes the development of a simple trust in yourself and emotions. Guidance comes from within you— your own instincts, your own strength. The foundation involves looking inward rather than outward. Your mindset here indicates that you value your own fundamental intelligence and goodness. Your thoughts are honored. An analogy here may be linked to backing off a stretch during yoga practice. The mindfulness ethic "accentuates being your own human and knowing what it means to be yourself" Being your own individual means you are not mimicking someone else.
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Adrian Satyam (Energy Healing: 6 in 1: Medicine for Body, Mind and Spirit. An extraordinary guide to Chakra and Quantum Healing, Kundalini and Third Eye Awakening, Reiki and Meditation and Mindfulness.)
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Research actually shows that all childhood trauma, even bullying by our peers, can cause structural change in our amygdala,15 the part of our brain that detects threats in our environment, as well as in our prefrontal cortex,16 the region responsible for our “executive functions,” like our ability to plan, make decisions, and manage our social behavior. These structural changes as a result of childhood trauma create a state of hypervigilance whenever our nervous system is on alert. When this state becomes chronic or consistent over time it can manifest itself as social anxiety or complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), with related difficulties managing emotions, exercising inhibition, and, ultimately, having relationships.17 When our nervous system remains on high alert, we constantly scan our environment, engage in worst-case scenario thinking, and often become overwhelmed with racing thoughts while we anxiously wait for the other shoe to drop.
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Nicole LePera (How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships)
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Another way to practice mindfulness at any moment is to close your eyes and scan every sensation in your body: your heartbeat, your butt on the chair, any areas of warmth or cold, your toes on the ground, the air moving into your nose and lungs. Because this body scan forces you into the present moment, it takes you away from mental states of anxiety or stress.
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Casey Means (Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health)
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When our fears and anxiety prevent sleep, we can pray instead of scanning Google. We can ask for guidance from the Lord when we are confronted with possible problems. He is faithful to answer and grant peace for the night. Father,
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Sandra Peoples (30 Prayers for Special-Needs Parents)
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Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history.
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Pawan Mishra
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Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.
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Pawan Mishra
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Fantasy also helps your mind to shut down, an important component of the female orgasm. A recent study in which male and female brains were scanned during sexual arousal revealed that women virtually fall into a ‘trance’ during orgasm and that this brain “deactivity” is necessary for a female to orgasm. A big part of female arousal, much more so than of male arousal, seems to be deep relaxation and a lack of anxiety. Fantasy helps that happen. Says
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Ian Kerner (Passionista: The Empowered Woman's Guide to Pleasuring a Man (Kerner))
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Study after study showed that green spaces shifted the autonomic nervous system from fight-or-flight to rest-and-digest. Consequently, moods, blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing patterns improved, and stress hormone levels decreased. Short doses of nature, including mere photographs of nature, sharpened performance. Other studies showed they increased feelings of generosity and social connectedness. The presence of houseplants in hospital rooms lessened pain and hastened recovery from surgery. Studies of functional brain scans showed regions associated with empathy and love lighting up when exposed to nature scenes, while urban scenes and sounds lit up regions associated with fear and anxiety. I added my next entry to the How to Get Off the Couch list: 4. Get a daily dose of nature.
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Cynthia Li (Brave New Medicine: A Doctor's Unconventional Path to Healing Her Autoimmune Illness)
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In an experiment conducted by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, study subjects were required to give a series of impromptu speeches in front of an audience (a reliable way to induce anxiety). Half of the participants were then asked to engage in what the researchers call “affect labeling,” filling in responses to the prompt “I feel _________,” while the other half were asked to complete a neutral shape-matching task. The affect-labeling group showed steep declines in heart rate and skin conductance compared to the control group, whose levels of physiological arousal remained high. Brain-scanning studies offer further evidence of the calming effect of affect labeling: simply naming what is felt reduces activity in the amygdala, the brain structure involved in processing fear and other strong emotions. Meanwhile, thinking in a more involved way about feelings and the experiences that evoked them actually produces greater activity in the amygdala.
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Annie Murphy Paul (The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain)
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It was a game of theirs, to plan their social escapes. One they’d started to play when the anxiety of a gathering would overwhelm her in the early days of her return to society. She scanned the crowd milling about. “All we’d have to do is melt into this alley. Where should we go, husband? Should we ride in the park?” “I’d love a ride,” he growled against her ear. “But we might get arrested for indecency if we do it in the park.” She swatted his chest,
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Kerrigan Byrne (Courting Trouble (Goode Girls, #2))
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Our brain scanning experiments in healthy individuals offered reflections on the relationship between sleep and psychiatric illnesses. There is no major psychiatric condition in which sleep is normal. This is true of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder (once known as manic depression
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Matthew Walker (Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams)
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In my research, I came across a neuropsychologist at Emory University, Negar Fani, who studies the effects of PTSD on people of color. She did a study where she scanned the brains of Black women who had experienced continued racist microaggressions in their personal lives and at work and found that this abuse had changed the structures of their brains. What’s more, their brains had undergone similar structural changes to people who had complex PTSD. The takeaway here: Racism can cause PTSD. Even Negar herself told me that her work was inspired by the slights and microaggressions she’d endured from her older, white male colleagues in academia. On top of those findings, there have also been a number of studies showing that consuming racist or threatening media can be harmful to one’s mental health. Black people who have watched videos of unarmed Black men being shot by police have reported anxiety and depression. I’m sure the same could be said for Latinx people watching videos of dead-eyed children separated from their parents at the border.
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Stephanie Foo (What My Bones Know)
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The health of your body has a direct impact on the health of your brain. In fact, there are only three degrees of separation between sitting too much and dementia. You sit for long periods of time. Your body goes into hibernation mode, depressing your metabolism and increasing your blood pressure, blood sugar, and weight.7 Your high blood pressure damages your heart and its vessels. The small vessels that feed your brain get blocked, putting you at risk of small vessel disease. Without adequate blood supply, the brain’s white matter starves to death.8 White matter acts like a telephone wire that connects brain regions so they can talk to each other. When your white matter is damaged, the communication between those brain regions breaks down just like it did in that telephone game we played as kids; in the end, the message is all mixed up and everyone is confused. It was funny back then, but it’s not funny now. The white matter damage shows up like bright lights on your brain scan called white matter hyperintensities. The scary part is that your brain could be lit up like a Christmas tree but clinically silent, meaning that you may have no noticeable symptoms until it’s too
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Jennifer Heisz (Move The Body, Heal The Mind: Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and Dementia and Improve Focus, Creativity, and Sleep)
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A defective filter permits the “grounds to get mixed up with the coffee.” An ADDer experiences the world as a barrage to his senses—noises, sights and smells rush in without barriers or protection. Normal noise levels can interfere with his ability to hear conversations or maintain a train of thought. Even in a relatively quiet restaurant, background noises compete for attention and interfere with the ability to listen to the server. During a telephone call, the ADDer may snap at a spouse who makes the slightest noise in the room. Unfiltered visual distractions can make shopping a nightmare. The process of scanning the contents of a large department store can be agonizing. The quantity of choices is overwhelming and often creates feelings of intense anxiety and irritation.
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Kate Kelly (You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults w/ Attention Deficit Disorder))
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Anxiety is like being in freeway traffic all the time. There's the constant sense of dodging and darting, seeking your chance to cut in, the irritation of others pulling ahead of you. You hit the accelerator; slam the brakes. You scout and scan for danger. Here, though, there is no traffic and no freeway. There is gentle company and books on shelves. There is quiet. There's fun. Dawn Celeste has a laugh that sounds like a pot bubbling over. Everyone gets to do as they wish.
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Deb Caletti (A Heart in a Body in the World)
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Neurotic guilt scans the horizons of the past relentlessly seeking out the most deplorable, hideous, and culpable acts which are least consistent with one's self image. This process is similar to the infinite passion of intensified anxiety for seeking the worst conceivable possibilities in order to alert the whole organism to potential danger.
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Thomas C. Oden (Guilt free)
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Although anxiety can sometimes seem like a flaw, it’s actually an evolutionary advantage, a hypervigilance system that causes us to pause and scan the environment.
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Alice Boyes (The Anxiety Toolkit: Strategies for Fine-Tuning Your Mind and Moving Past Your Stuck Points)
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Although anxiety can sometimes seem like a flaw, it’s actually an evolutionary advantage, a hypervigilance system that causes us to pause and scan the environment. Feeling anxious triggers us to start looking out for potential threats. If you detect a potential danger, it’s not supposed to be easy for you to stop thinking about that threat. While that’s great when you’re a caveman worried about protecting your family, it’s not as great when you’re an employee convinced you’re getting fired.
For many of us who suffer from anxiety, our anxiety alarms fire too often when there isn’t a good reason to be excessively cautious. Why does this happen? We may have more sensitive anxiety systems. Or we may have been doing things to decrease our anxiety in the short term, such as avoiding things that make us feel anxious, that have actually increased it in the long term.
Having some false anxiety alarms—where you see threats that don’t exist or worry about things that don’t eventuate—isn’t a defect in your system. Think of it in caveman terms: In a life-and-death sense, failing to notice a real threat (termed a false negative) is more of a problem than registering a potential danger that doesn’t happen (termed a false positive). Therefore, having some false anxiety alarms is a built-in part of the system, to err on the side of caution.
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Alice Boyes (The Anxiety Toolkit: Strategies for Fine-Tuning Your Mind and Moving Past Your Stuck Points)
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THE EIGHT STAGES OF EMDR 1. Personal history and treatment planning 2. Preparation 3. Assessment 4. Desensitization and reprocessing 5. Positive Cognition Installation 6. Body scan 7. Closure 8. Re-evaluation
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Katherine Andler (Self-Guided EMDR Therapy & Workbook: Healing from Anxiety, Anger, Stress, Depression, PTSD & Emotional Trauma)
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Endotoxin has proved a great way of studying how inflammation affects the mind. When you take it, your mood drops and anxiety levels increase. When subjects are given endotoxin, they tend to feel more socially disconnected,1 are less likely to seek rewards2 and are worse at reading emotions in others.3 Imaging of the brain strongly supports the behaviours seen in these experimental settings: on scans there is a noticeable overlap between brain changes in endotoxin-induced sickness and in depression.4 Powerful new imaging techniques are also revealing how endotoxin-induced peripheral inflammation can rapidly lead to inflammation in the brain itself: neuroinflammation.5 But while sickness behaviour is miserable, Lekander makes sure to point out his view that it is both adaptive and advantageous to humans. If our outer defences are breached by a pathogenic bacterium or virus, by resting and isolating ourselves from others we ‘save energy for the hugely energy-consuming process of fever and immune activation, reduce our risk of being hunted down by predators and reduce the chance of spreading an infection around our tribe’. This is a crucial point. It can be easy to assume that the behavioural symptoms associated with infection are a sign of weakness, damage and poor coping. But, in the short term, it is actually a healthy, beneficial defence mechanism for us and for others. If the brain was completely shut off from the immune system, humanity may not have survived its pathogenic wars.
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Monty Lyman (The Immune Mind: The Hidden Dialogue Between Your Brain and Immune System)
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Our minds have a vast capacity for healing through images. Whether we’re imagining a scene of forgiveness, comfort, or letting go, or simply visualizing a loved one, images can profoundly settle into our bodies and sink into our minds. In my work, I’ve found that helping people to unearth the image that most resonates with them is the cornerstone of healing. The notion of the healing power of images was valid long before brain scans could prove it. More than a hundred years ago, the poet William Butler Yeats wrote that “wisdom first speaks through images,” and that if we just allow ourselves to be guided by the image that lives inside us, our souls will become “simple as flame” and our bodies will become “quiet as an agate lamp.” In 1913, Carl Jung coined the term active imagination, a technique that uses images (often from a dream) to enter into a dialogue with the unconscious mind, bringing to light what has been shrouded in darkness. Recently, the idea of visualization for healing has gained widespread traction, with guided imagery programs readily available to lower stress, reduce anxiety, boost athletic performance, and help with specific fears and phobias.
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Mark Wolynn (It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle)
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The peculiar bevels and bulges which sculpt the head of a hare sweep up to support the twin, twitching columns of its ears. Only at close proximity do you enter the force-field of the animal's ceaseless, neurotic anxiety, the constant radar scan of its fear. Its ears are never still, but swivel their dark tips in infinitesimal and separate adjustments, catching sound like a sail catches wind, every sigh and rustle in that untrustworthy vector of the world directly to the rear.
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Michael Viney (A Year's Turning)
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Evil Spirit Removal in North York – Restore Peace, Harmony & Positive Energy
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Long-term remedies for continued safety
Every session is personalized to make certain that the healing is individualized and effective.
Why Choose Evil Spirit Removal in North York
People in North York and the surrounding areas use this service because it:
Removes harmful spiritual forces
Restores peace, prosperity, and emotional balance.
Protects individuals and families from further harm
Improves positivity, confidence, and happiness
Helps life move forward without unseen interference
Take back your life with the right spiritual guidance and step into a future that is stable and protected.
From unexplained problems to sudden negativity or emotional turbulence, let a trusted healer offering Evil Spirit Removal in North York and Black Magic Removal in North York help restore peace, regain control, and move you ahead with strength and clarity.
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Psychic Ravi
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Powerful Voodoo Removal in Tampa for a Peaceful and Protected Life
Voodoo and other dark spiritual practices can create deep disturbances in the emotional, mental, and physical well-being of a person. When negative forces come into one's life, one may feel blocked, confused, or always struggling with unexplained burdens. In such cases, Voodoo Removal in Tampa is highly necessary to bring back harmony into your life and get rid of any unwanted energies that disturb your way.
Understanding the Impact of Voodoo Energy
Voodoo is often misunderstood, and its negative form can be used to manipulate energy fields, cause emotional pain, break relationships, and create barriers to success. Signs of such influence may include sudden anxiety, financial setbacks, unexplained anger, relationship issues, or even a feeling of being watched or controlled by an invisible force. When these experiences begin to affect daily life, consulting a professional for Voodoo Removal in Tampa can bring clarity and relief.
A spiritual healer knows how these energies work and will use ancient methods of cleansing to locate the source and neutralize it. This is a process that not only cleanses negative energy from your system but fortifies your aura against further attacks.
The Process of Effective Voodoo Cleansing
Tampa Voodoo Removal involves deep insight into spirituality, powerful rituals, and protective mantras. A genuine healer starts by scanning your aura in an effort to establish exactly where the disturbance is rooted. After identifying the source, they employ cleansing rituals, spiritual water, fire purification, and customized prayers to break the negative impact. Such methods are safe and very traditional, passed on through generations of spiritual knowledge.
Energy balancing is also a very important part of the process. Following the removal, your spiritual healer will help you restore your natural flow of energy, bringing peace, positivity, and emotional clarity. This way, long-lasting protection is ensured, and the problem will not return.
Why You Should Consider Professional Voodoo Removal in Tampa
Trying to remove negative or dark spiritual influences alone can be hazardous because such energies need professional handling. A qualified healer has years of experience, intuition, and knowledge of powerful protection rituals. Choosing Voodoo Removal in Tampa with the help of a knowledgeable practitioner secures complete cleansing without any side effects.
Clients often report that immediately following the cleansing, they feel lighter, calmer, and confident. Life starts to move forward again: relationships improve, emotional stress reduces, and financial flow stabilizes. When negative forces are removed, your natural energy becomes stronger, hence attracting positive outcomes and opportunities.
Reclaim Your Life with Spiritual Protection
If you are feeling stagnant, depleted, or at the mercy of forces beyond your control, you do not have to suffer in silence. The power of Voodoo Removal in Tampa offers a path back to balance, hope, and inner peace. You will be able to take back control of your life through spiritual cleansing, protection rituals, and continuous guidance on how to progress with confidence.
It may be strong, but the right healing is always stronger than dark energy. Take that step towards a peaceful, protected life with the work of professional voodoo cleansing and see a transformation that you truly deserve.
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Astrologer Thirupathi Ji