Take a deep breath and know you are safe in your faith. Whichever God or Gods you choose to follow. Believe it or not you can believe in yourself. Trust you have done everything you can to stay safe.
Passion Play
Know you can choose where to focus your attention. Doing simple abdominal breathing exercises will cause your pineal gland to release it’s own melatonin.
You do not need to buy it at the pharmacy and it will wear off as soon as the sunlight strikes your eyes.
This is a wonderful way to rest and replenish your core after expending energy.
Breathe deep into your abdomen and explore. How much do air can you fit in there?
Is that it? Are you sure there is no more room in your core for more air?
Yes, Your Extremities
Pull more through your nose and push air down your legs to your toes.
See how it goes.
Try again with your arms and hands and fingers.
You may be surprised how much air you can fit in there.
Your Brain And Body Thank You
Do this a few times and each time you exhale pull your abdominal wall in and expel all air.
Be gentle, no need to force yourself. Just explore what you can do.
The point of the exercise is to directly experience the breath in your body and explore how you feel or experience your inhales and exhales.
Stretching your abdominal walls signals to the brain the stomach is full and it’s time to relax.
Bonus Brain Chemistry
The act of focusing your attention on the breath expanding your abdomen creates a little seek, find and reward loop in your brain to get the pleasure chemicals dopamine and serotonin flowing naturally.
This is a double bonus because stretching your abdominal walls directly stimulates the Vagus nerve to release acetylcholine. (Vagus Stuff)
Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter which acts a catalyst for other neurotransmitters.
It plays a large role in your body’s relaxation response. Cigarette smokers are looking for this each time they light up. Nicotine in tobacco products mimics acetylcholine and binds to the same receptors in the brain.
This can be useful to know when trying to quit. Your brain will need the real thing.
Have you heard the song, “Keep on Smiling Through The Pain?Concentrating on your smile muscles is the quickest way to release some dopamine into your system.
Go ahead, try it, I guarantee in two minutes you will be giggling yo’ m’fing ass off!
What If I Don’t Feel Like Smiling?
If you are in too much pain to smile, try growling at the pain instead. Primates, including us have this ability to bare our teeth to communicate happiness or anger and the reward to the brain is the same. Pleasure…
Yawning also triggers the release of your favorite natural pharmaceuticals, endorphins, dopamine and serotonin.
No Wonder it’s contagious!
I Am Just A Bundle Of Nerves
This network of small but strong muscles tissues is hard wired to the brain.
Stretching your jaw muscle releases pressure on the points where your nerves in your body communicate to your brain.
Do you remember when you first became you? My daughter described to me precisely the time when her inner narrator or consciousness appeared within their awareness.
I argue we were people with personalities long before we learned language to describe events. Often our thoughts can appear as pictures on the cavern walls of our minds.
In such a way, my cat could consciously deliberate his actions and wait until I left the room to gorge on the chicken bones I left in the trash.
For further reading on cats. Try this source from The Messy Beast
Are You The Same Person Throughout Life?
Now I am approaching my sixth decade and I laugh at myself for still thinking I am the same person.
I see older people on the tour busses in Europe and think, look at all those geezers riding the bus!
I stop laughing when I see my reflection rolling past and looking at me on the same bus!
I still feel like that twelve year old kid i was when my inner narrator appeared on the scene.
Freedom, Religion and Biology
Most of my cells have changed, I have learned a lot from reading the thoughts of others in libraries around the world..
I still remember family telling me I was exactly like my uncle. My uncle suicided the year I was born. I am not sure how he could pass so much along. I never met him.
Personality does persist throughout the ages.
My daughter started out stead, strong, almost stoic. From the moment she could walk and talk, We all wondered.
When you harness great energy, it can be hard to slow your roll. When you get older and you are used to changing roles faster than you change your clothes. Abrupt stops can be painful. Both physically and psychically.
Interplanetary Forces
Independent people have difficulty letting go of control or worse, feeling someone else controls their destiny.
It can be in your nature to struggle and fight till the end, even when you forget the cause.
When do you let go and go with the flow?
William’s Signpost Checklist
William could not let go of the Momentum. Even though the Universe was hitting the brakes hard!
First day attempting to bicycle from Tende, France to Limone, Italy, William found the tunnel was closed on the only road to ride.
Did he stop? He traveled south and found crossings into Italy near Sospel and Menton, France. Bumping his nose like a mouse in a maze searching for cheese.
Sign, Sign Everywhere A Sign
If you feel as if the universe is trying to stop your progress with a new and unmistakable obstruction each day.
Maybe the universe is trying to tell you something. Take a break and listen. Remember your true intention.
Trust the universe has your back and will push, pull, nudge you in the right direction.
