The topic of our thoughts can heal us is huge. This site focuses on anxiety and panic but this post will include thoughts on all mental illness, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and more.
Dr. Caroline Leaf has been put in front of me today and her videos cover so much information that it would be a very very long post if I tried to relay it all here. But I believe I have been led to bring you her videos as a means of getting more information to use as tools and reinforce what I believe. That our thoughts control our health and our disease. They are healthy or they are toxic. They are love or they are fear.
Start by going to the first video I am sharing here and go from there. She has much information and all of us who are coming from all different places and beliefs will surely find something in her teaching that can help you individually.
See Dr Caroline's video here. This is the one I watched first. The more we reinforce that we have control of our healing the stronger we will get and the sooner we will be free.
Here's to Hope!!
Anice
Monday, February 22, 2016
Saturday, February 20, 2016
The Chemistry of Panic Attacks and Anxiety
As you know I am reading Mind Over Medicine.
Read part one of this story in my post Happiness is the Key to Getting Well.
In this post I discuss the biology of panic attacks.
Lissa Rankin's research reveals more than just the fight or flight response happening in our bodies. She reveals the why and then the how to make it stop by training ourselves to be happy and like biofeedback therapy, to think differently so the attacks don't even come or come less.
The feelings that overwhelm us are real. They are not imagined or always triggered by an event. Some are and more work will be needed to help those subside. However, we are going to focus on the panic attack itself and then the why and then the how to receive deliverance.
What happens during a panic/anxiety attack is physiological and is explained by science as happening in true time. The body is affected and it is causing damage to our organs and our health.
Yes it somes from the mind but more specifically from the brain and is caused by chemical reacting when they shouldn't but they are really reacting. The brain is sending out hormones and other chemicals in the body reeking havoc on a relatively healthy person.
Our immune system automatically sends out little soldiers to fight any foreign body or disease that enters our bodies. It recognizes any thing that isn't supposed to be there as an intruder and attacks and ultimately heals us.
Our body is hardwired to heal itself. But it needs the time to do that and it needs for the body to be relaxed to ensure the ultimate healing. That is why when the body is greatly damaged in a car accident or any other kind of terrible accident we are laid up in the hospital and made to stay still. Doctors know the body heals itself after they put the bones back together or sew up the cut. It is the body that works to put us back together again. The doctors just gave it the chance to do that.
Emotionally the doctors can't just sew us up or cut the thing out that is causing our attacks. But some doctors are understanding there are things that they can say and do that can set us up so that our body can heal itself. We especially need to heal the damage that months or years of panic and anxiety have wrought on our physical body. Our bones, our organs, our brain, our heart, our lungs.
If our body is in a state of fight or flight for too long the body can't keep up with it's normal healing process and we see more problems with sickness and disease. We are known for being in the doctors office more with sinus infections, sore backs and muscles, osteoporosis, aches and pains that come out of nowhere. Our immune systems are compromised and we must face that and do what we must to boost it. You can look at it one way. Doing this, what it takes to make us happy, will be time consuming and take focus...the things that usually work to distract us from our own heads and thoughts.
Most of us have seen this before or heard it mentioned by people with anxiety. But to give it some medical credence Lissa writes that a "Harvard professor Dr Walter Cannon states that the body is equipped with what Cannon named the stress response, also known as the fight or flight response, a survival mechanism that gets flipped on when your brain perceives a threat. When this hormonal cascade is triggered by a thought or emotion in the mind, such as fear, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis activates, thereby stimulating the sympathetic nervous system to race into overdrive, pumpingup the body's cortisol and adrenaline levels. Over time, filling the body with these stress hormones can manifest as physical symptoms, predisposing the body to disease over time."*
The good news is, ""just as the stress response exists as a survival mechanism designed to help us stay alive in emergency situations, the body also has a counterbalancing relaxation response. When the relaxation response is elicited, stress hormones drop, health inducing relaxation hormones that counter the stress hormones are released, the parasympathetic nervous system takes over, and the body returns to homeostastis. Only in this rested, relaxed state can the body repair itself.*
This is partially why health professionals tell us to breathe deeply do meditation, do something that makes us happy. It is to get our bodies back to relaxed state so it can stop the hormones from raging and causing destruction. For some of us there have been lengths of time when our body did not get a rest from attack for too long. We are exhausted and finally succumb to rest because our bodies get so worn out from fighting and tensing. But then it just happens over and over.
We become depressed and a viscous cycle takes over our lives.
We are in perpetual stress mode have small quantities of relaxation. This is so bad for us. Getting older has revealed this to me. I have more sickness when I've never been sick. I am always fighting some kind of infection or body ache or pain. I knew this was not normal just yet so I continued searching and now I know why I am sick more often and finally what I can do about it.
Lissa goes on to tell us how to help ourselves to become happier more relaxed people thus enabling our bodies to heal. As we do this so our bodies can heal we find we are having less and less anxiety and panic, simply as a byproduct of focusing on changing our outlook on life, making changes in our lives that will make us happier. It is not enough to do yoga or exercise, or eat right, or sustain from unhealthy habits. We have to dig deep to find out what is not right in our lives. Are we in a job we hate, a relationship that is toxic to us, a situation where someone is belittling us, not supporting us. Are we just going through the motions of surviving knowing we are unhappy, unloved. Or are we angry, holding onto grudges and unforgiveness. We all have heard some of this as well. But we have to take a step of faith and make that change and more often than not we find we are feeling better and with time we stop having attacks.
I moved to Colorado and was in a terribly abusive relationship but not working, being a stay at home mom, doing what I liked most, taking care of kids, helping someone who really needed to be protected. I didn't have to worry about who was paying the bills. I was strong enough to manage the abusive man (verbally) but the fear of not knowing where my next paycheck was coming from was not there anymore.
My panic went away for a year and a half. I was shocked but understood. But then my marriage got to a point where I had to leave, move back to my home, find work, start over, the kids were grown and on their own, I didn't feel a purpose, I wasn't being creative, I was in a job I didn't like but needed. My panic reared its ugly head and came full force as never before. It was horrifying to me that it came back. We all feel we have no choice but we do and we have to figure out how to make it and be happy.
This is the work I was talking about. This is not going to be easy. It's a change and change scares us. But it is necessary if we want to be free. Join me on this journey. The first step is figuring out what change we have to make to begin to find happiness. The second part is implementing it. I'll let you know what I did and how I did it. I want to have you hear a success story.
But in the meantime you can read Lissa's book and see some of those success stories to encourage you to believe, have faith and know there is hope!
See you soon.
Anice
*Direct quotes from Mind Over Medicine by Lissa Rankinn
Read part one of this story in my post Happiness is the Key to Getting Well.
In this post I discuss the biology of panic attacks.
Lissa Rankin's research reveals more than just the fight or flight response happening in our bodies. She reveals the why and then the how to make it stop by training ourselves to be happy and like biofeedback therapy, to think differently so the attacks don't even come or come less.
The feelings that overwhelm us are real. They are not imagined or always triggered by an event. Some are and more work will be needed to help those subside. However, we are going to focus on the panic attack itself and then the why and then the how to receive deliverance.
What happens during a panic/anxiety attack is physiological and is explained by science as happening in true time. The body is affected and it is causing damage to our organs and our health.
Yes it somes from the mind but more specifically from the brain and is caused by chemical reacting when they shouldn't but they are really reacting. The brain is sending out hormones and other chemicals in the body reeking havoc on a relatively healthy person.
Our immune system automatically sends out little soldiers to fight any foreign body or disease that enters our bodies. It recognizes any thing that isn't supposed to be there as an intruder and attacks and ultimately heals us.
Our body is hardwired to heal itself. But it needs the time to do that and it needs for the body to be relaxed to ensure the ultimate healing. That is why when the body is greatly damaged in a car accident or any other kind of terrible accident we are laid up in the hospital and made to stay still. Doctors know the body heals itself after they put the bones back together or sew up the cut. It is the body that works to put us back together again. The doctors just gave it the chance to do that.
Emotionally the doctors can't just sew us up or cut the thing out that is causing our attacks. But some doctors are understanding there are things that they can say and do that can set us up so that our body can heal itself. We especially need to heal the damage that months or years of panic and anxiety have wrought on our physical body. Our bones, our organs, our brain, our heart, our lungs.
If our body is in a state of fight or flight for too long the body can't keep up with it's normal healing process and we see more problems with sickness and disease. We are known for being in the doctors office more with sinus infections, sore backs and muscles, osteoporosis, aches and pains that come out of nowhere. Our immune systems are compromised and we must face that and do what we must to boost it. You can look at it one way. Doing this, what it takes to make us happy, will be time consuming and take focus...the things that usually work to distract us from our own heads and thoughts.
Most of us have seen this before or heard it mentioned by people with anxiety. But to give it some medical credence Lissa writes that a "Harvard professor Dr Walter Cannon states that the body is equipped with what Cannon named the stress response, also known as the fight or flight response, a survival mechanism that gets flipped on when your brain perceives a threat. When this hormonal cascade is triggered by a thought or emotion in the mind, such as fear, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis activates, thereby stimulating the sympathetic nervous system to race into overdrive, pumpingup the body's cortisol and adrenaline levels. Over time, filling the body with these stress hormones can manifest as physical symptoms, predisposing the body to disease over time."*
The good news is, ""just as the stress response exists as a survival mechanism designed to help us stay alive in emergency situations, the body also has a counterbalancing relaxation response. When the relaxation response is elicited, stress hormones drop, health inducing relaxation hormones that counter the stress hormones are released, the parasympathetic nervous system takes over, and the body returns to homeostastis. Only in this rested, relaxed state can the body repair itself.*
This is partially why health professionals tell us to breathe deeply do meditation, do something that makes us happy. It is to get our bodies back to relaxed state so it can stop the hormones from raging and causing destruction. For some of us there have been lengths of time when our body did not get a rest from attack for too long. We are exhausted and finally succumb to rest because our bodies get so worn out from fighting and tensing. But then it just happens over and over.
We become depressed and a viscous cycle takes over our lives.
We are in perpetual stress mode have small quantities of relaxation. This is so bad for us. Getting older has revealed this to me. I have more sickness when I've never been sick. I am always fighting some kind of infection or body ache or pain. I knew this was not normal just yet so I continued searching and now I know why I am sick more often and finally what I can do about it.
Lissa goes on to tell us how to help ourselves to become happier more relaxed people thus enabling our bodies to heal. As we do this so our bodies can heal we find we are having less and less anxiety and panic, simply as a byproduct of focusing on changing our outlook on life, making changes in our lives that will make us happier. It is not enough to do yoga or exercise, or eat right, or sustain from unhealthy habits. We have to dig deep to find out what is not right in our lives. Are we in a job we hate, a relationship that is toxic to us, a situation where someone is belittling us, not supporting us. Are we just going through the motions of surviving knowing we are unhappy, unloved. Or are we angry, holding onto grudges and unforgiveness. We all have heard some of this as well. But we have to take a step of faith and make that change and more often than not we find we are feeling better and with time we stop having attacks.
I moved to Colorado and was in a terribly abusive relationship but not working, being a stay at home mom, doing what I liked most, taking care of kids, helping someone who really needed to be protected. I didn't have to worry about who was paying the bills. I was strong enough to manage the abusive man (verbally) but the fear of not knowing where my next paycheck was coming from was not there anymore.
My panic went away for a year and a half. I was shocked but understood. But then my marriage got to a point where I had to leave, move back to my home, find work, start over, the kids were grown and on their own, I didn't feel a purpose, I wasn't being creative, I was in a job I didn't like but needed. My panic reared its ugly head and came full force as never before. It was horrifying to me that it came back. We all feel we have no choice but we do and we have to figure out how to make it and be happy.
This is the work I was talking about. This is not going to be easy. It's a change and change scares us. But it is necessary if we want to be free. Join me on this journey. The first step is figuring out what change we have to make to begin to find happiness. The second part is implementing it. I'll let you know what I did and how I did it. I want to have you hear a success story.
But in the meantime you can read Lissa's book and see some of those success stories to encourage you to believe, have faith and know there is hope!
See you soon.
Anice
*Direct quotes from Mind Over Medicine by Lissa Rankinn
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Happiness is the Key to Getting Well!
Many of us wander aimlessly yet are fiercely determined looking for reasons why we have anxiety and panic.
Aimlessly because we look in all the wrong places but get oh so close.
Fiercely determined by never giving up the search for answers to the why and for solutions we desperately need so we can feel normal again. Some of us go years with small intervals of time feeling normal. Some of us very rarely feel anxiety and some of us never feel normal. Fight or flight is our normal. And it is exhausting.
But we continue to live with it because we have no choice.
We want to be free and happy. We want to know there is an end in sight.
We want our friends and families to stop telling us it's all in our head and that we can stop it like we really want to be this way and are doing it for attention.
And for them to see it as a real medical condition that is debilitating a lot of the time.
It dictates how we live our lives, how safe we make our lives, how much we can work, where we can work, if we get sick a lot, if we can sleep, if we can make it to the very important meeting for work, if we can get through the grocery store line or the line at the bank without stopping and turning to run. Some of us create a world within a 5 mile radius of where we live and we don't go to the movies and we don't sit in the middle of a room full of people because we feel we can't get out. Most of our family and friends just shake their heads not understanding the pain we feel is very very real.
But the world is a place of love if we let it be.
I had a very interesting experience the other night that made me feel like I have been divinely led to some very powerful tools that just might be the answer to our prayers and I couldn't wait to share it with you.
My God, my angels, my intuition, my spirit and soul have all been working to lead me to someone who has been in the business of healing and did a lot of research for us.
I have worked very hard to be able to listen and to be led to the tools that can make me whole again. What seemed like out of the blue (knowing now it was destined for me to hear it) I found myself listening to a wellness guy I follow on Facebook who does radio shows on all kinds of health issues.
You know how we all think we have the disease we just read about or might have a brain tumor because we have a headache that just won't go away or is the worst ever. I am always looking for ways to be healthy without medicine.
This day he was interviewing a woman called Lissa Rankin and the more I listened the straighter I sat up. To say the least I was very intrigued by what she was saying and was most intrigued by the science behind her findings.
I became so excited that I decided to read her book. I think I may have stumbled onto some insightful information we should consider and take seriously. It offers hope for an end to our never ending battle with panic and anxiety. And it offers scientifically based evidence of medical and physiological explanations for it.
Lissa Rankin is a medical doctor who grew weary of conventional medicine not healing people. And panic and anxiety is one of the conditions she was discussing.
I feel like I am about to embark on the journey to freedom from a woman who found her calling to heal the sick without drugs and without a desire to get rich from her discoveries. She does write a book but her intention is pure. She is a true healer and wants to heal the sick. I feel it in my bones and hope and pray you will too. We deserve deliverance and I believe she offers it. We will have to do our part. Get ready to have your mind blown.
I will emphasize we have heard some of this before but not in the way that we could truly believe it and implement it. It made sense but we couldn't quite get to the how.
There is science behind everything that is wrong and has plagued us for so long.
I am a science person and needed to hear this in this way to get it, to have the light bulb go off and really see how it is possible. The science validates everything we feel and can also help our loved ones understand what it is and they may still say, well it's still your weakness, but who cares what they think.
We are the strongest people and will always persevere. We will understand and have each other to feel association with. We are a tribe and will support each other and love each other through this process. And we will be happy again if we do the work and have the faith needed to do it. Our happiness will help to heal us physically and emotionally, ultimately minimizing if not delivering us from the bondage of anxiety and the damage it does to our bodies.
The credit belongs solely to Miss Lissa Rankin. Her willingness to research tirelessly to find out how to use her medical background and access to medical journals backing up her findings is nothing short of selfless.
I think she would want me to spread the word. She doesn't want us to be sick and I hope this helps you and me.
I will go over what I think is very important to us in particular but I want to first tell you the name of the book that revealed this to me and then tell you to go to her webpage and see everything for yourself. She is the healer. I am someone who believes her and thanks her for her sincere desire to heal. The book is Mind Over Medicine. Google her name and go to her website. A wealth of information is there for you to peruse and use what will help you individually.
I praise God for Lissa Rankin MD.
Aimlessly because we look in all the wrong places but get oh so close.
Fiercely determined by never giving up the search for answers to the why and for solutions we desperately need so we can feel normal again. Some of us go years with small intervals of time feeling normal. Some of us very rarely feel anxiety and some of us never feel normal. Fight or flight is our normal. And it is exhausting.
But we continue to live with it because we have no choice.
We want to be free and happy. We want to know there is an end in sight.
We want our friends and families to stop telling us it's all in our head and that we can stop it like we really want to be this way and are doing it for attention.
And for them to see it as a real medical condition that is debilitating a lot of the time.
It dictates how we live our lives, how safe we make our lives, how much we can work, where we can work, if we get sick a lot, if we can sleep, if we can make it to the very important meeting for work, if we can get through the grocery store line or the line at the bank without stopping and turning to run. Some of us create a world within a 5 mile radius of where we live and we don't go to the movies and we don't sit in the middle of a room full of people because we feel we can't get out. Most of our family and friends just shake their heads not understanding the pain we feel is very very real.
But the world is a place of love if we let it be.
I had a very interesting experience the other night that made me feel like I have been divinely led to some very powerful tools that just might be the answer to our prayers and I couldn't wait to share it with you.
My God, my angels, my intuition, my spirit and soul have all been working to lead me to someone who has been in the business of healing and did a lot of research for us.
I have worked very hard to be able to listen and to be led to the tools that can make me whole again. What seemed like out of the blue (knowing now it was destined for me to hear it) I found myself listening to a wellness guy I follow on Facebook who does radio shows on all kinds of health issues.
You know how we all think we have the disease we just read about or might have a brain tumor because we have a headache that just won't go away or is the worst ever. I am always looking for ways to be healthy without medicine.
This day he was interviewing a woman called Lissa Rankin and the more I listened the straighter I sat up. To say the least I was very intrigued by what she was saying and was most intrigued by the science behind her findings.
I became so excited that I decided to read her book. I think I may have stumbled onto some insightful information we should consider and take seriously. It offers hope for an end to our never ending battle with panic and anxiety. And it offers scientifically based evidence of medical and physiological explanations for it.
Lissa Rankin is a medical doctor who grew weary of conventional medicine not healing people. And panic and anxiety is one of the conditions she was discussing.
I feel like I am about to embark on the journey to freedom from a woman who found her calling to heal the sick without drugs and without a desire to get rich from her discoveries. She does write a book but her intention is pure. She is a true healer and wants to heal the sick. I feel it in my bones and hope and pray you will too. We deserve deliverance and I believe she offers it. We will have to do our part. Get ready to have your mind blown.
I will emphasize we have heard some of this before but not in the way that we could truly believe it and implement it. It made sense but we couldn't quite get to the how.
There is science behind everything that is wrong and has plagued us for so long.
I am a science person and needed to hear this in this way to get it, to have the light bulb go off and really see how it is possible. The science validates everything we feel and can also help our loved ones understand what it is and they may still say, well it's still your weakness, but who cares what they think.
We are the strongest people and will always persevere. We will understand and have each other to feel association with. We are a tribe and will support each other and love each other through this process. And we will be happy again if we do the work and have the faith needed to do it. Our happiness will help to heal us physically and emotionally, ultimately minimizing if not delivering us from the bondage of anxiety and the damage it does to our bodies.
The credit belongs solely to Miss Lissa Rankin. Her willingness to research tirelessly to find out how to use her medical background and access to medical journals backing up her findings is nothing short of selfless.
I think she would want me to spread the word. She doesn't want us to be sick and I hope this helps you and me.
I will go over what I think is very important to us in particular but I want to first tell you the name of the book that revealed this to me and then tell you to go to her webpage and see everything for yourself. She is the healer. I am someone who believes her and thanks her for her sincere desire to heal. The book is Mind Over Medicine. Google her name and go to her website. A wealth of information is there for you to peruse and use what will help you individually.
I praise God for Lissa Rankin MD.
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