Haus Of Mind

01/07/2021

Medic tells of despair and sadness at inability of overwhelmed health service to treat vulnerable young people

01/07/2021

01/07/2021

Psychology for Young People 18-25yrs old.
Haus Of Mind gives you the time and freedom to pause, think, create, and savour. Using creative ways to move forward.
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16/06/2021

Many scholars believe that pain and trauma are incidents prevented from being completed. These can be single damaging events such as a car accident, continuous bombardments requiring emotional defenses, or over-training of isolated muscles that lock the body into a recognised pattern.

https://www.iptmiami.com/news/Learning_How_to_Unlock_Tissue_Memory

Learning How to Unlock Tissue Memory.

15/06/2021

Unlocking Memories
Three things are necessary for the body to release stored trauma:

1. The inner resources to handle the experience that were not in place when the experience originally occurred.

2. Space for the traumatic energy to go when released. Being full of tension and stress does not allow space for the stored trauma to move into.

3. Reconnection of the brain with the area of the body where the trauma is stored.

14/06/2021

Intuitive eating is a philosophy of eating that makes you the expert of your body and its hunger signals.

Essentially, it’s the opposite of a traditional diet. It doesn’t impose guidelines about what to avoid and what or when to eat.

Instead, it teaches that you are the best person — the only person — to make those choices.

13/06/2021

Eat in harmony with your genetic programming — i.e,. the way our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate.

Whole foods contain a number of substances that work synergistically and may be far more effective than supplements that just deliver one of them.

Why take the powerful antioxidant lycopene in a pill when you can eat a tomato that contains both lycopene and a number of other antioxidants, along with vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that work together to prevent heart disease by decreasing cholesterol and lipid levels and stopping abnormal blood clotting?

13/06/2021

Four Easy Ways To Incorporate Meditation Into Your Life

Take a few minutes in the morning or evening to watch the Sunrise and Sunset. Soak in the beauty, drink in the calm, and let your eyes soften out onto the horizon.

Give yourself 5-10 minutes a day to sit down in a quiet, comfortable place and focus on your breath. A little bit of quiet each day can go a long way.

Take a few. Take a few seconds or minutes before you eat or sip your cup of tea to take in the smells, the temperature, and the moment. You might even add in a prayer or acknowledge the effort that has gone into what you’re about to consume (i.e., gratitude)

Enjoy a guided meditation. Letting the voice of another guide you into relaxation can be so much easier than doing it on your own.

13/06/2021

When your body is in fight or flight, it isn’t able to direct much energy towards proper digestion.

Meditation & Digestion.

Humans were never designed to be stressed out all the time, and when we learn to calm our nervous systems, our health improves dramatically. Our nervous system and the gut are inextricably linked.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

One study focused on teaching the Relaxation Response Meditation to those with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). A one-year follow-up found that many of them continued to show “significant additional reduction in pain and bloating.” (1-3) Another more recent pilot study looked at Relaxation Response Meditation's impact on genomic markers related to IBD. They found that meditation reduced RR-MBI response genes' expression was most significantly linked to inflammatory response, cell growth, proliferation, and oxidative stress-related pathways. (4)

But you don’t need IBS or IBD to reap the digestive benefits of meditation.

Weight Loss

Meditation can also help with weight loss. A 2017 meta-analysis of 19 different studies (5) found that diet and exercise work in the short term, but eventually, the study participants’ weight was gained back after the programs ended. On the other hand, weight loss protocols that included mindfulness interventions such as meditation and healthy eating and exercise were seen to be more effective in reducing weight and keeping it off.

So, why is it possible that meditation helps when it comes to weight loss? Loosely put, it goes back to living a fight-flight lifestyle. If our cortisol levels are consistently high, we have a greater chance of obesity over time, according to a 2017 study. (6) Some research shows that generalized meditation helped reduce cortisol and C-reactive protein levels. (7)

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