• Saturday: named after the Roman god Saturn associated with the Titan Cronus, father of Zeus and many Olympians.

What is the importance of Saturn?

Saturn is the second-largest planet, after Mercury in our solar system. It takes a lot of time to travel through the zodiac and complete one circle, almost 28-30 years. Its influence thus cannot be negated. Saturn is the ruling planet of Aquarius and Capricorn.

original Anglo-Saxon	Sæturnesdæg
Latin	dies Saturni, “Day of Saturn”
Scandinavian	Lørdag/Lördag
old Norse laugardagr	“washing-day”
German Sonnabend	“Sunday Eve”
German Sünnavend	“Sunday Eve”
German  Samstag	Shabbat.
Hindu	selfless dedication to God & motherly-love

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An Angel is

A Course In Miracles describes an angel as a thought of God. For me – if you think of God as the Universe – the angels are like stars twinkling within it. They seem like individual sparkles but together they light up the world 

THE TRUTH ABOUT DEATH

Based on interviews with 283 children from two distinct cultures in Ecuador, the researchers say the findings suggest that our bias toward immortality is a part of human intuition that naturally emerges early in life.

And the part of us that is eternal, we believe, is not our skills or ability to reason, but rather our hopes, desires, and emotions. We are, in fact, what we feel.

• The opposite of death is not life. The opposite of death is birth. Life has no opposite.

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• Socrates > Quotes

• “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” …

RELIGION AND SCIENCE

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Socrates :

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” …

“I cannot teach anybody anything. …

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” …

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” …

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

Angel of Death

QUESTION: Who is the Angel of Death?

ANSWER:

The angel of death reflects man’s ambivalent nature toward death, as death is very difficult for many of us to cope with. The angel of death, or grim reaper as he is sometimes called, allows us to embody the concept of death into a tangible creature. The idea of the angel of death is thousands of years old. The angel of death is or has been identified with Satan, and it is said that when Eve touched the tree of knowledge, she perceived the angel of death, and thought: “Now I shall die, and God will create another wife for Adam.”

In the Bible, various names are applied to angelic beings. For example the Greek word angelos means messenger, either human or divine. In Jewish thought and lore, angels were referred to as bnei elohim or bnei elim, “children of God.” They were gifted with limited powers dependent upon the Master’s (God’s) decrees and orders. In 1 Chronicles 21:16, the angel of the Lord is described as standing between earth and heaven with a drawn sword in his hand: ”David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown” Isaiah 37:36 says, “Then the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning — there were all the dead bodies!

It is comforting to know that even in the verses where death is personified, there is no reference to any angel being granted permanent responsibility for terminating life on Earth. 2 Samuel 24:16 says, “When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, ‘Enough! Withdraw your hand…’”

Many religions and cultures have formed an Angel of death:

• In Muslim and Islam theology, Azrael is the angel of death who is “forever writing in a large book and forever erasing what he writes: what he writes is the birth of man, what he erases is the name of the man at death.”
• In Judeo-christian lore, Michael, Gabriel, Sammael, and Sariel are all named as the angel of death.
• In Zoroastrianism, the angel of death is Mairya.
• In Babylon, it is Mot.
• In Rabbinical lore, there are 14 Angels of Death: Yetzerhara, Adriel, Yehudiam, Abaddon, Sammael, Azrael, Metatron, Gabriel, Mashhit, Hemah, Malach ha-mavet, Kafziel, Kesef, and Leviathan.
• In Falasha lore, it is Suriel.
• The Arabic angel is Azrael.

The study led by Natalie Emmons, a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University fits into a growing body of work examining the cognitive roots of religion. Although religion is a dominant force across cultures, science has made little headway in examining whether religious belief—such as the human tendency to believe in a creator—may actually be hardwired into our brains.

“This work shows that it’s possible for science to study religious belief,” says Deborah Kelemen, associate professor of psychology and co-author of the paper. “At the same time, it helps us understand some universal aspects of human cognition and the structure of the mind.”

Most studies on immortality or “eternalist” beliefs have focused on people’s views of the afterlife. Studies have found that both children and adults believe that bodily needs, such as hunger and thirst, end when people die, but mental capacities, such as thinking or feeling sad, continue in some form.

IS IT INTUITION?

But these afterlife studies leave one critical question unanswered: where do these beliefs come from? Researchers have long suspected that people develop ideas about the afterlife through cultural exposure, like television or movies, or through religious instruction.

Emmons thought perhaps these ideas of immortality actually emerge from our intuition. Just as children learn to talk without formal instruction, maybe they also intuit that part of their mind could exist apart from their body.

Emmons tackled this question by focusing on “prelife,” the period before conception, since few cultures have beliefs or views on the subject.

“By focusing on prelife, we could see if culture causes these beliefs to appear, or if they appear spontaneously,” says Emmons.

“I think it’s a brilliant idea,” says Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University who was not involved with the study. “One persistent belief is that children learn these ideas through school or church. That’s what makes the prelife research so cool. It’s a very clever way to get at children’s beliefs on a topic where they aren’t given answers ahead of time.”

CHILDREN IN ECUADOR

Emmons interviewed children from an indigenous Shuar village in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador. She chose the group because they have no cultural prelife beliefs, and she suspected that indigenous children, who have regular exposure to birth and death through hunting and farming, would have a more rational, biologically based view of the time before they were conceived.

For comparison, she also interviewed children from an urban area near Quito, Ecuador. Most of the urban children were Roman Catholic, a religion that teaches that life begins only at conception. If cultural influences were paramount, reasoned Emmons, both urban and indigenous children should reject the idea of life before birth.

Emmons showed the children drawings of a baby, a young woman, and the same woman while pregnant, then asked a series of questions about the child’s abilities, thoughts and emotions during each period: as babies, in the womb, and before conception.

The results were surprising. Both groups gave remarkably similar answers, despite their radically different cultures. The children reasoned that their bodies didn’t exist before birth, and that they didn’t have the ability to think or remember.

However, both groups also said that their emotions and desires existed before they were born.

For example, while children generally reported that they didn’t have eyes and couldn’t see things before birth, they often reported being happy that they would soon meet their mother, or sad that they were apart from their family.

“They didn’t even realize they were contradicting themselves,” says Emmons. “Even kids who had biological knowledge about reproduction still seemed to think that they had existed in some sort of eternal form. And that form really seemed to be about emotions and desires.”

FEELINGS ARE FOREVER

• Do you value life as a thing of beauty?
  And it is just that.

Why would humans have evolved this seemingly universal belief in the eternal existence of our emotions? Emmons says that this human trait might be a by-product of our highly developed social reasoning.

“We’re really good at figuring out what people are thinking, what their emotions are, what their desires are,” she says. We tend to see people as the sum of their mental states, and desires and emotions may be particularly helpful when predicting their behavior.

Because this ability is so useful and so powerful, it flows over into other parts of our thinking. We sometimes see connections where potentially none exist, we hope there’s a master plan for the universe, we see purpose when there is none, and we imagine that a soul survives without a body.

These ideas, while nonscientific, are natural and deep-seated.

“I study these things for a living but even find myself defaulting to them. I know that my mind is a product of my brain but I still like to think of myself as something independent of my body,” says Emmons.

“We have the ability to reflect and reason scientifically, and we have the ability to reason based on our gut and intuition,” she adds. “And depending on the situation, one may be more useful than the other.”

Even angry, I worked with love, with God, and every spiritual resource that I want to teach you about. Love is the greatest force in nature.  Think about it!

A mother can lift a car with hysterical strength for her beloved child. 

Your emotions are gifts that hold special insights for you.

Anger, like every emotion, is deep and full of gifts for you.

One of the gifts that understanding my anger gave me is “I love people more than they love themselves.” I am grateful my anger showed that to me. 


I know with God’s help and with knowing how to navigate your energy, you can co-create in your reality the best possible outcome for all involved!

UNDERSTANDING YOUR EMOTIONS

So even as I was feeling anger, I was able to navigate getting God’s help to keep her here with us! 

The second time the Angel visited me, I was on the airplane back home to Los Angeles.

With God’s help, I saved a woman with full respiratory distress, possible heart attack, and low blood sugar for 5 hours in flight.

The last 2 hours the plane was too heavy to land anywhere to help her. So I kept administering the basics of what was available in flight. 

The pilot, all of the staff and everyone on the plane knew the Angel of Death was with us.

The pilot came to visit us at our seats several times keeping us informed of possible options for landing.

She was met by paramedics as soon as we landed at LAX. 

The paramedics took a full report and shuttled her off first before the rest of the passengers and crew disembarked.  

I am so grateful I was there to help… this retired MD,  Miracle Maker Academy Professor, Life Coach, and host of elite retreats with beloved Miracle Makers all over the world… and met the Angel of Death and got Compassion, Mercy, and more Life for both of those extraordinary beings!

I can’t wait until you get to learn for yourself how to do this and I can give you even more details!

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In the mid-’90s,the CDC and Kaiser Permanentediscovered an exposure that dramatically increased the riskfor seven out of 10 of the leading causes of death in the United States.In high doses, it affects brain development,the immune system, hormonal systems,and even the way our DNA is read and transcribed.Folks who are exposed in very high doseshave triple the lifetime risk of heart disease and lung cancerand a 20-year difference in life expectancy.And yet, doctors today are not trained in routine screening or treatment.Now, the exposure I’m talking about is not a pesticide or a packaging chemical.It’s childhood trauma.Okay. What kind of trauma am I talking about here?I’m not talking about failing a test or losing a basketball game.I am talking about threats that are so severe or pervasivethat they literally get under our skin and change our physiology:things like abuse or neglect,or growing up with a parent who struggles with mental illnessor substance dependence.Now, for a long time,I viewed these things in the way I was trained to view them,either as a social problem — refer to social services –or as a mental health problem — refer to mental health services.And then something happened to make me rethink my entire approach.

>> Our brains develop and change throughout life,enabling us to learn and do new thingsand to adapt at every age.But childhood, and early childhood in particular,is the most sensitive and critical periodfor brain development.As a child interacts with the world, their experiences,both positive and negative, stimulate the brain,causing it to form neural pathways that lay the foundationfor lifelong cognitive and behavioral functioning.>> I like to think of brain development as the brain islike a, the site of a town so you can lay out roadwork.You’re laying down roads according to,in the brain’s case, according to experiences.So you have an experience and your brain laid down a path.And the more you have that experience,the bigger that path is going to get and the stronger,and then it’s paved, it becomes a real road in a highway.And you’re laying out the gridworkof the town according to your experiences.And that’s very much like the brain development.The more you have experiences,the stronger those electrical circuits are going to be.And that’s going to shape the way you think,and act, and view the world.>> Safe, stable, nurturing relationshipsand environments provide the contextfor healthy brain developmentwhen children have ample opportunitiesto learn and explore.In this setting, children acquire a range of experiencesthat stimulate different parts of the brain allowingfor healthy, balanced development.Some degree of adversity and stress is a normaland essential part of human developmentthat can help children learn how to react to future challenges.But a child who’s repeatedly exposed to adversitieslike abuse, neglect, or unstable relationshipsand environments may experience what’s known as toxic stressand this can disrupt brain development.>> Our experiences literally shape the way our brain isdeveloping and the brain architecture.So if you have a baby, a very young baby,who cries when they’re hungry and mother comes overand feeds the baby and helps the baby settle down,the baby goes back to sleep, that happens, what,five, ten times a day.And that is laid down as electrical circuits are laiddown in the brain and so the baby learns that you cry,you get fed, you sooth, and you go to sleep.And that experience is sort of coded into the brain,just like any other experience.So good experiences help the brain develop in a certain way.And if you have adverse experiences,that same baby cries, and cries, and criesand the parents are addicted to opiate drugs, let’s say.And they ignore the baby.The baby is left alone for ten hours in the dark.That baby’s brain is still developingbut it’s developing in a different way.Their experience is much differentand so it is developing in a way that says, “You can cry,and cry, and cry and escalatethat stress response as much as you want.Nothing is going to happen.”And the interpretation of that is not only is the brainrealizing that they’re not going to get soothed,but the child learns, and this is laid down in the brain,the child learns that the world is an unsafe place,that they are insignificant.There’s no one out there to help them.And that is all laid down in the brain as well.>> There are different forms of stressthat any individual is exposed to.There’s positive stressthat oftentimes is very short term but, you know,it’s something that everybody experiences.So even if you said, you know, waking up in the morning,going to work, going to school, that’s, you know,one form of stress, very short term but somethingthat your body has to adjust to.You can have very neutral forms of stressthat are a little bit longer term but things in which,you know, there are resources and support that help you adaptto it, whereas there’s other kinds of thingsthat are more long term kinds of negative stress and that’swhere toxic stress really fits into.Things in which person doesn’t have,or an individual does not have the kind of resourcesand support to try to deal with it and it has a negative effectin a long term consequences on that particular individual.So it’s toxic in the senseof the body responds to that stress.You know, one of the thingsthat is produced is a hormone called cortisoland that constant production of cortisol has a negative effecton brain development, on neurological development,and on other kinds of organs and tissues in the body.>> When we experience stress or encounter a threat,the brain triggers the body to produce hormonesthat activate a stress response, or what’s often referredto as the fight or flight response.In a moment of crisis, this response is necessaryand potentially life-saving.But stress can become toxicwhen the stress response system is activated frequentlyor for prolonged periods of time.If a child is constantly afraid, her body and brain will remainon high alert, preparing her to react should a threat return.Her body will continually produce stress hormonesand the stress response system will remain activatedin her brain, drawing energy away from other neural pathwaysin need of development or maintenance.In a child experiencing toxic stress, parts of the brainthat might be weakened are those regulating complex functionslike emotional self-regulation, social interactions,and abstract thinking.This may have consequences throughout life and can resultin social, behavioral, and cognitive challenges.>> Toxic stress implies a certain level of adversityand that often occurs early in life, within childhood.So children who have experienced adverse childhood experienceshave been found through very diligent research to beat increased risk for a number of long term problemswhen they reach adolescence and adulthood,and these problems really span multiple domains.They can be behavioral problems, emotional problems,and physical problems.So if you think about it,children who have had early adversity are at higher risk,much higher risk for major depression and suicidality,for anger management problems, for delinquencyand high risk behavior, for dropping out of school,for teen pregnancy, for runaway behavior, for adult criminality,and for liver disease, and lung disease,and heart disease among other things.So it has a profound long term impact potentially.>> And yet the brain is capable of healing and changing.Effective treatments can help those affectedby early adversity and give them a chance to heal from traumasand learn new ways to interpret and reactto stressors and other stimuli.Fortified by this information,we can shift the conversation away from one that blamesand punishes people for inappropriate reactionsand behaviors that developed in childhood dueto adversity and trauma.Instead, we can champion the need for expanded servicesand opportunities that help people overcome early adversity.And we can focus on ways to prevent abuse, neglect,and other challenges before they occur.>> I don’t want to imply that any childwho experiences early adversity is on a missionwhere they inevitably will experience these adverse affectslong term.That’s not the case at all.Many kids are resilient and so they are ableto overcome this adversity very early onand prevent the long term effects.Some adults will experience those long term effectsbut there are ways that we can help the adults.And very often — I work at a child sexual abuse clinic –and very often our parents will come in, the mother will come inand say, “My daughter was sexually abused,” and it comesout while I’m talking to herthat she was sexually abused as well.She never got therapy.So for 20 years she’s been living with this experienceand hasn’t told anyone.That’s not too late.She can still get help.She can still get therapy.She can still work through that.She can still kind of overcome that and move onand not have an increased risk of adversity.There are other social programs that are helpful.For example, programs that help people develop someof those skills that maybe they didn’t develop early on,that the skills are related to planning,controlling their emotions, and controlling their impulses,and getting hold of that automatic response,that jump to anger, getting hold of that, calming it down,learning how to do that can help tremendously.>> CDC is the nation’s public health agency and as such,are really interested in those factors, risk factors,and protective factors, that influence health.And it turns out that early adversity in the formof violence and other adverse events has a profound impacton health throughout the lifetime.Mental health impacting infectious diseasesas well as chronic diseases.So, as such, early adversity and the influenceof that is critically importantfrom the public health standpoint.And it’s strategic.If we can reduce or eliminate early adversity,we can have an enormous impact on healthof the U.S. population and, in fact,people around the world during the courseof their entire lives.>> In lesson two, you’ll learnabout the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood ExperiencesStudy and about findings from the study that can aidin our efforts to prevent and treat ACE’s.

>> In this lesson, you’ll learn how exposure
to childhood adversity is linked to negative health outcomes
and reduced life opportunities, such as education,
employment, and income.
Much of what we know about the links between ACEs
and long-term outcomes is a result of the findings
from the CDC Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences
study, or the ACE study.
The ACE study was one of the largest investigations
of the associations between childhood adversities
and adult health and wellbeing.
The study was conducted
at a Kaiser Permanente health facility
in southern California from 1995 to 1997.
Over 17,000 participants over the age
of 18 received physical exams
and completed controversial surveys
about their childhood experiences
and their current health status and behaviors.
The study looked at 10 ACEs organized
into the following three categories.
One, abuse.
Two, neglect.
And three, household challenges.
Take a moment to review the 10 ACEs included
in the CDC Kaiser Permanente ACE study.

you’re a doctorand you see 100 kids that all drink from the same well,and 98 of them develop diarrhea,you can go ahead and write that prescriptionfor dose after dose after dose of antibiotics,or you can walk over and say, “What the hell is in this well?”So I began reading everything that I could get my hands onabout how exposure to adversityaffects the developing brains and bodies of children.And then one day, my colleague walked into my office,and he said, “Dr. Burke, have you seen this?”In his hand was a copy of a research studycalled the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study.That day changed my clinical practice and ultimately my career.The Adverse Childhood Experiences Studyis something that everybody needs to know about.It was done by Dr. Vince Felitti at Kaiser and Dr. Bob Anda at the CDC,and together, they asked 17,500 adults about their history of exposureto what they called “adverse childhood experiences,” or ACEs.Those include physical, emotional, or sexual abuse;physical or emotional neglect;parental mental illness, substance dependence, incarceration;parental separation or divorce;or domestic violence.For every yes, you would get a point on your ACE score.And then what they didwas they correlated these ACE scores against health outcomes.What they found was striking.Two things:Number one, ACEs are incredibly common.Sixty-seven percent of the population had at least one ACE,and 12.6 percent, one in eight, had four or more ACEs.The second thing that they foundwas that there was a dose-response relationshipbetween ACEs and health outcomes:the higher your ACE score, the worse your health outcomes.For a person with an ACE score of four or more,their relative risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseasewas two and a half times that of someone with an ACE score of zero.For hepatitis, it was also two and a half times.For depression, it was four and a half times.For suicidality, it was 12 times.A person with an ACE score of seven or morehad triple the lifetime risk of lung cancerand three and a half times the risk of ischemic heart disease,the number one killer in the United States of America.Well, of course this makes sense.Some people looked at this data and they said, “Come on.You have a rough childhood, you’re more likely to drink and smokeand do all these things that are going to ruin your health.This isn’t science. This is just bad behavior.”It turns out this is exactly where the science comes in.We now understand better than we ever have beforehow exposure to early adversityaffects the developing brains and bodies of children.It affects areas like the nucleus accumbens,the pleasure and reward center of the brainthat is implicated in substance dependence.It inhibits the prefrontal cortex,which is necessary for impulse control and executive function,a critical area for learning.And on MRI scans,we see measurable differences in the amygdala,the brain’s fear response center.So there are real neurologic reasonswhy folks exposed to high doses of adversityare more likely to engage in high-risk behavior,and that’s important to know.But it turns out that even if you don’t engage in any high-risk behavior,you’re still more likely to develop heart disease or cancer.The reason for this has to do with the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis,the brain’s and body’s stress response systemthat governs our fight-or-flight response.How does it work?Well, imagine you’re walking in the forest and you see a bear.Immediately, your hypothalamus sends a signal to your pituitary,which sends a signal to your adrenal gland that says,”Release stress hormones! Adrenaline! Cortisol!”And so your heart starts to pound,Your pupils dilate, your airways open up,and you are ready to either fight that bear or run from the bear.And that is wonderfulif you’re in a forest and there’s a bear.(Laughter)But the problem is what happens when the bear comes home every night,and this system is activated over and over and over again,and it goes from being adaptive, or life-saving,to maladaptive, or health-damaging.Children are especially sensitive to this repeated stress activation,because their brains and bodies are just developing.High doses of adversity not only affect brain structure and function,they affect the developing immune system,developing hormonal systems,and even the way our DNA is read and transcribed.So for me, this information threw my old training out the window,because when we understand the mechanism of a disease,when we know not only which pathways are disrupted, but how,then as doctors, it is our job to use this sciencefor prevention and treatment.That’s what we do.So in San Francisco, we created the Center for Youth Wellnessto prevent, screen and heal the impacts of ACEs and toxic stress.We started simply with routine screening of every one of our kidsat their regular physical,because I know that if my patient has an ACE score of 4,she’s two and a half times as likely to develop hepatitis or COPD,she’s four and half times as likely to become depressed,and she’s 12 times as likely to attempt to take her own lifeas my patient with zero ACEs.I know that when she’s in my exam room.For our patients who do screen positive,we have a multidisciplinary treatment team that works to reduce the dose of adversityand treat symptoms using best practices, including home visits, care coordination,mental health care, nutrition,holistic interventions, and yes, medication when necessary.But we also educate parents about the impacts of ACEs and toxic stressthe same way you would for covering electrical outlets, or lead poisoning,and we tailor the care of our asthmatics and our diabeticsin a way that recognizes that they may need more aggressive treatment,given the changes to their hormonal and immune systems.So the other thing that happens when you understand this scienceis that you want to shout it from the rooftops,because this isn’t just an issue for kids in Bayview.I figured the minute that everybody else heard about this,it would be routine screening, multi-disciplinary treatment teams,and it would be a race to the most effective clinical treatment protocols.Yeah. That did not happen.And that was a huge learning for me.What I had thought of as simply best clinical practiceI now understand to be a movement.In the words of Dr. Robert Block,the former President of the American Academy of Pediatrics,”Adverse childhood experiencesare the single greatest unaddressed public health threatfacing our nation today.”And for a lot of people, that’s a terrifying prospect.The scope and scale of the problem seems so large that it feels overwhelmingto think about how we might approach it.But for me, that’s actually where the hopes lies,because when we have the right framework,when we recognize this to be a public health crisis,then we can begin to use the right tool kit to come up with solutions.From tobacco to lead poisoning to HIV/AIDS,the United States actually has quite a strong track recordwith addressing public health problems,but replicating those successes with ACEs and toxic stressis going to take determination and commitment,and when I look at what our nation’s response has been so far,I wonder,why haven’t we taken this more seriously?You know, at first I thought that we marginalized the issuebecause it doesn’t apply to us.That’s an issue for those kids in those neighborhoods.Which is weird, because the data doesn’t bear that out.The original ACEs study was done in a populationthat was 70 percent Caucasian,70 percent college-educated.But then, the more I talked to folks,I’m beginning to think that maybe I had it completely backwards.If I were to ask how many people in this roomgrew up with a family member who suffered from mental illness,I bet a few hands would go up.And then if I were to ask how many folks had a parent who maybe drank too much,or who really believed that if you spare the rod, you spoil the child,I bet a few more hands would go up.Even in this room, this is an issue that touches many of us,and I am beginning to believe that we marginalize the issuebecause it does apply to us.Maybe it’s easier to see in other zip codesbecause we don’t want to look at it.We’d rather be sick.Fortunately, scientific advances and, frankly, economic realitiesmake that option less viable every day.The science is clear:Early adversity dramatically affects health across a lifetime.Today, we are beginning to understand how to interrupt the progressionfrom early adversity to disease and early death,and 30 years from now,the child who has a high ACE scoreand whose behavioral symptoms go unrecognized,whose asthma management is not connected,and who goes on to develop high blood pressureand early heart disease or cancerwill be just as anomalous as a six-month mortality from HIV/AIDS.People will look at that situation and say, “What the heck happened there?”This is treatable.This is beatable.The single most important thing that we need todayis the courage to look this problem in the faceand say, this is real and this is all of us.I believe that we are the movement.Thank you.

Practicing Emotional First Aid

Stress means -Reach out and connect with others!

7 ways to do so:

1. Pay attention to emotional pain — recognize it when it happens and work to treat it before it feels all-encompassing.
   The body evolved the sensation of physical pain to alert us that something is wrong and we need to address it. The same is true for emotional pain. If a rejection, failure or bad mood is not getting better, it means you’ve sustained a psychological wound and you need to treat it. For example, loneliness can be devastatingly damaging to your psychological and physical health, so when you or your friend or loved one is feeling socially or emotionally isolated, you need to take action.
2. Redirect your gut reaction when you fail.
   The nature of psychological wounds makes it easy for one to lead to another. Failure can often drive you to focus on what you can’t do instead of focusing on what you can. That can then make you less likely to perform at your best, which will make you even more focused on your shortcomings, and on the cycle goes. To stop this sort of emotional spiral, learn to ignore the post-failure “gut” reaction of feeling helpless and demoralized, and make a list of factors that you can control were you to try again. For instance, think about preparation and planning, and how you might improve each of them. This kind of exercise will reduce feelings of helplessness and improve your chances of future success.
3. Monitor and protect your self-esteem. When you feel like putting yourself down, take a moment to be compassionate to yourself.
   Self-esteem is like an emotional immune system that buffers you from emotional pain and strengthens your emotional resilience. As such, it is very important to monitor it and avoid putting yourself down, particularly when you are already hurting. One way to “heal” damaged self-esteem is to practice self-compassion. When you’re feeling critical of yourself, do the following exercise: imagine a dear friend is feeling bad about him or herself for similar reasons and write an email expressing compassion and support. Then read the email. Those are the messages you should be giving yourself.
4. When negative thoughts are taking over, disrupt them with positive distraction.
   When you replay distressing events in your mind without seeking new insight or trying to solve a problem, you’re just brooding, and that, especially when it becomes habitual, can lead to deeper psychological pain. The best way to disrupt unhealthy rumination is to distract yourself by engaging in a task that requires concentration (for example, do a Sudoku, complete a crossword, try to recall the names of the kids in your fifth grade class). Studies show that even two minutes of distraction will reduce the urge to focus on the negative unhealthily.
5. Find meaning in loss.
   Loss is a part of life, but it can scar us and keep us from moving forward if we don’t treat the emotional wounds it creates. If sufficient time has passed and you’re still struggling to move forward after a loss, you need to introduce a new way of thinking about it. Specifically, the most important thing you can do to ease your pain and recover is to find meaning in the loss and derive purpose from it. It might be hard, but think of what you might have gained from the loss (for instance, “I lost my spouse but I’ve become much closer to my kids”). Consider how you might gain or help others gain a new appreciation for life, or imagine the changes you could make that will help you live a life more aligned with your values and purpose.
6. Don’t let excessive guilt linger.
   Guilt can be useful. In small doses, it alerts you to take action to mend a problem in your relationship with another person. But excessive guilt is toxic, in that it wastes your emotional and intellectual energies, distracts you from other tasks, and prevents you from enjoying life. One of the best ways to resolve lingering guilt is to offer an effective apology. Yes, you might have tried apologizing previously, but apologies are more complex than we tend to realize. The crucial ingredient that every effective apology requires — and most standard apologies lack — is an “empathy statement.” In other words, your apology should focus less on explaining why you did what you did and more on how your actions (or inactions) impacted the other person. It is much easier to forgive someone when you feel they truly understand. By apologizing (even if for a second time), the other person is much more likely to convey authentic forgiveness and help your guilt dissolve.
7. Learn what treatments for emotional wounds work for you.
   Pay attention to yourself and learn how you, personally, deal with common emotional wounds. For instance, do you shrug them off, get really upset but recover quickly, get upset and recover slowly, squelch your feelings, or …? Use this analysis to help yourself understand which emotional first aid treatments work best for you in various situations (just as you would identify which of the many pain relievers on the shelves works best for you). The same goes for building emotional resilience. Try out various techniques and figure out which are easiest for you to implement and which tend to be most effective for you. But mostly, get into the habit of taking note of your psychological health on a regular basis — and especially after a stressful, difficult, or emotionally painful situation.

Yes, practicing emotional hygiene takes a little time and effort, but it will seriously elevate your entire quality of life. I promise.

From: https://ideas.ted.com/7-ways-to-practice-emotional-first-aid/

“You have a responsibility to the people that care about you to be okay!

Your friends and family might love you, and sometimes they don’t always make for good therapists, intuitive, or give you accurate feedback!

“Welcome – Here I am – I needed help too!” -Dr. Sarah Larsen

Approximately one in six adults in the United States experiences mental health issues in any given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Luckily, among those over 44 million Americans are many doctors, celebrities with access to the best, and scientist creating solutions! 

After all, friends and family aren’t always the best source of advice. Plus, there are many benefits of talking to a medical intuitive that you simply won’t get from a non-professional.

We’ve certainly come a long way when it comes to destigmatizing the world of mental illness, stress as the cause of di-ease, and family epigenetics as a major source of illness!.

Today, all generations are viewing therapy  as a crucial part of proactively maintaining their overall wellness’

Listen to psychologist Erika Martinez, (PsyD). “Because of our prevalent medical model and the way insurance is set up, mental health has been thought of as secondary or tertiary care. It’s never been used as preventive medicine. Now, prevention is what it’s all about.”

Is there still an undeniable stigma around medical intuitives and therapist?

Maybe some feel embarrassed to require help beyond what friends or family can provide, or maybe you — like Kanye — just have yet to understand the benefits of paying to talk to someone.

Thinking of reaching out? Please do – We have a free Monthly online meeting on zoom with the best experts with Doc. Dr. Sarah Larsen to help you.

Here are 8 points to consider:

1. Won’t judge you – No one will in our Miracle Making Community or You can count on truly judgment free help!

One of the biggest perks of having those committed to your wellness is that you can talk to them about literally anything without needing to filter yourself. Imagine having no fear of being judged. It’s basically one of the key requirements of the job.

You are beyond lucky if you have friends and family that do not judge you.

Yes, with the right session you too can discover how to keep judgement in check on whatever you’re going through.

2. If someone is selling products- he or she might be biased as that is the solution!

One trukty dedicated to the art of healing should be there to give the best possible guidance to you — and you alone. “The problem with friends, those that sell or advocate for certain products so they often just agree with you to make you feel better and then “push” or recommend a product!

Psychiatrist Scott Carroll, MD. also adds,

“Family, on the other hand, tends to advise you in ways to ‘protect you’ and minimize your risk, or [to] fit their beliefs about morals and how they think life should be lived,” he says.

These are the best-case scenarios. The worst case is that your friend or family member may actually want to control you or keep you in a pathological state for their benefit, he adds.

Follow your inner knowing. Trust your gut and reach out to someone who doesn’t have the same personal stake, so they can be completely honest and objective.

3. Hippocratic oath

While it’s important to only confide in those who you have complete trust in, so you don’t have to worry that something you said in confidence will be turned into gossip or repeated to the wrong person.

4. Doc Larsen retired from Allopathic Medicine to practice what she had at birth.
intuitive abilities sharpened by college, Medical School, Nongovernmental Organizational work as a doctor, seminary. She has over 25 years worth of research and training in Eastern and Western Medicine! Find someone like that

While your friend, may have taken a Psych 101 class, a coaching program etc without a degree, they simply don’t have the tools to help you take action. (And even if they did, they’d have bias). “Your friends and family can listen and provide support, but a clinician is trained to understand your psychological behaviors. They can help you uncover the why,” Cummins says.

And most importantly, they can also give you healthy coping getting to the root cause, so you can change your behaviors, or move past dysfunctional thoughts or difficult emotions, she adds.

5. With a Medical Intuitive, you don’t have to feel guilty about feeling “needy”

After all, you’re paying them (or insurance is)! Any relationship can turn toxic if one person feels like they’re constantly being “used” for support, but never supported in return. With a therapist, it’s not supposed to be a two-way street.

“As a therapist, you don’t expect anything back from your clients, except for them to just show up. With any other relationship you have in life, something is needed in return. If it’s your parents, they need you to be their child; if it’s a friend, they want that friendship back,” says Cummins.

6. Truly getting the impact of your challenge. Most are generational Challenges!

There’s nothing worse than going through a painful or traumatic experience and being told by a friend or family member that you should be “over it by now.”

The fact is, everyone experiences and manages life events differently. A therapist will understand that everyone is on their own timeline when it comes to getting over a breakup, settling into a new job, or processing any other obstacle, Cummins says.

And when it comes to other serious mental health issues like depression or anxiety — or even sub-clinical issues like loneliness or social anxiety — a therapist will never minimize or brush over your issues as not serious enough or worthy of attention like your friends or family may.

7. Talking to the wrong people might make you feel worse

“Some people have really difficult families. It may not be safe to share intimate struggles with them even if they are flesh and blood,” Martinez points out. “Others simply aren’t equipped with the ability to hear your story, and they won’t be able to empathize,” she says.

“When people share intimate struggles with those who haven’t earned the right to hear them, or who make them feel minimized, judged, or deprecated, it can do more damage than good,” she adds.

Of course, talking to select friends and family who do make you feel understood and validated can be helpful, especially if you just need a vent sesh about life stressors, says Carroll. “The irony is that you often have to go to therapy to figure out which of your friends and family are the best to talk to.”

8. They can help you grow as a person

Because of their training, a therapist is uniquely equipped to give you insight into your behaviors that can help you grow in ways that might be impossible on your own.

“For example, in the instance of a breakup, most people think talking to a therapist would be an overreaction. It’s not. It’s one of the healthiest things you can do,” says Martinez. “A breakup is fertile ground for personal growth. Yes, you are emotionally raw and vulnerable, but there’s so much potential there. It’s a chance for people to realize things about themselves they never would’ve realized had they simply talked to friends and family.”

My go-to remedy for emotional distress is EFT (emotional freedom technique).

This tapping procedure is related to accupressure and is quick, easy and doesn’t require anything but your fingers. I’ve been using it with excellent results for almost 10 years.

Are you ready to receive your full blessings and express your untapped potential by releasing your inherited patterns that hold you back and keep you stuck and thwarted?

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