Mind

All posts tagged Mind

Activating the Parasympathetic Wing of Your Nervous System

Published January 11, 2020 by tindertender

It’s amazing but true: there is actually a neurological system in your body that you can trigger at will to help yourself feel less stressed, more peaceful, and more happy.

It’s full-bore title is: “the parasympathetic wing of the autonomic nervous system” or PNS, for short.

In this article, you’ll get a crash course in your own nervous system and how the PNS fits into it, mixed with lots of ways you can use to activate your own PNS.

https://www.rickhanson.net/relaxed-content-part-one-activating-parasympathetic-wing-nervous-system/

In brief, here’s a simple, three-part method:

  • Breathe in such a way that your inhalation and exhalation are the same duration; for example, count 1-2-3-4 in your mind while inhaling and 1-2-3-4 while exhaling.
  • At the same time, imagine or sense that you’re breathing in and out through the area of your heart.
  • Meanwhile, bring to mind a heartfelt emotion like gratitude or love.

Try this for a minute or two, and you will probably be struck by the results. Technically, you are both increasing and harmonizing the natural, tiny changes in the interval between heart beats: what’s called “heartrate variability.” Fairly large changes in that interval, and changes that vary smoothly from one beat to the next, link to cardiovascular health, improved immune system function, and elevated mood. “Rick Hanson, PhD”

Nervous System

  • Central Nervous System (Our brain and spinal column)
  • Peripheral Nervous System (Everything else)
  • Somatic nervous system (How we move on purpose)
  • Autonomic nervous system (Things we do without thinking, like our heartbeat)
  • Sympathetic (‘fight or flight’)
  • Parasympathetic (rest and recovery)

How healthy we are depends on how well balanced our autonomic nervous system is.

https://biostrap.com/blog/7-ways-to-restore-parasympathetic-balance/

Exercise and the parasympathetic nervous system

Tissues need oxygen to survive. Blood brings us oxygen. When we exercise, our muscles need 15 to 25 times more oxygen than when we’re at rest. The cardiorespiratory system makes sure our blood volume is adequate to do so.

When we work out, our SNS is activated, initiating key physiological changes.

  • We sweat to regulate our temperature.
  • Our heart beats faster to bring more oxygen to our muscles.

(The UC Davis SPorts Medicine Department advises using a heart rate monitor to gauge effort.)

  • We breathe faster to take in more oxygen. We might even pant.
  • Our liver releases glucose for energy.
  • Our blood pressure increases (more volume).
  • Our blood moves from our organs to our skeletal muscles.

(That’s why we don’t eat before we exercise. Exercise slows digestion. Eating makes your body choose between strength and speed or digestion. A good rule of thumb is to avoid small meals or snacks for an hour before exercise, and to wait 3 to 4 hours after a large meal.)

These changes make sure we are ready for action. But what happens when the SNS is overstimulated?

Here are 7 fixes to restore the balance between your SNS and PSNS.

  1. Reduce Stress

Stress is ubiquitous. Good health depends on removing or reducing whatever stressors we can control, and reduce our reactions to those we can’t

2. Meditation

We can’t remove all external stress. Meditation is the best way to decrease our reactivity to stress we can’t control. It teaches us to ignore triggers. It reduces our breathing, slows our heart, and decreases our blood pressure: all signs of PSNS activation. Meditations reduces lactic acid in our muscles, promoting recovery.

3. Massage

Regular massage has been shown to restore balance between SNS and PSNS. Massage makes us stronger, calmer, and more able to fight infection. By activating the PSNS, massage promotes recovery. It retrains the body to move more readily into PSNS even when we’re stressed.

4. Breathing

Breathing straddles the peripheral nervous system and the autonomic system. It happens automatically but we can also control it. We can hold our breathe for example, but we cannot stop our heart. Slowed breathing is a hallmark of PSNS. But it’s not just a symptom, it’s a signal. Slowing your breathing intentionally tells your SNS than things are okay. This activates the PSNS.

Daily breathing exercises will strengthen your lungs, improve your immune system, and decrease your resting heart rate. Here’s a simple way to activate your PSNS. Inhale for a count of 2. Hold that breathe for a count of 5. Exhale for a count of 7. Repeat.

5. Yoga

Like meditation, yoga will bring you into PSNS, It also bolsters your ability to decrease SNS activation when you are stressed.

Daily or weekly yoga classes, or even a quick yoga video at home, will improve your strength, flexibility and breathing.

6. Nutrition

Can what you eat affect your SNS/PSNS balance? Yes. Avoiding stimulants such as caffeine and sugar will facilitate PSNS. An anti-stress diet brings the right mix of protein, minerals and other nutrients to support PSNS.

7. Exercise

Yes, intense exercise, even the idea of it, stimulates our SNS. But regular aerobic exercisesuch as light jogging can actually decrease SNS activity and activate our PSNS. The key is moderation and measurement.

Unwelcome sympathy

Our sympathetic nervous system is key to our survival. But like the sympathy of a well-meaning friend, too much can be, well, too much. The more time we spend in PSNS, the healthier and stronger we’ll be. These 7 tips are a great start. “Ben Kochavy”

Magic or Intrusion?

Published January 10, 2020 by tindertender

https://twitter.com/kabamur_taygeta/status/1215458854055469057?s=21

LG: “the man we killed… he was up to no good again”

Reporter “Does the administration not have a duty to disclose… ?”

LG: “The way we found this out, we will never tell anybody because it was +++MAGICAL+++ and we’re not going to compromise it.”

https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-weirdest-cia-programs.php

https://www.history.com/news/cia-esp-espionage-soviet-union-cold-war

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government_mass_surveillance_projects

It’s not “magical”. It’s remote viewing, and “seeing” through the eyes of others. Their technology is insane … or at least it can make the people they are ‘using’ feel insane.

https://t.co/zgaWa6HDgh?amp=1

It is these (above article) nanobots Elon musk is using to integrate the human mind to AI

Whole vs Broken

Published January 9, 2020 by tindertender

To fix the world, you must first see it as broken.
I’m not so sure I’d go there,

~ The Universe

https://www.tut.com/

Manifestation

Published January 6, 2020 by tindertender

If you want better from others, be better yourself.

To know and not do, is the same as not knowing. ~ Proverb

Dream big. Start small.

Have it all,

~ The Universe

Thoughts become things… choose the good ones! ® © www.tut.com ® 

Real, or Illusion.

Published January 3, 2020 by tindertender

Perhaps the reversal of our words in the anther is the same for you as it is for me. However, you have been aware of it, so you say the opposite of what you mean in order to get your true message across.

Nature has it that when we hear a negative, which is what I hear when going deep, we get defensive, obstinate even.

Yet maybe it is actually the surface message that you mean.

Maybe my reaction is actually born out of decades of emotional response training …. lifetime habit.

It could be that you are not the villain I have imagined you to be.

It’s probable that both friend and foe speak in the anthers at the same time, both residing at polar opposites, further confusing the message.

It IS time to open the imagination, freeing it from preconditioned thought forms, attached to emotional residue of the past.

Yet then again, this could all simply be an illusion …

AGE OF AQUARIUS ACTIVATION 🌟January 12th 6:11 AM UTC🌟

Published January 2, 2020 by tindertender

Shared by:

The period between January 10th and 12th is the most powerful astrological time since the Grand Cross eclipse on August 11th, 1999.

January 12th is going to be a decisive date for the future of this planet!

Please Join Us!

Use your own technique to bring you to a relaxed state of consciousness.

State your intent to use this meditation as a tool to co-create the trigger that will start the Age of Aquarius.

Visualize a pillar of brilliant white Light emanating from the Cosmic Central Sun, then being distributed to Central Suns of all galaxies in this universe. Then visualize this light entering through the Galactic Central Sun, then going through our Galaxy, then entering our Solar System and going through all beings of Light inside our Solar System and then through all beings on planet Earth and also through your body to the center of the Earth.

Visualize this Light transmuting all remaining darkness on Earth, healing all inequalities, erasing all poverty and bringing abundance to all humanity.

You can check the time of the meditation for your time zone here:

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=AGE+OF+AQUARIUS&iso=20200112T0111&p1=179

https://earthsky.org/human-world/when-will-the-age-of-aquarius-begin

Do You Remember?

Published December 27, 2019 by tindertender

Written by Mia Allen, https://www.facebook.com/m.i.ashleyallen

do you remember when you were fourteen and you sang Amazing Grace all by yourself on a stage in an old church⁠⠀

you watched congregation unfold like the bills they placed in the basket ⁠⠀

the old ladies gathered around you after the service to tell you what a bright light you were, and that you’d sung beautifully⁠⠀

you were embarrassed ⁠⠀

but you stole a moment and quietly slipped away to the bathroom ⠀

you looked at yourself in the mirror ⁠slightly smiling, saying Thank You, God, for this life, and giving yourself something to be proud of, for that moment, on that day⁠⠀
⁠⠀
that was a really long time ago⁠⠀

and most of those ladies are probably dead⁠⠀

you don’t go to church anymore ⁠⠀

and most of the time the memories that informed your dreams just swirl around in your head ⁠⠀
⁠⠀
the placelessness of your experiences makes for a heavy placeless heart ⁠⠀

where do we put our memories⠀

our days when we felt whole ⠀

you wonder and wander til a single beam of light comes pouring through the trees⁠⠀

and you stop ⁠⠀

for a breath and to let it fall over your eyes⁠⠀

you listen to the birds and the wind dance with the leaves⁠⠀

you wonder to yourself if there’s ever been a good time to believe you were worth a damn ⁠⠀
⠀
if not then then maybe ⠀
never ⠀

or if not then then maybe ⠀
now ⠀

photo by @_chriseadicicco

Elder’s Meditation 12-26-2019

Published December 26, 2019 by tindertender

“Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.”

— Fools Crow, LAKOTA

We are created by God to be vision people. First we set the goal and then we see. If we create within ourselves a picture or vision and we hold that picture or vision in our mind, whatever we picture will show up in our reality. If we can see ourselves being educated, then schools and teachers will show up in our lives. If we picture in our mind a positive, spiritual person to be in our lives, we will attract this type of person in our relationships. How big can our dreams be?

Great Spirit, let my visions today be Your vision. Put within me a vision of the being you would have me be. Then help me to keep the vision in my mind.

http://wellbriety.com/meditations/

They have human heads, with spider bodies

Published December 25, 2019 by tindertender

Shared by:

The identity formed is dependent on those in the vicinity. The DNA and persona is extracted from an organic matrix growing inside. Basically, they are kept alive through a suspension of their termination through a symbiotic parasitic entrapment by the entity.

It hosts them to keep their consciousness alive to use it in a pliable repertoire of false identities to project and lure in or collapse the defenses of potential prey.

Some people are predators, in human bodies. The human was taken over and is hosted with minimal variation and pseudo self willed thought process patterns. It’s consciousness is based upon tricking our consciousness so it fits into every groove or ‘blind spot’ in our psyche.

As humanity ‘wakes up’, we see ‘in the dark’, where the webs and droppings of these psychic creatures exist. The same thing happens when someone turns the light on and roaches scatter. The point is that this is mental emotional.

As those mental emotional blind spots are reduced, we see how some were literally acting in full awareness of those blind spots and in fact using them, as their path, their walk way through the dark to communicate, share, grow, and feed themselves.

That is what we are seeing. Throughout the entire stretch of history, someone was always feeding on 90% of the progress and effort. We were spinning tires from the start and this explains the amount of internal this society has experienced.

If one is not careful, the very many selves and intentions they create in life will become so diverse and so paradoxical that they could possibly tear the individual mind attending them, apart. That is what was happening to us.

We were given a special formula designed to spread psyche through gradients and trends that created ripples and waves that took all the effort to hold this space together.

While our energy was diverted with that, we were being drained. Humanity had to learn how to control their emotions in the middle of an emotional war being waged by opposing sides of a circular power structure.

That power structure rotated around like a artificial satellite, catching whatever discoveries, inventions, or any real progress Humanity ever made. Since the beginning, we were stolen from. This is the point. We are living in the ancient past.

The tech used to define the control system that was used to protect parasites, can also lift the burdens that enslave everyone. The last ‘layer’ of the matrix is the self projected program that one is doomed to enslavement and in doing so contradicts one’s own liberation.

The mind is the most powerful and everything relies on the mind. If the mind cannot move forward (by remaining centered as everything else changes), then one’s reality can’t fully become what it actually is.