Breathing Away Depression

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This is what why we always start and our workouts with the “Return to breath”

Breathing Away Depression

BY Rolf Sovik ON December 22, 2014

 

Few of us are completely untouched by depression. And when our mood is upended, the loss of hope and confidence can be almost paralyzing. Work accumulates. We smile and interact in familiar ways, but are not really engaged. We avoid calling friends, withdraw from social settings. And as time passes we find ourselves increasingly cut off from the sources of energy that normally sustain us.

Fortunately, most of us have recovery strategies for times when moods turn sour and energy wanes. We listen to our favorite music and spend time reading, or drawing, or whatever refreshes us. Often there is someone we can talk to. We exercise, take walks, or pray. For some, medication may also be a necessary part of mending. All these things can help—and it is important to keep every option open.

The meditative practices of yoga offer a simple and nurturing technique that you can add to your repertoire—the practice of relaxed breath awareness. A powerful tool for preventing the onset of depressed moods in the first place, breath awareness restores energy during acute phases of depression, lightens your emotional load, and creates needed distance from gloomy thoughts. And it complements other healing strategies by providing an underpinning of relaxation and emotional stability. So when low moods threaten to take the joy from life, breath awareness provides a consistent and ever-available inner focus that will help you make the journey back to health.

Three Dimensions of Life

How can the awareness of breathing be so useful? The importance of breathing is accented in a story from the Chandogya Upanishad. There, the eyes, ears, mind, and breath are found arguing about their relative importance. The eyes and ears, representing the body, claim that they are the most indispensable for life. But in turn, the mind and the breath argue their own cases. To resolve the issue each agrees to vacate the body for one year, leaving the others to manage without it. At the end of four years, when each aspect of the self has returned, a winner will be declared. One by one the eyes, the ears, and the mind depart but even through blindness, loss of hearing, and a coma-like existence, life continues. Then the breath begins to leave. Suddenly, all the remaining functions are uprooted, as if a strong horse, hooves bound with ropes, was tearing its fetters from the ground. Awestruck, the body and mind beg the breath to return and humbly accept it as supreme.

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Caffeine – Ally Or Foe?

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By park jeery
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 01:54pm EST
Keywords: CAFFEINE – ALLY OR FOE?

For most of us, the best part of our morning is that cup of steaming coffee we sip. But is this cup of java actually good for us? We show you how to decide where you fall in caffeine scale.

Caffeine for a healthier brain

We usually drink coffee when we want re-energise at work place especially in the gloomy afternoon. Caffeine on account of its stimulant effect on the central nervous system both, raises metabolism as well as increases the oxidation of fatty acids. It not only keeps you awake but also makes you sharper, more efficient and active.

Coffee to the rescue

An alcohol binge often ends with you being drunk which in turn leads to a bad hangover. Do this on a regular basis and you will have to deal with problems like memory loss, drowsiness, as well as liver and kidney failure. If you consume alcohol often, then ensure that you have a cup a cup of coffee a day, which reduces your chances of developing liver cirrhosis (disease caused by excessive alcohol consumption that could lead to liver failure and cancer) by 20 per cent.

Glowing skin

Coffee can also be used to get glowing skin. Pamper yourself with a coffee grounds facial. You need:

2 tablespoons freshly ground coffee

2 tablespoons cocoa powder

2 tablespoons milk

1 tablespoon honey

Massage this chocolate-coffee mask to your skin in the morning. Allow to dry for 15-20 minutes then rinse it off. This mask will tighten pores, add moisture to your skin and remove oil and also reduce puffiness and swelling.

If you don’t have time to whip up this facial then simply take some coffee grounds and directly apply on your face. Scrub it gently on your dull skin for five minutes. For a more intensive treatment, add sugar and some olive oil which will moisturise your skin.

Emotionally lethargic

Caffeine certainly has phenomenal benefits but it also carries a side-effect when you intake more than 500 – 600 milligrams per day. One shouldn’t increase the consumption of coffee because it will energise you but it doesn’t let your body rest and leads to you experiencing mood-swings, and feeling restless and emotionally drained.

Sleep deprivation

The consumption of coffee will meddle with your sleep especially if you’re drinking this late evening. People claim that coffee doesn’t affect on them but that’s even worse because it signifies that you’re already having too much coffee and your body is building resistance towards it. Too much coffee causes insomnia and overall leads to a bad night’s sleep!

Cut back slowly

If you want to reduce your coffee intake, then gradually go from consuming 500 mg to 100 mg of caffeine as regular consumption can make you addicted to it and a sudden withdrawal can cause headaches, fatigue and decreased alertness.

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A Meditation Tool?

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This is a pretty interesting…

“it is a handheld device that emits a subtle ultrasonic frequency to create left/right brain synchronization through two transducers that are applied to the user’s forehead.”

Its all about the frequency and vibration. We aim to raise the vibration in a most natural way that is most close to the origin.
-Chris Vlaun

The NEO Neurophone: A Meditation Tool for the 21st Century
November 14, 2014 by Collective Evolution

If you had the opportunity to accelerate your meditative mind to that of a monk’s within weeks, would you take it? Patrick Flanagan, author of the best selling Pyramid Power that sold over a million copies, developed a technology in 1958 that has the ability to facilitate this type of quantum leap of the mind for its user.

The Neurophone is not a phone…it is a handheld device that emits a subtle ultrasonic frequency to create left/right brain synchronization through two transducers that are applied to the user’s forehead. Sound straight out of a Science Fiction novel? That’s because it is…

In 1911, Hugo Gernsback, often referred to as “The Father of Science Fiction”, wrote a book titled Ralph 124C 4+ in which he depicted a sleep learning device called the Hypnobioscope. Young Patrick Flanagan ran with the idea, creating the Neurophone, (Gernsback later thanked him personally for this) which can be worn while sleeping and includes an audiojack in which you may connect sound, theoretically enabling auditory learning while you are unconscious.

In his 20s, Patrick spent years experimenting with dolphin/human communication for the US Navy, in which he discovered much about dolphins ultrasonic hearing. Dolphins use an organ called a saccule to receive waves of sound. Humans also have these saccules, except they are not used to hear and thus do not get activated. The Neurophone changes this, allowing sound to travel through our piezoelectric skin and back to our ancient ears, activating a new sense of perception otherwise left unused. Check out Patrick’s interview with Deepak Chopra in which he goes into detail about his dolphin work:

Deepak Chopra Interviews Scientist Patrick Flanagan

Thousands have Neurophones all over the world, however now there is an opportunity to purchase one for an affordable price. Patrick Flanagan’s Indiegogo campaign was off to a remarkable start when in less than 72 hours, his initial goal of $100,000 was reached, however a smarter world is the ultimate purpose of this earth shifting project and further funds are needed for proper research and development.

The new NEO will be a completely updated version of the previous Neurophones, including a new 21st century look and feel. While there will be an audio jack for sound of your choice, Flanagan has also built in an evolving randomized Fibonacci frequency meaning you’ll never hear the same frequency combination twice! The sound creates balance within all energy systems in the body and has shown profound results from previous Neurophone models.

For $399, you can buy a smartphone or, a device that facilitates: left/right brain cohesion, extrasensory development and enhanced meditation. Maybe it’s time to try something a bit different? Welcome to the NEO age – NEO Indiegogo.

Written By
Genevieve Munoz
Social Media – BuzzBroz/NEOneurophone.com

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Don’t Lose Your Soul

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Many of us in the modern world suffer from something I like to call ‘disconnected syndrome’. This is a general loss of direction, mission, purpose, balance and connection with the inner self.

If you feel some of the symptoms it’s time to make space and make some external changes in your
life to focus on the inner/true self. Start by creating conditions that will allow you to liven up your soul.

Once you begin to reconnect you recognize the potential for more joy and ordinary life begins to grow from within. See a great piece by Lissa Rankin MD, originally featured on Wake Up World

NOT SURE IF YOU’RE SUFFERING FROM SOUL LOSS?

Here are 20 diagnostic signs that signal soul loss:

1. You feel like you’re not as good as other people.

2. You yearn to be of service, but you have no idea what you have to contribute and why it matters.

3. You find yourself striving in vain for an impossible-to-achieve standard of perfection.

4. Your fears keep you from living large.

5. You’re frequently worried that you’re not good enough, smart enough, thin enough, young enough, [fill in the blank] enough.

6. You feel like a victim of circumstances that are beyond your control.

7. You feel like your daily life is meaningless and task-driven.

8. You often feel helpless, hopeless, or pessimistic.

9. You protect your heart with steel walls.

10. You often feel you don’t really matter and your love doesn’t make a difference.

11. You’re always trying to fit in and belong, but you rarely feel like you do.

12. You feel beaten down by the challenges you face in your life.

13. You suffer from a variety of vague, hard to treat physical symptoms, such as fatigue, chronic pain, weight gain or loss, insomnia, skin disorders, or gastrointestinal symptoms.

14. You struggle with being able to accept love and nurturing.

15. You feel depressed, anxious, or chronically worried.

16. You feel like you’re not appreciated enough.

17. You find yourself often judging others.

18. You frequently numb yourself with alcohol, drugs, sex, television, or excessive busyness.

19. You feel disappointed with life.

20. You’ve forgotten how to dream.

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