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Tell it you won't do anything rash to endanger yourself. Let it know you now have friends and helpers that weren't there before. The ego has good reason to distrust other people and make you suspicious of them: it fears they will trick you and let you down. The ego is convinced it's the only one who can protect you from fatal mistakes. Your inhales will come in through your nose and go out through your mouth. Inhale and exhale gently, paying attention to the movement of the air from your nose to your windpipe to your lungs and back up to your mouth. On your next exhale, sigh. Make the noise you do when you sigh, or act like you are trying to fog up a window. Pay attention to how your palate and throat change as you exhale. They should have a slight constriction. Keep inhaling and exhaling, sighing with every exhale, getting familiar with that feeling of constriction. When you feel comfortable and familiar with the sensation in your throat, try closing your mouth and now exhaling from your nose, maintaining the same feeling in your throat. You should be making a sound like the ocean or like Darth Vader. Continue your practice for 5-15 minutes. Left-brain dominance in right-handed people Right-brain dominance Right-brain dominance in left-handed people Left-brain dominance Linear Nonlinear Stress--adrenaline Peace--endorphins Fight or flight (alarm/resistance/exhaustion) Positive emotion Thymus stress Thymus support

DH Killer cells and immunity DH Killer cells and immunity Disrupted acupuncture meridian Balanced acupuncture meridian Disease Healing Negative kinesiological response Positive kinesiological response It trusts none of this because it's stuck in the past, originating in a stagnant family system that punished you for becoming your own person. Yet to the ego, going outside the family for support seems foolish beyond belief as well. Terrified of making childhood authorities jealous, the ego tries to undermine your positive ties to other people. It points out other people's failings, how they let you down, and why they might be using you. It tells you whatever works to make you suspicious, competitive, or envious of them. It wants to be the only one you listen to. But you need better advisors in the form of real people who have your best interests at heart and can help you see through the ego's fear campaign. Real allies will see possibilities and options that your ego is blind to. Other people can show you new ways of doing things and can point out things you never considered. Since the ego's advice seems very real and very much a part of your internal landscape, it may be extremely hard to see what it's doing. Each breath should be smooth and slow. If you feel like your throat is tight, finish your practice and breath normally. The Ujjayi breath is a great way to feel calm, but it can cause you to feel discomfort. If this happens, then release the breath and follow your normal breathing pattern. In fact, for all of these breathing patterns, if you feel discomfort, lightheadedness, or faintness, then stop the practice and return to your normal breathing pattern. If none of these breathing patterns work for you, that's okay.

There is a myriad of other ways that you can relax. Mindfulness Meditation We've already discussed some of the great benefits of mindfulness meditation. It can help you focus on your present moment and make you more aware of your body. DH Neurotransmitters (serotonin) 1 Pupils dilate Pupils constrict Track to emotion twice as fast as through prefrontal cortex Track to emotion slower than from prefrontal and etheric cortexes Lower-mind attitudes Higher-mind attitudes Certain pieces of information can jump one's consciousness just to be aware of them. Here are a few discoveries from consciousness-calibration research that increase understanding of various sectors of life. The very fact that all life is evolutionary gives hope. Even periods of great difficulty can be understood as part and parcel of the growth process. The calibrated levels of the animal kingdom represent averages of the total population, within which there is individual variation, and there is also variation in calibrated levels of behavior. For example, play calibrates about 10 points higher than the average level of function, which is significant for both animals and humans. Psychotherapy, support groups, a trusted friend, a partner who understands - all these can be allies to help you sidestep the negative effects of the ego's fears. Educate your allies about the demoralizing effects your ego has on you, so they also know its agenda and can give you their firm protection against it. When you start to lose ground, they can remind you about the ego's regressive motives and help you resist its takeover. Positive ties with other people are going to be necessary for your success, because nobody does anything completely on their own. As we'll see in a later article, building trusting and supportive relationships are essential for making dreams come true. Motivation vs.

Helplessness and Hopelessness Hopelessness does not have to incapacitate us to be effective; One day I received a call from an Employee Assistance counselor in a large company who wanted to refer a woman who was a supervisor to the Growth Group. I met the client later that week and instantly felt an affinity with her. It can bring awareness to physical sensations you would have ignored before. All of this can help you further understand your physical reactions to stress and know ways of bringing relaxation to your body. There are many different ways you can approach meditation. Choose the one that you're the most comfortable with. One mindfulness meditation that can really help with stress, anxiety, and depression is loving-kindness mindfulness. This is because it creates more positive emotions which, in turn, change your body physiology and help you improve your vagal tone. In fact, loving-kindness can help you overcome any issues with low mood or low self-esteem. They can also help you with emotions like anger, guilt, and resentment. All of these involve our feelings about ourselves or others. Loving-kindness is about reminding yourself of kindness to you and to others. Another point of interest is that once a human family adopts an animal, the animal's level of consciousness advances by 5 or 10 points; Koko, the trained gorilla who demonstrated surprising capacity for language and maternal love (she adopted and named a kitten), calibrated at 405. This calibration level indicates the capacity for thinking and reason; Furthermore, a unique discovery is that a cat's purr, a songbird's song, and a dog's wagging tail all calibrate extremely high (500)--in fact, higher than a large portion of the human population. Level 500 is the energy of the heart. That pet animals have the capacity to interact and emanate Love indicates an area for further research to discover why these beloved creatures are capable of Love--that is, they exhibit an advanced development of the heart chakra and are known to have a therapeutic healing effect on people with a variety of illnesses.

The Impact of Love Love has only recently emerged on the planet, with its first appearance in birds and mammals through maternal love. It is helpful to know that to care about others, much less about the environment or the quality of life on the planet, is extremely recent in the evolution of consciousness over millennia. This fact elicits appreciation for the presence of love in our current era, and this very appreciation has the effect of increasing it. Linda was college-educated, tall and athletic-looking, with rich wavy red hair that kept sneaking out in tendrils around her face. Her freckled complexion made her look younger than her thirty-four years. She dressed in long dark-colored skirts and sweaters that had a muted artistic flair. It was hard to imagine Linda in the bureaucratic world I knew she inhabited in her supervisor job. When she sat down in my office, she looked hesitant and unhappy and yet there was eagerness and clarity in the way she described her problems. Linda recounted in a quiet, unsure voice how she had felt torn all her life by the conflicts that arose between what she wanted to do and her family's attempts to stifle her. Linda had learned from an early age that she was expected to divert her motivation from her own interests into the conventional activities sanctioned by her socially conscious parents. She summed up her parents' feelings toward her by saying, They want me to be a certain person and when I'm not, they can't stand it. They make it clear to me that I should want to do these right things to prove I'm normal and good. From childhood, Linda's energies had been siphoned off to meet her parents' needs. It creates so many positive emotions that it can change your mentality going forward and is a great way to start changing your cognitive distortions. To start your loving-kindness meditation, you're going to need a safe, comfortable space. Since this meditation is kind of long, you may want to have this article open while you do it, or you can listen to a guided meditation to walk you through it. This loving-kindness meditation is based on the work of Dr Emma Seppala. Start by sitting cross-legged if you can or sitting on a chair. Relax your body, and close your eyes so that you are focused on your internal world, rather than the external one.