Wellness Wednesday

Hey Rosalyn, if you suffer from nausea, I am sure that ginger is a very good idea. Look here : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25912592/

If you suffer from anxiety, try simply smelling good lavender oil, look what lavender oil can do: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7897075/

This is, of course, one way to treat anxiety, a way that surely doesn't do any harm at all and can be simply tested individually. If you suffer from anxiety so much that it affects you in a serious way, I guess nothing can replace individual medical advice...

Ginger? Im still not ginger --Said Dr Who.

Sometimes anxiety eats us because of real problems or something else...

We all create anxiety by fluctuating adversities, a biochemical test provides numbers of my body, this avoids losing dimension about the subjective and organic aspects. Then each person can improve with several routes: mental, toning the vagus nerve, inner silence, healthy food...

How to acquire a healthy colorful habit when you just like: sugar, coffee and junk food?

Jhannuzs Ian wrote: Ginger? Im still not ginger --Said Dr Who.

Sometimes anxiety eats us because of real problems or something else...

We all create anxiety by fluctuating adversities, a biochemical test provides numbers of my body, this avoids losing dimension about the subjective and organic aspects. Then each person can improve with several routes: mental, toning the vagus nerve, inner silence, healthy food...

How to acquire a healthy colorful habit when you just like: sugar, coffee and junk food?

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Tell me a little about the Vagus nerve
How to acquire a healthy colorful habit when you just like: sugar, coffee and junk food?

I know, right ?

Sure Master Rosalyn, one route to regulate the Vagus nerve: singing melodies without lyrics while we are mentally silent. Here is a video that provides more information (always compare several sources to verify validity

Wouldn't the valsalva maneuver be easier?

I tried to post on Wednesday, but somehow did not manage to do it correctly, so I am trying again.

Thank you all for the interesting info. Yes, I DO love Hummus! Thank you for the inspiration to eat more legumes. And I find breath work helpful for all kinds of things, so I imagine singing exercises might be similar.

I also LOVE ginger. Some of my favorite ways to ingest ginger are fresh root in smoothies; lemon ginger tea (Stash brand is nice); home made "tea" with fresh (or frozen) ginger, cayenne pepper, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice and honey; candied ginger; and Trader Joes Triple Ginger Snaps.

What I mainly came on the Wellness forum to post about is SLEEP. For me it is the foundation of my health. When I get good quantity and quality sleep, then I feel my whole life goes better, and when I don't, then I tend to do less well with all my other health related behaviors too. And as I pay more attention to my sleep, it shows me other imbalances in my life, some that I might not have thought needed to be addressed - like getting excited to be thinking about many spiritual topics and myths - surely all good! Until I'm awake at 2am, thinking, thinking, thinking. Clearly more grounding activity needed - e.g. need to DO more meditation, not just think about how cool it is.

Some books I've enjoyed about sleep:
Healing Night by Rubin Naiman
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

And one of my favorite inspirational quotes on the topic:
"Gnight
Don't wait until low power mode.
Close your eyes.
Close all unnecessary apps.
Recharge."
by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Hello everyone here is something found by Edan and it is really an eye opener:" https://elemental.medium.com/anxiety-is-in-your-body-not-your-mind-93031abd14eb . It is a must read, maybe we could discus it later here or on discord

Interesting information Vincent

I agree, it is important to drain the excess of adrenaline and cortisol and check my mental systems that produce anxiety.

Anxiety from one area of my life to another ... from my past to the present by the transference of an unprocessed imprint... but many people can differenciate and separate topics to process each imprint in its phenomenology.

I still vote for CBT to learn to dissolve those beliefs that amplify the subjective suffering, measuring the magnitude of a danger is vital as doing as repatterning neuronal systems that are activated automatically but are dysfunctional because they "interpret greater danger" and these neural conditioning "seem" to dictate the response to adversity.

An adrenaline and cortisol test provides biochemical reference, then we could compare if "our symbolic creations" jump too quickly between levels: little, regular, a lot and total anxiety.

• 1st image below: mental aspects.

• 2d image: sensorial aspects and mental aspects

Thank this is very good ! Now is anyone care to share how they have so far manage to deal with their anxiety or other mental health problems? what progress or process, how are you now, talk about your journey.

I guess it would be fare that i start.
My journey with a simple advice that was something like; your life and problem are going around a circle, get out of it.
Then i was given a book : " the ways of the peaceful warrior". At the time i was having difficulties understanding what was happening to me, i had panic attack, i often vomited , i couldnt deal with things like eating in public , going on a date. Living in the moment or here and now was some kind of start but still i did not know how to apply it to my life correctly. Later i realize some things like at the worse of my stressed feelings and anxiety i often kept part of my body tense ( listen to your body) i as well was obsessing or kept some thoughts going around my head in a loop ( meditate, live in the moment, distract your mind) i started to learn tai-chi, this somehow help me make major progress, i started living a bit more normally. At the time i was learning to become a driving instructor, I had to pass exams and the first time i just could make it, i was so anxious, i literally forced my self through as it was a must to do it, i made it, i felt stronger (dont give up, dont give your self too many excuses, face your fears) My whole story with anxiety as an adult has been over 15 years, with up and downs. I moved to Asia, this was a major challenge, it broke all the progress i made in my confort zone. One song always helped me if anyone knows , The water boys : this is the sea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umVgdWalrUI . Part of it says : "this was the river, this is the sea". I realized that even if my anxiety has came back facing a totally new life, my past was the river and this (today ) was the sea, as i did made progress, i was stronger, i gain knowledge tomorrow wont be like yesterday. And yes i still passed out my mind feeling crazy with anxiety , and yes i lost appetite but then my life did change, i had kids and i had to fight. I learned and used
martial art breathing technics, i gave my self a break, i slept when that was all i could do. My anxiety often changed and happened out of different reasons, or with no apparent reasons, i started using a different way to deal with it, i told my self some form of positive thoughts : "you can do it' " what do not kill you make you stronger" "you are stronger than you think". I learned yoga and have a daily tai-chi, yoga program, i keep my self busy, cleaning, gardening, home diy, i eat properly and healthily. I somehow did a little of self analyze, i realised that i suffered anxiety while i was a baby, after he lost of my sister and the fact that my parents suffered that much, it came back with a revenge after i had a bad building working accident that left me handicap and not capable to live as i used to (so i felt weak and vulnerable), i realized all that and accepted it. So here i m now, i still have trace of anxiety but i do not let it control my life, i do not think about it too much, i feel proud of my self, i feel stronger.
What about you, anyone