PROVEN Episode 9: Intimacy, Fertility & Hormone Health

June 11, 2020 by yellownblac ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

As women, we often think we have no control of our bodies but that is not true. We think we have to outsource the control of our health , but that is not true.

The pelvic floor is a basin, it s a basket of your being, highly energised, holds your organs, stabilising pelvis, lumbar spin, lymphatic function, reproductive function, involved with every part of your body function

know how to care for yourself that is when you will be free, working with pple who can help u be the best of yourself

when you know better you do better

Exercise the pelvic floor muscles

Reversed Kegel: deep breathing into vagina and imagining it opening up, relaxing, blossoming like a rose in springtime

how are you breathing, correct that faulty pattern————–Isa Herrera

Hormonal health for proper health brain development, everything is affected by hormone

what is my body telling me? m i listening? do i have that quiet space ? hormones can slow you down, and we dont have time n skill to process that

——–Afrouz Demeri

know where your imbalances are

I can relax i can let go———Molly Maloof

Solution 5: Biofeedback

Biofeedback: a technique you monitor what is happening in body using equipment or whatever n you display back to yourself to see what is happening inside, to make invisible visible: increase awareness and hope. We often think we have no control, but this allows us to say: we have awareness and develop mastery to improve wellness of our being

Functional perspective: Its how you use yourself, if you use yourself differently, develop different mastery, then probably this can heal or fix yourself

Learned Disuse

————–Erik Peper

Solution 4: Accupuncture

Increase chances of healthy live birth by 2.5fold

optimising regulation harmonisation and stimulate into healthy resting place

when our body knows we are relaxed and safe, functions improve————–Mel Hopper Koppelman

toxic stressed up flight or fight for decades

its like you cant do sleep you fall asleep

how about we relax the system, heal the body and let it do what its supposed to do innately.

Which is: take the genetics of your progeny and move it into the future . And when that isnt working, ask yourself what is wrong with the biological system?Is it capable of moving forward into the next generation or it a dead carcass trying to make ends meet? ———-Pedram Shojai

stress was affecting body so it couldn’t do what it needed to do————–Christine Cannon

Solution 3: Reproductive Herbs

Maca: help women regulate cycles n get pregnant

Chaste Tree:

——–Afrouz Demeri

Ashwagandha: used traditionally in India for thousands of years in men with infertility and ability to affect women’s libido, remarkable set of activities

Yoni Steaming: herbs under the chair, deep meditation, connecting deeply with pelvic floor so its relaxing and opening, steam is softening and opening

Rose/Lavender

Stretching and opening, heat softens tissue, release spasm, release trigger points, relaxes tension, allow area to breathe and increase micro circulation

women not taught to care for this part of the body————–Isa Herrera

Solution 2: Hormone balancing exercises

Build muscles, Lose fat not weight

Cardio-alot of women are overdoing themselves, it becomes a stresser on body. But resistance training is helpful to build muscle mass.

Detox naturally thru hormones and everything thru lymphatic drainage . we have this backed up system, sitting alot,the lymph is not moving, need to move lymphatic system

Rebounding——–Afrouz Demeri

The way u carry body is important, sit up nice tall n straight, u r sitting on pelvic floor, no slouchy slumpy

Yoga helps , pigeon pose, opening up chest poses that open n connect to heart n breath . These increase vitality of pelvic floor. Meditate . think abt the activity that cause u symptoms. Reexamine. Go inward and pay attention n make simple changes, change posture, change the exercises, all little steps bring the most profound changes————–Isa Herrera

Dance Movement/ Therapy

Fertility issues, related with a loss and perspective that body has failed. Tapping into it

Movement is really important, rocking. Helping a mom to grieve by helping her to rock——-Gabrielle Kaufman

Solution 1: Manual Medicine

Uterus: most magnificent organ in body, has own motion or motility, has own positioning, uterus can move and has rotation, work with motion of uterus and correct motility, know your anatomy, tell where is the organ

use techniques to get uterus back into place and exercises to align pelvic muscles, help women get connected to body

The belly is the blueprint of the organs so working with techniques targeting this region can be very therapeutic

Maya Abdominal Massage

stretch vagina! if muscle too tight or weak, bring back the flexibility

Drink more water

Watch your posture

If something doesnt feel intuitively right, you have to say, thank you, i appreciate your input and walk out

Know you are a consumer of medicine and behave like one

————–Isa Herrera

Chiropractic

there r things we can do naturally for birth control that doesnt involve the pill————–Isa Herrera

there’s always a better way, ————Afrouz Demeri

Get the phone off your body—–Devra L Davis

PROVEN Episode 7: Healing Trauma

June 10, 2020 by yellownblac ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Trauma

Impact as a child, part of u is stuck there

Bring person back into past recoup all the fragmentation into unity and create again presence

Because we r now there’s nothing to fear

Many who r traumatized don’t even know

Check in with ourselves honestly and gently find places within ourselves that need healing

Unresolved trauma limits vision restricting us to live as fully as we r meant to

Trauma: release pro inflammatory molecules called Cytokines (proteins that effect interaction and communication between cells) that impacts the nervous system

There r so many things we can do to turn it around: harness power of neuroplasticity——— Titus Chiu

Every injury gets worse if untreated——–David Rabin

ACEs adverse childhood experiences

Synopsis keep running —-> habits—-> a certain groove of brain is established

Go into the brains of the subconscious and change the message

So that manifest of who you are how your health is how your organs function how you process how you immune system functions can be Changed

Solution 5: Neurofeedback

QEG with visual and audio cues to change your mind in real time

Everything you think about in mind about world about yourself is arbitrary is a construction

Awakening is stepping out and having the ability to step out of this system

It had to do with you being sick as a child ———–Sanjay Manchanda

Neurofeedback is a way to reinforce the brain to produce a healthy combination of Brain waves

Person with trauma- brain waves have a lot of looping thoughts

Nervous system in hyper state and responds to stimuli when it should be at rest————Roseann Capanna Hodge

Solution 4: Mindfulness

Mindfulness- awareness of present – mind and activity are one

As long as we keep trauma in dark it will keep on influencing us , our choices our relationships unconsciously

We invite trauma fr the dark fr unconscious – shift positioning fr dark to light – becoming aware of it

It has to be done with a lot of patience gentleness compassion

Start work with trauma pieces that has been holding their whole life

How do we work with these negative emotions ? Coz most of us when we meet negative emotions

Most of times we choose potentially unhealthy ways to interact with it:

1.Getting lost in it, waves of anger, etc as if you lost identity and you become that pain, just intensifydoesnt help u work with it

2.Or, you dont feel it

these are not healthy work

thats where mindfulness comes in

new way to relate to negative emotions,

wave of pain rise, not rejecting it, seeing it, working with it—thats hard work painful, confront smthg tolerate is difficult but healthy

cost effective—- Itai Ivtzan

Triggered by taste, voice, smell, etc because of old trauma, in medtiation release it by neuropathways that is created, move forward, dont recycle trauma and repeating

cells in body has amazing ability to heal

give ourselves compassion nutrients supportive care n connection ability to show up for ourselves can create healing———-Jill C Carnahan

Changes in brain structure as responses to stress and anxiety change———-Sat Bir Singh Khalsa

Solution 3: Expressive Arts Therapy

Musical intervention to bring cohesion to body that is fragmented.

Music is processed in whole brain, get brain involved

non invasive, beautiful way to begin to find way

bring unconscious to conscious, trauma is locked in unconscious, use song to unlock it

completely activates you

song triggers memories

open up space for breathing and vocalisation

begin with sound, bring us back to primal space, energy moves, stuff comes up

we r making sounds

rhythm is in brain stem: use rhythm to work with mind work and communicate

drumming, using life instruments for vibration,

play music together, community

Tap into multidimensional being that you are

Energy so stuck, only vibrations of sound can get into body, by sympathetic resonance body begin to oscillate, and information n emotions is released

energy and emotion is realised

if stuck its hard for energy to get into motion

beat with same rhythm of drum,—> balance, harmony, healing

Energy keeps moving———Laura Inserra

Trauma stored in brain

Art therapy, bringing forward info fr unconscious

Conversation comes in and left brain starts to work——–Darcy Lubbers

Solution 2: Dance Movement/ Therapy

way of using body and imaginations

upper class: only move mouth, lower class,: moving body

It’s v hard to start a journey from a non centered place

Quiet time for yourself

Feeling the stability of the body your feet on the floor

So that you come back to your body like an infant and is recreating the stages of an infant

Tuning into breath————Ilene Ava Serlin

Probably you feel the grounding because you recognize that instead of holding yourself up you have let that go and you are now allowing the ground to support you

Instead of saying like everybody that he feels grounded he says he feels secure———Gil Kelly

trauma held in muscles

hinge in birdcage—breath open out let bird out, her freedom

see body as a place that has movement

using non verbal communication and achieving unity

Body has wisdom

By healing the emotional experiences we are holding in our body we are healing ourselves holistically ———Gabrielle Kaufman

belief systems about ourselves

lose our connection with life, spacious fluid———Darrell Sanchez

Solution 1: Nature based therapies

Our skin needs natural contact with the natural world to be healthy

Ground and recalibrate our mind so as to process memories that would otherwise be difficult

Trauma often brings pple into therapy and outdoor based therapies are useful

One of hallmarks of trauma is world turned upside down

normal is lost Like there’s a Threat or self hurt

Just being in contact with horses braiding their hair being close to the large bodies of these living beings is deeply therapeutic

The environment will do most of the work

Due to unformulated non verbal nature of esp children

Connection to something bigger

Connection to self which may be fragmented

And often what is taken away on trauma ?

It’s sense of peace connection stability grounding

Something that we lean on that’s bigger than ourselves ————-Dr Miachal Miki Fire

Find some wild place

Forest bathing

The deeper you get into forest you can get energy

Depleted microbiome

Green and blue space activity like walking next to ocean and that becomes a part of you

The healthy the microbiome the less stress————-Bob Rountree

PROVEN Episode 6: Overcoming Pain

June 8, 2020 by yellownblac ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

How to work through pain safely and effectively?

What is pain?

Pain is registered in sensory cortex, thalamus all goes to brain. There are nocieceptors or pain nerves everywhere. They keep you alive to let us know what is affecting us. But once it does that , there is no use for it.

If you tore something, there are genes in area locally that turn on, cells starts making inflammatory products, those are local , inflammation has a local effect on bone, cartilage nerves, these are conveyed to brain, thats why you limp.

When u get pain for so long, Thalamus change fr pain suppression to amplification.

Nociceptors

You need v good immunity to heal the injury , Immune system regulates amount of pain you have , Different ppl handle these signals differently

—————- Carolyn McMakinpain

Moving a joint that’s sore and body tell you not to move that.on chronic pain, brain on high alert. Chronic pain brain, even when its not pain signal, when brain is flooded with pain signals, change alertness of brain, brain fog–effects of chronic pain etc Chronic pain brain causes sensitisation,

Treating the memory of Pain and not just treating the injury/periphery. Treating the brain is an important part, If u suppress the pain signals n the brain’s recollection of it then in general you decrease the pain, So quiet down the brain and heal the periphery as well ——William Pawluk

Solution 5: Frequency specific microcurrent

Why is it that pple who have shoulder injuries but some pple go they a healing cycle and get better but for others the pain just lingers——-

FSM falls under a category of electro medicine

A v low level of electric current:1960s, started making Trancutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, can block off some pain

Can b put on acupuncture points- micro current electro acupuncture

Frequencies which reduce inflammation/get lymphatic system to move etc

——-Darren Starwynn

Solution 4: Biofeedback

Biofeedback : instilling voluntary control

if you can induce a symptom, that means maybe the way you are using yourself can shift the symptom

Control means relaxing then tightening minimally and relaxing, then you have control, means turning symptom on then off, then you can identify what’s going on, now you have option, choosing to relax

Autogenic

Physical Mastery, identify what causes tension,

Posture Feedback : sitting up, when u collapse it vibrates, now you have an option, new ways/mannerisms, less symptoms, feel more powerful

Posture and moods, emotions, states —-Erik Peper

————–Gil Kelly

Solution 3: Pulsed Electro magnetic Frequency PEMF

Based on quantum physics: everything has a signature frequency

There are healthy frequencies, pulsing disrupt how cells communicate and come in with corrective frequency set thru skin, gets body into self healing

in body ins float around, When apply magnetic field, you are creating charge and movements, when u create charge in tissue you create dynamic action and move things

Disease is lack of energy, lack of charge,

Magnetic field stimulate because there wasn’t enough charge to finish the job in the first place

find right magnetic field intensity for that spot and regularly

5 Key Mechanisms of PEMF: Decrease inflammation/Improve circulation/Reduce Swelling/Stimulate Healing/Stimulate Stem Cells/Pain Reduction= Heal half time

——William Pawluk

Solution 2: Manual Medicine: Chiropractic

rather than numb yourself to pain, respond to it, your body is talking to you——Patrick Gentempo

Feldenkrais Method: The Feldenkrais Method is based on principles of physics, biomechanics, and an empirical understanding of learning and human development. Moshe Feldenkrais said, “We move according to our perceived self-image.” By expanding your perception and increasing awareness, you will become more aware of your habits and tensions and develop new ways of moving. By increasing sensitivity, the Feldenkrais Method assists you to live your life more fully, efficiently, and comfortably.

By becoming aware of how one’s body interacts with its surroundings and learning how to behave in less stressful ways, it becomes possible to relinquish habitual movement patterns that cause or contribute to chronic pain.

The method was developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, an Israeli physicist, mechanical engineer and expert in martial arts, after a knee injury threatened to leave him unable to walk. Relying on his expert knowledge of gravity and the mechanics of motion, he developed exercises to help teach the body easier, more efficient ways to move.

Strength flexibility knowledge intelligence curiousity abt life and learning: giving brain high level information and pain goes down

encourage pple to remember recall curiosity -how u limit yourself, sensing feeling yourself, find aat least 3 ways to do anything , if its one way, its a habit

move fr the whole body: any movement you can do, do fr the whole body not just one part: gentle movements —>function integration

Gil Kelly

Solution 1:Accupuncture

Pain: energy Obstruction, find stagnation and move

When the body doesnt heal in 10 20 years why is the body not healing?

———–Nick Orter

PROVEN Episode 5: Healing Heart Disease, Diabetes and Obesity

June 7, 2020 by yellownblac ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Taking down notes as usual, and seeing resonance with earlier episodes.

Solution 5: Earthing/Grounding

Power of Earth to heal and maintain health is enormous

You get this flow of electrons fr Earth, this negative charge that reduces, pain, stress, inflammation, improves blood flow, blood thinning

red blood cells increase negative charge

the more negative charge on red blood cells they repel and dont clump together, better blood flow

body neutralises electrical charge—->overall health in blood cells——Martin Zucker

increase negative surface charge on red blood cells

sticky blood in diseases

grounding helps space blood, blood goes in single file, go thru capillaries, within 5-10 min, skin colour comes up, demeanour changes, oxygenate tissues and reduce inflammation

ground: to prevent charge and to increase stability

inflammation is charge

increase in blood rate variability 67% with release of stress, body can rebuild and reenergise————-Clint Ober

Solution 4: Herbal Medicine

Holistic thinking, using herbal medicine holistically vs symptomatically

In some cases, its a herb for a condition= allopathic thinking, pple have to learn about unique nature of each herb, address all underlying conditions that give problems to heart eg cholesterol , hypertension,

the more we understand these underlying conditions, the better formula we can build and the better results we get

hawthorn is nutrition for heart,

————-David Crow

Cinnamon helps regulate blood sugar

Solution 3: Meditative Movement

incorporating your mind to move your body eg Qigong, yoga

Heart=Fire element= passion, love, excitement, great heart qi, inner alignment

Excess: frenzy, Depressed: not in alignment

In Qigong, you are cultivate heart qi, that purpose, passion. Just by being around you—–Elizabeth Martin

Solution 2: Exercise Therapy

to eliminate blood sugar, exercise, move body and burn it off, start walking more

Solution 1: Personalised Nutrition

Fasting: start at 14 hours a day, vital for health, 18 hours is best

clean u out, eating, nourishing n taking a break can help body. go to sleep on empty stomach

whole foods plant based less animal products

———–Ocean Robbins, grandson of Baskin Robbins

PROVEN Episode 4 : Solving Fatigue & Insomnia

June 6, 2020 by yellownblac ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

This seems to be like a reinforcement of some of the ideas that has been expounded in the earlier episodes, still, its worth revising! And they made me think why some things work and some not.

Solution 5: Qigong

Qi practice, energetic form of chi medicine

practice of manipulating qi

transmute qi

body mind breath

self heal

regulate qi in organ systems and meridians

comes internally

shen: heart pumps blood and nourishments brain, connection needs to be in harmony to be in one

in sleep shen is resting,

heart healthy living in purpose come from joy n happens, qi emits out, that is our aura or energetic field

qigong, balance heart qi, which is expansive

magnetise others

great for all ages

Fundamental building block energy is muscle density

Deep stances that build up increase w/o harming joints and giving calming effect

you are more energy

coordination eye mind body breath, do it right , smthg powerful happens, starts to retrospect, are of what is happening inside body, modulate, ecology of body or parasympathetic system

puts us in amygdala

——————Pedram Shojai

Solution 4: Earthing/ Grounding

Earth like a battery

Shoes insulate you fr energy of battery

barefoot, you absorb

indoors: patches, mats, sheets to connect to

brings in Earth’s energy to body and normalise body’s electrical system

upgrade electrically

we are biolelectrical beings living on this electric; planet

there’s power and energy in ground

sun, earth gives us energy

barefoot to get this like a sponge

reducing pain inflammation, improve blood flow, etc

Sleeping Grounded, sleep less yet more energy

Earth has curative benefits

—————Martin Zucker

What is feeding the inflammation

Great loss: went into fight or flight and froze in there

when body is filled with cortisol , but never ground out

adrenals which regulate become exhausted you become fatigued and you sit on grass, and become a different person, everything can reset

within 20 min, skin colour comes out

significant increase in ATP

cortisol is elevated you cant sleep

when cortisol is normal you can sleep

more grounded you are sleep cycles change, go into Earth’s rhythms

Earth is turning, sun is constant, amplitude of E’s electric field starts to increase, it decrease at night

barefoot on Earth, Earth resets you

—————Clint Ober

Solution 3: Emotional Freedom Technique

You can produce up to 2000watts of energy

holding negativity can deplete

How to clear psychological waste

Electrical system of body

brain is firing electrics to make sense of process

we have electricity

we have emotional component, brain active n body has past experiences

when it stacks up, u r waking up with energy deficit

wake up without energy

combo to create disease and disorders and chronic pain

what do i need in my life right now

moving across disciplines magic is in combi the more we pull back from the events, xx years ago, releasing this, physically letting it go, we are unlocking innate wisdom in body

——————Nick Orter

Solution 2: Energy Herbs

Herbs for fatigue

Ginseng, Rhodiola

Ancient ginseng: red and white: stimulating adaptogens

red: steamed and stimulating 70yrs n older or has lost all vital energy

white: ave person

Goodnight remedies

sleep quality: do u feel refreshed ?

Valerium for sleep

menopausal: sleep and wakes up 1-3: hobbs motherwort passionflower

lemon balm

Sleep Herbs

good sleep hygiene

—————David Winston, Herbalist

Rhodiola helps with stress

stabilise strength nourish systems————David Crow

Astragalus: huangqi: helps with adapting to stress

brain has time to turn off during sleep

magnesium

passionflower

chamomile

holy basil

———Molly Maloof

Consistency and regiment

Dr Michael Breus

Solution 1: Testing

Consuming refined carbs is not a gd way to generate energy

Mould toxicity -candida, nasal passage

Reframing and what meaning you are giving

Afrouz Demeri

PROVEN Episode 3: Brain Health & Restoring Cognitive Function

June 6, 2020 by yellownblac ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Cognitive overload

To experience expansion of the human mind, upgrade the lens we are looking thru

Solution 5: Identifying and healing leaky gut

gut brain connection

Vagus nerve: powerful inflammation highway where bacteria and microbes in gut sends signals and tells brain what to do can dramatically change how we feel———Pedram Shojai

For every message from brain telling gut what to do, there are 9 messages coming up from the gut telling the brain what to do= intimate connection

SO : leaky gut-leaky brain

All disorders of the brain anxiety depression Parkinson’s etc they r all diseases of inflammation

4 powerful immune system and the most powerful one is in the brain

The immune cells in brain are gliai cells, maintain homeostasis

When there’s too much leakiness, the gliai cells are firing everyday , the collateral damage depending on genetic vulnerabilities gives you different disease biopolar Alzheimer’s

So, Identify inflammatory triggers at end of fork and rebuild your healthier microbiome

Buy every type of root veg in the store, alternate them

Fibre in these root vegetables feed the good bacteria in gut

Prebiotic foods-2 each day, take prebiotic supplement for

2 months to rejig system

Find 5 types of fermented vegetables, every day eat a fork full

Fermentation produces hundreds of good bacteria—————–Tom O Bryan

Sugar white flour processed junk—-> feeding a certain type of bacteria

When you eat sugar you create sugar

When you eat the food that is best for you regularly and consistently your saliva changes

Good bacteria in gut feast on fibre

Lots lots lots lots lots of veg —————–Ocean Robbins

Nutrients brain thrives on: fat

Olive oil fantastic for brain health—————Titus Chiu

Gut

Mucous lining: protective layer where good bacteria live

1 cell layer

Inflammation systemically pushing its way they lifestyles

So if lifestyles diet don’t change life keeps burdening you just carry a burden that becomes chronic

At cellular level you r changing the way cells communicate which might change the way your genes express themselves

Neurotrophic support: peptides or proteins that support the growth and survival of developing mature neurons—————Angie Martinez

The more stress a plant goes thru, the more stress protective molecules it makes—>source produce wisely

Solution 4: Brain Herbs and Supplements

Rhodiola/Sea buckthorn/Choda/Nettle: Vikings take them before battles

Adaptogen

Herbal medicine to Stabilize psychological processes and homeostasis

Ginseng in almost every culture: Ashawagandha/Maca/Rhodiola

Have energy boosting properties

Lion’s mane

Good for stress= good for cognitive= improves strength and energy —all linked————Tero Isokauppila

Bioprospecting- go back n look at herbals

Solution 3: Photobiomodulation

Low level laser therapy

Light does enter the perineum

The therapeutic window: use certain wavelengths such as infra red to get thru the skull and affecting the cells

Why does putting a small amount. Of energy into your body, whether light or electrical create an effect ?

Because all chemical reactions r all electrical reactions , electron transfers etc

But we are so stuck thinking that the body is chemical reactions

So we do not yet think about intervening at electrical level which can have powerful effects

But when we do we think about frequency medicine ———- Sanjay Manchanda/ Lew lim, Vielight

This is again super super interesting. All ways seemingly unproven now finds basis in science and research. Coupled with understanding that we are energy we are vibrations, this helps me understand how reiki worked or why energy work or vibration therapy works

Solution 2 : Heart Math

Heart brain access

Heart based practices

There is neuro traffic between heart and brain, the heart has its own nervous system and is constantly telling the brain what to do

Brain is looking for quality of signals from heart

Look at the spaces between the heart beats

Information is transmitted in between pulses rhythms spaces

how to shift heart and heart signals to support higher functions and open up to higher perceptions and free yourself

Heart rhythm change: arrive at The Coherent state: positive states of emotions. Inner quality management————-Deborah Rozman

WOW: isnt this at the scientific basis to meditation? or simply, awareness. Observing spaces in between the heart beats! Thats a new place I wanna see.

Cells in core nucleus of amygdala are synchronized to the heart beat

rhythmic patterns of heart is monitored by amygdala

simple tools to self regulate n choose emotional diet

in reality a healthy resilient person : heart rate changes with each and every heartbeat

heart rate variability: the physiological phenomenon of variation in the time interval between heartbeats

to measure that have to measure time between each and every heartbeat and that varies

more of this variability when we r young decreases when we age

chief reasons variability is lower than it should be for your age is long term stress, depletes our nervous system, reflected in flexibility

there’s a strong correlation between nervous system flexibility and cognitive flexibility emotional flexibility

chaotic pattern associated with depleting emotions

frustration impatience anxiety reflected in chaotic activity of nervous system and shows up

Heart Math: techniques intuition to overcome challenges———–Rollin McCraty

Solution 1 : Meditation

releases gaba and serotonin

neuroplasticity: amazing ability of brain to change structure function, change how u see yourself and world

in flight in fight you activate back part of brain, recitlium, behave in animal ways, vs frontal lobe is emotional intelligence

Self care: take the time to stop and pause, to experience vastness and expansion of mind

activate different parts of brain for memory focus concentration

focus attention, u regulate

open meditation : engaging pre frontal cortex

emotional stress regulation

“Pause. take a step back. rest. breathe.come back”———Itai Ivtzan

Discipline: daily practice to work out

endless chatter in mind

Healing Thinking Being

Proven Episode 2: Healing Your Gut And Boosting Immunity

June 5, 2020June 6, 2020 by yellownblac ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

More gems from Episode 2!

Solution 5: Biofeedback: Consciously alter unconscious procedures

Frequency Specific Microcurrent

Vagus Nerve

Unhealthy microbiome creates inflammation in gut

Solution 4: Accupuncture

Acupuncture help in inflammatory issues such as acid reflux

Acupuncture works for digestive issues – putting pressure on points in body , nerve reflex and send blood to organs

Histamine- causing seasonal allergies , a lot in neurotransmitters in brain and in gut

A lot of issues are caused by inflammatory response being turned on

—->antihistamine

when there’s a wound or hurt, body gets on immunity and deflamatory more and goes to heal, repair and build but after this , body should get into a switch off phase but for a lot of chronic inflammatory cases body forgets to switch off the repair mode

Thru acupuncture we can tell the body the work has been done and we can go into resolve and switch off—————Mel Hopper Koppelman

This is super super interesting and got me thinking, isn’t that me?

Yes! That’s me, in my experiences when life held out hard knocks , the inabilities of lack of wisdom for awareness sent my body in fight mode, and fight I did!

I fought so hard I gave it my all, suppressing everything else that came to me, emotions mainly. I could not hear or heed my emotions nor the body. Things get intense and I put up stronger fights.

All I did in the past is fight fight fight. For 30 years perhaps, I fought. And the body is so used to this mode of putting up a fight putting up resistance to put things back into place—-its the only thing the body knew, or what I train the body to know

But fighting to put things back in place is not the only way out. My senses and wisdom has evolved to understand this, but my body and mind, out of habit and inertia is still behaving this way, at least, looking this way habitually, and in a snap. To repair to build. To be the one to solve problems—all these taught reactions.

If this has never stopped and has always repeated itself in the last 20 or 30 years, how can i switch it off? How can I start to new reaction? A new way ?

Learn to pause? That was what Mr Ng has always been saying to me. Pause and choose your course of action so that you do not react to situations. I remember how he would put up his 2 hands to show me action and reaction. The space in between is the pause and I can choose the action.

Not easy, but I will try. If I can get to this point, to know and see this point, I am close to the way out. SO learning to pause and practicing to pause might be a way out I can experiment with.

Then, rewire, change how I think. That will change how my body works or structures its activities. Again, this is awareness. SO it seems meditation and giving myself the space to be with awareness is extremely important to create change,

For so long I have been finding out why the inflammation is still going on at the keloids

This could be, wow

And If I can watch this video , it means the answer isn’t far off

Solution 3: Functional Mushrooms

Research on Mushrooms and Gut Health

Deep link between Bacteria and Fungi

Eg Beer and wine have yeast, a type of fungi that works with bacteria

Eg kombucha

Our gut is full of bacteria and fungi , gut is one of the place we absorb nutrients, our first or second brain and the digestive system and gut is probably where the start of inflammation

Mushrooms have the ability to help break down organic and inorganic matter, vacuum clean our system internally.

Its a cleaning facility: mushrooms breaking down into forms or things others/ we can utilise Eg that’s why mushrooms grow very close to dead or dying trees in nature, and they do the same in our gut

They are taking all the good and bad things and converting to things we can use.

Mushrooms contain polysaccharides: many sugars, is carbohydrates and fibre and the most studied nutrients in world

In oats in goji in functional mushrooms

They create harmony , modulate immune system

Beta Glucans- sugars found in fungi—————Tero Isokauppila

Solution 2 Medicinal Herbs

Capacity to be in the present with uncomfortableness

—————Jason Blalack

liver is vital for healing gut

Peppermint oil for gut health, motility, to clean up gut, bio acids, anti microbial ———–Angie Martinez

Turmeric/ curcumin

Curcumin is extract of tumeric, more difficult to absorb and quickly excreted so to overcome that, combine with oil or black pepper for body to hold on to it, when that happens curcumin is useful

But is 30 times stronger than turmeric in in vitro studies

but in living organisms, clinically Tumeric root gives better results

And in high doses tumeric is gastro protective, 15 more compounds than curcumin

and in high doses, curcumin disturbs gastric mucosal

the herb is the active constituent

Tumeric help neuro, muscular skeletal, gut, liver, kidney—— helps with inflammatory —————David Winston

Approach to staying healthy

Problem with common sense is not too common, how do you make yourself more resilient ?

Issues are mostly caused by bad food n food system, so how do you create immune system-use healthy whole foods! Be on a great diet, use spices gingers, stay connected

Sugar and starch are immune destroyers—————Mark Hyman

Solution 1 Nutrition

Superfoods

True preventive medicine= actively prevent and reverse using natural approaches

Think: human body is ecosystem

Who we are: genes ; immune system; nutrition , gut microbiome

Need for integrative approach

Human body can produce what we need, but otherwise we need to supplement

Tuning microbiomes with nutrition to produce healthy biochemicals

Treat diseases with nothing but nutrition

Dysbiosis: imbalance

So feed a different diet to produce beneficial chemicals and deny food that microbiomes use to produce disease

every person will require different nutrition—————Momo Vuyisich

All disease begins in the leaky gut—Harvard Prof Dr Alessio Fasano

ASK

June 4, 2020 by yellownblac ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

And you shall be given.

This was a point that was covered in the 21 days Abundance programme. Deepak Chopra’s point was that there is no coincidence, all these magical events that we think are coincidences, are the universe ‘s echo back to us.

All we had to do was intend and give attention, cast our intention out to the universe, and gently patiently, the echo comes to you.

So inner work this time brought me to this mantra.

Is that the heart sutra?

I had spent some time copying the heart sutra in chinese as a practice some 20 years back, at a point of my lowest. But i havent heard it in sanskrit.

Then a while ago i saw the video and it resonated with me so much, every night when i massage qinzhi, i would sing this mantra apart from the chenrizig mantra i learnt in dharamsala.

I didnt exactly know what mantra this was. And wanted to ask Juan a few days back. Then Yin just WhatsApp to share on the Global Heart Sutra Recitation | The link to join in the recitation is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=celvLjBZumk&feature=youtu.be

I think this initiative is way too cool and how buddhism is moving along with times or how people are applying buddhism in good spirit with times and in the time of need.

The WhatsApp came along with this message, essentially a translation of the mantra. And i saw this : OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA

THE SUTRA OF THE HEART OF TRANSCENDENT KNOWLEDGE

Thus have I heard. Once the Blessed One was dwelling in Rajagriha at Vulture Peak mountain, together with a great gathering of the sangha of monks and a great gathering of the sangha of bodhisattvas. At that time the Blesse d One entered the samadhi that expresses the dharma called “profound illumination,” and at the same time noble Avalokiteshvara,the bodhisattva mahasattva, while practicing the profound prajñaparamita, saw in this way: he saw the five skandhas to be empty of nature.

Then, through the power of the Bud dha, venerable Shariputra said to noble Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva mahasattva, “How should a son or daughter of noble family train,who wishes to practice the profound prajñaparamita?”

Addressed in this way, noble Avalokit eshvara, the bodhisattva mahasattva, said to venerable Shariputra, “O Shariputra, a son or daughter of noble fami ly who wishes to practice the profound prajñaparamita should see in this way: seeing the five skandhas to be empty of nature. Form is emptiness; emptiness also is form. Emptiness is no other than form; form is no other than emptiness. In the same way, feeling, perception, formation, and consciousness are emptiness. Thus, Shariputra, all dharmas are emptiness. There are no characteristics. There is no birth a nd no cessation. There is no impurity and no purity. There is no decrease and no increase. Therefore, Shariputra, in emptiness, there is no form, no feeling, no perc eption, no formation, no consciousness; no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue,no body, no mind; no appearance, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no dharm as; no eye dhatu up to no mind dhatu, no dhatu of dharmas, no mind consciousness dhatu; no ignorance, no end of ignorance up to no old age and death, no end of old age and page1image2472119840 page1image2472120128 page1image2472120416 page1image2472120896 page1image2472121184 page1image2472121472 page1image2472121984 page1image2472122400 page1image2472122688 page1image2472122976 page1image2472123264

death; no suffering, no origin o f suffering, no cessation of suffering, no path, no wisdom, no attainment, and no nonattainment. Therefore, Shariputra, since the bodhisattvas have no attainm ent, they abide by means of prajñaparamita. Since there is no obscuration of mind, there is no fear. They transcend falsity and attain complete nirvana. All the buddhas of the three times, by means of prajñaparamita, fully awaken to unsurpassable, true, complete enlightenment. Therefore, the great mantra of prajñaparamita, the mantra o f great insight, the unsurpassed mantra, the unequaled mantra, the mantra that calms all suffering, should be known as truth, since there is no deception. The prajñaparamita mantra is said in this way:

OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA Thus, Shariputra, the bodhisattva mahas attva should train in the profound prajñaparamita.”

Then the Blessed One arose from that samadhi and praised noble Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva mahasattva, saying, “Good, good, O son of noble family; thus it is, O son of noble fami ly, thus it is. One should practice the profound prajñaparamita just as you have taught and all the tathag atas will rejoice.”

When the Blessed One had said this, venerable Shariputra and noble Avalokiteshvara,the bodhisattva mahasattva, that whole assembly and the world with its gods, humans, asuras, and gandharvas rejoiced and praised the words o f the Blessed One.

This coincidence is not.

You shall be given. So, ASK.

PROVEN Episode 1: Healing Breakthroughs Backed by Science

June 3, 2020June 6, 2020 by yellownblac ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Watched Proven episode 1 and found some gems of resonance:

Stop thinking of your body as it’s a problem to fix

Start thinking it’s a miracle to discover

——Ocean Robbins

There is an entire realm of human health man is not aware of

broaden our horizons

Our thoughts are not us

Chronic :-over time -caused by lifestyle

ideal medicine is no physician

We think we need to outsource our care, that is not true, taking back control of health

Root cause of chronic Disease: Unmanaged Stress

We are here to enjoy life, be in higher self be inspired and inspire others

We may not know how stressed we are———Nick Ortner

Cortisol

Solution 5: Yoga

Mind body interface

When you manipulate body you change mind

Stretching balance breath regulation on nervous system which has effect on stress and emotional response, reduction in tension and a down regulation of stress response

——–Sat bir Singh Khalsa

Solution 4: Herbs Fungi and Supplements

Rhodiola

Ashwagandha

For anxiety , weight control

Reishi mushrooms- most nutrient dense food calm n relax and protect body

Gaba calms the system

be more present, with anxiety, understand why it is manifesting

Solution 3: Mindfulness

Dissolves stress and upgrades your life

Mindfulness based Stress reduction

Mindfulness Self Compassion

so much comes from how we speak to ourselves

Daily Exercise :

Think of someone you adore: may you be loved

Visualising sitting with her: may we have love, health success

Then be with yourself : may i have love, health….

————

“Pause, you have a choice

And our experience can change

There can be a qualitative change in experience, being with moment, accept moment and create a change

Do you have the capacity to pause and to make that choice

Positive Parenting-level of presence we offer them

I m here with you I see you, hear you, nothing else exists right now, and the kid feels it

Any relationship is relevant ..they feel if we are there with them, truly hearing them connecting with them

Its all about choosing”———–——Itai Ivtzan

Solution 2: Qigong and Tai Chi

Movement affects the 2 states below

sympathetic : fight or flight responses

parasympathetic : rest and digest mode, where calm flows and magic happens

Posture and emotions

How to self regulate

Tense and release, breathing it in and letting it go, sense of control

we allow ourselves to fail so we allow ourselves the opportunity to get back ——–Gabrielle Kaaufman

tongue to roof of mouth

lower abdominal breathing

“Eyes mind body breath. attention of practitioner lets u be aware of what is happening in body”

modulate and lower inflammation

Solution 1: Emotional Freedom Technique

Survival Technique: Identify the negative to stay safe

When we start to look at fears we have, i m scared of public speaking, i become sad, i m full of anxiety…..we notice them and where did these come from? Is anger who I m ? Is that who I m at the core?

Those things are never who we are, those are programmes, limitations and experiences we have often as children that have been trapped in our bodies and have fed on each other.

How did that happen? IS someone born with that fear?

Our experiences, not a big moment, or can be. Then we decide in that moment, consciously or unconsciously , and experiences step on top of each other,

We also have big traumas, unsafe environment, abuse etc….

speaking with truth and our authenticity

feeling confident in our bodies

Tap on meridians pathwaywhere life force flows

when we tap on endpoints of meridians, we are sending signals to brain

tapping send counteracting calming signals ————Nick Ortner

Realising Me xxxiv

June 2, 2020June 4, 2020 by yellownblac ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Its been a while! And bringing myself onto my bed to self reiki brought me lots of healing!

I lapsed into a deeper state after breath work and where did I go? But how nourishing it was!

How about writing the word love on my chest my navel my womb and pelvic region?

So thats what I did. And it was beautiful wishing myself well.

Mr Ng has been telling me about the wonders of EFT Tapping and recently I reconnected with this wonderful tool. And i thought, can i tap gently on my keloids too?

SO i just tried. Its a new thing I m doing to this and lets see what comes out of it.

And delving into pockets of silence, I found these inspirations:

1)Build a new relationship with the body

With the keloid, the cyst,

I heard myself say in the silence

The body is so because it has responded to the way I thought or believed. In building an new relationship I intend to mindfully build non inflammation harmony bliss peace joy balance happiness—-as far as possible.

Because I deserve.

So TPY build, build on the existing and build it on and with the keloids the cyst but also with the eyes the skin the kidneys the liver the stomach the intestines the pancreas the spine the brain the womb the nose the mouth

anywhere and anytime i find an opportunity and everywhere I want to improve on or heal or get a go at returning it to the state of equilibrium or optimum level of performance.

Build it with me and everything I have —— with intention with mindfulness and awareness

Build the body to support my intention to further support my journey on this spiritual evolution

Vice versa, as I find my spirituality, I help find a body that supports me

2)How about starting my own business ?

Starting to sell something I believe in that worked for me and will work for or support another’s dream

Bf has always felt that I should start something and in my own space in the shower I thought how about this?

When I had a sore gum and refused to use the clinical mouth rinse the dentist recommended, I used natural alternatives such as thieves mouth rinse and copaiba to apply on the sore gum

When the dentist knew this worked, he asked if we could manufacture this and propose this combination to other patients

I didn’t think much of it and honestly told him —- everything can be bought from young living

Recently i was disturbed and did not know how to go about telling SY about my feelings towards my contribution. I felt like I was giving directorial advice but not paid aptly

it bugged at me and I was unhappy and not satisfied. so i tried to open up a discussion

Then as suddenly yesterday, I thought how about getting a product and sharing it? It has to be something I believe in, has benefited me and will do the same to others. Lets see how it goes!

3)abundance and the power put back into myself

Realising limitless possibilities potentiality and what we can do

What I have could have been challenging for me, but these are the very things people cannot take away and that which only I can appreciate in full

So my experience is something I can use I can translate into things that others can use

5) “What if the story you’ve been telling yourself simply isn’t true?”—–Philip Mckernan

6) In the silence of the night I also thought of one thing, I really didn’t like it whenever the kids triggered bf n he got angry and he would shrug the kids out of his way and would retreat into his own space

I felt my body resist in a particular way to let me know this is something I cannot accept

Many times I have ignored its call but yesterday it happened again

HuaiHao wanted to play chess and he didn’t want to, HuaiHao insisted and pulled at his clothes and fell on him using his little body and weight as if to force him. But he stood up and shrugged away HuaiHao in force

I didn’t like it. That shrug away is so forceful I hurt seeing it for myself

Its rejection.

Why I asked? Why didn’t I like it?

The voice in me says that I didn’t like the action of him shrugging the kids’ pull in retaliation in helplessness and just retreating into his own shell

I have spoken to him so many times and I want to but I thought ——-Dear divine , why this this time and how can this be solved and improved not using my own ways?

Can I pass this to you?

Yes I will

I intend that this be resolved and like deepak chopra advised, cast your intentions out to the universe and trust it will echo back

And in the meantime I want to work on myself

Starting from what I dislike –

I dislike the action of rejection he performed forcefully

I hate it

It reminded me of the rejection I gave to my mother at the ironing board many years ago that still makes me cringe with pain and —— regret

Mom apologized to me because I was throwing a tantrum , I helped her do housework so she needn’t work so hard when she got home from a busy day’s work

But mom would repeat doing the housework I did

I felt like my good intentions and care and protection for her is rejected

Like she did not trust me

And I got really upset

I flared up at the ironing board at her and she’s already at her wits end trying to hug me and saying sorry girl sorry sorry and she was crying

I felt so sad but I was so angry I couldn’t respond

This is something that is holding a knot at the belly area that I need to release

Also his rejection and shunning and retreating into his own space made me deal with the kids on my own

Every time he did this I feel like I m like my mother who had to deal with us and suck it up with no choice when father left us

This needs to be further freed

With awareness I release all feelings of anger upset frustration disbelief shock helplessness unhappiness of not being reciprocated and appreciated at the ironing board these are the emotions I have carried with me till today

Like after 20 years?!

These are also meanings I have attached to the incident and is not what mommy wanted me to feel

But I have carried this baggage all the while

Then I intend and want to consciously release all the pain sufferings trauma disbelief hurt anger worry rejection feelings of not being loved of not being precious of great shock when father left us

I release also all the second tier feelings of undeserving of being small and unworthy of goodness feelings off being lack of confidence that came with these

I release them all now

With awareness I know that my father did not throw us away and that we are not precious or deserving

But these are meanings and interpretations I have made in that moment with what wisdom and awareness or intelligence I have

I release them all

All these that do not serve me any longer

And I still feel like spelling these out to bf but this time I m just expressing to him and will leave the rest up to him not encroaching not enforcing

I trust that in his journey that will be a time he will find these sharing useful both for himself and for us as a family

And in the times that I got impatient and upset that he’s still in his own space quiet, I discuss this with the kids, and let it be a learning lesson showing of how people manage emotions.

Qinzhi and Huaihao are so evolved they tell me dad’s having a bad day, in a bad mood and such.

Amazing tiny people these 2!

And when I see him still stuck, and i feel anger soar, I try and use this to invoke awareness or just allow awareness into this situation. I see that I have putting judgements and adding meanings. So step back and observe.

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