is to understand this brain chemical, dopamine.
Secret #1 Dopamine:
Dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter. Your body makes it, and your nervous system uses it to send messages between nerve cells. That’s why it’s sometimes called a chemical messenger. Dopamine plays a role in how we feel pleasure.
What is the effect of dopamine on the body?Inside the brain, dopamine plays important roles in executive functions, motor control, motivation, arousal, reinforcement, and reward, as well as lower-level functions including lactation, sexual gratification, and nausea. The dopaminergic cell groups and pathways make up the dopamine system which is neuromodulatory.
Because when you haven’t met someone before, and you’re getting to know them,all the ingredients are there to stimulate dopamine.
Newness.
And there’s no history, you’re completely -where are we going with this?What’s going to happen?And that stimulates this brain chemical,
and in men, dopamine stimulates a hormone called testosterone.
Secret 2: Testosterone
So suddenly, men’s testosterone levels are surging.
A hormone in both men and women
Testosterone is a hormone found in humans, as well as in other animals. The testicles primarily make testosterone in men. Women’s ovaries also make testosterone, though in much smaller amounts.
The production of testosterone starts to increase significantly during puberty, and begins to dip after age 30 or so.
Testosterone is most often associated with sex drive, and plays a vital role in sperm production. It also affects bone and muscle mass, the way men store fat in the body, and even red blood cell production. A man’s testosterone levels can also affect his mood.
Low testosterone levels
Low levels of testosterone, also called low T levels, can produce a variety of symptoms in men, including:
- decreased sex drive
- less energy
- weight gain
- feelings of depression
- moodiness
- low self-esteem
- less body hair
- thinner bones
While testosterone production naturally tapers off as a man ages, other factors can cause hormone levels to drop. Injury to the testicles and cancer treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation can negatively affect testosterone production.
Chronic health conditions and stress can also reduce testosterone production. Some of these include:
The average man at 50 has half the testosterone levels he had as a young man.
It starts to drop.A lot of things contribute to that, but one of the things is marriage.(Laughter)You know,
I’m 62, but I went through the 50s with my friends,and several of my friends got divorced, and they came alive!
I’m not recommending divorce to come alive,(Laughter)but I am recommending learning new relationships skills to come alivein your marriage.But it’s like, suddenly,
when you’re with somebody new, just going somewhere new, it stimulates dopamine, and for men, dopamine stimulates testosterone,
and for men, testosterone lowers stress.Stress – and I don’t mean stress in your life,life is always stressful, problems everywhere.But how do we react to lifeis dependent on our hormone response to life.And for men, testosterone is the hormone that helps men keep their stress levels down.Most people don’t know this, but I learned this when I started -it was like 30 years ago, I was reading -20 years ago, maybe 30, somewhere in there.I was about to go see the movie Grumpy Old Men,
and I was also readingthat one of the differences between young men and old menwas men’s testosterone levels go down.And then I made the link: Grumpy Old Men.Think about men when they haven’t been laid for a while.(Laughter)They get grumpy, they’re irritable,and yet we always thoughtthat testosterone caused all that irritability.But actually, for men, it’s estrogen.(Laughter)It’s all those grumpy old menhaving super high estrogen levels and low testosterone.Who knew?!One of the biggest risk factors for heart disease, prostate cancer,for men is low testosterone.All men with depression have low testosterone.That’s why depression is very different for a man than for a woman.
Secret # 3 Depression
Depression for a man is that feeling:”Nobody wants me; I am not needed anymore.Basically, I’m out of work.””Nobody there to respond to me.Nobody there for me to fix, help, serve, support.”So, being out of work is the major depression for men, or being in a marriage where you feel you can’t do anything to make your partner happy.I get to see, as a marriage counselor for over 30 years, people often on their last exit, because
I’m famous, people say, “Oh yeah, you go see him,”so I get the tough cases.(Laughter)But it’s a challenge.And what I hear again and again, from men, I take the men aside,”What is the problem here? What’s going on here?If we can fix one problem what would that be?””John, the only problem here is my wife’s not happy.”That’s it.I do these seminars, workshops, at my ranch, for four days, and we start out with men in one room, women in the other.
Without my influence, I have the men write down their complaints a bout their wives, relationships, women, in one room.Women do it in another room, and then we spend the whole four days working on that.And men have one sheet, and women have five.(Laughter)And men’s list is one or two words: critical, complaints, nags, punishes, not interested in sex – that’s the longest one they come up with.(Laughter)There’s that list over there.And women got all these lists, so
it gets a big long list:everything is a long sentence, and if this, then that, all that stuff.(Laughter)
Understanding depression in women
Depression can impact every area of a woman’s life—including your physical health, social life, relationships, career, and sense of self-worth—and is complicated by factors such as reproductive hormones, social pressures, and the unique female response to stress. However, it’s important to know that you’re not alone. Women are about twice as likely as men to suffer from depression but depression is treatable and there are plenty of things you can do to make yourself feel better.
Of course, the Catch-22 of depression is that feeling better requires action but taking action when you’re depressed is difficult. However, while you may not have much energy, you probably have enough to take a short walk around the block or pick up the phone to call a loved one, for example—and that can be a great start to boosting your mood and improving your outlook. It’s important to also learn about the factors that cause depression in women so you can tackle the condition head on, treat your depression most effectively, and help prevent it from coming back.
Signs and symptoms of depression in women
The symptoms of depression in women vary from mild to severe (major depression) and are distinguished by the impact they have on your ability to function. Common signs of depression include:
- Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. You feel as if nothing will ever get better and there’s nothing you can do to improve your situation.
- You don’t care anymore about former hobbies, pastimes, and social activities you used to enjoy.
- Appetite changes often leading to significant weight loss or weight gain.
- Changes in your sleep pattern.
- Feeling angry, agitated, restless.
- Feeling fatigued, sluggish, and drained of energy.
- Trouble concentrating, making decisions, or remembering things.
- Increase in aches and pains, including headaches, cramps, breast tenderness, or bloating.
- Suicidal thoughts.
Secret 4: Hippocampus
Hippocampus is a brain structure embedded deep in the temporal lobe of each cerebral cortex. It is an important part of the limbic system, a cortical region that regulates motivation, emotion, learning, and memory.
The hippocampus is thought to be principally involved in storing long-term memories and in making those memories resistant to forgetting, though this is a matter of debate. It is also thought to play an important role in spatial processing and navigation.
And men go, “See?”(Laughter) (Applause)I got a few claps for that, which I’m not asking for,but that’s what excites men.I made a difference.
That’s why men love their dogs so much.(Laughter)When I come home, my dog is happy I’m alive!(Laughter)It touches something so deep inside of every man.Through the whole evolution of man,
men were out there in the dangerous world,if you came home alive, they celebrated.(Laughter)Now it’s, “Oh, he’s back.”(Laughter)You left the lights on the living room last night before you left.(Laughter)That’s what I get!So men go,
“She was just happy -“What is a man thinking,”If she was just the way she was when I married her.”When men get married, they want you to stay the same – as if you can.I realize that women will never be the same,
they’re like the weather.(Laughter)It’s always changing:it’s sunshine, blue sky, puffy clouds, rain storms, lightning strikes, hurricanes,(Laughter)tornadoes.If you’re from Mars, you have these instincts that do the worst thing when you’re with a Venusian.On Mars, when there are tornadoes, what do we do?
Secret 5: Oxytocin
Lowers stress for women & orgasm
Oxytocin is a neurotransmitter and a hormone that is produced in the hypothalamus. From there, it is transported to and secreted by the pituitary gland, at the base of the brain. It plays a role in the female reproductive functions, from sexual activity to childbirth and breast feeding.
The two main actions of oxytocin in the body are contraction of the womb (uterus) during childbirth and lactation. Oxytocin stimulates the uterine muscles to contract and also increases production of prostaglandins, which increase the contractions further.We find a ditch and lie low.(Laughter)It’s not what women expect you to do.When that tornado comes in, you’re supposed to, like, stand there.(Laughter)”Is something the matter?”(Laughter)If you read any of my books, you know what you have to say when every cell in your body says, “I can’t take it anymore.I’ve got to find a ditch and lie low.
Let me get my car and drive somewhere.”Instead, you stand there and just keep looking.And when there’s a break you say, “Huh.(Laughter)Tell me more.”(Laughter)She feels like: I’m married to Superman.(Laughter)Afterwards that you could do that, and I teach people how to do that -you have to at least know what you’re trying to do, here.Because married men say,”No matter what I say or do, it makes it worse.”
And I say, “That’s because what you say and do is wrong.(Laughter)It just doesn’t work!You’ve just told me it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work.”But what does work?Nothing.(Laughter) (Applause)Nothing!You cannot make a woman happy!(Laughter)You cannot change the weather.It changes by itself.Women are grown ups, they can feel better, they can get happier, they know how to do it.Just their way of doing it is different from ours.All I have to do when I’m stressed out is sit down.(Laughter)Men have a switch back here,
as soon as you sit down,(Laughter)blood flow stops to your brain.(Laughter)They did some experiments on that.They have women at the end of the day sit down, have men sit down,
and they measure the brain activity.Women sit down, their brains speed up,(Laughter)more blood flow.And you say, “What are you thinking?”And she says – which any woman in this room can predict -“Well, while sitting on this couch,I’m thinking of all the things I should be doing that I’m not doing while I’m doing this silly experiment.”(Laughter)Then they do the man, and the man is sitting there,and you look at the scans: nothing’s happening!(Laughter)Is it broken?(Laughter)What is this?And she is like,”Whoa!”So you ask him, “What are you thinking?”And you all know the answer to that question if you’ve been married.He says, “Nothing!”(Laughter)And now he’s got evidence, “See, honey. I’m not withholding from you.”(Laughter)”I don’t have big secrets. I’m not hiding my problems from you.I’m trying to forget them.(Laughter)Why do we have to talk about them?”Because one of the primary ways that men cope with stress -and remember, what’s the hormone that lower stress for men?Testosterone.So the hormone that lowers stress for men is testosterone.If I’ve got all these problems in my life, and I’m solving them,I’m releasing testosterone,
Secret 6: Cortisol
Think of cortisol as nature’s built-in alarm system. It’s your body’s main stress hormone. It works with certain parts of your brain to control your mood, motivation, and fear.
Your adrenal glands — triangle-shaped organs at the top of your kidneys — make cortisol.
It’s best known for helping fuel your body’s “fight-or-flight” instinct in a crisis, but cortisol plays an important role in a number of things your body does. For example, it:
- Manages how your body uses carbohydrates, fats, and proteins
- Keeps inflammation down
- Regulates your blood pressure
- Increases your blood sugar (glucose)
- Controls your sleep/wake cycle
- Boosts energy so you can handle stress and restores balance afterward
How Does It Work?
Your hypothalamus and pituitary gland — both located in your brain — can sense if your blood contains the right level of cortisol. If the level is too low, your brain adjusts the amount of hormones it makes. Your adrenal glands pick up on these signals. Then, they fine-tune the amount of cortisol they release.
Cortisol receptors — which are in most cells in your body — receive and use the hormone in different ways. Your needs will differ from day to day. For instance, when your body is on high alert, cortisol can alter or shut down functions that get in the way. These might include your digestive or reproductive systems, your immune system, or even your growth processes.
Secret 7 Focus : Fortunately, focus is a lot like a mental muscle. The more you work on building it up, the stronger it gets.
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Your body, Earth and the cosmos are calling out to you.
Each does ask (your body and the Cosmos) asks to please “help me bask”.
Your body is exposed to warmth and light, typically from within and from the sun. You create your own body temperature- you on your own maintain degrees of close to 99.
You are hot!!!
You create activated vitamin D in your body from Sunlight!
Your body responds to the cosmos around us!
There may be so many things about you, you do not know and it is time you engage in your brilliance.
Just like a cell phone full of apps. Applications that is. You have so many apps that you are not aware of yet!
Okay: Yes. You have limits too…
On average, your body can go about three weeks
without food or it can go three days without water.
YOUR BODY CAN only go about Three MINUTES without Breathing!
You have applications that work better when you give to your body food, water, and air. Simple.
To try to improve your health, or to understand all of the applications that are available inside your body – Healing, Feeling and Thriving you might change your food and water.
You may not recognize that there is something you can’t even go even one minute without comfortably.
You do this about 23,000 times a day.
Breathing.
In fact, I’ve spent the majority of my life
coaching friends, clients, and athletes how to improve them.
What thousands of people have taught me,
thousands of hours of research and traveling the world has taught me is simple
and profound!
If you’re breathing sub-optimally, dysfunctionally, or flat-out wrong,
it’s almost impossible for your body to function optimally! It is almost impossible for you to Ascend let alone, heal, feel and thrive!
Fixing this problem starts by taking a new look at your heart.
Each beat of your heart is the result of the interplay
of the two branches of the autonomic nervous system.
The sympathetic, what we call the fight-or-flight response,
and the parasympathetic, which we call the
rest-and-digest.
So the new way of looking at health by looking at heart rate,
doesn’t look so much at the number of beats per minute,
as the space between them,
which is called heart rate variability.
This heart rate variability is and your sympathetic and parasympathethic systems is part of living in the Dualistic world. When you begin to do the work of ascension
There is an ancient practice that allows something greater than your own nervous system in a dualistic world!
In a healthy person with a robust nervous system,
let’s say their heart beats 60 times a minute
– you might assume it’s beating once a second,
which it is, but that’s only the average.
You see, in reality, it would be something like this: 0.96 seconds,
1.02 seconds,
0.99 seconds,
1.04 seconds, and so on.
This is because each beat of your heart is a result of this two internal systems!
Your two branches of the autonomic nervous system are the internal system!
The sympathetic is very vigilant.
It always wants to accelerate your heart rate!
it’s always looking for emergencies.
It’s looking to keep you safe.
The parasympathetic is just the opposite,
it wants to calm you down and slow your pulse.
Because it wants to use all the energy it can
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
Rumi
The energy of the cosmos:
In different cultures, energy is known by different names. The word “energy” is referred to as:
Ki in Japanese
Chi in Chinese
Prana in Hindi
Qudra in Arabic
The divine Light energy: Noor or Nur is activated and a heartful activation as a living Vision!
And a heartful
activation -celebration of living our vision- and showing up fully as our heart
self!
One for all and all for one,,,ONE_LOVE – ONE LOVE- ONE LOVE!!!!
Your Heart Beat Sounds. One Love – Thaaaaat thrrrrrup -One love- One LOVE –
LET LOVE TAKE OVER YOUR HEART> LET GOD< OR THE UNIVERSE< OR ALLAH OR
JESUS<BUDDHA < ONE LOVE TAKE OVER YOUR HEART!!!!
I’m
talking about be here now –AWAKEN YOUR
HEART!
YOU HAVE MADE IT YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH!!!!
Take a look around. You made a body, you live in a town!!!
The sympathetic always wants to accelerate,
the parasympathetic wants to calm you down.
In an ideal state, if we’re relaxed,
our sympathetic is always waiting in the background.
It’s still vigilant, but it’s not dominating.
The unfortunate truth
is that today, for most of us chasing wealth, health, happiness,
trying to get the kids to school, sitting in traffic,
most of our heartbeats are being dictated
by some level of that sympathetic nervous system.
In fact, low heart rate variability
has been associated with all cause and cardiac mortality.
Things like acid reflux,
erectile dysfunction,
restless leg syndrome,
low back pain,
anxiety, depression.
This is because
when we’re in that sympathetic overdrive,
our body is in that state, that state of panic.
Your angry boss, your finances,
trying to get the kids to school without spilling my coffee again, right?
All these things add up.
And we end up breathing very shallow, and we get very poor at exhalation,
and our hormones are all out of whack.
When we take a proper breath, our diaphragm is going to descend,
and it’s going to pull oxygen into our lungs.
When we’re in sympathetic dominance, we’re using prime movers,
big muscles to breathe.
When we take a proper breath,
that diaphragm is actually going to push on our internal organs.
Your kidneys will actually move 2-3 centimeters with a proper breath.
And if you think about that – the vitality of the internal body
moving fluids around, keeping them healthy –
it all comes back to breathing.
When we take a proper breath,
we’re going to get 360 degree expansion of our torso.
It’s not just a belly breath, it’s definitely not a chest breath,
we’re going to get expansion everywhere.
We’re going to get better at detoxifying our own body
and delivering more nutrition to our cells that we’re giving it in our diet.
I’m going to give you a couple of exercises
so you can take this home and learn how to take control
and get yourself out of sympathetic dominance
and into a state of believing in yourself again.
Research into people with low back pain,
just four or five weeks of exercises similar to the ones I’m going to show you,
showed an increase in heart rate variability,
and alongside that,
it showed an increase in self-efficacy.
These low back-pain patients, even with no improvement in pain,
felt less limited by their pain.
In a world of “I’m too sick. I’m too fat. I’m too old,”
that’s the key.
If we see HRV as our resilience, then chronic stress,
sympathetic overdrive, busy schedules, and always being on the go
is literally robbing us of our vitality.
It’s robbing us of our ability to live an emotionally rich life,
to chase our dreams, to chase wealth, chase health.
The fast track to getting yourself out of sympathetic overdrive
is to breathe with your nose.
So, right now, I want everybody to just take a big breath in your nose.
(Inhales)
Hold it for a second,
and exhale three times longer than it took you to inhale.
Go ahead.
The first exercise – go ahead, exhale, sorry.
So now, we’re going to upgrade this.
That’s the fast track.
The better decision: every morning when you wake up,
before a meeting, we’re going to block one side of your nose,
and I want you to take ten breaths, then do the other side.
As you get better, you’ll inhale one side, exhale the other.
This is an amazing quick fix to calm you down
before an important meeting.
I’ve seen incredible results in people with digestive problems
using this before meals.
Because traditionally, they run, they’re stressed out and busy,
and I’m going to shove this in my face.
When you calm down before a meal, you get that blood.
You don’t want the blood,
you can’t be running from a lion when you’re going to eat,
you want that blood in your digestive system
to give you some help.
So that’s a great exercise.
The next few I have used with everybody,
from the general population, a 73-year-old man with low back pain,
all the way to professional athletes,
and here they are.
We all went through very similar developmental milestones
at three months, six months, nine months, 12 months.
That is when your body learned how to use breath
to create a positive internal environment.
And we had no preoccupations at this age, no stress.
Your body remembers these positions.
When you get into these positions –
this is what you should do when you go home –
get into these positions and breathe.
Don’t count reps – that’s stressful.
Breathe – three, four, five minutes in each of these positions.
And remember, when I’m in this position,
I should feel expansion 360 degrees.
My entire torso should expand.
Same this here, and same thing here.
This type of exercise has actually replaced
the majority of our stretching with professional athletes.
Because most tightness – “Oh, I’ve got this hamstring’s tight” –
most tightness is tight
because the brain is trying to stabilize an unstable torso.
When we learn to use air to fill our torso effectively,
our hamstrings magically let go.
Our shoulder pain goes away
because we’re using the right muscles.
Do me a favor right now, straighten your arms,
put them next to you.
Push into your chair just a little bit,
not too hard because we don’t want to get you guys all jacked up.
Push into the chair just a little bit and take a big breath in your nose,
and exhale
– three seconds for the exhale, one second for the inhale.
(Inhales) (Exhales)
And you should feel a bit different
because if you’re using any muscles except your diaphragm,
we’re pre-occupying, we’re getting those doing something different instead.
Does anyone feel like this is a little bit harder to breathe in?
Because you don’t have as many options to get air in this position,
you can only use one or two things.
So take a few breaths.
The last exercise is a test.
I want you guys to lie on your back.
You can prop your feet up if you want to, but it’s better if you don’t,
and try to blow up a balloon from this position.
When we’re running from a lion,
our body prioritizes inhalation far more than exhalation.
Exhalation is when we’re getting rid of toxins.
Inhalation is when I’m giving my body the oxygen it needs to not die.
So we get weak in our expiratory muscles.
So when you go home –
a lot of our athletes will do this ten or 15 times before a workout
to get the breath where it needs to be, get the stability where it needs to be,
and to activate the right system.
It’s a great exercise.
Together, these three exercises
are going to give your body exactly what it needs.
You’re going to be more efficient at delivering nutrition to your cells;
you’re going to be more efficient at expelling toxins;
you’re going to increase your heart rate variability.
It’s awe-inspiring to see BELOVED wake up and experience what it’s like to show up as the heart activated version of themselves. Imagine you, with us, a heart activated group in Sedona. And then realize you already be, heal, feel and thrive everything you need to create the life you truly want!
It’s such a powerful epiphany… and one that I want you to experience, too.
ONE_LOVE – ONE LOVE- ONE
LOVE!!!!
Your Heart Beat Sounds. One Love – Thaaaaat thrrrrrup -One love- One LOVE –
LET LOVE TAKE OVER YOUR HEART> LET GOD< OR THE UNIVERSE< OR ALLAH OR
JESUS<BUDDHA < ONE LOVE TAKE OVER YOUR HEART!!!! ALLAH was the first word
we all used for the calling of GOD. When
you ALLAH – you use the original call to GOD!!! GOD knows – God knows – you are
calling out to hm with love into your heart with whatever word you use.
LOVE, PEACE, JESUS, QUANYEN, MOTHER MARY, MARY MAGDELINE try letting it all in!
Try letting in Beauty, Surrender, Hope, Open–à Hopen (Miracle Makers Academy inside joke!) …..
Breathe, Be, Heal,
STABILIZE YOUR HEART BEAT! Let LOVE< GOD< OUR ONE SOUL COMMAND YOUR
BODY!!!!
Feel, LOVE, acting today as Love moving
everyone you love to Our one dream. LOVE
and BELOVED!!!!
WHAT WORK MUST YOU DO TO
BE THAT PERSON NOW?
HOW DOES YOUR BODY NEED TO BE NOURISHED?
WHICH THOUGHTS ARE YOURS AND THOSE IMPOSTERS?
HOW DO YOU START THE JOURNEY TO USING ALL OF YOUR SENSES?
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