JOY...... It Feeds & Develops Your Brain!

Are you consciously choosing to make an effort to feed your brain a dose or two of joy today?

This morning, have you feed your brain via laughter, a smile crossing your face, by making a conscious choice to focus for a time on acknowledging something that you are grateful for?

What about this afternoon, and in the evening ahead? Are you willing to ensure you consciously activate a positive thought occurring several times over within your mind?

Your brain will WORK better if you do! Your brain will GROW better if you do! Your brain will DEVELOP better if you do!

Positive thinking and happy thoughts aid the brain to grow and develop new synapses, especially in the prefrontal cortex which is the part of the brain that controls emotions, behaviours and focus.

To be able to function productively, to be able to constructively do the activities involved in your day, your brain needs to be happy and positive.

To be able to focus effectively, to master as well as you possibly could that skill and ability you so want to master, your brain needs to be happy and positive.

To be in a state of balance and equilibrium, to keep yourself being reasonable & logical, your brain needs to be happy and positive.

To be a great communicator, to be a high performer, to make choices that trigger success more likely coming your way, your brain needs to be happy and positive.

Laughing, smiling, verbalising out loud even a short statement of gratitude... these are very simple things we can actively choose to seek out and do, throughout the day, to feed and develop the brain.

Choosing to make a conscious effort to feed your brain a dose or two of joy will change the quality (and even quantity) of life that is yours to have today, tomorrow and every day after. Choose to make an effort to feed your brain a dose or two (or four!) of joy today!

Have a happy day, Everyone!

Intelligence, Health & Well-being..... They All Rely on JOY!

WHAT IS A SOURCE OF JOY FOR YOU RIGHT NOW?

As I sit typing out this blogpost, the family dog sits curled up beside me. She came into our lives as a rescue. She needed us and we in turn needed her.

I have numerous happy memories all associated with this ginger coated canine. She loves to do zoomies when she get too full of energy and has been perhaps resting on the couch for a little too long. She will start prancing around and getting somewhat overly excited if she sees this 50+ year old mama dancing a silly dance to some music in the lounge (and she will want to join also!). She will put her nose down and track me, from one end of the property to another, if she cannot see me and wonders, "Mmmmm, where has Mum gone now?"

My personal research into the significance of dopamine as an essential neurotransmitter within the human brain tells me that consciously seeking out, and acknowledging regularly through out the day, what gives one joy goes a long way to help the human brain actively generate new neuropathways; NO MATTER HOW OLD WE ARE.

Consciously choose to use your senses to send imprints of sources of joy to your brain.

That ginger canine resting beside me, has fur that is soft & fine to touch. Her smell is familiar and therefore a source of comfort. When she lets out a sigh it is soft, yet deep, telling me she feels very relaxed.

We can use our senses to aid imprinting regularly on the human brain memories & experiences of things that are sources of joy, and therefore sources of positive, constructive dopamine.

If you think of dopamine as being a linking, essential red LEGO block that has to turn up repeatedly along a neural pathway, it can help be a good visual to guide your mind to see how valuable the habit of consciously acknowledging what are sources of daily joy is.

Start a JOY JOURNAL if need be! Do whatever will help you develop the habit of seeking out and activating joy being present for you every single day!

Positive, joyful experiences and daily memories will literally help your brain link building blocks together to build what you dream of bringing to be!

Joy....................... it is an essential component to actual intelligence, as well as health and well-being. ACTIVELY GRAB HOLD OF JOY TODAY!

Feel free to leave a comment acknowledging what has been a simple, yet positive source of joy for you today. 

Justice

 

The Journey from Trauma to Triumph

Trauma is a nasty demon. It wants to rob, cripple and even kill. When you think of trauma as something separate from yourself, and as a being also totally beyond yourself, it is a helpful means to place it separate from your own understanding of self.

When I meet people and hear they have personally experienced or are experiencing trauma as part of their life journey, there is a particular biblical verse that I often feel inclined to want to gently share with them.

It is a bible verse I want to share as a gift to them, to hold before them a small measure of faith and hope, when perhaps there may seem to be little of either present in the pit dug for them previously or currently by trauma.

Do we have to put up with someone or something being in our lives and robbing us daily, or somewhat regularly, of peace, joy and our sense of balance and safety?

No, we do not.

We are each absolutely entitled to set in place boundaries to keep us experiencing safety and health, both mentally and physically, economically and living situation wise, as well as spiritually and sexually.

We are each entitled to actively seek out assistance to put us back in a position of safety and health in all areas of our lives.

Being positioned safety and health wise can come in the form of seeking out and finding a new community or new group which is more positive, healthy and safe.

It can come in the form of finding a literal new place or space to spend our time and energy in.

It can come in the form of seeking even legal or medical assistance.

Being robbed of joy, peace and a daily experience of safety and healthy requires active assistance and help, sometimes with the aid of others we are directed to and who warrant our trust.

Every one of us is entitled to have peace, joy and safety present and in place daily, in balanced and very healthy measures.

Do we have to put up with someone or something being in our lives and crippling us via inflicting trauma? No, we do not.

There is a very valid and wise reason behind our human bodies naturally and urgently seeking to kick into Flight and Fight Mode when we are experiencing trauma. We need to listen to our body telling us the truth of what trauma is doing to us, and what it's toxicity is doing to our mind and body.

We need to accept the telltale signs that trauma is activating within us, and accept those signs as being totally part and parcel of how GOD the Creator fully intended our bodies to function for our safekeeping in this life.

We need to accept signs and signals of trauma effecting us, as being that in place to guide us towards what is in fact best and right for ourselves during our earthly life.

We rightfully, both legally and morally, can choose to shift ourselves within our lifetime, to a safer ground or place, away from trauma and its workings, any time we need to.

Listening and being aware of the effects trauma is having on the mind and body helps to protect the very bodily vessel GOD Himself created to house our own individual spirit within.

It is a holy thing to listen to both your body and your mind.

We need to be real and honest with ourselves when everything is indicating the body and mind are being crippled and exposed to the toxicity of trauma.

For the journey from trauma to triumph to begin, we ourselves must choose to take the very first step.

Do we have to put up with someone or something in our lives working away to destroy our health and therefore killing us? No, we do not.

Life is tapu, Life is sacred. The life we each have is a gift from God Himself to us ourselves. The life we each have is a gift also to the wider community and the wider world. We are responsible for it and we solely have guardianship of it, for the entire length of our lifetime.

GOD does not ever intend for us to live subjected in any measure to fear. Trauma is however jolly good at trying to keep us bound and chained by fear. That is not at all of GOD.

GOD is solely ever focused on what is good, right, safe and healthy for each of us individual human beings.

If someone or something is in your life and orchestrating fear, with the result being that you are experiencing trauma, it is time to totally acknowledge it is not of GOD. It IS time to address it with all possible assistance, to help set in place what is safe, healthy and able to protect you now and evermore.

GOD is a source of positive, healthy, balanced power. GOD offers us back strength when it is stolen from us. He offers us restoration and empowerment also.

GOD made each of us, to fulfil a purpose, and with that intentional purpose comes suitable, particular power ordained by Himself.

Trauma loves to remove power.

Trauma loves to tell us we are weak and unworthy.

When we get back the very measure of power GOD intended for us each to have, when journeying away from trauma to triumph, GOD can double or even triple the very power He intends us each to possess going forward!

GOD gives us love. GOD is spirit. In connection with Him we each can impart a measure of love also.

We are loved by GOD no matter what we have been through. WE ARE LOVED.

GOD is soft heartened and merciful towards the brokenhearted. GOD has immense compassion and empathy for the traumatised.

GOD is merciful and He is kind. He does not inflict secondary trauma ever.

GOD is the perfect midwife, gently bringing to be, step by careful, tender step, the new life a trauma victim is to have.

GOD is interested in bringing peace to the mind. He is focused on restoring what is real and true to each of us. Trauma can attempt to rob us of a sense of what is real and true, yet with the aid of GOD's gentle, holy spirit, step by step, we are helped on the road to recovery from trauma to triumph.

A victim of trauma can have the soul and mind soothed, to come back from a heightened sense of having to be in Flight or Fight Mode constantly. It takes such things as time, patience, love, gentleness, kindness, wise assistance and also merciful compassion to enable that to happen. 

GOD heals the mind of the traumatised by bringing wise counsel, by bringing medical assistance, sometimes even legal assistance, as well as the aid of advocacy, to comfort those feeling threatened and beaten over. 

Rational thought, the ability to make good and healthy decisions for ourselves are all what return on the journey from trauma to triumph. These are all part and parcel of what GOD's gentle and kind healing imparts to us, with the aid of the kindness of others, who can empathise and can offer wise assistance. 

Those that are journeying from trauma to triumph in time gain in greater measure, all that is safe and healthy for them. 

They go from a place of vulnerability to sound balanced strength. 

They go from a heightened sense of needing to readily defensively protect, to being able to react and act moderately. 

Going from trauma to triumph takes time, gentleness, kindness, empathy and compassion, as a new life experience is birthed with the aid of the midwifery of those who come with wise gentleness alongside a trauma victim. 

Going from trauma to triumph takes a community. It takes a community of wise and compassionate people to help with the restoration and healing of the broken heart & mind and the wounds and scars requiring addressing.

Being strong, being resilient, being responsible, being intentional are all what comes in greater measure along the path, step by step, on the road from trauma to triumph for a victim of trauma.

Acceptance and self management, with the aid of practising a lot of patience towards oneself, are key to helping make the healing journey from trauma to triumph occur best also. 

GOD the Creator of the Universe, the Creator of each individual human being, is utterly sold out on restoring all that is good, safe and healthy for each of us. 

Forgiveness requires us to be wise stewards always of the very life GOD gave each of us. Forgiveness is not enabling and condoning trauma further ability to rob, cripple or kill ever.  

The best and most effective course for forgiveness is most definitely one that involves us letting GOD set in place that which best deals to trauma most effectively. 

It is right and fitting to guard the very life, the very earthly, bodily vessel and the very spirit and breath of life we each personally have.

The journey, from trauma to triumph, it is very much one GOD Himself is willing to accompany us each on. The journey from trauma to triumph, it takes a long time, sometimes an entire lifetime, but it is an incredibly magnificent and good one. 

Verbal Insults.... What are their purpose & how can you respond?

 What is the purpose of verbal insults???

The purpose of bullying via personal insults is to undermine the strength of a messenger as they bear their message.

When we learn to each recognise that very intention behind verbal insults, it is the key to successfully retaining one's ability to deliver what we are purposed to deliver in our respective lifetime.

YOU have a message to deliver. YOU have a purpose to carry out. YOU are here on Planet Earth for a reason.... and YOU are therefore a messenger with a very unique and special message.

If someone verbally insults you, rather than buy into their intention to cripple you by hitting a potential soft spot they perceive or want to place deep within you, recognise the verbal insult for what it is:

You ARE totally on the right course, you ARE totally delivering your message, you ARE totally carrying out your life purpose, you ARE totally fulfilling the purpose behind your existence.

What happens next then, when you recognise you are being attacked with verbal, and very personal insults?

Well, you breathe deep and then fully breathe out and exhale any possible toxicity the insult may trigger within you at a biological level and THEN, you just need to keep going from strength to strength to strength!

A verbal insult IS actually A COMPLIMENT.... it means the bearer of the insult actually acknowledges you ARE totally on the good path you are to be on and YOU have a lot of amazing power!

Do You Desire to have Healthy Blood Vessels? Here's a Helpful Homemade, Medicinal Drink Recipe!

 

A RECIPE FOR HEALTHY BLOOD VESSELS

Ingredients:

1/2 pint Ginger Juice

1/2 pint Garlic Puree

1/2 pint Lemon Juice

1/2 pint Apple Cider Vinegar

5 Tablespoons of Honey

Method:

Mix all the first four ingredients together into a stockpot. 

Place on the stovetop on a moderate heat and allow to heat through on the stove for 30 minutes.

Remove mixture from heat. Allow to cool slightly and then add the honey. Mix through until honey is dissolved and combined with other liquid ingredients.

Bottle as you desire and store in an airtight container.

Dosage:

Consumer one tablespoon of this medicinal drink every morning on an empty stomach.

PLEASE NOTE: Please consult your trusted medical consultant to confirm the ingredients included in this medicinal recipe are suitable for your specific medical history & needs.

Why your DESTINY in Life is NOT in Your Hands.

Reality. It often contains dirty, damp and dark corners. As a homemaker and household occupant, reality as we know it can contain untidy cupboards, copious piles of laundry, sticky piles of crumbs on benchtops and children that just don't want to do their chores.

Facing up to what is really present, really going on for you and your household and therefore what is part and parcel of your real life day to day situation, is the first step to taking back what control you can have over both your current reality and also your future destiny.

Your destiny in life is not going to be in your own hands if you choose to live life ignoring what is obviously present and going on for you right now. Your destiny in life is dependent on determining and working on that which you CAN have control over now. Right now. Today.

Yesterday is a day you have to let go of and release freely into the archives of the universe in order to keep destiny in your own hands. Your destiny can only be in your hands when you live in the present with your mindset fixed openly on the glorious future and not the damp, dark and disorderly past. 

Better decisions, decisions that are great and powerful in their outcome, those decisions that shape and make one's destiny fruitful, positive and abundantly constructive are sown by seeds planted in the present and not in the past. An extraordinary destiny is set in place the day you decide to think upon and act upon that which you do have control over, within the framework of the hours you are given in the very current and present day. An extraordinary destiny actually begins today. TODAY, not tomorrow, not back in yesterday and in the archives of the past. An extraordinary destiny begins TODAY.

A messing workspace sucks. It reflects back to you negative, old energy from a time long past, time contained in yesterday and not today. A messy workspace literally sucks time, energy and often finances away from you in a very unbeneficial manner. Today is the day to take control back and to bring order back, even on your currently messy workdesk or benchtop. To do so is to change for good the current, reworkable storyline and therefore the destiny ahead of you.

Our decisions determine our destiny. What you eat today literally affects your bones and your waistline, which undoubtedly affects your quality of health and potentially your longevity.  We cannot ignore the relationship between the decisions made today and the outcomes obtained tomorrow. 

Natural Law exists and it does kick in, no matter how hard we may try to kid ourselves and live in a fantasy land of rainbows and unicorns, instead of the land of home and work with very real dust bunnies, dirty benchtops and deadlines that we somehow habitually seem to keep missing.

What you focus on daily determines your daily decisions. What daily decisions you make determine your overall destiny. While there is so much in this life that we each have no control over, there are a good measure of things that we do have control over, and a good measure of those things occur within the very confines of the family home and in the often mundane routines and practices of daily life.

Do you make your bed every day? It is a serious but somewhat bizarre question to ask, but here it is again: Do you make your bed every day? 

Do you honour yourself by making your bed and therefore providing yourself with a pleasant place to rest and retire to again at the end of the day? 

The decision to make your bed, to use clean and tidy bedding for that place that you go to literally rest and allow your physical body to recalibrate in via daily routine sleep, speaks a lot about how you value yourself and therefore how you feel about yourself. Regardless of past circumstances, you DO deserve this very day to have a pleasant experience when you retire to lie down on your bed again at the close of this day. 

The state of your bed, the standard of kindness and care you show towards yourself in both how you speak and treat yourself, can reflect where your destiny can head. The state of your bed reflects your values and the standards you show towards yourself. The decision to make your bed is a simple one, yet it can and does often speak volumes about where your values, standards and decision making processes all lie on a daily basis. 

Make the best and greatest decision you can today, to show respect towards yourself, to exhibit a higher level of standards being set than before, and do so by doing such a simply yet effective thing as making your bed. Do it. Make that bed and make it a symbol of today being the day you place your destiny back in the correct and right hands.

When we raise the bar on our values and standards, we are choosing to adjust our decisions. It is our standards, our values that are the underlying foundations for each and every one of our decisions. We have control over our decisions, both big and small, regardless of the decisions others around us make.

Our decisions are our decisions. Our thoughts, our standards, our values, and therefore our decisions, they are all so powerfully interlinked and they aid and equip all that is part and parcel of determining the destiny ahead for each of us.

It can be incredibly challenging to push through when it seems like there are so many external forces endeavouring to be destiny blockers. We experience and often hear others around us claiming more power and more control and we can unwittingly by into the false belief that that is in fact true.

How do we push back or push through these seemingly concrete walls that want to keep us locked in and locked up, instead reaching beyond and out the positive and better destiny desired?

Faith. Nothing but faith can keep reality real and in your face, yet allow constructive seeds for your future better destiny to be still planted this very day.

Faith is choosing to look in the very real face of fear, no matter how big and ugly it feels right now, and still keep putting in place each one of those daily decisions to build, right now, your hoped for and envisaged life destiny ahead in tomorrow.

Reality. It often contains dirty, damp and dark corners, yet today this very day we can, with complete and utter control being in our hands, choose to take one or two steps towards whipping out that cleaning cloth and opening that window shade to let sunshine in, no matter what literal or figurative form they may take.

Your destiny in life................ it IS more in your own hands that you perhaps have yet to fully realise. Make the conscious decision to see and set firmly in place it's presence, within your own hands, TODAY. 

Pace