Good to Be Alive

Take a deep breath and imagine observing yourself. How are you acting? Is this the person you are or who you want to be? Now, I want you to picture yourself standing in an empty room. Imagine that you are stripping away everything that is holding you back from your true potential. Your self-doubt begins to dissolve, and, in its place, confidence takes over. This person you are picturing lets go of anything that stands between you and success. You let go of illness, baggage from the past, and lack of resources. Some people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) get angry with little provocation, feel anxious over trivial matters, and experience despair when good things happen. Their feelings may change quickly, and they often have trouble settling down. Mental health professionals refer to these rapidly changing reactions as emotional dysregulation. Emotional dysregulation is a core symptom of BPD and causes much pain and chaos for the people who experience it. In this article, we take a look at basic human emotions. We also explore the concept of emotional dysregulation. We explain how problems with dysregulation cause people with BPD to react with intense fear, anxiety, depression, and anger to events that many people may consider trivial. Finally, we review the difficulty that people with BPD have in trying to identify and label the emotions they experience. Emotions 101 Emotions are mental and physical responses to life events, which include anything that happens in the world as well as memories, thoughts, or images that pass through the mind. Each organ and meridian has a sound, and the element sounds are derived from those. I'm going to first describe the reasons and meaning behind each movement, then give you the instructions for doing them all together.

THE SEASONS, THEIR ELEMENTS, AND THEIR EMOTIONS The element is water, and the challenging emotion is fear. The yin meridian is kidney, and the yang meridian is bladder. Winter is the start of the seasonal cycle, and as such, it is like a young child, uncertain, unsure, feeling isolated and alone. The fear is the primal fear of the dark. The movement for this season is called Blowing Out the Candle, and by doing this movement, you move from fear to courage and trust--trust that even in the darkness of this deep-growth season, you are safe and protected. Spring's element is wood, and the challenging emotion is anger. The yin meridian is liver, and the yang meridian is gallbladder. Women are like children guys more than you know. Being an educator myself, I can make a million analogies, but if you really unpack it and think about it, it's true. Only care about what they want. No logic, need leadership. Need instruction, needs to be rewarded, needs validation for completing tasks. Needs validation or desire for tangible things implanted in her vision for her to pursue and desire! I know it sounds like your bossing women around. Well, you kind of are, but a woman has no problem bossing you around, does she? So if she doesn't give a hell, why should you. You're not being an asswhole , you're not being disrespectful; That was probably a good thing, since I didn't have time to worry about what would happen. Still, my heart raced as I drove to the field.

The tryout was challenging, but I managed to exceed all expectations in terms of what a forty-six-year-old athlete could do. The coaches were surprised, and I was too. In fact, I believe I was in the top 10% of all the women who tried out. So when the coach announced I had made the team, I was floored! At the age of forty-six, I had finally earned my chance to play full-contact football. That was an amazing day, and I kept repeating over and over again, I can't believe it! It just goes to show that it's never too late for amazing things to happen. For me, I've found that I just have to be willing to step out of my comfort zone and push myself to try something new--even if, at first, it may feel a little weird. If they are not tall, they may sit in a more upright seat above you. You may also use the fastest movements (especially near your fingers) to wave gestures. These are also likely to threaten you and follow your instructions for evaluation. They may be determined to solve. You may also use the fastest movements to wave gestures. These are also likely to threaten you and follow your instructions for evaluation. They may be determined to stay alive in exactly the right way. For example, your wife will feel uncomfortable every time she brings her an annoying life. Or your husband may raise his gaze and slam the door when he doesn't like it. In many cases, everything he needs to do will make them a little annoying, and things will happen. They enable us to negotiate life, fulfilling our responsibilities. If we are trying to do his work for him, we will fail.

If we are wishing for him to do our work for us, he will refuse. But if we do our work and God does his, we will find strength in a real relationship with our Creator (p. Loving and forgiving God, you call me to love you and to love people, and I confess to you that I so often fail. I thank you for giving me insight into why, and hope for the development of boundaries so that I will be able to love. Thank you, too, for respecting my boundaries, for giving me work to do, for giving me choices, for allowing me to experience and learn from the consequences of my actions, and for respecting my no. Help me to see clearly when I am saying no to you so that I can come to hunger and thirst for you and your righteousness, and enter into a more real relationship with you. Help me also to be honest about anger I might feel toward you. You honor my boundaries. I'm glad she qualified it, so that it's not my fault. Too easily I interpret every difficulty I face as my fault, as having caused it myself. That, too, is the legacy of shame. Shame is an interpretative framework for the world, a lens through which we can superimpose meaning and intention and feeling and blame, derived solely from our innate defectiveness. The world stops being a complex matrix of interconnecting elements, a million contributory factors feeding into every single outcome, and is reduced instead to the simplest of formulae: this thing has happened only because of me, and only because I am bad. Shame is therefore, by its very nature, paradoxically self-obsessed: we both want to obliterate ourselves and also place ourselves at the centre of everything, the sole cause, the sole effect, the sole intervening variable. Shame is the most contradictory of paradoxes. I sigh and look up at the therapist from my focus on the floor. The therapist looks at me with an expression that I can't read. It's as if she's going to say something, and then checks herself. The three zones of arousal--hyperarousal, hypoarousal, and the window of tolerance--correspond directly to the three subsystems of the polyvagal hierarchy we discussed in the last article (see Figure 5. As we saw with Tim, the photographer who was robbed, these subsystems--the VVC, the sympathetic system, and the dorsal vagal system--serve as our primary lines of defense in response to traumatic experiences.

Here is an example to remind you of how these systems interact. Imagine you're biking down a street and hear a dog barking loudly from a nearby yard. You've already passed by when you hear a gate bang open. Looking back, you see the dog is chasing you. It's big and angry, and you don't hear anyone calling its name. In this situation, you want your blood to flow to your limbs instead of your brain. You don't need to know what words or signals the dog might respond to (the VVC). You just need to pedal as fast as you can (the sympathetic system). Like water, the Heart Qi will flow to the lowest pressure as quickly as possible. It will do this by flowing down the largest arteries; This is why the first point HT-1 is known as Supreme Spring: the Heart Qi (blood) is bubbling up under pressure from below. Likewise, Deadman et al. Whilst this is no doubt accurate it is probably only because the common carotid artery also `ascends along the oesophagus', before splitting into internal and external carotid arteries. The external artery then branches off to form the facial artery which `crosses the face' and `connects with the tissues of the eye' where, importantly, it connects with the ophthalmic branch of the internal carotid artery. Why it follows this last branch is a mystery, but the fact that it follows the branch that forms the only connection between the internal and external carotid artery is extremely important. This connection (anastomosis) represents a critical juncture between the supply of blood to the brain and the supply to the face. Chinese Shen - the strength of spirit - is expressed through the eyes and the connection between Heart and eyes is paramount. In Chinese medicine much of what is considered to be the `Heart', Western medicine would consider to be under the function of the brain. Central pain often begins shortly after stroke, but may be delayed by months or even years. When we have pain we want immediate relief, but that's not always possible.