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Curt Thompson, MD, a psychiatrist, wrote The Soul of Shame, and tells in it how we must look at the characters, plot and themes of our life story in order for it to make sense in the big picture of life. How does one reflect on the meaning and purpose of life? What are the big questions in each of our lives that we struggle to make sense of, struggle to find answers to? Thompson goes on to say that shame intends to disrupt the bigger Story. Are there qualities of shame and therefore isolation that affect our relationships? Perhaps these are things to look into and explore. What are we believing about ourselves and is there more? What might it look like to courageously engage your story with another? What would it look like to share and to listen? Could each play a crucial role in healing? Thompson writes: “Shame is a shared process whose mission is to disrupt connection between people.” (pg. 89). Therefore, meaningful connection with a counselor can open us to our stories, stories worth telling, stories that can bring hope and healing. Andrea Boldt

Discovering the plot of our story. Dan Allender writes in To Be Told, “Our story begins with the characters who gave us birth, including their past relationships with their parents and issues such as success and shame; power and abuse; love, loss, addiction; heartache and secrets; and family myths.” (pg.14). Who are the characters and what are the themes of your story? Can you name the beginning and middle of your story, and imagine what you’d like the end to be? We have the freedom to choose how we want our story to play out, and to ponder what the obstacles are that keep us hindered. Can we grasp that we are much more than our disappointments, losses and tragedies? Allender goes on to say, “We are not wholly our own, nor are we exclusively the result of what has happened to us. No wonder reading the plot of our lives is so difficult. Yet it is in [pondering, wrestling with, and embracing] the plot where we will find meaning.” (ph.19). What stirs as you read this? Are there areas of your life that may be absent of risk, meaning, passion, healing! Andrea Boldt

.space. The Baltic Mental Health Network is going to start out 2022 with a BANG! We are going to be posting some excerpts from books that you may find interesting. We will begin with STORY, and how important it is for us to look into unique journey and see how they impact our lives now. From Brene’ Brown’s The Gift of Imperfection: “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” (p.ix). From Dan Allender’s To Be Told: “…seldom do we approach our own life with the mind-set of a student, eager to learn, gain insight, and find direction for the future.” (pg.2) “Our story is true than any other reality we know, and each of us must discover the meaning [of it]…” (pg.3) “If we come to know our story and then give it away, we will discover the deepest meaning in our lives.” (pg.6) Brene’ Brown asks readers to “… let go of who you think you are supposed to be, and embrace who you are.” Dan Allender writes that our stories “reveal truth, therefore no one has the right to say of his story, ‘This is too weird, painful, boring, shameful, confusing, or dark; therefore I will bury it.” What do these quotes stir in you as you read them? Walking along life’s path with a sensitive therapist and help us discover our stories and the healing and peace that awaits. More later! Happy New Year!

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The Importance of Being Held~~
The average length of a hug between two people is 3 seconds. But the researchers have discovered something fantastic. When a hug lasts 20 seconds, there is a therapeutic effect on the body and mind. The reason is that a sincere embrace produces a hormone called "oxytocin", also known as the love hormone. This substance has many benefits in our physical and mental health, helps us, among other things, to relax, to feel safe and calm our fears and anxiety. This wonderful tranquilizer is offered free of charge every time we have a person in our arms, who cradled a child, who cherish a dog or a cat, that we are dancing with our partner, the closer we get to someone or simply hold the Shoulders of a friend.

A famous quote by psychotherapist Virginia Satir goes, “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” Whether those exact numbers have been scientifically proven remains to be seen, but there is a great deal of scientific evidence related to the importance of hugs and physical contact. Here are some reasons why we should hug::

1. STIMULATES OXYTOCIN

Oxytocin is a neurotransmitter that acts on the limbic system, the brain’s emotional centre, promoting feelings of contentment, reducing anxiety and stress, and even making mammals monogamous. It is the hormone responsible for us all being here today. You see this little gem is released during childbirth, making our mothers forget about all of the excruciating pain they endured expelling us from their bodies and making them want to still love and spend time with us. New research from the University of California suggests that it has a similarly civilising effect on human males, making them more affectionate and better at forming relationships and social bonding. And it dramatically increased the libido and sexual performance of test subjects. When we hug someone, oxytocin is released into our bodies by our pituitary gland, lowering both our heart rates and our cortisol levels. Cortisol is the hormone responsible for stress, high blood pressure, and heart disease.

2. CULTIVATES PATIENCE

Connections are fostered when people take the time to appreciate and acknowledge one another. A hug is one of the easiest ways to show appreciation and acknowledgement of another person. The world is a busy, hustle-bustle place and we’re constantly rushing to the next task. By slowing down and taking a moment to offer sincere hugs throughout the day, we’re benefiting ourselves, others, and cultivating better patience within ourselves.

3. PREVENTS DISEASE

Affection also has a direct response on the reduction of stress which prevents many diseases. The Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine says it has carried out more than 100 studies into touch and found evidence of significant effects, including faster growth in premature babies, reduced pain, decreased autoimmune disease symptoms, lowered glucose levels in children with diabetes, and improved immune systems in people with cancer.

4. STIMULATES THYMUS GLAND

Hugs strengthen the immune system. The gentle pressure on the sternum and the emotional charge this creates activates the Solar Plexus Chakra. This stimulates the thymus gland, which regulates and balances the body’s production of white blood cells, which keep you healthy and disease free.

5. COMMUNICATION WITHOUT SAYING A WORD

Almost 70 percent of communication is nonverbal. The interpretation of body language can be based on a single gesture and hugging is an excellent method of expressing yourself nonverbally to another human being or animal. Not only can they feel the love and care in your embrace, but they can actually be receptive enough to pay it forward to others based on your initiative alone.

6. SELF-ESTEEM

Hugging boosts self-esteem, especially in children. The tactile sense is all-important in infants. A baby recognizes its parents initially by touch. From the time we’re born our family’s touch shows us that we’re loved and special. The associations of self-worth and tactile sensations from our early years are still imbedded in our nervous system as adults. The cuddles we received from our Mom and Dad while growing up remain imprinted at a cellular level, and hugs remind us at a somatic level of that. Hugs, therefore, connect us to our ability to self love.

7. STIMULATES DOPAMINE

Everything everyone does involves protecting and triggering dopamine flow. Low dopamine levels play a role in the neurodegenerative disease Parkinson’s as well as mood disorders such as depression. Dopamine is responsible for giving us that feel-good feeling, and it’s also responsible for motivation! Hugs stimulate brains to release dopamine, the pleasure hormone. Dopamine sensors are the areas that many stimulating drugs such as co***ne and methamphetamine target. The presence of a certain kinds of dopamine receptors are also associated with sensation-seeking.

8. STIMULATES SEROTONIN

Reaching out and hugging releases endorphins and serotonin into the blood vessels and the released endorphins and serotonin cause pleasure and negate pain and sadness and decrease the chances of getting heart problems, helps fight excess weight and prolongs life. Even the cuddling of pets has a soothing effect that reduces the stress levels. Hugging for an extended time lifts one’s serotonin levels, elevating mood and creating happiness.

9. PARASYMPATHETIC BALANCE

Hugs balance out the nervous system. The skin contains a network of tiny, egg-shaped pressure centres called Pacinian corpuscles that can sense touch and which are in contact with the brain through the vagus nerve. The galvanic skin response of someone receiving and giving a hug shows a change in skin conductance. The effect in moisture and electricity in the skin suggests a more balanced state in the nervous system – parasympathetic.
Embrace, embrace with your heart.~~

art: Dorina Costras

Один из ведущих нейрохирургов, который занимается различными медицинскими наблюдениях во время операции мозга утверждает, что служители Божьи, обладают силой, потому что в соответствии с недавними его наблюдениями в неврологии, центр речи в мозге господствует над всеми прочими нервами.

Об этом примерно две тысячи лет назад написано в Библии в Послании Иакова, где он ясно определяет действия и важность языка и центра речи. Для нейрохирурга это было изумлением!
Библия действительно учит этому!

— Язык — это маленький орган нашего тела, но он приводит в движение всё тело.

Нейрохирург рассказал о своих наблюдениях. Он сказал, что речевой центр обладает такой силой над всем телом, что даже простой разговор, простая речь человека может осуществлять контроль над его телом и способна направлять его в соответствии со своими желаниями.

Он сказал следующее: «Если кто-то утверждает, что ему становится плохо, то тогда все его нервы получают соответствующую команду и говорят: «Приготовимся к тому, чтобы ослабеть, потому что мы получили такую команду из центра управления, в силу которой нам следует ослабеть». Вот поэтому, они в качестве естественного последствия подчиняются физическому требованию ослабеть — и ослабевают.

Если кто-то скажет, например, следующее: «У меня нет никаких возможностей. Я не могу выполнить этой работы»,- тогда сразу же все нервы начинают заявлять то же. «Да,- говорят они,- мы получили из центральной нервной системы указание, которое утверждает, что у нас нет возможности выполнить этот труд, а потому мы отказываемся применять какие-то неиспользованные возможности. Нам следует приготовить себя к тому, чтобы оказаться частью неспособного человека».

Если кто-то, например, скажет: «Я уже очень стар. Я так стар и так устал, что не в состоянии что-либо делать»,- тогда сразу же отвечает речевой центр контроля, отдавая соответствующие приказания в этом отношении. А нервы отвечают: «Да, мы действительно стары. Мы уже приготовились к смерти».

Если человек утверждает, что он стар, это значит, что этот человек скоро умрет».
Человеку никогда не следует уходить от дел. Если же человек однажды уйдет от дел, он уже никогда не перестанет говорить: «Я отошел от дел»,- и все нервы будут повторять за ним эти слова, окажутся менее активными и приготовятся к скорой смерти».
Точно то, что Библия сказала примерно две тысячи лет назад, происходит и сегодня. Медицинская наука недавно обнаружила этот принцип.

Этот нейрохирург говорит, что людям следует утверждать самих себя: «Я молод. Я способен. Я в состоянии выполнять труд молодого человека, несмотря на свой возраст».
В таком именно случае оживают нервы пожилого человека и таким именно образом они получают силу и крепость из своего нервного центра.
Библия ясно заявляет, что тот, кто контролирует свой язык, контролирует и все тело.
Вы способны совершить именно то, что вы говорите!(c)

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