
Stress has been acknowledged as America’s number one health problem since 1983 when TIME magazine's June 6 cover story called stress "The Epidemic of the Eighties".
It's not going away. It won't be fixed with a pill. Suppressing the symptoms won't help. The US makes up 5% of the worlds population but 42% of the world’s spending on prescription drugs.
It's time to start addressing the causes of stress.
On a scale of 1 - 100 where are your stress levels right now?
Measure them again after each exercise, get used to checking in with yourself.
Some tools will work better for some things, some for others. The only way to find out just how effective each one is for you, is to establish a measure. We are using 1 - 100 because it allows for more effective and precise observation of results.
Taking a pill to suppress a symptom is like putting masking tape over the oil warning light in the car because you don't like the message it's sending you.
Includes the TV commercial that sparked this course. Listen to it with your eyes closed. What do you notice?
How Antidepressants work:
Valium, Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, Celexa, Paxil, and all the rest are known as SSRI. “Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor”
Basically messages are passed between the different cells in your brain by certain chemicals called “neurotransmitters”. Serotonin is one of those neurotransmitters.
Serotonin has been isolated by modern medical science as one of the neurotransmitters that deals with transferring information about your mood between the cells in your brain.
Low-levels of serotonin are associated with people suffering from stress-related problems like anxiety and depression.
Think of serotonin a phone line, and the two brain cells as two people - Arthur and Martha. Arthur wants to give information to Martha. So he picks up the phone and calls her. Martha answers the phone, and Arthur says what he needs to say.
When one brain cell uses a neurotransmitter chemical like serotonin to transmit information to another cell, the sending cell then takes the chemical back in a process called “reuptake”. It’s like Arthur hanging up the phone when he’s done telling Martha what he needs to tell her.
What the SSRI’s do is prevent the sending brain cell from taking back its neurotransmitter – the serotonin. The serotonin stays in the “gap” between the two cells, continually transmitting its information to the receiver cell.
It’s like Arthur calling Martha over and over and over again to give her the same message.
If you were Martha would you keep picking up the phone? Of course not. You’re not stupid. You’re brain cells aren't stupid either.
What these new antidepressant medications are actually doing is creating an artificial environment in which serotonin signals can be singly broadcast but repeatedly received resulting in the serotonin receptors in your cells downgrading their sensitivity.
So over time it takes a larger and larger amount of the medication in order to have the same effect.
You get what is known as “emotional blunting”, emotional numbness and apathy – a kind of overall “blah” mood, neither anxious nor depressed, but where you just can’t seem to get motivated to do anything.
Your brain cells become accustomed to the artificial environment created by the drugs so when you stop taking the drugs you are likely to have a range of physical and psychological symptoms that can last weeks to months, sometimes even longer.
Tune out ancillary sounds, tune in to what you want to hear.
Improves short term memory. Helps abstract thinking. Feels yummy!
Breathe out more than in - sigh - to trigger your body into relaxing whenever you need to.
Reprogram your brain to have a composed response to stress instead of an automatic stress reaction by holding your OMG points.
Watch our stress levels plummet in the demo.
How many stress points will you drop in 3 minutes? - Measure your stress now.
This technique will also help you think clearly, feel more positive and calmer, visualize more effectively, remember stuff more easily.
You measured your stress right?? OK good, please go get a glass of water.
It doesn't matter how light our stress burden is, unless we are able to put it down sometimes, it's going to become unbearable.
A 2% drop in your body's hydration can equal a 20% - 30% drop in brain functioning - especially short term memory.
75% of Americans are so dehydrated they think they are hungry when they are thirsty.
If you wait until you are thirsty to drink, it's too late, you are already dehydrated.
Drink water!
If you haven't seen the movie 'What The Bleep Do We Know?', check it out.
This scene changed the way I used water; benefited my health enormously; shifted the way I do Ocean Healings and inspired the Experience JOY Bathing Project for Women Only - the next course :)
Google 'Messages from Water' Dr Emoto. Fascinating stuff.
Seriously, this is the cure, and it's SO simple to do!
I'm not kidding, 70%, of headaches GONE in 30 seconds.
MEMORIZE this technique to save yourself - and anyone who gets an over energy headache around you -, a LOT of pain!
If the headache ISN'T over energy this technique won't help.
If it helps a little, it means the part of the headache that was caused by over energy is now gone. YAY!
Next thing to check for is dehydration, have a big glass of water - Focus healing into that water before you drink it ;) hopefully that'll do the trick.
It won't solve all headaches of course, but these are the most common causes, and luckily the easiest fixes. :D
One more fast headache fix that also helps with tension, anxiety and overthinking AND relieves colds, flu, head congestion and constipation!
Give it a go, see what you notice - but give it a miss if you are pregnant.
I was just finalizing the course, when I came across this wee video and wanted you to have it <3
Is it because this is true for you too??
How would your life change if it was?
Take a trip to Cathedral Cove in New Zealand and learn how to be peace full.
Take a stressful situation, do this with it. Notice what happens ;)
Your brain doesn't know the difference between real and imagined. Here's proof, see for yourself.
Choose a painful memory that causes you stress when you think about it.
Ready to transform it so it doesn't hurt you any more? Let's do it!
Which painful memory will you choose to transform?
Also helps reading, writing, speaking and following directions.
AND helps relieve chest congestion, breathing difficulties, coughing and sore throats.
Measure your ENERGY LEVELS before and after doing this for One Minute whilst breathing deeply.
How to avoid becoming a road statistic.
ESSENTIAL information for long distance drivers.
Congratulations! You now have skills that will help you cope with any level of stress
AND that enhance your life immeasurably when you use them to be optimally productive instead of for clearing stress!
Here's the Reader's Digest version of what you learned.
I wasn't going to share this slide until I realized I'd mentioned a 'glass of piss' in the tool wrap up above.
So here's a Kiwi/U.S. translation chart all about piss. Cheers!
Having a badass Power Tool Kit that can help you through ANYTHING life throws at you: $99
Remembering to Use the Tools when you need them: Priceless
Here's how you do it.
A glimpse of the Experience JOY Bathing Project for Women Only. A course I'm creating to teach Western Women how to turn their bathrooms into a healing sanctuary and their baths into transformational experiences.
This segment will help enormously with stress.
My FaceReading course, already on Udemy, will help clear SO much stress from your relationships.
This segment is a great example, check out the course, the first part is completely free.
Groch did a small portion of this course when his stress levels were very low, what happened to him blew our minds. I've included this video because it gives you an idea of why its good to use these emPOWERment tools when you AREN'T stressed as well as when you are!
It's the difference between dealing with stress and actually clearing it.
My brain injury inspired me to spend the last 25 years scouring the world for fast, easy, fun solutions to CLEARING stress, not just managing it.
- I knew there had to be alternatives to drugs, and I found some doozies!
I am living proof that these emPOWERment tools work for every kind of stress from money stresses to relationship crisis; and they are just as effective for kids as they are for adults.
- PLEASE teach them to your kids, we should all have been taught these things in kindergarten. Imagine how much easier life would have been if school had taught us to
Instantly reprogram our primitive brain centers to have a composed response to stress instead of an automatic stress reaction.
So that when everyone around you is losing their minds, you are relaxed, and have a clear head REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCE!
- Relaxing instantly and keeping a clear head are just the first two emPOWERment tools you’ll learn. They can mean the difference between life and death so they will always be FREE in the first part of the course.
The rest of the tools help make life worth living; and everything life throws at us a whole lot easier to cope with.
The AMA tells us that more than 90% of illness is stress related, but stressful situations aren't usually the cause of long term health problems. Our inability to cope with stress is what makes us sick.
We are not taught how our brains and bodies work, or how to program them for optimal functioning under stress. Instead we learn to suppress the symptoms that are there to draw our attention to causes that need to be addressed.
This is never long term helpful. It WILL eventually make you sick, and cost you a whole lot to fix in time, money, energy, focus, relationships etc.
These emPOWERment tools will give you an edge in every part of your life; from helping to heal the pain of the past, to moving forward powerfully into the future.
They work because they
·Tackle CAUSES not SYMPTOMS
·Provide immediate positive results – 3 minutes or less
·Are easy enough for a child to do
·Have NO negative side effects
·Are FUN!
So enjoy bringing your stress down to zero, and then have your mind blown by what the emPOWERment Tools when you AREN'T stressed!
Unfriggingbelievable benefits in productivity increase alone!
Give every technique you learn a fair go to find out just how effective it really is, and when you experience the difference, pay it forward. Tell your mates and everyone you care about.
Life isn't getting any less challenging, we have to step up, and skill up.
$125 will get you a month's worth of Valium, or a lifetime supply of emPOWERment tools that could make the Valium redundant.
Invest in yourself.