Did You Know: The adult human skull contains 22 bones! The cranium is made up of 8 bones that enclose and protect the brain suspended in the cranial cavity. The other 14 are facial bones that protect and support the digestive and respiratory tract
May 16, 2013
What Are Cervical Nerves?
What Are Cervical Nerves?
Cervical nerves are spinal nerves from the first seven vertebrae of the spinal cord. These seven vertebrae, called C1 through C7, begin at the base of the skull and make up the cervical spine in humans and most other mammals. There are eight cervical nerves, designated C1 through C8, with C1 through C7 emerging from above the cervical vertebra of the same number and nerve C8 emerging from below vertebra C7, the furthest from the skull. These nerves are connected to the muscles of the upper body and are among the most important in the nervous system.
Each cervical nerve innervates — stimulates — part of the upper body. Beyond the spine in the peripheral nervous system, these nerves branch, split, and intertwine. C1 through C4 form a structure in the neck called the cervical plexus, while C4 through C8, along with the first thoracic spinal nerve (T1), form the brachial plexus. Therefore, a particular cervical nerve can branch into multiple parts of the body, and a particular part of the body can be connected to more than one cervical nerve.
The head and neck are innervated by cervical nerves C1, C2, and C3. The thoracic diaphragm, a sheet of muscle across the lower rib cage essential to respiration, is innervated by C3, C4, and C5. Nerves C5, C6, C7, and C8, along with T1, split into a series of branches that innervate the arms, hands, and shoulders, as well as some muscles in the thorax.
Some of the nerves that branch off include the great auricular nerve, lesser occipital nerve, and transverse cervical nerve, which provide sensation on different parts of the head and neck, as well as the ansa cervicalis, which connects to the muscles of the neck. The phrenic nerve controls the diaphragm. Nerves connecting the cervical spine to the arms, shoulders, and hands include the radial nerve, ulnar nerve, and axillary nerve.
The cervical nerves are essential to sensation and motor control, and damage to them caused by disease or spinal injuries can result in partial or total loss of feeling and mobility in the upper body. It can also affect the autonomic nervous system in the torso, resulting in problems with digestion, respiration, and bowel and bladder control. Injuries at higher vertebrae generally cause greater impairment than injuries at lower vertebrae, and sufficient damage to the higher nerves can result in total quadriplegia — loss of use of all the limbs and the torso. The importance of the thoracic diaphragm to respiration means that a person can no longer breathe independently if the spine is severed above C3, although he or she can be kept alive by a respirator.
Article found here: http://bit.ly/ZMlSRY
Art by Wataru Yoshida
Cervical nerves are spinal nerves from the first seven vertebrae of the spinal cord. These seven vertebrae, called C1 through C7, begin at the base of the skull and make up the cervical spine in humans and most other mammals. There are eight cervical nerves, designated C1 through C8, with C1 through C7 emerging from above the cervical vertebra of the same number and nerve C8 emerging from below vertebra C7, the furthest from the skull. These nerves are connected to the muscles of the upper body and are among the most important in the nervous system.
Each cervical nerve innervates — stimulates — part of the upper body. Beyond the spine in the peripheral nervous system, these nerves branch, split, and intertwine. C1 through C4 form a structure in the neck called the cervical plexus, while C4 through C8, along with the first thoracic spinal nerve (T1), form the brachial plexus. Therefore, a particular cervical nerve can branch into multiple parts of the body, and a particular part of the body can be connected to more than one cervical nerve.
The head and neck are innervated by cervical nerves C1, C2, and C3. The thoracic diaphragm, a sheet of muscle across the lower rib cage essential to respiration, is innervated by C3, C4, and C5. Nerves C5, C6, C7, and C8, along with T1, split into a series of branches that innervate the arms, hands, and shoulders, as well as some muscles in the thorax.
Some of the nerves that branch off include the great auricular nerve, lesser occipital nerve, and transverse cervical nerve, which provide sensation on different parts of the head and neck, as well as the ansa cervicalis, which connects to the muscles of the neck. The phrenic nerve controls the diaphragm. Nerves connecting the cervical spine to the arms, shoulders, and hands include the radial nerve, ulnar nerve, and axillary nerve.
The cervical nerves are essential to sensation and motor control, and damage to them caused by disease or spinal injuries can result in partial or total loss of feeling and mobility in the upper body. It can also affect the autonomic nervous system in the torso, resulting in problems with digestion, respiration, and bowel and bladder control. Injuries at higher vertebrae generally cause greater impairment than injuries at lower vertebrae, and sufficient damage to the higher nerves can result in total quadriplegia — loss of use of all the limbs and the torso. The importance of the thoracic diaphragm to respiration means that a person can no longer breathe independently if the spine is severed above C3, although he or she can be kept alive by a respirator.
Article found here: http://bit.ly/ZMlSRY
Art by Wataru Yoshida
Facts About Restless Legs Syndrome By Amanda MacMillan
Facts About Restless Legs Syndrome
By Amanda MacMillan
Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a real medical condition—but its funny name and strange-sounding symptoms have stirred up controversy. Some people question everything from the criteria used to diagnose it to the medications used to treat it.
Still, studies have found that about 7% of the population suffers from symptoms such as creepy-crawly feelings in their legs that interrupt sleep. Here are 12 facts you should know about RLS.
RLS legs don't move involuntarily:
RLS is characterized by sensations often described as itching, tingling, pulling, crawling, or cramping. These can cause a strong urge to get up and walk around, but people are always in control of their movements, says Michele Tagliati, MD, director of the Movement Disorders Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles.
"The feeling drives them nuts, so they have to get out of bed or out of their chair and walk around," Dr. Tagliati says.
People with involuntary leg movements may have another condition called periodic limb movement disorder. Many people with RLS also have this disorder.
RLS is more common during pregnancy:
For reasons that aren't completely understood, pregnant women sometimes experience RLS symptoms that go away after they give birth. One possible explanation, Dr. Tagliati says, is that pregnancy is often associated with iron deficiency, and low iron levels are a contributing factor in some RLS cases.
A 2010 study found that women who suffer from RLS during one pregnancy are at a higher risk of having symptoms during future pregnancies, or of developing a chronic form of RLS later on.
Supplements can help:
Medications aren't the only treatment for restless legs. "Every time someone comes into my clinic complaining of something that may sound like restless legs, we check their iron," says Dr. Tagliati, who has received speaking fees from a company that makes RLS drugs. "If they're low, we treat it with supplementation."
Restoring iron levels in the body also can help restore dopamine in the brain, experts believe, which may help reduce RLS symptoms.
Folate and magnesium supplements may also relieve RLS symptoms.
Risk increases with age:
RLS can strike at any age, but it is more common in people 65 and older.
Symptoms typically get worse as you get older; many people with the condition will suffer from daily symptoms and significant sleep interruptions after age 50.
Exercise can curb symptoms:
Many people find that regular exercise helps keep RLS under control, or that the condition acts up more on days when they haven't moved around much.
Gentle stretching and massage may also help, either before bed or when symptoms start. Too much or too intense exercise, however, can make RLS worse.
RLS is not trivial:
People who don't have RLS have a hard time understanding what it feels like—and how much the sensations can disrupt daily (and nightly) life. RLS can cause serious sleep deprivation, which in turn may cause other health problems.
Studies have also linked RLS to high blood pressure and erectile dysfunction, possibly due to chronically interrupted sleep or factors involving dopamine in the brain.
RLS isn't hard to diagnose:
There isn't a blood test for RLS, but that doesn't fuzzy science is used to diagnose it.
There are four necessary criteria for people to be diagnosed with RLS: an urge to move their legs, usually because of uncomfortable tingling or crawling sensations; the urge must begin or get worse during periods of rest or inactivity; the sensations are partially or totally relieved by movement; and the sensations and the urge to move are worse in the evening or at night.
Using these criteria, it can be a straightforward diagnosis if your doctor is familiar with the condition. Your doctor may, however, order blood and other tests to look for underlying causes of RLS, such as iron deficiency.
RLS may be genetic:
In 2007, researchers in Europe and at Emory University, in Atlanta, discovered a gene variant that doubled a person's risk of developing RLS. In 2011, an international team of scientists discovered two genetic regions that seem to play a role as well.
That RLS often runs in families and appears to be most prevalent among people of Western European descent has long hinted at a genetic component of the condition.
Symptoms occur at night:
RLS follows a circadian rhythm, getting worse at night as the body and brain begin to relax and prepare for sleep.
Doctors believe this is due to dopamine that follows the body's natural sleep-wake cycle, as well as fewer mental distractions at night.
Some RLS patients try to schedule meetings (or naps) during the early part of the day because sitting for long periods of time is difficult later in the day. Others say that keeping busy with mentally stimulating activities at night helps relieve their symptoms.
RLS isn't a sign of Parkinson's disease:
Because the drugs used to treat RLS often are used for Parkinson's disease, it's easy for people to assume that the two disorders are somehow related, Dr. Tagliati says.
"I don't think I've ever seen any of my RLS patients develop Parkinson's, and we know that's not how Parkinson's starts," he says.
A 2011 Norwegian study found that people with early Parkinson's disease were no more likely to have RLS symptoms than people without Parkinson's disease.
Art by Call0ps
From Health.com
— with Dawn Arseneault.
By Amanda MacMillan
Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a real medical condition—but its funny name and strange-sounding symptoms have stirred up controversy. Some people question everything from the criteria used to diagnose it to the medications used to treat it.
Still, studies have found that about 7% of the population suffers from symptoms such as creepy-crawly feelings in their legs that interrupt sleep. Here are 12 facts you should know about RLS.
RLS legs don't move involuntarily:
RLS is characterized by sensations often described as itching, tingling, pulling, crawling, or cramping. These can cause a strong urge to get up and walk around, but people are always in control of their movements, says Michele Tagliati, MD, director of the Movement Disorders Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles.
"The feeling drives them nuts, so they have to get out of bed or out of their chair and walk around," Dr. Tagliati says.
People with involuntary leg movements may have another condition called periodic limb movement disorder. Many people with RLS also have this disorder.
RLS is more common during pregnancy:
For reasons that aren't completely understood, pregnant women sometimes experience RLS symptoms that go away after they give birth. One possible explanation, Dr. Tagliati says, is that pregnancy is often associated with iron deficiency, and low iron levels are a contributing factor in some RLS cases.
A 2010 study found that women who suffer from RLS during one pregnancy are at a higher risk of having symptoms during future pregnancies, or of developing a chronic form of RLS later on.
Supplements can help:
Medications aren't the only treatment for restless legs. "Every time someone comes into my clinic complaining of something that may sound like restless legs, we check their iron," says Dr. Tagliati, who has received speaking fees from a company that makes RLS drugs. "If they're low, we treat it with supplementation."
Restoring iron levels in the body also can help restore dopamine in the brain, experts believe, which may help reduce RLS symptoms.
Folate and magnesium supplements may also relieve RLS symptoms.
Risk increases with age:
RLS can strike at any age, but it is more common in people 65 and older.
Symptoms typically get worse as you get older; many people with the condition will suffer from daily symptoms and significant sleep interruptions after age 50.
Exercise can curb symptoms:
Many people find that regular exercise helps keep RLS under control, or that the condition acts up more on days when they haven't moved around much.
Gentle stretching and massage may also help, either before bed or when symptoms start. Too much or too intense exercise, however, can make RLS worse.
RLS is not trivial:
People who don't have RLS have a hard time understanding what it feels like—and how much the sensations can disrupt daily (and nightly) life. RLS can cause serious sleep deprivation, which in turn may cause other health problems.
Studies have also linked RLS to high blood pressure and erectile dysfunction, possibly due to chronically interrupted sleep or factors involving dopamine in the brain.
RLS isn't hard to diagnose:
There isn't a blood test for RLS, but that doesn't fuzzy science is used to diagnose it.
There are four necessary criteria for people to be diagnosed with RLS: an urge to move their legs, usually because of uncomfortable tingling or crawling sensations; the urge must begin or get worse during periods of rest or inactivity; the sensations are partially or totally relieved by movement; and the sensations and the urge to move are worse in the evening or at night.
Using these criteria, it can be a straightforward diagnosis if your doctor is familiar with the condition. Your doctor may, however, order blood and other tests to look for underlying causes of RLS, such as iron deficiency.
RLS may be genetic:
In 2007, researchers in Europe and at Emory University, in Atlanta, discovered a gene variant that doubled a person's risk of developing RLS. In 2011, an international team of scientists discovered two genetic regions that seem to play a role as well.
That RLS often runs in families and appears to be most prevalent among people of Western European descent has long hinted at a genetic component of the condition.
Symptoms occur at night:
RLS follows a circadian rhythm, getting worse at night as the body and brain begin to relax and prepare for sleep.
Doctors believe this is due to dopamine that follows the body's natural sleep-wake cycle, as well as fewer mental distractions at night.
Some RLS patients try to schedule meetings (or naps) during the early part of the day because sitting for long periods of time is difficult later in the day. Others say that keeping busy with mentally stimulating activities at night helps relieve their symptoms.
RLS isn't a sign of Parkinson's disease:
Because the drugs used to treat RLS often are used for Parkinson's disease, it's easy for people to assume that the two disorders are somehow related, Dr. Tagliati says.
"I don't think I've ever seen any of my RLS patients develop Parkinson's, and we know that's not how Parkinson's starts," he says.
A 2011 Norwegian study found that people with early Parkinson's disease were no more likely to have RLS symptoms than people without Parkinson's disease.
Art by Call0ps
From Health.com
Children Born With Advanced DNA - Children of the New Dream Interview with Drunvalo Melchizedek By Diane Cooper
![Children Born With Advanced DNA
This is an incredible story of children being born with advanced DNA. Many of today’s parents are awake enough to be witnessing miracles in their children and then exposing them to information to help prevent suppression and/or the depression that is inflicted on many of these beautiful beings due to lack of understanding.
Children of the New Dream
Interview with Drunvalo Melchizedek By Diane Cooper
Diane: So Drunvalo…who are these “Children of the New Dream” that you are so excited about?
Drunvalo: Well there are 3 different kinds of children emerging in the world today that I have been able to identify. The first are called the “Super Psychic Children of China.” The second are called the “Indigo Children” and the third are called the “Children of AIDS.”
….It is the third group that I am most interested in–the “Children of AIDS.” About 10 or 11 years ago in the US, there was a baby born with AIDS. They tested him at birth and at 6 months and he tested positive for AIDS. They tested him a year later and he still tested positive. Then they didn’t test him again until he was 6, and what was amazing is that this test showed that he was completely AIDS free! In fact, there was no trace that he ever had AIDS or HIV whatsoever! He was taken to UCLA to see what was going on and those tests showed that he didn’t have normal human DNA.
In the human DNA we have 4 nucleic acids that combine in sets of 3 producing 64 different patterns that are called codons. Human DNA all over the world always has 20 of these codons turned on and the rest of them are turned off, except for 3 which are the stop and start codes, much like a computer. Science always assumed that the ones that were turned off were old programs from our past. I’ve always seen them like application programs in a computer. Anyway…this boy had 24 codons turned on — 4 more than any other human being. Then they tested this kids to see how strong his immune system was. They took a very lethal dose of AIDS in a petri dish and mixed it with some of his cells and his cells remained completely unaffected. They kept raising the lethalness of the composition and finally went up to 3,000 times more than what was necessary to infect a human being and his cells stayed completely disease free.
Then they started testing his blood with other things like cancer and discovered that this kid was immune to everything! Then they found another kid with these codons turned on–then another one then another one–then 10,000, then 100,000, then a million of them and at this point, UCLA, by watching world-wide DNA testing, estimates that 1% of the world has this new DNA. That breaks down to approximately 60 million people who are not human by the old criteria.
Diane: Is this new codon activation found only in newborn children?
Drunvalo: Well, it’s mostly children, but now they are finding adults with it too–just like the hundredth monkey theory. Now all kinds of people are being affected by it and its spreading fast.
Remember, it started just 5 years ago with almost no one and now it’s spreading–just like a disease. It’s like an outbreak and this is only the beginning.
The other part of this concerns the new book entitled “Cracking the Bible Code”–which has to do with running the Hebrew Books of the Bible through a specialized computer program. If you go to page 164 of this book, it shows where these researchers put the word AIDS into the program to see what would happen. When they did, the program translation provided words like “HIV,” “in the blood,” “the immune system,” “death” — all the things you would think youd s’ee around the word AIDS, but down in the corner was this sentence that they didn’t understand and it said — “the end of disease,” and that is what I believe is happening here.
“Science has stated that there are so many people showing up with this new alien DNA that they now believe that a new human race is being born on the earth today and apparently they can’t get sick.”
Now what is really incredible — they believe that it is a very specific emotional, mental body response — a waveform coming off the body that is causing the DNA to mutate in a certain way. I’ve sat with Gregg Braden who was one of the first persons to write about this and what we believe is that there are 3 parts to this phenomenon.
“The first part is the mind that sees Unity.” It sees the Flower of Life. It sees everything interconnected in all ways. It doesn’t see anything as separate. And the “second part is being centered in the heart–to be Loving.” And the “third thing is to step out of polarity–to no longer judge the world.” As long as we are judging the world as good or bad, then we are inside polarity and remain in the fallen state. I believe these people (with the new DNA) have somehow stepped out of judging and are in a state where they see everything as one and feeling Love. Whatever they are doing within themselves is producing a waveform that when seen on computer screens looks almost identical to the DNA molecule. So the researchers think that by the very expression of their life that these people are mapping with the DNA — resonating it — and are changing these 4 codons and in so doing become immune to the disease. What they don’t know and this is where a lot of research gets to happen is so maybe they are immune, but is there anything else? They might be immortal, who knows. Maybe there are other characteristics that we haven’t even dreamed of. I often wonder if they are all linked together? Is there some form of telepathic connection that goes on?
Diane: Have you met any of these people? Are they accessible?
Drunvalo: Well, I’ve known about this for over two years and I have personally followed this path and I think I’ve moved into what they are doing. I have gone into the merkabah and asked my subconscious mind to change my codons in the same way and ever since I began to do this over two years ago, I haven’t been able to get sick. I don’t know if I’ve been able to change them or not. I guess the only way I’d know is with a DNA test. However, Iv’e been exposed to all kinds of things and when someone gets sick I purposely get close to them and try to get it. I’ve been trying to get sick — and I can’t feel something come on — it will last maybe an hour and then it’s gone. What is interesting is that hardly any of this new DNA is found in the Super Psychic Children of China — almost zero. It is, however, being found in Russia and the U.S. There seems to be pockets of it and if what we are thinking is right — it has to do with a very specific response which is where most people in the New Age are headed for.
Diane: Do you think these people are creating the DNA changes
unconsciously?
Drunvalo: I think someone has made the path — one child did it
somewhere. Then he put it into the grids and it is now in the subconscious of the earth and is accessible to anyone. Once that happened I think somehow or another other people have connected to this on a subconscious level in deep meditation and prayer and made the change. A new race is being born and it is one of the most remarkable phenomenon that has happened on the planet! It’s incredible that no one seems to know about this until now!
Diane: Well, you are the only one I’ve ever heard speak about this.
Drunvalo: Well, I’ve been tracking this for about 2 years and I’ve waited to say anything because I wanted to make sure it was real. In the book called “The Indigo Children” there has been extensive research on these children. There are websites you can go to if you’re a parent where they begin to interview you about exactly what’s going on with your child. Like I said earlier, these kids know exactly what you’re feeling and what you’re thinking
. You can’t hide anything from them. It’s really amazing! I see it as a phenomenon like the ETs except they aren’t coming here in spaceship form–they are coming here in spirit form making it personal by coming into the earth’s evolutionary cycle and joining with us. I’ve often thought that when spirits come in on the right side of the planet–Japan, China, and Tibet for instance, the incarnating being takes on the psychic characteristics (of those people), and if they come in on the western side–the logical side (i.e., physical characteristics)–then the DNA comes in changed. But that’s just speculation on my part. I’m just looking at this and trying to understand what is occurring. At the workshops I’m going to do, I’m going to bring everything I’ve learned together and teach people to actually access this and make the change. I think I know–or I’m very close.
Diane: And that has to do with putting yourself in a certain state of consciousness?
Drunvalo: Yes, a very specific state of consciousness produces a change in your DNA–and I think it’s just the beginning of much more than that. The fact that it could be the end of disease is just a tiny bit of the total picture.
Diane: How would this particular kind of work and discovery affect the DNA activation work that seems to be popping up all over?
Drunvalo: Well, if you know your light body and you know how psychic energy works and if you understand the connection of the subconscious to all life on this planet, then you can go in and ask your subconscious. “Your subconscious knows exactly which codons those kids have changed and if you ask for those things to happen through your light body and in the presence of God,” it should occur. “[/b]It also requires dropping polarity–no longer thinking in terms of good or bad but seeing the wholeness and completion and perfection of life.”
It is a very definite mind, emotional and body response. The body response is the one where your body simply does not acknowledge good or bad but sees that there is a higher purpose behind it all. We all know this stuff–everyone from Jesus to Krishna to Sai Baba has been talking about this for a long time, but this is the first I’m aware of where something actually is changing in the outer environment. People’s DNA is really changing. There have been many of us who have talked about this–but none of this had been seen by science. Now it has been seen, and it has been documented.
Diane: So, if that’s the case, then what significance does that have on our lives today?
Drunvalo: I believe that all of us have the choice to follow this particular pattern that the children have set up or not. It is said that “the children will lead the way.” If we wish to and we trust these children, as I do, one of the side effects is the immunity to disease.
Diane: There are a lot of us who are choosing immortality. However, some people would say that to be immune to disease is also to upset the life/death cycle which has supposedly helped to keep the planet in balance. How would you answer that?
Drunvalo: Well, I just don’t judge it. This is happening and if it is going to upset the cycle and it probably will in some way–everything that is occurring in life has a reason and purpose for it. Perhaps these people who don’t get sick anymoreerhaps they won’t even die anymore and maybe their consciousness is so aligned with the original purpose of earth that ultimately it would mean an earth that is whole and complete and not one that is polluted and deadly and overtaxed. We could easily live with 6 billion people or 20 billion…if…we live differently.
There is plenty of space, and it’s just that we are using our resources in ways that are killing the planet. If we were to choose to live in different ways, that might change. Maybe through these people the answers might become apparent. For someone to move into a state where they are immune to disease is a very powerful indication that they are definitely in harmony with life somehow. We can equate this process with the mutation of bacteria and viruses. We attack their systems with pollutants such as penicillin for instance, and it kills them all except for a few. Those few get stronger. Now what’s happening is that these bacteria are getting to the place where they are immune to the poisons we are giving them. And have we not done the same thing?
We are mutating to a point where we are not affected by pollution or viruses or by disease. And you know, there is another thing that happened last year — AIDS dropped something like 47% — the largest drop of a single disease in the history of the world. I believe that it had a lot to do with this very thing we are talking about.
Diane: That’s exciting!
Drunvalo: Yes, it is. I just let the earth prompt me where to go. Of course, it is important to know our light bodies and how to use them, but the children are very carefully saying–come this way–and see where this leads.](https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s480x480/60753_4656504659011_1710230635_n.jpg)
This is an incredible story of children being born with advanced DNA. Many of today’s parents are awake enough to be witnessing miracles in their children and then exposing them to information to help prevent suppression and/or the depression that is inflicted on many of these beautiful beings due to lack of understanding.
Children of the New Dream
Interview with Drunvalo Melchizedek By Diane Cooper
Diane: So Drunvalo…who are these “Children of the New Dream” that you are so excited about?
Drunvalo: Well there are 3 different kinds of children emerging in the world today that I have been able to identify. The first are called the “Super Psychic Children of China.” The second are called the “Indigo Children” and the third are called the “Children of AIDS.”
….It is the third group that I am most interested in–the “Children of AIDS.” About 10 or 11 years ago in the US, there was a baby born with AIDS. They tested him at birth and at 6 months and he tested positive for AIDS. They tested him a year later and he still tested positive. Then they didn’t test him again until he was 6, and what was amazing is that this test showed that he was completely AIDS free! In fact, there was no trace that he ever had AIDS or HIV whatsoever! He was taken to UCLA to see what was going on and those tests showed that he didn’t have normal human DNA.
In the human DNA we have 4 nucleic acids that combine in sets of 3 producing 64 different patterns that are called codons. Human DNA all over the world always has 20 of these codons turned on and the rest of them are turned off, except for 3 which are the stop and start codes, much like a computer. Science always assumed that the ones that were turned off were old programs from our past. I’ve always seen them like application programs in a computer. Anyway…this boy had 24 codons turned on — 4 more than any other human being. Then they tested this kids to see how strong his immune system was. They took a very lethal dose of AIDS in a petri dish and mixed it with some of his cells and his cells remained completely unaffected. They kept raising the lethalness of the composition and finally went up to 3,000 times more than what was necessary to infect a human being and his cells stayed completely disease free.
Then they started testing his blood with other things like cancer and discovered that this kid was immune to everything! Then they found another kid with these codons turned on–then another one then another one–then 10,000, then 100,000, then a million of them and at this point, UCLA, by watching world-wide DNA testing, estimates that 1% of the world has this new DNA. That breaks down to approximately 60 million people who are not human by the old criteria.
Diane: Is this new codon activation found only in newborn children?
Drunvalo: Well, it’s mostly children, but now they are finding adults with it too–just like the hundredth monkey theory. Now all kinds of people are being affected by it and its spreading fast.
Remember, it started just 5 years ago with almost no one and now it’s spreading–just like a disease. It’s like an outbreak and this is only the beginning.
The other part of this concerns the new book entitled “Cracking the Bible Code”–which has to do with running the Hebrew Books of the Bible through a specialized computer program. If you go to page 164 of this book, it shows where these researchers put the word AIDS into the program to see what would happen. When they did, the program translation provided words like “HIV,” “in the blood,” “the immune system,” “death” — all the things you would think youd s’ee around the word AIDS, but down in the corner was this sentence that they didn’t understand and it said — “the end of disease,” and that is what I believe is happening here.
“Science has stated that there are so many people showing up with this new alien DNA that they now believe that a new human race is being born on the earth today and apparently they can’t get sick.”
Now what is really incredible — they believe that it is a very specific emotional, mental body response — a waveform coming off the body that is causing the DNA to mutate in a certain way. I’ve sat with Gregg Braden who was one of the first persons to write about this and what we believe is that there are 3 parts to this phenomenon.
“The first part is the mind that sees Unity.” It sees the Flower of Life. It sees everything interconnected in all ways. It doesn’t see anything as separate. And the “second part is being centered in the heart–to be Loving.” And the “third thing is to step out of polarity–to no longer judge the world.” As long as we are judging the world as good or bad, then we are inside polarity and remain in the fallen state. I believe these people (with the new DNA) have somehow stepped out of judging and are in a state where they see everything as one and feeling Love. Whatever they are doing within themselves is producing a waveform that when seen on computer screens looks almost identical to the DNA molecule. So the researchers think that by the very expression of their life that these people are mapping with the DNA — resonating it — and are changing these 4 codons and in so doing become immune to the disease. What they don’t know and this is where a lot of research gets to happen is so maybe they are immune, but is there anything else? They might be immortal, who knows. Maybe there are other characteristics that we haven’t even dreamed of. I often wonder if they are all linked together? Is there some form of telepathic connection that goes on?
Diane: Have you met any of these people? Are they accessible?
Drunvalo: Well, I’ve known about this for over two years and I have personally followed this path and I think I’ve moved into what they are doing. I have gone into the merkabah and asked my subconscious mind to change my codons in the same way and ever since I began to do this over two years ago, I haven’t been able to get sick. I don’t know if I’ve been able to change them or not. I guess the only way I’d know is with a DNA test. However, Iv’e been exposed to all kinds of things and when someone gets sick I purposely get close to them and try to get it. I’ve been trying to get sick — and I can’t feel something come on — it will last maybe an hour and then it’s gone. What is interesting is that hardly any of this new DNA is found in the Super Psychic Children of China — almost zero. It is, however, being found in Russia and the U.S. There seems to be pockets of it and if what we are thinking is right — it has to do with a very specific response which is where most people in the New Age are headed for.
Diane: Do you think these people are creating the DNA changes
unconsciously?
Drunvalo: I think someone has made the path — one child did it
somewhere. Then he put it into the grids and it is now in the subconscious of the earth and is accessible to anyone. Once that happened I think somehow or another other people have connected to this on a subconscious level in deep meditation and prayer and made the change. A new race is being born and it is one of the most remarkable phenomenon that has happened on the planet! It’s incredible that no one seems to know about this until now!
Diane: Well, you are the only one I’ve ever heard speak about this.
Drunvalo: Well, I’ve been tracking this for about 2 years and I’ve waited to say anything because I wanted to make sure it was real. In the book called “The Indigo Children” there has been extensive research on these children. There are websites you can go to if you’re a parent where they begin to interview you about exactly what’s going on with your child. Like I said earlier, these kids know exactly what you’re feeling and what you’re thinking
. You can’t hide anything from them. It’s really amazing! I see it as a phenomenon like the ETs except they aren’t coming here in spaceship form–they are coming here in spirit form making it personal by coming into the earth’s evolutionary cycle and joining with us. I’ve often thought that when spirits come in on the right side of the planet–Japan, China, and Tibet for instance, the incarnating being takes on the psychic characteristics (of those people), and if they come in on the western side–the logical side (i.e., physical characteristics)–then the DNA comes in changed. But that’s just speculation on my part. I’m just looking at this and trying to understand what is occurring. At the workshops I’m going to do, I’m going to bring everything I’ve learned together and teach people to actually access this and make the change. I think I know–or I’m very close.
Diane: And that has to do with putting yourself in a certain state of consciousness?
Drunvalo: Yes, a very specific state of consciousness produces a change in your DNA–and I think it’s just the beginning of much more than that. The fact that it could be the end of disease is just a tiny bit of the total picture.
Diane: How would this particular kind of work and discovery affect the DNA activation work that seems to be popping up all over?
Drunvalo: Well, if you know your light body and you know how psychic energy works and if you understand the connection of the subconscious to all life on this planet, then you can go in and ask your subconscious. “Your subconscious knows exactly which codons those kids have changed and if you ask for those things to happen through your light body and in the presence of God,” it should occur. “[/b]It also requires dropping polarity–no longer thinking in terms of good or bad but seeing the wholeness and completion and perfection of life.”
It is a very definite mind, emotional and body response. The body response is the one where your body simply does not acknowledge good or bad but sees that there is a higher purpose behind it all. We all know this stuff–everyone from Jesus to Krishna to Sai Baba has been talking about this for a long time, but this is the first I’m aware of where something actually is changing in the outer environment. People’s DNA is really changing. There have been many of us who have talked about this–but none of this had been seen by science. Now it has been seen, and it has been documented.
Diane: So, if that’s the case, then what significance does that have on our lives today?
Drunvalo: I believe that all of us have the choice to follow this particular pattern that the children have set up or not. It is said that “the children will lead the way.” If we wish to and we trust these children, as I do, one of the side effects is the immunity to disease.
Diane: There are a lot of us who are choosing immortality. However, some people would say that to be immune to disease is also to upset the life/death cycle which has supposedly helped to keep the planet in balance. How would you answer that?
Drunvalo: Well, I just don’t judge it. This is happening and if it is going to upset the cycle and it probably will in some way–everything that is occurring in life has a reason and purpose for it. Perhaps these people who don’t get sick anymoreerhaps they won’t even die anymore and maybe their consciousness is so aligned with the original purpose of earth that ultimately it would mean an earth that is whole and complete and not one that is polluted and deadly and overtaxed. We could easily live with 6 billion people or 20 billion…if…we live differently.
There is plenty of space, and it’s just that we are using our resources in ways that are killing the planet. If we were to choose to live in different ways, that might change. Maybe through these people the answers might become apparent. For someone to move into a state where they are immune to disease is a very powerful indication that they are definitely in harmony with life somehow. We can equate this process with the mutation of bacteria and viruses. We attack their systems with pollutants such as penicillin for instance, and it kills them all except for a few. Those few get stronger. Now what’s happening is that these bacteria are getting to the place where they are immune to the poisons we are giving them. And have we not done the same thing?
We are mutating to a point where we are not affected by pollution or viruses or by disease. And you know, there is another thing that happened last year — AIDS dropped something like 47% — the largest drop of a single disease in the history of the world. I believe that it had a lot to do with this very thing we are talking about.
Diane: That’s exciting!
Drunvalo: Yes, it is. I just let the earth prompt me where to go. Of course, it is important to know our light bodies and how to use them, but the children are very carefully saying–come this way–and see where this leads.
Kidneys are vital organs, performing some of the most important functions in our body. They are sophisticated processing machines that keep our blood clean and chemically balanced.
Kidneys are vital organs, performing some of the most important functions in our body. They are sophisticated processing machines that keep our blood clean and chemically balanced.
It goes without saying that the more you know about your body and your health, the more control you have over your life.
Following are some interesting information pertaining to Kidney disease and Kidney health.
• Our Kidneys have a higher blood flow than our brain, liver or heart.
• The Kidneys absorb and distribute 99.9% of the blood volume. Only 0.1% of the blood filtered turns into urine.
• Each Kidney is about 5 inches long (13 centimeters) and weighs approximately 4 to 6 ounces (120-140 grams).
• The Kidneys filter almost 200 quarts of blood every day.
• 1 in 9 adults in America, or at least 26 million Americans, have Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and millions more are at increased risk. According to The American Society of Nephrology, the number of people diagnosed with Kidney disease has doubled for the last decade. I would strongly recommend blood and urine tests to detect early signs of the disorder.
• Heart disease is very common among people with Chronic Kidney Disease. CKD patients are more likely than the general population to develop heart condition. That's why following all the necessary steps to prevent heart problems is absolutely crucial. What they should do is eat healthy foods, exercise on a regular basis and kick a smoking habit (in case they smoke). CKD patients should cut down on foods that contain saturated fat, such as eggs, milk, cheese and fried foods. Healthy foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids should become a part of their dietary regime. I cannot stress enough the importance of salmon, albacore tuna, sardines, walnuts or flaxseed oil in your diet.
• Patients with kidney dysfunction commonly develop anemia as a result of decreased hormone production in kidneys. Anemia can result in fatigue and a diminished functional status. Those with CKD and anemia can be treated effectively with medication.
• Kidney failure is not always permanent, which is great news for many people. In some cases of acute kidney failure, the kidney function returns with conservative management. Unfortunately, most causes of kidney disease are more insidious. They can progress slowly but steadily and without the proper management can lead to end stage kidney disease, requiring renal replacement therapy.
• Only one donated Kidney is needed to replace two failed Kidneys. The life expectancy of someone who donates a kidney is the same as the general population. There is no increased risk of kidney disease if a well-screened person donates a kidney to someone who is in need of a transplant.
• Although most back pain has nothing to do with the kidneys, some kidney-related conditions could lead to back ache. The most common root of kidney-related back pain is a kidney stone. Please note that infections could be a less common but potentially serious cause of a kidney disorder. If you experience dull one-sided pain in the upper back, accompanied by fever and urinary symptoms, you should contact your healthcare provider. This may be a sign of a serious condition.
Information found here: http://bit.ly/12Cfeeo
Art by Atlas d’Anatomie Descriptive du Corps Humain
It goes without saying that the more you know about your body and your health, the more control you have over your life.
Following are some interesting information pertaining to Kidney disease and Kidney health.
• Our Kidneys have a higher blood flow than our brain, liver or heart.
• The Kidneys absorb and distribute 99.9% of the blood volume. Only 0.1% of the blood filtered turns into urine.
• Each Kidney is about 5 inches long (13 centimeters) and weighs approximately 4 to 6 ounces (120-140 grams).
• The Kidneys filter almost 200 quarts of blood every day.
• 1 in 9 adults in America, or at least 26 million Americans, have Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and millions more are at increased risk. According to The American Society of Nephrology, the number of people diagnosed with Kidney disease has doubled for the last decade. I would strongly recommend blood and urine tests to detect early signs of the disorder.
• Heart disease is very common among people with Chronic Kidney Disease. CKD patients are more likely than the general population to develop heart condition. That's why following all the necessary steps to prevent heart problems is absolutely crucial. What they should do is eat healthy foods, exercise on a regular basis and kick a smoking habit (in case they smoke). CKD patients should cut down on foods that contain saturated fat, such as eggs, milk, cheese and fried foods. Healthy foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids should become a part of their dietary regime. I cannot stress enough the importance of salmon, albacore tuna, sardines, walnuts or flaxseed oil in your diet.
• Patients with kidney dysfunction commonly develop anemia as a result of decreased hormone production in kidneys. Anemia can result in fatigue and a diminished functional status. Those with CKD and anemia can be treated effectively with medication.
• Kidney failure is not always permanent, which is great news for many people. In some cases of acute kidney failure, the kidney function returns with conservative management. Unfortunately, most causes of kidney disease are more insidious. They can progress slowly but steadily and without the proper management can lead to end stage kidney disease, requiring renal replacement therapy.
• Only one donated Kidney is needed to replace two failed Kidneys. The life expectancy of someone who donates a kidney is the same as the general population. There is no increased risk of kidney disease if a well-screened person donates a kidney to someone who is in need of a transplant.
• Although most back pain has nothing to do with the kidneys, some kidney-related conditions could lead to back ache. The most common root of kidney-related back pain is a kidney stone. Please note that infections could be a less common but potentially serious cause of a kidney disorder. If you experience dull one-sided pain in the upper back, accompanied by fever and urinary symptoms, you should contact your healthcare provider. This may be a sign of a serious condition.
Information found here: http://bit.ly/12Cfeeo
Art by Atlas d’Anatomie Descriptive du Corps Humain
Herniated Disk: Basic Information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Herniated Disk: Basic Information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
A herniated (slipped) disk occurs when all or part of a disk in the spine is forced through a weakened part of the disk. This may place pressure on nearby nerves.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
The bones (vertebrae) of the spinal column protect nerves that come out of the brain and travel down your back to form the spinal cord. Nerve roots are large nerves that branch out from the spinal cord and leave your spinal column between each vertebrae.
The spinal bones are separated by disks. These disks cushion the spinal column and put space between your vertebrae. The disks allow movement between the vertebrae, which lets you bend and reach.
• These disks may move out of place (herniate) or break open (rupture) from injury or strain. When this happens, there may be pressure on the spinal nerves. This can lead to pain, numbness, or weakness.
• The lower back (lumbar area) of the spine is the most common area for a slipped disk. The neck (cervical) disks are affected a small percentage of the time. The upper-to-mid-back (thoracic) disks are rarely involved.
Radiculopathy is any disease that affects the spinal nerve roots. A herniated disk is one cause of radiculopathy.
Slipped disks occur more often in middle-aged and older men, usually after strenuous activity. Other risk factors include conditions present at birth (congenital) that affect the size of the lumbar spinal canal.
Symptoms
Low back or neck pain can feel very different. It may feel like a mild tingling, dull ache, or a burning or pulsating pain. In some cases, the pain is severe enough that you are unable to move. You may also have numbness.
The pain most often occurs on one side of the body.
• With a slipped disk in your lower back, you may have sharp pain in one part of the leg, hip, or buttocks and numbness in other parts. You may also feel pain or numbness on the back of the calf or sole of the foot. The same leg may also feel weak.
• With a slipped disk in your neck, you may have pain when moving your neck, deep pain near or over the shoulder blade, or pain that moves to the upper arm, forearm, or (rarely) fingers. You can also have numbness along your shoulder, elbow, forearm, and fingers.
The pain often starts slowly. It may get worse:
• After standing or sitting
• At night
• When sneezing, coughing, or laughing
• When bending backwards or walking more than a few yards
You may also have weakness in certain muscles. Sometimes, you may not notice it until your doctor examines you. In other cases, you will notice that you have a hard time lifting your leg or arm, standing on your toes on one side, squeezing tightly with one of your hands, or other problems.
The pain, numbness, or weakness will often go away or improve a lot over a period of weeks to months.
Signs and tests
A careful physical exam and history is almost always the first step. Depending on where you have symptoms, your doctor will examine your neck, shoulder, arms, and hands, or your lower back, hips, legs, and feet.
Your doctor will check:
• For numbness or loss of feeling
• Your muscle reflexes, which may be slower or missing
• Your muscle strength, which may be weaker
• Your posture, or the way your spine curves
Your doctor may also ask you to:
• Sit, stand, and walk. While you walk, your doctor may ask you to try walking on your toes and then your heels.
• Bend forward, backward, and sideways
• Move your neck forward, backward, and sideways
• Raise your shoulders, elbow, wrist, and hand and check your strength during these tasks
Leg pain that occurs when you sit down on an exam table and lift your leg straight up usually suggests a slipped disk in your lower back.
In another test, you will bend your head forward and to the sides while the health care provider puts slight downward pressure on the top of your head. Increased pain or numbness during this test is usually a sign of pressure on a nerve in your neck.
DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
• EMG may be done to determine the exact nerve root that is involved.
• Myelogram may be done to determine the size and location of disk herniation.
• Nerve conduction velocity test may also be done.
• Spine MRI or spine CT will show that the herniated disk is pressing on the spinal canal.
• Spine x-ray may be done to rule out other causes of back or neck pain. However, it is not possible to diagnose a herniated disk by a spine x-ray alone.
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Relaxation for Dealing with Grief
Relaxation for Dealing with Grief
Begin by finding a relaxed position, sitting or lying down. Set aside a few minutes to relax.
But first, I would like to talk a bit about the different types of losses.
Grief can result from a variety of types of losses. Some kinds of losses are well-recognized, for example, death of a loved one, divorce, or loss of a job. Other types of losses can be just as difficult to deal with but may be less well understood. Losses may include loss of a pet, relocation, changing jobs, infertility, illness, or any other event that changes life plans.
Loss can be experienced with both negative and positive events. An event may be positive overall (for example, getting promotion at work that you were hoping for), but still be associated with loss. Loss of what is familiar, loss of the old way of living...any sort of change can be associated with feelings of loss.
Perhaps you are dealing with a change that is reasonably positive, and your grief is relatively simple to deal with. Maybe you are coping with a significant loss, and are going through a challenging grief process. Or maybe you have experienced a huge loss that has profoundly changed your life, and are having difficulty dealing with grief.
Whatever your situation, your grief is real, and your loss is important.
Before thinking about your loss and beginning the process of dealing with grief, let's start by relaxing. Close your eyes, and just sit or lie quietly. You do not need to do anything in particular.
Take a deep breath, and as you breathe out, feel your body sinking into the surface you are on.
Breathe slowly in...and out...
In...and out...
Keep breathing slowly and calmly, letting your breathing relax you.
Imagine that your body is a fleece blanket. Imagine that the blanket is dipped into warm water. Imagine how it would feel to be floating, suspended in the warm water...gentle waves moving your body...
Now picture being lifted out of the water...the heaviness of the water stretching the blanket...stretching your body...so you are very tall.
Imagine that the blanket is placed on a warm concrete surface in the sun. Imagine how it would feel to be this blanket...so warm and heavy...completely limp...
Steam rises from your body, warmed from beneath by the warm concrete, and warmed from above by the sun. Imagine how it would feel to be this damp blanket, and have the water slowly evaporating...becoming lighter and lighter...steam rising...carrying the water away....
Feel your whole body becoming lighter...relaxed...totally limp...
Let your body become completely relaxed...so calm...so serene...
Now that you are starting to feel more relaxed, let's focus on dealing with grief.
Dealing with grief is very tiring. You may have been feeling tired, stressed, and burned out lately...and this may be caused by the grief process. It is normal to be short-tempered and have problems with memory and concentration.
These symptoms of dealing with grief can be troubling, but they are normal...and they will go away. You will gradually get back to feeling like yourself. Right now you are healing.
The process of dealing with grief is similar to the process of recovering from a physical injury. When a physical injury occurs, the body needs time to heal and recover. Dealing with grief is no different. The mind needs time to recover and heal. You need the time to cope, and deal with grief. Be kind to yourself, and give yourself this needed time.
Sometimes people who are dealing with grief feel like they are going crazy. You are not going crazy. What you are going through is normal and natural.
There are several stages of grief, and it is normal to experience these stages...many of them more than once...in no particular order.
It is normal to experience numbness, a time where you do not feel very much at all. This does not mean that you are insensitive or that you do not care, rather, it is the mind's way of protecting you and a normal way of processing a traumatic experience such as a loss. Numbness and shock are a normal reaction to loss.
Another stage you may experience is anger. You may find that you are angry, frustrated, upset...it is okay to be angry when you lose something that is important to you...angry toward the person or thing you lost, angry at the world, at God, at the causes of your loss...you may even feel angry toward others who have not been through what you have. Not all of the anger is rational, and that is because you are grieving. People who are dealing with grief do not always think rationally. Your thinking will become more clear as you cope with grief. The passage of time will help to decrease the irrational thoughts and the extreme anger.
You will probably go through a stage of questioning, wondering why...trying to get answers. It can be hard to understand why losses happen. As part of the process of dealing with grief, you may seek answers as to why the loss happened, and try to make sense of what has occurred. You may find yourself bargaining, trying to make deals with others, with yourself, or with God, to try to make things go back to the way they were before the loss happened. Questioning and bargaining are normal parts of dealing with grief.
Another stage in dealing with grief is a stage of loneliness and sadness. This is a time of low energy, feeling slowed down, sad...maybe even depressed. During this time it is hard to focus and concentrate. You experience memory problems...sometimes feel confused...distracted...have difficulty sleeping...like you are not yourself. It's normal to feel this way because you are grieving. It is okay to feel sad and upset when you experience loss. These feelings can be very intense and painful. While you are getting through this pain, remember that it will gradually decrease as you heal. Even though it may feel like the sadness will go on and on, you will not feel this way forever.
Acceptance is another stage of grief. During this stage you begin to re-create a new life in the aftermath of the loss. You begin to accept that things have changed. Your life is different...maybe not better...maybe not worse...just different. Acceptance is the act of coming to the realization that the loss has occurred, but you can move on.
It is normal to proceed through the stages of grief in a non-linear order. For example, you may experience acceptance, and then return again to anger. It's okay to be wherever you are at. It is okay to ask questions and to feel upset. You have the right to grieve.
You can get through this.
You will feel better, and you will make a new life. Your new life may be different than the life you had planned, but you cannot always plan for losses.
It's okay to experience a variety of emotions. It is okay to be angry. It is okay to be sad. It is okay to feel relief...and you still do care even if you feel relieved in some ways. It is okay to feel guilty. It is okay to feel impatient, to get upset at things that seem small and insignificant. You're going through a hard time, and a confusing mix of feelings is completely normal. This is the human experience of grief.
You are coping...you are dealing with grief...and you will come out the other side stronger.
You did not deserve this loss. It is not your fault. You are dealing with a situation that is challenging...difficult...perhaps devastating...and you cannot be expected to be over this immediately.
There may not be any reason why things happened this way. Many of the things that happen in life do not make sense. You can grow and become stronger as a result of these challenges, even though there is no good explanation as to why you had to go through such difficult times.
Even after you have dealt with the grief, you will have times where you feel like you are right back where you started. This is normal.
Everyone has their own way of going through the process of dealing with grief. You do not need to grieve in a particular way. Do whatever is right for you. You can cry...or not. Be more busy...or less busy. Grieve in your own way.
Though you need time in solitude to come to terms with the loss you have experienced, it is also important to accept support from others. Reach out to someone who can offer you support. You might want to call a friend, even if you haven't spoken in a while. It's okay to ask for what you need. Often people do not know how to support you, and they feel relieved if you ask for something specific. Ask for help! Even if it is just calling a friend and asking to eat a meal together...any small act of support can help you to feel less alone.
You may even want to seek out others who are dealing with grief, to find support from people who can relate to what you are going through. You can find support groups in the community or on the internet.
Allow yourself the time you need to grieve.
Take good care of yourself. Eat well. Get exercise. Try to keep a regular sleep-wake schedule. You need the strength.
Now if you want to, you can take a moment just to be with the feelings you have...just to allow the grief, face the emotions, and accept that you are grieving. I'll pause for one minute, and during this time you may choose to just relax and breathe deeply, or you might decide to just go with the emotions you have, and experience the grief.
Do whatever feels right for you right now. If you need more time, go ahead and pause this audio, and resume whenever you are ready.
Let's conclude this exercise with some relaxation, to allow you to get a break from the grief you are going through.
Focus on your breathing for a few moments...breathing slowly in...and out...
In...and out...
Slowly breathing...relaxing...
Create a picture in your mind, imagining a peaceful place where you have no worries. You may picture a comfortable room...quiet...peaceful...
Imagine that the room is warm...and has a comfortable place to sit or lie down where you can relax. Imagine sitting or lying down...maybe on a pile of soft pillows...releasing all your worries with a sigh.
In this room, you have no cares...no worries...no problems...nothing to worry about or think about at all.
This is a place where you can completely relax...you can take a break here...even just for a few moments...to get away from all of the stress and tension.
Picture this room in your mind. What does the room look like? Create a detailed image of this room in your mind...so comfortable...complete serenity...
You can return to this room in your imagination when you need a break...whenever you need to relax.
Whenever things get difficult and you just need a rest, you can picture this room in your mind.
Now it's time to conclude this relaxation exercise.
You may want to re-awaken or drift off to sleep. I'll count now from five to one. If you decide to wake up, let yourself become more and more awake with each number, until at one you are fully awake and alert. If you decide to sleep, become sleepier with each number, until at one you are deeply asleep.
Five...
Four...
Three...
Two...
One.
Relaxation for Dealing with Grief
This relaxation script is for dealing with grief and loss. Grief is the healing process and the emotions experienced after loss. This guided relaxation will help to normalize the grief experience, create a feeling of calm, and help explain the grief process and the stages of grief.Begin by finding a relaxed position, sitting or lying down. Set aside a few minutes to relax.
But first, I would like to talk a bit about the different types of losses.
Grief can result from a variety of types of losses. Some kinds of losses are well-recognized, for example, death of a loved one, divorce, or loss of a job. Other types of losses can be just as difficult to deal with but may be less well understood. Losses may include loss of a pet, relocation, changing jobs, infertility, illness, or any other event that changes life plans.
Loss can be experienced with both negative and positive events. An event may be positive overall (for example, getting promotion at work that you were hoping for), but still be associated with loss. Loss of what is familiar, loss of the old way of living...any sort of change can be associated with feelings of loss.
Perhaps you are dealing with a change that is reasonably positive, and your grief is relatively simple to deal with. Maybe you are coping with a significant loss, and are going through a challenging grief process. Or maybe you have experienced a huge loss that has profoundly changed your life, and are having difficulty dealing with grief.
Whatever your situation, your grief is real, and your loss is important.
Before thinking about your loss and beginning the process of dealing with grief, let's start by relaxing. Close your eyes, and just sit or lie quietly. You do not need to do anything in particular.
Take a deep breath, and as you breathe out, feel your body sinking into the surface you are on.
Breathe slowly in...and out...
In...and out...
Keep breathing slowly and calmly, letting your breathing relax you.
Imagine that your body is a fleece blanket. Imagine that the blanket is dipped into warm water. Imagine how it would feel to be floating, suspended in the warm water...gentle waves moving your body...
Now picture being lifted out of the water...the heaviness of the water stretching the blanket...stretching your body...so you are very tall.
Imagine that the blanket is placed on a warm concrete surface in the sun. Imagine how it would feel to be this blanket...so warm and heavy...completely limp...
Steam rises from your body, warmed from beneath by the warm concrete, and warmed from above by the sun. Imagine how it would feel to be this damp blanket, and have the water slowly evaporating...becoming lighter and lighter...steam rising...carrying the water away....
Feel your whole body becoming lighter...relaxed...totally limp...
Let your body become completely relaxed...so calm...so serene...
Now that you are starting to feel more relaxed, let's focus on dealing with grief.
Dealing with grief is very tiring. You may have been feeling tired, stressed, and burned out lately...and this may be caused by the grief process. It is normal to be short-tempered and have problems with memory and concentration.
These symptoms of dealing with grief can be troubling, but they are normal...and they will go away. You will gradually get back to feeling like yourself. Right now you are healing.
The process of dealing with grief is similar to the process of recovering from a physical injury. When a physical injury occurs, the body needs time to heal and recover. Dealing with grief is no different. The mind needs time to recover and heal. You need the time to cope, and deal with grief. Be kind to yourself, and give yourself this needed time.
Sometimes people who are dealing with grief feel like they are going crazy. You are not going crazy. What you are going through is normal and natural.
There are several stages of grief, and it is normal to experience these stages...many of them more than once...in no particular order.
It is normal to experience numbness, a time where you do not feel very much at all. This does not mean that you are insensitive or that you do not care, rather, it is the mind's way of protecting you and a normal way of processing a traumatic experience such as a loss. Numbness and shock are a normal reaction to loss.
Another stage you may experience is anger. You may find that you are angry, frustrated, upset...it is okay to be angry when you lose something that is important to you...angry toward the person or thing you lost, angry at the world, at God, at the causes of your loss...you may even feel angry toward others who have not been through what you have. Not all of the anger is rational, and that is because you are grieving. People who are dealing with grief do not always think rationally. Your thinking will become more clear as you cope with grief. The passage of time will help to decrease the irrational thoughts and the extreme anger.
You will probably go through a stage of questioning, wondering why...trying to get answers. It can be hard to understand why losses happen. As part of the process of dealing with grief, you may seek answers as to why the loss happened, and try to make sense of what has occurred. You may find yourself bargaining, trying to make deals with others, with yourself, or with God, to try to make things go back to the way they were before the loss happened. Questioning and bargaining are normal parts of dealing with grief.
Another stage in dealing with grief is a stage of loneliness and sadness. This is a time of low energy, feeling slowed down, sad...maybe even depressed. During this time it is hard to focus and concentrate. You experience memory problems...sometimes feel confused...distracted...have difficulty sleeping...like you are not yourself. It's normal to feel this way because you are grieving. It is okay to feel sad and upset when you experience loss. These feelings can be very intense and painful. While you are getting through this pain, remember that it will gradually decrease as you heal. Even though it may feel like the sadness will go on and on, you will not feel this way forever.
Acceptance is another stage of grief. During this stage you begin to re-create a new life in the aftermath of the loss. You begin to accept that things have changed. Your life is different...maybe not better...maybe not worse...just different. Acceptance is the act of coming to the realization that the loss has occurred, but you can move on.
It is normal to proceed through the stages of grief in a non-linear order. For example, you may experience acceptance, and then return again to anger. It's okay to be wherever you are at. It is okay to ask questions and to feel upset. You have the right to grieve.
You can get through this.
You will feel better, and you will make a new life. Your new life may be different than the life you had planned, but you cannot always plan for losses.
It's okay to experience a variety of emotions. It is okay to be angry. It is okay to be sad. It is okay to feel relief...and you still do care even if you feel relieved in some ways. It is okay to feel guilty. It is okay to feel impatient, to get upset at things that seem small and insignificant. You're going through a hard time, and a confusing mix of feelings is completely normal. This is the human experience of grief.
You are coping...you are dealing with grief...and you will come out the other side stronger.
You did not deserve this loss. It is not your fault. You are dealing with a situation that is challenging...difficult...perhaps devastating...and you cannot be expected to be over this immediately.
There may not be any reason why things happened this way. Many of the things that happen in life do not make sense. You can grow and become stronger as a result of these challenges, even though there is no good explanation as to why you had to go through such difficult times.
Even after you have dealt with the grief, you will have times where you feel like you are right back where you started. This is normal.
Everyone has their own way of going through the process of dealing with grief. You do not need to grieve in a particular way. Do whatever is right for you. You can cry...or not. Be more busy...or less busy. Grieve in your own way.
Though you need time in solitude to come to terms with the loss you have experienced, it is also important to accept support from others. Reach out to someone who can offer you support. You might want to call a friend, even if you haven't spoken in a while. It's okay to ask for what you need. Often people do not know how to support you, and they feel relieved if you ask for something specific. Ask for help! Even if it is just calling a friend and asking to eat a meal together...any small act of support can help you to feel less alone.
You may even want to seek out others who are dealing with grief, to find support from people who can relate to what you are going through. You can find support groups in the community or on the internet.
Allow yourself the time you need to grieve.
Take good care of yourself. Eat well. Get exercise. Try to keep a regular sleep-wake schedule. You need the strength.
Now if you want to, you can take a moment just to be with the feelings you have...just to allow the grief, face the emotions, and accept that you are grieving. I'll pause for one minute, and during this time you may choose to just relax and breathe deeply, or you might decide to just go with the emotions you have, and experience the grief.
Do whatever feels right for you right now. If you need more time, go ahead and pause this audio, and resume whenever you are ready.
Let's conclude this exercise with some relaxation, to allow you to get a break from the grief you are going through.
Focus on your breathing for a few moments...breathing slowly in...and out...
In...and out...
Slowly breathing...relaxing...
Create a picture in your mind, imagining a peaceful place where you have no worries. You may picture a comfortable room...quiet...peaceful...
Imagine that the room is warm...and has a comfortable place to sit or lie down where you can relax. Imagine sitting or lying down...maybe on a pile of soft pillows...releasing all your worries with a sigh.
In this room, you have no cares...no worries...no problems...nothing to worry about or think about at all.
This is a place where you can completely relax...you can take a break here...even just for a few moments...to get away from all of the stress and tension.
Picture this room in your mind. What does the room look like? Create a detailed image of this room in your mind...so comfortable...complete serenity...
You can return to this room in your imagination when you need a break...whenever you need to relax.
Whenever things get difficult and you just need a rest, you can picture this room in your mind.
Now it's time to conclude this relaxation exercise.
You may want to re-awaken or drift off to sleep. I'll count now from five to one. If you decide to wake up, let yourself become more and more awake with each number, until at one you are fully awake and alert. If you decide to sleep, become sleepier with each number, until at one you are deeply asleep.
Five...
Four...
Three...
Two...
One.
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