Stress and how to deal with it

Stress is synonymous with living and its’ effects on us may be alleviated if we learn skills to handle challenging circumstances. Low level stress undermines our health; high stress levels increases our need to rebalance our body and our Bio-Energy Field. The poison of accumulated stress will take its toll unless we take affirmative action. Today’s world allows us to be totally bombarded by information from all around the world- sensational reports of disasters, wars, famine, diseases, pestilence, terrorist threats and we often feel like a prisoner in our own country because of security measures. Stress is escalating. Health news can seem like death warrants, based on assumptions and speculations and research opinions. Fear of living or even breathing abounds in our world of today and it is reaping its effect on our health. These artificially induced forms of fear keep our innate survival pattern of “flight or fight” in a constant state of ON, thereby, compromising our immune systems, draining our vitality, and we begin to lose our ability to cope with daily circumstances. As a result the healing potential within our body-mind-heart-spirit is sabotaged.

What can we do? How do we ensure our personal well-being surrounded as we are with fear, anxiety, and depression, whether or not we are aware of what is going on within us? How do we increase and enhance the power of the magical healing processes constantly working within us, bio-energetically and physically?

Here are some suggestions:

1) Exercise and relax in nature. Enjoy the beauty and smell the flowers, embrace a tree, inhale seaside aromas, marvel at the mountains, play with your children, grandchildren, your pets.

2) Choose entertainment that inspires or makes you laugh. You are either affected or infected by what you watch and listen to. Spend less time or no time at all on the news channels. They really do influence us negatively and present a much distorted picture of the truth of what is happening in actuality. Keep in touch but don’t swallow it (literally and figuratively) and don’t sleep on it or wake up to it.

3) Changes in routine are refreshing. Allow yourself to be spontaneous.

4) Tell someone you appreciate them. Let them know why. Tell yourself that you appreciate yourself and why.

5) Spread kindness and laugh a lot. Kindness and laughter are very good medicines and free.

6) Spend more time with those you love, family and friends. Cultivate good friends and let them know you love them. Surround yourself with people who love and support you and share with them your feelings of what is going on with you.

7) Quiet meditation and inner listening give you valuable and insightful direction. Take time to listen to your inner urgings and the whispers of your heart.

8) Support yourself by taking yoga, Tai Chi, Qi gong, or similar types of stress management activity. They will help to reduce the level of stress hormones in your body, and will create a core of calm and emotional stability within you.

9) Change your diet to exclude any stimulants (coffee, tea, sodas, chocolate), refined carbohydrates (white sugar and white flour), and replace these with lots of water (at least 64 ounces a day), whole nutrient-dense foods (fruits, veggies, whole grains), and less fat - especially the saturated, animal-based ones, if you are overweight. Avoiding sugary foods and caffeine will stabilize any blood sugar swings and will prevent emotional reactivity.

10) Keep a journal of what brings on the high levels of dis-stress for you.

11) Be open to professional counseling. It will help you see what you’re missing.

12) Seek a thorough medical evaluation to include comprehensive blood work to rule out any underlying condition. This is essential to find a starting point and establish a baseline to validate the upward turn in your physiology and the quality of your life.

12) Vibrational Healing can clear the effects of stress and assist you in freeing your healing energy.

You are the one that has the power within yourself to increase the positive aspects of your beingness and to allow those aspects their full power and expression. Claim this power back for yourself. Only you can choose to do this and lessen the impact that dis-stress has had within you. No one else can make the choice for you or do this for you and, once you make the choice, there are many that can assist you on your way to freedom and peace.

It won’t happen just because you want it to. You need to be proactive about it. Challenge yourself to live a healthy, meaningful life.

The vitality and majesty of Life is yours to discover and enjoy!!

Namaste

The intimacy of the intima

Hi there:
Just about all of us have hearts that are yearning to be opened-to be touched and cared for and to touch and care for others. That is what gives us our humanity. One of the main reasons that we are here on this blog is because we do feel, whether or not we are conscious of that. We are continually working with the process of getting in touch with our hearts and healing the heart on deeper levels than just the physical.

Dr. Kirk Laman (http://blog.drkirklaman.com/ ) speaks of the cluuter we have in our hearts and how that clutter can injure us physically.
"It seems that life tends to clutter our hearts.We hold onto things we shouldn't hold onto- pain, fear, anger, jealousy.Clutter in the form of negative emotions can clog up our psyche's.They can lead to overload and overwhelm of the heart.Such negative emotions don't just trouble us psychologically, they can also injure us physically.It's true.Negative emotions have been clinically proven to actually cause heart disease. They can lead to inflammation of the lining of the heart called the intima.The intima is a one-celled lining of the arteries that should normally let cholesterol move in and out of the cell. But when people's heart's become cluttered with negative emotions the intima becomes dysfunctional. It stops working normally and cholesterol begins to build up inside the artery. This is the beginning of heart disease.So it can be critical to have a ritual of de-cluttering the heart. We need to clean the heart of dangerous negative emotions."

Isn't that interesting? The "intima" becomes dysfunctional with negative emotions. And when that happens, then, cholesterol builds up in the artery. I would like to lay a wager that also what happens is that we also can stop becoming as "intimate" as we may have once been - both with others and with ourselves. We find ourselves becoming more and more adept at isolating ourselves and keeping all our feelings locked up nice and safe.

So, we need to clean our heart of these dangerous negative emotions. We also need to clear our Bio-energy fields in order to re-establish the pattern and flow of intimacy. One is physical and the other is on a more spiritual level, although, I hesitate to use that type of naming because in reality it is all one and the same.

Dr. Laman does offer a couple ways to clear the heart:

1. Begin journaling for release.Writing down out thoughts and feelings on a regular basis is a good way to begin cleaning the heart. The simple act of expression can be healing. It can help us let go of things we shouldn't be holding onto. I recently wrote on the idea suggested on the blog

2. Breath more deeply.Most meditative techniques include some form of breath work. Yoga is particularly good for deeply breathing. Deep breathing relaxes us and helps remove toxins from our bodies. If you practice deep breathing on a regular basis you have more energy.

I would also offer that in order to clear the Bio-energy field that one participate in some form of vibrational healing. There are many forms of this (including the one I practice www.vibrationalvitality.com) and you just need to find what works for you.

Namaste