Coming Back

She knew she would want to do that every single day. Asking yourself this question will quickly separate out the real from the ideal. There may be many things you wish for that originated in an outgrown childhood longing and that would never hold your adult interest day in and day out. Or you may discover that the demands of your dream are much greater than you ever imagined, and so you put the old wish to bed with relief. Embed fitness into your life for a seriously fit brain. Before you note a transition, it won't belong. In the battle against memory loss and dementia, new research published in the journal Applied Physiology, Diet, and Metabolism has some very exciting results. If you have witnessed it with someone you care for, probably don't need to remind you how devastating dementia can; Around 50 million people worldwide have dementia, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports. Almost 60 percent live in countries with low and medium incomes. There are about 10 million new cases each year. And the overall number of people with dementia is expected to exceed 82 million by 2030 and 152 million by 2050, to make matters worse. Actually, there is no dementia medication or cure or even a way to change its development. That makes preventive therapies even more exciting, such as the study. When we hit bottom, the ego cracks, and this allows access to that same space that we used to reach through alcohol and drugs, although now it is infinitely better because there is no negative effect. We learn that what we sought with drugs or alcohol was always within. Without striving for it, it is revealed. By clearing away the negativities, suddenly the beauty of everything shines forth. ENERGY FIELDS AND ADDICTION Now we can understand what happens in the drug or alcohol experience.

This powerfully attractive, joyful energy field, the energy field of life itself, is like the sun that is always shining. The lower energy fields are like the clouds that block the experience of that inner sun. A drug or alcohol blocks off the experience of the lower energy fields and allows the experience of a higher energy field. If we could block off all the energy fields below level 560, we would experience what is left, which is the energy field of Ecstasy. Tanya's Story Tanya was a client of mine who could not give up on a disappointing relationship with her drug-abusing boyfriend. Tanya had no interest in doing drugs herself, and she was stuck on the hope that this young man with so much potential might kick his weaknesses and start a worthwhile life. As she talked about her dreams for how their life could be once he was no longer dependent on drugs, Tanya began to see something she had never realized before. She began to have the uneasy feeling that this was a very familiar fantasy, one that started way before this boyfriend - in fact, way before she was even old enough to have boyfriends. Tanya realized that she was being driven by the wishful fantasy life of her six-year-old self, who had so many plans for what her family would do when her daddy finally stopped drinking. Tanya had never given up that childhood determination to reform her father and thereby save the family from the high cost of his drinking and irresponsibility. It was a genuine wish, but it was the genuine wish of a frightened little girl. Reforming an intoxicated man was no longer what she wanted to do every day now that she was an adult with choices. What Do You Not Want to Do Every Single Day? Fortunately, several new therapies, which are in different phases of clinical trials, are being studied. So not all of it is doom and gloom. There are many things that can be done to help and enhance the lives of people with dementia, while there is no cure, including (from the WHO): Early diagnosis in order to foster early and optimal leadership Physical health, cognition, exercise, and well-being optimization Identification and treatment of accompanying physical disease

Detecting and treating difficult signs of behavior and psychology Providing careers with information and long-term support. And movement and exercise play a role in brain health. How much workout does it take to improve your memory abilities? There is even a designer drug called Ecstasy created specifically to block off the experience of the energy fields below 560. With the drug experience, something has pharmacologically blocked off the lower energy fields and allowed the unobstructed experience of a higher one. Thus, at the end of the day, the person who is full of fear, grief, regret, and anxiety stops in for two martinis, and suddenly temporarily jumps over the lower energy fields and moves up to the energy level of about 500, which can be called mellow. Mellow is that energy field where we feel love for everybody and are willing to forgive them. We are generous and easygoing, and all the kids love us when we are in that state; This high-energy state is sought in the drug experience because it blocks off the lower energy levels. As said before, these are addicting experiences, because once having experienced the state, the mind wants to return to it. When we ask the person who has had an alcohol or addiction problem to look at what they are seeking, to look at the experience that has become habitual and to which they want to return over and over again no matter what the price, we find that they are seeking an inner state of consciousness. In reality, they do not even care about the drug itself. The drug is only the mechanics, the only way they know to access that state at the time. If you are sorely out of practice with knowing what you want, your soul's desire might come a little clearer if you ask yourself what you do not want. In this way, finding your true wishes is a little more like sculpting stone than painting a picture. You are trying to chisel away what you know you don't want, in order to get a rough idea of what you do. With a wishing function that is badly out of shape, you may need to start slowly with simply identifying what is making you miserable. It can often happen that something that used to bring you great pleasure and meaning in your life changes to the point where you no longer even enjoy it. You begin to realize that you do not want to do this every day anymore.

Marsha's Story Marsha, a depressed woman with whom I worked, was overjoyed when at forty-two she finally got pregnant with her second child. Marsha had looked forward to all the wonderful moments with the new baby that she remembered with her first child, who was now nearing adolescence. All her feelings of depression and aimlessness improved as she enjoyed looking forward to being an infant's mother again. According to the outcomes of a new study that explored the effect of light exercise on memory, probably a lot less than you might expect. Researchers observed remarkably immediate changes in memory after just 10 minutes of low-intensity pedaling on a stationary bike in their study of 36 healthy young adults. The international research team's further testing indicated that the quick, light exercise, which compares in intensity to a short yoga or tai chi session, was correlated with increased activity in the hippocampus of the brain. That's noteworthy as the hippocampus is known for its participation in recalling facts and events. After the light exercise, brain scans of the participants also demonstrated clearer links between the hippocampus and the cerebral cortex, which have an important role in the thorough processing of memory. What's more, the amount of enhanced connectivity after exercise in the brain of a person predicted the degree of improvement in their memory. These findings come from Michael Yassa's laboratories, Irvine University of California, and the Hideaki Soya University of Tsukuba, Japan. Soya's team conducted earlier studies in rodents that found increased hippocampal activity and improved performance after a light-intensity run on a controlled treadmill on spatial memory tests. Intriguingly, the same memory boost did not provide more vigorous exercise. In the new report, partially sponsored by the NIH and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, those earlier results were applied to individuals by the researchers. It is a certain way of experiencing their own beingness, and it is a pleasurable, highly energized state. This is what they seek, and if a drug does not block off the lower energy fields, thereby preventing them from experiencing that inner state of blissfulness, it is no longer used or valued. We can see that the addiction is not to drugs or alcohol, per se, but to the higher level of consciousness itself. Certain psychological explanations of addiction try to present it as though the person is addicted to alcohol or drugs because they are running away from the lower experience of fear or depression. There are some excellent medicines that eliminate the anxiety or depression but do not result in addiction, as there is no high. Therefore, the alleviation of depression, anxiety, fear, or anger is well handled pharmacologically by traditional medicines that are not considered addictive substances because they do not block off the energy fields at a sufficient level to allow people to experience the higher state.

We can see that the person is addicted to the energy field within, to that higher state of consciousness, which creates the desire to return to it. That person is willing to pay the price because the mind begins to demand a return to that experience, no matter what the cost. The willingness to pay increases with time so that finally, in the end, it will ask for the body itself: If you keep on drinking like that, you are going to be dead within weeks or months. You know what the person does about that? When the baby arrived, Marsha was dismayed that she continued to feel so unfulfilled. She could not understand it. Marsha had wanted another baby for so long, but now she was feeling restless and trapped. Marsha had the hard job of accepting that her wishes had changed, as she herself had changed over the past ten years. It wasn't another baby that she was longing for after all. Marsha loved the new child of course, but her new daughter was not the answer Martha thought she would be. Instead Marsha turned her attention inward, seeking out more secret longings, and found she had a hidden desire to write. What she discovered was that her dream was to write a article. She took a writing class and began opening up a mid-life change that included being a mother, but was no longer solely defined by that wish. Ben's Story They achieved so by combining exercise at the very light intensity with computerized memory tests and brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in high resolution. Here's how the analysis was carried out: On two different occasions, participants came in. The biking routine was calibrated to 30 percent of the maximum oxygen consumption rate of each person during exercise. That meets the American College of Sports concept of very light exercise. Participants performed a memory test in another round of study, while researchers recorded their brain activity via fMRI.