Neuroplasticity 94 Death is nothing to fear beyond life lies - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Allostatic Load, Stress Resistance, Resilience, Chronic Systemic Inflammation, Epigenetics, Neuroplasticity

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“Death is nothing to fear”… “beyond life lies beauty. Beyond life lies peace and tranquility.”

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“At death, this world you now know stops and the full illumination of Mind is born.”

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“This shows you your innocence of life and allows you to see the true beauty of yourself”

Second Chance page 91

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“Mana, my young friend, is the power that holds your very

• existence. Mana on its own has

neither definite shape nor form, yet it is in everything that exists”

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”Mana is the power that holds this whole world together. Mana is pure energy…it is of spirit essence”

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“Mana can not be seen by the naked eye. It must be absorbed by a positive feeling.”

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“It is Mana that helps wash away the illusionary values you place

• n life. It is the sustenance of

the wise”

Second Chance pages 91,92

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I am starting to see that there is essentially one generic condition with many different disguises and that the very essence of all mental illnesses is a deluded thought that is relied on as reality

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There need be only one generic mental illness: an inability to see the role

• f Thought

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Homeostasis: a state in the body in which all sorts of physiological systems are functioning at an optimal level. Stressor: any challenge (internally or externally) that you respond/react to via thought that knocks you out of homeostasis

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“A large body of evidence suggests that stress- related disease emerges, predominantly, out of the fact that we so often activate a physiologic system that has evolved for responding to acute physical emergencies, but we turn it on for months on end, worrying about mortgages, relationships and promotions”

• Sapolsky-WZDGU

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“Richard listen to me! Stress is stress! All stress is dangerous to stable mind and our being as a whole. It is stress that creates a lot of our mental and physical problems.”

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“It is stress that leads to an unbalanced mind, which can lead to alcoholism, drug addiction, divorce, management and employee disturbances.”

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“Stress is a form of mental anguish that leads to mental breakdowns

• -- anger and violence usually

being the end product” Second Chance: page 74

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“All for One and One for All: Mental Disorders in One Dimension” Caspi and Moffitt AJP Sept 2018

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Internalizing Disorders:

Mood Anxiety Thought

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Externalizing Disorders: Somatic Disorders

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“No sharp distinction can be drawn between mental health and mental disease; A large collection of material shows a gradual and not an abrupt transition from The normal state to pathological states”

Kent and Rosenhoff AJP 1910

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Innocent Misuse of Thought Past: Guilt - Resentment – Grief Future: Worry - Over-analysis Present: Driveness - Upset

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The Stress Response a.k.a. Flight or Fight Response: Is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack or threat to survival (or ego, or happiness invested thought)

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EGO: I - Any thing that I think separates/distinguishes me from others. —Self Image

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H.I.T. : Happiness Invested Thoughts – Anything that I have my happiness or ego invested in.

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“The state of meditation comes when the ego is put to sleep via silence”

Second Chance page 73

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Stress Response : Hallmarks

• Rapid mobilization of energy from

storage sites

• Inhibition of further storage

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Energy Mobilization: to transport nutrients and Oxygen rapidly Cortisol (steroid) Glucagon> Glucose 10 to -8th molecules SNS >Epinephrine/Norepinephrine >>> ^ Heart rate, ^ Blood Pressure, ^Breathing Rate

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Stress Response (cont.) >Endorphins - To increase pain tolerance > Hypercoagulability > to decrease blood loss if injured

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Stress Response (cont.)

Decreased Immune Function Decreased Growth , Maintenance and Repair Decreased Sex Hormones