oxidation_is_normal
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Consciously and actively letting go & traveling will both probably help a lot.
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I've actually been thinking about moving overseas... Seems a bit excessive, lol, but my best friend moved to China a little while ago and I was thinking it would be awesome to start all the way over over there.oxidation_is_normal said:Consciously and actively letting go & traveling will both probably help a lot.
Blinkyrocket said:I've actually been thinking about moving overseas... Seems a bit excessive, lol, but my best friend moved to China a little while ago and I was thinking it would be awesome to start all the way over over there.oxidation_is_normal said:Consciously and actively letting go & traveling will both probably help a lot.
Yeah, I know, there's just something about Asian culture and also learning their language and possibly forgetting English (I know u can't truly forget it). But, I know most Asian countries don't give very many jobs to foreigners except teaching English -_-oxidation_is_normal said:Blinkyrocket said:I've actually been thinking about moving overseas... Seems a bit excessive, lol, but my best friend moved to China a little while ago and I was thinking it would be awesome to start all the way over over there.oxidation_is_normal said:Consciously and actively letting go & traveling will both probably help a lot.
It isn't an end in itself, so shouldn't be viewed that way. Think of it as exercise - which it literally is for the mind and body.
Blinkyrocket said:Thanks, ilovethesea, I agree wholeheartedly, in fact that's how this started is I started looking through the "junk in my closet". I'm actually interested in the fact that stress early in life seems to lead to degradation of DNA and neurons in the brain? And that the fear section actually grows while the hypothalamus (I think) shrinks. I'm wondering, how do u fix this?
I haven't tried any drugs yet, I'm taking some taurine everyday and idk about thyroid cuz my TSH was .6 last time I tested and my CO2 was above the high baseline, on that note I don't feel good when I breathe heavy but when I finally calm down and breathe really relaxed my heart starts beating way faster and I get extremely hot, kinda like a hot flash.ilovethesea said:Blinkyrocket said:Thanks, ilovethesea, I agree wholeheartedly, in fact that's how this started is I started looking through the "junk in my closet". I'm actually interested in the fact that stress early in life seems to lead to degradation of DNA and neurons in the brain? And that the fear section actually grows while the hypothalamus (I think) shrinks. I'm wondering, how do u fix this?
Hope you are doing better now. I don't know the answer. Did you try cypro or even tianeptine yet? I know lots of forum members did well with tianeptine for overcoming traumas. I think it does something to repair the brain.
Do you take thyroid also? This interview with Dr. Derry is very interesting: http://peatarian.com/27748/dr-david-derry-interview
"People who have had terrible childhood experiences (sexual abuse, physical abuse, personal tragedies etc) for whatever reason have altered thyroid metabolism. They are more complex to treat. They are different from everyone else biochemically and pharmacologically. The blame for most of their residual difficulties is not with their brains and minds but with their chemistry. I believe also other areas of their biochemistry are not normal. I don't think this has been generally recognized yet."
Also this http://peatarian.com/33981/childhood-ab ... d-problems
With this, the feeling that nobody deserves my help isn't a good thing is it?Tom said:Try vinegar 1-2 tbsp with glass of water...
Not sure if this applies to you or not, but I believe happiness is really about focusing on "others" rather than "self", which is not so common anymore in today´s world, but it was of course central in Christianity in the past and also essential in Buddhism. The deadly sin of sloth/accidia.
A quote from a book written over a hundred years ago:
"The inability to find any joy or satisfaction in the allotments of Providence is not, however, confined to those to whom the course of fortune has proved unkind; for the most utter weariness and disenchantment with existence will not infrequently be found in those who appear surrounded with every comfort or even luxury.
I quote the following from the paper on 'The Sin of Accidie,' to which I alluded above: 'A large number of women in comfortable suburban homes are afflicted in this way. The necessaries, and many of the luxuries of life, are secured to them; their husbands are in the city and their children at school; there is no immediate point of interest that appeals to them. Outwardly they might not unreasonably be expected to be thoroughly and unreservedly happy. And yet many a poor man's wife, who has to earn her living in addition to caring for her husband and children, is ten times as happy as the employer's wife, who has no such strain put upon her, but who, nevertheless, is profoundly miserable in the midst of her comforts—just because she has so little demand made upon her energies. The remedy here is to find some channel of Christian and philanthropic work into which to throw the mind's energies and the heart's love. It is wonderful what a medicine for accidie is found in disinterested and hearty service for others. The fogs of melancholia vanish, and the inner sunshine returns, when we do something for another human being whom we can benefit. How many miserable women would be happy if once they tasted the joy of doing good.'"
http://www.gracegems.org/23/Stalker_sev ... y_sins.htm
Blossom said:Interesting Tom. I could only imagine life as a comfortable suburban woman 100 years ago might result in some melancholy since they had time to reflect on their inferior position. Certainly the opportunities for women of the time were limited and largely dictated by an oppressive culture. Living as a human without basics rights seems quite depressing.
And yeah, being told you can't do something is extremely stressful, to the point that u want to do it only cuz u were told not to. I know that for a fact, a few times I've done it and looked back and realized I wouldn't have done it if I wasnt told not to.Blossom said:Interesting Tom. I could only imagine life as a comfortable suburban woman 100 years ago might result in some melancholy since they had time to reflect on their inferior position. Certainly the opportunities for women of the time were limited and largely dictated by an oppressive culture. Living as a human without basics rights seems quite depressing.
I wonder whether that is an effect related to increased CO2 levels and therefore increased blood flow and oxygen supply? If that is the case, it would also include calming nerves and probably lowering stress hormones, so that would fit with it feeling good.Blinkyrocket said:I'm curious about these "hot flashes" I seem to be having when I calm down and relax my breathing, they feel extremely good, but also really hot lol
The things is they mainly happen when I'm going to sleep and I would say my breathing becomes almost unnoticeable and extremely slow, and my heart rhythm becomes relatively weird and it frustrates me because it also makes me feel unimaginably calm and euphoric at the same time.tara said:I wonder whether that is an effect related to increased CO2 levels and therefore increased blood flow and oxygen supply? If that is the case, it would also include calming nerves and probably lowering stress hormones, so that would fit with it feeling good.Blinkyrocket said:I'm curious about these "hot flashes" I seem to be having when I calm down and relax my breathing, they feel extremely good, but also really hot lol
I don't think that's what people normally mean by hot flashes - I think they are more mediated by stress hormones.