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Seasonal Affective Disorder

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Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder subset in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year exhibit depressive symptoms at the same time each year, most commonly in winter.  Common symptoms include sleeping too much, having little to no energy, and overeating. The condition in the summer can include heightened anxiety.

Now the question is why does it happen at just certain times for certain people.  Some say that the problems in winter happen because of decrease sunlight (there are higher incidents in Alaska than Florida) but that may not be the only issue.  There may be a first cause which created the Seasonal Affective Disorder.

What if, something in your childhood led to the feelings of depression and you just carry it forward into your adult life.  Did problems exist at home that started around season change or the holidays?  Was there an addition to the family that caused you or your family distress?  While there may be numerous reasons as to why this issue could appear, what is important to remember is that, no matter how it started,  it becomes a pattern.  Once it seems as if it is real because it keeps repeating, year after year, and so we start to believe there is nothing we can do to transform it.  

By delving into the problem, we can find a first cause, if there is one, and work to lessen the symptoms, or eliminate the problem, if possible.  Using tools  like Neuro Emotional Technique, and Optimal Emotional Freedom Technique, we can explore the emotions involved with SAD and eliminate them from the issue.  Making decision starts you on a journey to a freer life.

 

 

 

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Harvard Study on Success – The Triumphs of Experience

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Harvard Study on Success

A 75 year study of Harvard students/graduates was published as “The Triumphs of Experience”. One of the main insights from this study is that happy people are more successful than those who are not. Success was not just in material matters, but also relationships, marriage, parenting, etc. Now, I would have thought that anyone who graduated from Harvard would have been successful, but that is not always the case.

In the case of the Harvard study on success, the men who were happiest, were those whose mothers assisted them in developing positive, supportive patterns in their lives. In the case of the others who develop negative patterns, it is because they didn’t have the tools at that time to recognize the falseness of what they (like us) are being told and live their lives from that point on as if the false patterns were the truth. (This study dealt with men, but I am sure that this information can be extrapolated for women, although we might not know which parent was more influential).

Beliefs and their Patterns

Beliefs and patterns are created, initially, are created before we understand that we can accept or reject what we are being told about ourselves, but may be reinforced by the things that happen as we experience life. In the case of positive beliefs, this is a good thing but not when we create negative beliefs.

Happiness is like the Sun

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Happiness is like the Sun: Coloradans like to boasts that there are 360 days of sunshine, when in truth the sun shines everyday, even if we don’t see it.

Think of happiness as the sun. Happiness, like the sun, is always there, but because of the decisions we make about ourselves, life and the world, we develop beliefs that interfere with our happiness because that is what we focus on and it makes true the saying, what you focus on expands. Most times, these beliefs create patterns and they are usually developed when we are young and influenced by others. (HARVARD STUDY). Happiness is not a result of wealth, or health, or a great relationship, etc, rather all these things come when you are happy, or at least happier than you are now.

Napoleon Hill stated, “anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve“

To further the analogy of clouds (negative patterns), I’ll refer to a song written by Joni Mitchell that she titled “Both Sides Now”. She starts off seeing clouds as wonderful but then writes, “Now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone. so many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.”

This is called LIFE. It is neither good nor bad, right nor wrong but rather does it work for you or not. If these patterns no longer work for you, it is time to neutralize them by dealing with the thoughts behind them.

The brain was once thought of as being stagnant. Whatever was programmed at an early age, would always remain. On the contrary, research has proven the neuroplasticity of the brain, its ability to create new pathways of thinking as well as shut down some older ones (fMRl).

This corresponds with the work of Candace B. Pert, Ph.D. In her search for opioid receptors in the body, she discovered that emotions are actual physical substances (ligands) that attach to different places on different cells of different organs. A ligand is a term for any natural or manmade substance that binds selectively to it’s own specific receptor on the surface of a cell.

Apparently what happens when we use the techniques of Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), the emotional ligands are no longer able to attach to the organs (in that particular circumstance) and the neuroplasticity of the brain takes over and deletes, or at least reduces the effect of the pattern. Our emotions create our beliefs, which in turn create our patterns. Creating neutrality about the situation allows the body to process the issue/trauma.

Quantum Physics explains that the observer (you) of a situation, has an effect on the outcome on the situation. In his book, “The Dancing Wu Li Masters”, Gary Zukav explains it this way. “Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.”

If you want to know what you believe, look at your life, it is a manifestation of what you believe. If your life looks like a glass half-empty you may want to neutralize those beliefs that get it your way.