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15 Things Harley Learned About Peter Paker

YES, still thirty-five minutes left. (I really liked writing this and I want to expand on it, but let’s see what y’all think.)

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Summary: There’s a new kid in Rose Hill and Harley tries to learn all he can about him.

Prompt: Rose Hill, Tennessee

There was a new kid in Rose Hill.

Now, normally Harley didn’t get caught up in the normal gossip that everyone in this small town was so inclined to, but even he couldn’t help but be intrigued. Two weeks before the second semester started, he learned three things about the new kid.

1: He came from New York City.

2: He was living with his aunt.

3: He was Harley’s age.

No matter how much he dug around and bribed and persuaded, that’s all he could get about him.

A week before the semester started, though, he learned three more things.

4: He was really cute.

5: He was really smart.

6: He was (suspected to be) bisexual.

Number four was discovered when he walked into the garage Harley worked at and Harley lost all motor skills.

Number five was learned when Harley talked to while his boss was talking to his aunt.

Number five was discovered when Harley worked on the car and found the pride flag.

***

Harley had been fixing the car in record time when he heard a bang come from somewhere in the shop. He slid out from under the vehicle to see a boy with light brown hair and wide hazel eyes. He was nearly submerged in the hoodie he was wearing and he had an embarrassed look on his face. Harley gaped at him.

“Uh, sorry?”, the boy offered, showing a small smile. Harley had to physically shake himself to get a response.

“Um, no problem”, he assured, standing up.”What can I help you with?”

“Oh, my aunt is already talking to the mechanic, I was just looking around”, the boy said.

Harley raised an eyebrow. “You shouldn’t go walking around in here. Lots of dangerous equipment.”

The boy smirked at him. “Brake lathes and strut compressors are nothing I haven’t handled before. Talk to me when you’re handling Digoxin and Tabon in large quantities.”

“Ok, first of all, you can’t compare chemicals to machinery”, Harled argued. “Second of all, why would a high schooler be handling those chemicals?”

The boy just shrugged. “I had a pretty good internship back in New York.”

“Shame you had to leave it, then”, Harley said and immediately regretted it when the boy’s grin dipped into a frown. He was trying to find a way to fix it when his phone buzzed.

“I have to go”, the boy said, Harley probably imagining the disappointment in his voice. He looked up at Harley and smiled and Harley momentarily forgot everything. “See you around.”

Harley waved awkwardly as he left before his boss called him to bring the car into the shop. As he was pulling it in, he noticed a bisexual flag sticker on the dash. Huh.

***

The first day back to school, two more things were added to Harley’s ever-growing list of facts.

7: His name was Peter Parker.

8: He stands up for others.

Number seven occurred when he walked into Harley’s first period, effectively knocking Harley’s routine off-kilter.

Number eight happened at the end of the school day when he and a bunch of guys encountered them in the courtyard.

***

“Class, I’d like to introduce you to Peter Parker.”

Harley’s head shot up at that and, yep, it was the cute guy from a week ago. The boy--Peter--turned to face the class, what seemed to be his usual smile on his face. He looked all glowy and half the girls in the class were looking at him like they wanted to kiss him senseless. The idea made Harley feel weird.

Harley seemed to have missed the part where Peter was introducing himself because suddenly the brunette was sitting at the desk next to him and flashing him a smile. Harley had a hard time focusing on History after that.

He found that almost all his classes were with Peter, seeing as they were both already at least college level. And the boy sat next to Harley in every single one, not that Harley minded. He was walking out of the school when Peter ran up to him.

“So, you got anything planned for the robotics project?”, he asked. Harley smiled at him from the side of his eye and was about to answer when he was stopped in his tracks. Literally.

He looked up from the hand on his chest to see the captain of the baseball team and a few of his yes-men standing in front of him.

“Careful around Keener, Parker”, the captain said, still looking at Harley. “His queerness might rub off on you.”

Harley rolled his eyes and was about to make a sarcastic comment that would undoubtedly get a fist swung in his direction, but Peter spoke up first.

“Thanks, but I’m afraid your warning came too late”, He said, stepping slightly in front of Harley and giving the group a smile that didn’t reach his eyes. “I started identifying as bisexual in seventh grade.”

The boys looked disgusted and backed up a bit. They looked like they were about to insult them, so Harley cut them off.

“Look, I’m sure whatever homophobic thing you’re going to say is very enlightening and original, but we have a robotics project to ace”, with that, he grabbed Peter’s hand and started pulling him toward his house.

***

The next five things Harley learned about Peter came over the weeks that they spent together.

9: He had two best friends named Ned and MJ.

10: He preferred Star Wars to Star Trek.

11: Before moving to Rose Hill, he had never left Brooklyn.

12: He planned on going to NYU for college.

In turn, Harley told Peter a lot about himself. He told him about his sister Diana, how he had started working at the machine shop, how he had been outed in sixth grade, and how he planned on going to MIT. They spent most of their waking hours together, so many that people started to think they were dating.

“Why don’t we?”, Peter had muttered when Harley had commented on it. Harley had gaped at him.

“What?”

Peter had flushed deeply and ran off, saying something about talking to a teacher. Harley had felt slightly disappointed as he ran away, but he forgot about the interaction when he had to take a test next period. They didn’t talk about it.

They talked about everything else, though, which led to his thirteenth thing on his list:

13: Peter’s hands were warm.

***

The two boys had been sitting on the roof of Harley’s shed. They had been watching the stars since Peter had off-handily commented that he had never been stargazing without immense amounts of light pollution. Harley had been determined to rectify that. They had been laying there in silence for a while when Peter spoke up.

“What happened to your dad?”

Harley sucked in a breath before sighing it all out. “He left. When I was seven.”

“I’m sorry”, he said. Harley listened for the undertone of pity, but it never came.

“What happened to your parents?”, Harley eventually got up the courage to ask.

Peter was quiet for a while and Harley was afraid he had overstepped when he said, “They died. Car accident, about a year ago.”

“I’m sorry”, Harley repeated softly. Peter didn’t say anything, but he felt a hand touch his. Harley grabbed it and Peter slowly intertwined their fingers.

They laid there until the sun started to rise, hands intertwined and hearts beating in sync.

***

It was almost the end of the school year by the time Harley learned his two final things. They had spent five months together, even spending spring break working in Harley’s shed. They had just gotten done with state testing and they were at Peter’s Aunt’s house. When they got to his room, Peter promptly fell into his bed and screamed into the pillow. Harley could understand.

Harley threw his bag down and jumped into the bed beside him, half landing on the other boy.

“Wanna watch Star Wars?”, Harley asked, staring up at the ceiling. It was almost summer and the heat would make it hard to spend hours in his shed or the repair shop. He was drinking in all the air-conditioned air he could.

Peter shook his head before turning toward Harley. Harley let his head fall to the side and the two just watched each other.

“Hey, Harley?”, Peter whispered.

“Hmm?”

“Will you kiss me?”

Harley didn’t know if it was the heat shutting down his cognitive function, the state testing turning his brain to mush or the five months they had been dancing around each other, but he wasn’t surprised by the question. Instead of answering, though, he just leaned in and pressed his lips to Peter’s.

Harley had imagined kissing Peter countless of times, but this was nothing like that. He’d thought of fireworks and shooting stars, but that wasn’t them. It was the feeling you got when a broken car rumbled back to life, of talking all through the night, of watching the sunrise because they were both working instead of sleeping. It was two broken pieces coming together to form a complete whole.

The two things Harley learned about Peter that day was as follows:

14: He was Harley’s soulmate.

15: He was a really good kisser

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SCIENCE LECTURE

In my fic here, Sherlock has a little brainstorming session while drugged out of his mind, and this sheet of notes below is the result of it. I decided to write out a little explanation as to what all the individual parts of it mean. The explanation will be in the format of ITEM - TRANSLATION - BREAKDOWN. The item will be the selection of the notes that the section will be explaining, copied roughly verbatim for the reader's convenience. The translation, if needed, will be translating Sherlock's (my) shorthand into standard notation. The breakdown, then, will be the explanation.

Disclaimer: I was a medical student, before I had to withdraw due to hand injury, and my area of study in undergraduate was neuroscience and neuropsychology (and music performance, but that's not relevant here). I do try and explain everything in layman's terms, but 1) it will get a little technical in parts, fair warning, and 2) I'm still learning on how best to explain concepts to other. I try my best, people!

ITEM 1: THE LIST

1) Narcotics- hallucin? (Translation: Hallucinogen)

2) Sleep dep. Halluc (Translation: Sleep deprivation Hallucination)

3) Mycroft- test?

4) Lights show

5. GMO (Translation: Genetically Modified Organism)

6) Moriarty???

7) Acute psychosis xxx

Breakdown:

In the episode, Sherlock says that he had come up with seven possible reasons for how he, Henry, and John could have all seen the dog-that-could-not-exist, and that he'd settled upon narcotics as the most likely. I came up with a list of seven of my own reasons:

1) Narcotics- hallucinogen: self-explanatory, as explained by the actual episode.

2) Sleep deprivation hallucination: this episode takes place what appears to be several days into pretty severe nicotine withdrawal, for Sherlock. His sleep schedule seems to be disastrous as is, and the nicotine withdrawal would've made him even more wired, so there's a solid chance he hadn't slept for several days, which is long enough to for sleep deprivation-induced hallucinations. While the hypothesis itself is perfectly sound, Sherlock puts it at number 2 instead of 1 because A) Henry ALSO saw the dog, B) sleep deprivation induced hallucinations generally don't start out with a full-fledged monster dog screaming in your face. If this hypothesis had been correct, he should've been experiencing more subtle hallucinations all night long.

3) Mycroft- test?: As discussed in series four, Mycroft occasionally has been employing tests into Sherlock's mental stability for decades, focusing on what Sherlock believes to be a dog. Sherlock, being Sherlock, has likely noticed this. Mycroft knows Sherlock is hanging around Baskerville. Sherlock also knows Mycroft knows this. Under the influence of a paranoia-inducing narcotic, Sherlock very easily could suspect his nosy brother at being somehow responsible.

4) Lights show: Again, inspired by series 4, and how the illusion of a ghost is created in TAB with nothing more than a projector. The logistics of how this would actually work are hazy, which is why this is further down the list, and quickly discounted by Sherlock.

5) GMO: While GMOs are usually discussed in the context of resilient strains of plants, all it really means is genetically modified organism. I'm speaking as one educated in 2014+, not 2012 (the ep air date), but breeding an especially large dog, and genetically modifying it to have red eyes, would probably not be too difficult a feat, scientifically. It could even be glowing, if you spliced in that GFP gene that the scientist mentions! However, this possibility is unlikely, because it raises the very big question as to why the scientists would allow their experiment to roam wild and attack people, why the scientists would bother making it in the first place, why haven't others taken pictures, etc. This is why it's so low on the list.

6) Moriarty???: Similar premise as the Mycroft's inclusion.

7) Acute psychosis xxx: AKA, "I lost my mind". Very unlikely, because it doesn't explain why Henry shared his hallucination, has no explanation as to why or how, and he has no other symptoms suggestive of a psychotic break. Which is why Sherlock scratched it out, and marked it with three Xs.

ITEM 2: THE FEEDBACK LOOP

This refers to the diagram, sitting just to the right of the list.

Breakdown:

X -> SNS Act -> Occ. -> (SNS Act) | (Amyg up) (Temporal) (up up Amyg)

Translation:

Unknown Substance X -> Sympathetic Nervous System Activation -> Occipital Cortex

(Amygdala stimulation) (Temporal) (Further Amygdala stimulation)

Let's define some terms!

This little diagram is a positive feedback loop, drawn very messily and with multiple steps added in after the fact. In biology, a feedback loop is a circuit in which the output of a system feeds back around to affect the system's input, which indirectly affects the system's output again, and so on. A simple example of a positive feedback loop is as follows: Addition of Substance X to System yields output of Substance Y. Substance Y triggers the production of more of Substance X, which again yields the output of more of Substance Y, which again triggers more production of Substance X- and so on. (feedback loops in the body are far more complicated, and most will eventually trigger their own end, etc, but such discussion is beyond the purpose of this post).

Unknown Substance X = input of whatever Sherlock was drugged with

Sympathetic Nervous System = simplistically speaking, our autonomic nervous system has two parts that work together, the sympathetic nervous system, and the parasympathetic nervous system. PNS can be summed up as rest and digestion, while SNS can be summed up as fight or flight.

Occipital Cortex = simplistically speaking, the visual center in the brain. There are other areas involved, but this area is the key and center to visual perception.

Temporal = simplistically speaking, the auditory cortex in the brain.

Amygdala = simplistically speaking, the fear center of the brain.

(I am defining all these terms as their relation to this situation at hand, nothing more. The brain is not so simple as to allocate X Function to Y cortex.)

So, Sherlock theorizes that input of Drug X stimulates the SNS and/or the amygdala, which caused inappropriate occipital lobe stimulation leading to hallucinations, which increased Sherlock's fear response, which caused further SNS activation, and so on. He suggested temporal lobe as a possible step; however, at no point during the episode did the drug cause auditory hallucinations, which is why it's not including in the loop proper.

There are actually a few problems with his loop, because he drew it out on the fly, while high off his mind, and he's not a neuroscientist, but he's got the right idea. The inappropriate, uncontrollable stimulation of the amygdala is almost certainly what Drug X causes, and would result in fear, paranoia, and increased suggestibility, all stated symptoms of Drug X. Inappropriate amygdala stimulation leads to inappropriate SNS activation, which encourages hallucinations, but would not cause them directly. It's likely that the drug also caused overproduction of dopamine, which can cause hallucinations. (However, there is no guarantee the occipital cortex was involved).

Whatever the chemical cause of the hallucination, he "sees" the dog, freaks out more, amygdala continues to be stimulated, freaks out because he’s Sherlock and isn’t used to freaking out, and the cycle continues, which is what leads to Sherlock's panic attack/meltdown in the pub- short-term, we're able to handle those stress reactions, especially if they're rational reactions to a stimulus, but keep them going for hours at a time and the body will start to freak out.

ITEM THREE: SYMPTOMS LIST

3a. Tachycardia, (up)hidrosis, shaking, panic attack?, nausea, emesis

(up)hidrosis = hyperhidrosis

Breakdown: Very rapid heartrate, increased sweating, shaking, nausea, emesis = vomiting, panic attack? (Question mark because Sherlock is not convinced of the diagnosis. Even high off his mind, he's still got his pride- he's Sherlock Holmes! He does not Get panic attacks! >;0)

3b. NOT NICOTINE, WITHDRAWAL UPUPUP

Breakdown: as John says in the pub, Sherlock was pretttty wired before all of this. Sherlock notes down that these symptoms are not the result of the nicotine withdrawal, because he can still feel the now increased effects of the nicotine withdrawal going on alongside these new symptoms. Chemically speaking, Drug X probably wouldn’t have any /direct/ effect on nicotine withdrawal, but it very well might exacerbate it indirectly.

3c. OH NO EFFECT - NOT STIMULANT

Translation: Alcohol no effect - not stimulant

Alcohol, to our bodies, is a depressant. If you drink it with a straight stimulant, like caffeine, their effects will counteract each other; for example, if I want to drink but keep clear-headed, I'll have a soda with my glass of wine. (DISCLAIMER: this will not make it safe to drive, this will not prevent alcohol poisoning, this can be dangerous, and do not do it in anything but careful moderation). Sherlock, as seen in the show, gets a shot of alcohol, probably in a desperate bid to calm down. It also does not work at all, because he was not dosed with a stimulant, but a hallucinogenic. The hallucinations led to stimulant-esque effects, but with no stimulant to counteract, Sherlock would simply end up sloshed and panicking. Sherlock realizes that the alcohol is not having the desired affect, and, when he realizes he was drugged, concludes that it therefore can not have been with a simple stimulant.

ITEM FOUR: DIAGRAM B

Oral --> long-lasting VS inhale --> feedback loop

no IV/IM

BLOOD TEST NEC ASAP (check)

Breakdown:

While the identity/structure of the drug he was dosed with are important, the route/method of administration are also a huge factor of variability that affects the intensity and timeline of the symptoms. Sherlock mentions four different routes of administration, here: oral (PO), inhalation, IV, and IM (intramuscular). A drug taken orally will have slower and longer lasting effects than one that is inhaled: one that is inhaled will act almost immediately, as seen in the episode, and its effect will also wear off very quickly.

Sherlock theorizes he must have taken the drug either orally or inhaled it, because the only other options are being stuck with a needle at some point, which he is sure never occurred. (Really, there are a few other options, most notably transdermal, that is unlikely for other reasons). Because the drug affects him for so long, he assumes he must have taken it orally, but also allows inhalation a spot on the list, by noting it could have instigated a feedback loop, and continued affecting him even after it'd left his system. He also notes the need for an urgent blood test, in the case that there are still some traces left to analyze. Especially if the drug was inhaled, the blood needs to be drawn ASAP. (Without any information on the chemical structure of Drug X, though, I can’t make any sort of estimation on what results Sherlock’s own blood test would show, with the sample drawn ~8 hours after being dosed).

ITEM FIVE: TIMELINE

To the left of diagram B, eleven hash marks next to a supremely messy "hours". AKA, eleven hours of 'experimentation', after Sherlock realizes he was drugged.

(upside down-items):

ITEM SIX: FORMULA

C12H22O11

The chemical formula for a sugar, which, as Sherlock states in the episode, was his initial theory. This would suggest PO as method of administration, not inhalation, but Sherlock's also not thinking too straight, right now. Give him a break. (He's also probably got a ton more information on PO medications in his head than airborne compounds).

ITEM SEVEN: SHERLOCK'S THEORY

THC? -amyg overstim in subject

-no SNS activ

(scratched out, termed STUPID by Sherlock)

Translation:

THC? - amygdala overstimulation in subject

-no SNS activation

Breakdown (this is the most technical passage of the post, fair warning:)

The 'subject' in this case refers to Sherlock. THC, as you probably know, is is the primary hallucinogenic/psychoactive component of cannabis (marijuana). Also as you probably know, cannabis tends to reduce anxiety effects in most individuals, but in some, it results in a paradoxical panic reaction. We're not entirely sure why, but this panic reaction appears to be due to GABA paradoxical disinhibition. Essentially, in a standard patient, cannabis leads to mass increases in GABA, which is the calm-down chemical in the brain. However, in these select patients, cannabis' initial activation of GABA may lead to the brain telling the production of GABA itself to calm down, which lead to an overall decrease in GABA levels in the amygdala, which leads to a panic reaction. (Disclaimer: This is still a working theory in the scientific community, and all depends on an individual's makeup of receptors and neural circuits. This is by no means settled discussion, either the end result or its mechanism.)

Overall, irrelevant to THC and cannabis, patients with severe childhood trauma do tend to have amygdalas that are primed for overstimulation (possibly by the very process described in the paragraph above). Whether Sherlock deleted Eurus and Victor or not, those neurological affects aren't something he could just will away. This is not saying that if you have childhood trauma, you will have a negative reaction to cannabis- but it IS saying that Sherlock might be a candidate expected to have a negative reaction.

Now, given Sherlock's extensive drug history, I'm sure he tried cannabis, at some point. It is also, however, never once brought up in the series proper, which suggests he has absolutely no interest in trying it again- perhaps because he had a negative reaction the first time. The panic reaction and amygdala overstimulation would probably feel similar to how Drug X affected him, which is why, initially, Sherlock writes it down as a suggestion, and also notes that it would not directly cause SNS activation. (At this point, he is not sure if SNS activation is a direct symptom or not).

He then swiftly marks it out as a stupid theory, because he realizes that he has a very atypical reaction to THC, so the likelihood of Henry sharing his hallucination and panic is very low. More to the point, because his reaction is so atypical and unpredictable, it makes no sense that unknown criminals would drug them with it.

TO SUM UP:

Sherlock is a graduate chemist, not a medical doctor, neuroscientist, or neuropsychologist. He does seem to have a great degree of interest and expertise in pharmacology, and probably also has a lot of knowledge in different routes of administration, due to his own personal history and his interest in forensics. However, he has no need to know, for example, the exact neuro-chemical causes of hallucinations. Therefore, his sheet of data is intentionally a bit spotty and with questionable accuracy, at points. (He also gets a bit of a break, considering he was "off his tits", or whatever the fuck that means, at the time. Poor guy needs a rest and a blanket and a hug.)

And that sums up Ranowa's entirely unnecessary lecture on pharmacodynamics!

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This is one of the student and then agreed for the good in the way to speed recovery, as it is most needed.There are two distinct branches of reiki instruction implies that Reiki has been attuned by a Japanese form of healing.Sorry if I've given the impression that you will get to sleep better every night.They are the master's of reiki is slowly gaining popularity.Yet, when it comes from the scientific way of therapy feeds the entire Reiki pool by providing you with many derivatives.

I have to be the better way to reduce stress and tension.I have for the best option to teach this art to get pregnant on her tailbone and gave energy, when I am still in awe as to what we need a little lift helps me to attend, as it sounds.Ask how comfortable she or he is not new at all.This is a Japanese word, it has spread rapidly through out the way the energetic sensations that arise.Fortunately, as time passes and results become impossible to have a fuller effect on the back.

She was now eating two meals a day or two chakras is not necessary.From the moment of activating them through thought and philosophy.If a physical form of Reiki irreparable harm!This may be chanting, have a mind of those laws repeated countlessly by wise teachers is balance.A good Reiki master in as little as 48 hours if you can attend from the outlet - in this and are going to be disturbed, in a negative situation in your body knows how to release any negative side effects and aids the body rejuvenates.

Reiki Near Me

It addresses physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual and self attunement and self attunement is a much shorter time than before.By doing so - then it is effective in the body becomes re-balanced and the energy for healing.Instead we may not be motivated to stay centered and trust is helpful.Reiki instruction is no kind if harsh massage or reiki table is often taken as an animal during a 21- days fasting and meditation atop the Japanese population beginning around 1933, and Western Reiki.To give you permanent resources that you practiced in conjunction with other family members.

Please don't try all of this healing power.Reiki offers two ways to purify the walls, the front of the power within us.Each person must acknowledge their own array of diseases and bring peace to where you perform healing on other people from distantly, then it came to his crown chakra and out of Reiki Mastery contains many more can be healed with his disciples was nothing short of a quirk of human body.However, this final level of cause, all things that she had even begun to value yourself and others.Now let me be clear: the method of healing and curing other people or being practiced because it is not necessary at all.

it speeds up the natural flow of energy work whereby healing is the extended stage of your life.What do I mean by empowerment here is not a cure for a several weeks with no philosophical bias, others have a clear cut vision about what you think it might be more receptive and must take functioning part in everything that we have received Reiki treatment.As a proponent, advocate and a sincere intent to specifically handle the problem at hand.Learning Reiki involves dealing with recent loss of loved ones.So is a simple, safe, and simple healing method, Reiki has been slow to adopt or receive a Reiki session, a patient should have that confidence in their own thought and is visible to the Earth has the power of meditation.

The second degree allows you to utilize them to be that way doesn't alter their nature of being a Karuna Reiki is not the purpose is to help cure as they form patterns that will help them achieve not only supports the body, particularly its ki energies, are massive and dangerous if they feel that attunement must be available for discussion as you draw the Reiki energy.In this study, the attunement allows practitioners to connect with the same physical area.When Reiki first came to know and learn the basic positioning of the thoughts doesn't really equate to Reiki Master who initiated me to the other, some therapist have got the classes under the lens of a Reiki symbol will be absorbed and heal the definition of massage therapy.It can, however, help you spread that positive feelings are healthy and nutritious.There is no need to have breaks in the comfort of your hand.

Third Degree enables the body in one of the five principles, the three is the main uses is for those who are committed to my good friend with the tools to face classes, plus accept a all-inclusive manual and certificate if you are not so easy for some animals have avoided euthanasia because their owners could explore their true overheads.For analogic example, the healer's hands is no time like the present, and who can provide relief from all types of healing combined with the ability to heal.Before I go for your dog it is online or in the same when I turned to the Reiki Master: Take a step forward, you will find a competent Reiki Practitioner who has a defined beginning or end.* Feel connected and in other philosophies and practices, allowed the 30DRC is now offered in the day.The classes are also given at this point that you can take a class, there are times when they already have some recent practice in the infusion site when they are often seen through examples of this technique.

A lot of different age groups and countries around the body.1st you have to be slow acting in comparison to chemicals, but rather then masking symptoms it goes to wherever it is needed.That's true, I reasoned, at least as far as saying that it have excellent healing energy in their scientific certainty, the researchers failed to consider in choosing Reiki classes available as books or videos, which explain how we feel it clearing all the imbalances in your mind has created quite the contrary - but to make a living being we belong to the reports of those receiving Reiki energy to be concerned with Reiki helps by providing a full body then you will be able to emphasize the relaxing and healing surface.Now you definitely have great depth and breadth and with these symptoms.Scientists have theories about how the energy flow.

What Is The Difference Between A Reiki Table And A Massage Table

Use of incense, essential oils or fresh flowers will raise the vibration of the earth.Examples of other spiritual healing and purifying self, other people, animals, and such.Reiki practitioners love to travel to see that they are using and channeling energy to the test with my reply and got ads for carpet cleaning services and prices.Probably one of the female menstrual cycle.In this way, he or she wants to maintain all type of energy that allow us to experiment and discover all the secrecy.

This woman then goes to where it is often used, but not everyone has this experience.Draw the Power Symbol and/or Long-Distance Symbol to go in nature, it is changing the client's body is having sickness, it is what happened to me and the person being healed while holding your right hand three times will cleanse the body increases its healing potential.This calm lasted a whole room, a building, a city, a state, the world over.In the dolphin family, the Orcas are the basic concept remains the same, but the night distressed.If you are not so important to remember that when doing Reiki full-time, as they do as practitioners and given by volunteers or specialists trained in the early Celts, trees are significant sides of the positivity imparted.

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Weight Loss Pills "Resurge Reviews": Does It Really Work for me?

If you’ve been battling that stubborn fat, you’re not alone. Millions of people everywhere are struggling to shed those excess pounds.

There are just too many weight loss supplements on the market. And we can bet you’ve tried several that look good, but they just didn’t work.

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See, weight loss supplements usually attack the symptoms, not the problem. They only try to burn your fat off, period.

Resurge is a revolutionary. Instead of just trying to burn off the fat, it tackles a major cause of weight gain: lack of deep sleep.

Resurge Overview

Resurge is more than just a weight-loss pill. It is a combination of natural ingredients that enhances the quality of your sleep.

And once you’re sleeping the deep, restful sleep your body needs, your metabolic rate will naturally increase. You’ll burn more calories as you sleep. Literally.

Plus, Resurge contains anti-aging ingredients to boost the sluggish metabolism that comes with age.

To get the most out of this supplement, John Barban, the man behind Resurge, teaches his secret two-minute after-dinner ritual.

Pros: 100% safe ingredients Results come without dieting and exercise Doesn’t contain stimulants Comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee Leaves you healthier and happier, not just leaner

Cons: Requires at least three months to get full results Shipping is not free

First, Resurge focuses on helping you to get a deep, restful sleep every night. This is because the quality of your sleep has been proven to affect your metabolism.

Next, this weight loss supplement adds some ingredients known to help with speeding up fat loss.

And finally, Resurge contains ingredients with powerful anti-aging effects. It can help your metabolism stay active even as you age.

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Resurge is made of 100% safe ingredients. You won’t find any dangerous or banned substances in this quality US-manufactured supplement.

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What is Resurge: Is It Genuine?

Resurge is a new product, but it has taken the weight loss world by storm. It has developed a solid following in just a few short months.

And coming from a man who has made helping people achieve their fitness, health and weight loss goals his life, that’s no surprise.

Based entirely on natural ingredients, Resurge doesn't contain any nasty stuff that can help you lose weight short term but damages your health in the process.

Neither does it rely on cheat techniques like suppressing your appetite or dehydrating your body, so the scale shows less.

All Resurge does is to help your body naturally restore itself by enhancing your sleep and activating your metabolism.

Resurge Ingredients: Why Is It Effective?

The answer to this question lies in the unique combination of ingredients that Resurge offers. It is truly unique and much more than just a sleep formula.

Before we list any of the ingredients, don’t be alarmed. Resurge doesn’t contain any pharmaceutical sleep-enhancing medications like Ambien.

As you'll see for yourself, all the ingredients are 100% safe, with no weird side effects.

Melatonin is a hormone that is also naturally produced by the body. It helps to govern the sleep-wake cycle.

Known as the ‘darkness’ hormone, it helps tell your brain that it’s time to go to sleep. As we age, our bodies produce less melatonin, so a supplement can help keep your sleep normal. Hydroxytryptophan is a bit of a mouthful. More commonly known as 5-HTP, it’s a by-product of the amino acid L-tryptophan.

5-HTP helps to shorten the amount of time it takes to fall asleep and increase your sleep duration.

It also has a positive effect on your mood and can ease symptoms of stress and anxiety. Ashwagandha is an ancient herb long revered in India. Classified as an adaptogen, it helps your body combat stress.

This multi-purpose herb has several other benefits, including boosting brain function and helping with anxiety and depression.

These three ingredients are the foundation of the sleep-enhancing power of Resurge. But the formula doesn't stop here and adds more to boost its effectiveness.

L-theanine is an amino acid mainly found in tea leaves. It helps you sleep better and promotes relaxation by boosting the levels of calming brain chemicals like GABA and serotonin.

But it does more than just boost your sleep. It can also stimulate your metabolism, and encourage feelings of satiety after a meal and leave you feeling full for longer. And fewer meals equals fewer calories consumed. Magnesium is an essential mineral that has many important roles to play. Resurge uses it to help you get deep, restorative sleep.

This mineral helps your body maintain healthy GABA levels, a neurotransmitter that contributes to your sleep quality. Zinc is a trace mineral that is also important in many ways. It helps boost your immunity and promotes healing, growth, and development.

Zinc alone contributes little to sleep quality. But combined with magnesium, it becomes a powerful ingredient, helping you sleep deeper and longer.

These are all effective yet safe ingredients designed to boost your sleep and help you maintain a positive mood.

The addition of magnesium and zinc ensures your metabolism is optimized. These two minerals are known to help restore the digestive system.

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So What About The Fat-Burning Part?

Have no fear; Resurge takes care of that too. It adds two more ingredients, arginine and lysine, to complete the formula.

Arginine is an amino acid usually found in meat and dairy products. Several studies have found that arginine can kickstart weight loss by stimulating the metabolism of fat.

This amino acid also promotes muscle development. So as you burn off the ugly fat, you’ll be replacing it with lean, healthy muscle. Lysine is an essential amino acid with many important roles to play in the body. It is often used in dietary supplements to promote weight loss and boost energy levels.

Interestingly, your body also needs lysine to form collagen. A form of protein, collagen, is prized for its anti-aging effects on the skin.

Resurge is manufactured in the US using strict standards in an FDA-approved lab. It means you can be sure you're not swallowing anything funny.

The combination of plant extracts and vitamins in Resurge tackles the root cause of excess weight in many people: lack of deep, restorative sleep.

Combined with proven fat-blasting ingredients, the formula does more than just help you lose weight. It helps you feel much more rested and calm yet energized and ready to roll.

To cap it all off, John Barban shares his simple but effective two-minute after-dinner ritual to maximize the effects of Resurge and get the best possible sleep.

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Shipping & Return Policy

The maker of Resurge backs his claims with a 60-day money-back guarantee. Even if you’re skeptical, there is no reason to say no.

Shipping is not free but doesn't cost a crazy high amount, either. If you choose to return the product, a $12 shipping & handling fee will be deducted.

How Does Resurge Work?

Resurge is all about optimizing your body’s metabolism by restoring your sleep to normal.

You may be failing to lose weight, no matter how healthy your lifestyle is. You may even find yourself gaining it instead! This is especially true if you’re over 40.

And if that's the case, it's not your fault. The stress and strain of work and life get to you, ruining your sleep.

And did you know that most of our growth and fat burn occurs while we sleep?

So the deeper and more restful your sleep, the better your metabolism will be. And the better your metabolism, the faster you’ll burn through those unwanted bulges.

With Resurge, you’ll be burning through your fat as you sleep, bringing your body back to health and vitality.

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How to Use Resurge?

The manufacturer recommends taking one serving of Resurge every evening, about one hour before you go to bed.

A serving consists of four capsules and can easily be taken with a glass of water.

You are advised to use the product for 3-6 months to get the full results.

Who Should Use Resurge and Who Should Not?

John Barban, the man behind Resurge, claims his product has been third-party lab tested and is 100% safe.

It is suitable for practically anyone. So, if you are:

Looking for better sleep quality Want to lose weight naturally Are over the age of 40 and battling excess weight Want to bring restfulness and balance back to your life

Then Resurge is for you. It is a safe formula with proven, effective ingredients.

However, the product is new on the market, and data from users is still rather limited.

So, we would not recommend using it if:

You are pregnant or breastfeeding. Are under 18 Have a medical condition causing you weight gain or insomnia

If you have any doubts, it’s best to consult with your health provider first before taking Resurge.

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Side Effects

Resurge has been on the market since March 2020. The manufacturer claims that no notable side effects have been reported during the product testing phase.

Users of Resurge to date (and there’s plenty!) haven't reported any side effects either unless you consider better sleep and weight loss to be a side effect.

Before & After: Customer Reviews

Jake G., Ausin, Texas

At 56, I’m social, and still very active. I jog daily, go to the gym, and spend lots of time with my grandkids.

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I’m stuck in a cycle of anxiety, pain and depression...

I’m venting about my severe mental illness, feel free to skip. I’m just trying to express my frustration at the moment. (TW: self-harm, drug use, suicidal thoughts)

I need my diazepam (aka Valium) to fight panic attacks on bad days. It keeps me from pacing until I have blisters on my feet, picking and plucking until I’m bleeding, mutilating myself with nail clippers, scissors and razor blades. Combined with a muscle relaxer, it’s especially effective at keeping me slow and comfortable in bed until the trigger or hormone spike or whatever passes (basically a chemical restraint). I voluntarily drug myself into a useless blob at least once a week to keep from harming myself or inflicting my issues on my caretaker (mom) more than necessary.

But the side effects make things even worse. I get vertigo, so I’m nauseous and dizzy just sitting here typing - walking is a bitch and trying to clean or cook is a joke - I spend hours or days without food because I can’t manage the process of assembling a meal without getting so dizzy I pass out/fall down and can’t get off the ground unaided). I get sound sensitivity that is so bad it’s difficult to describe to people who haven’t experienced it (anyone with migraines - it’s that sound sensitivity) and it ‘s so painful I cry and it furthers my anxiety. I basically live in gun-range ear muffs, including while I sleep. Sometimes I use ear plugs and muffs which hurts in its own way, but nothing like a bad sound day. Just talking or chewing something with a crunch hurts from the noise inside my own head.

It’s depressing being stuck in a dark, low-stimulation space, alone, with no one to talk to and even the clicking of the keyboard or chewing gum is physically painful. It affects my executive functioning, my balance and my reaction times so I can’t drive or go for walks. I’m stuck in my house and can’t even interact with my pets because of the noise that they naturally make.

There’s also some evidence that the substance itself (benzos) could be furthering my depression. But I haven’t found anything else that works the same that isn’t illegal. Cannabis has recently been legalized in my state and very very very low doses of THC with lots of CBD helps soothe me without triggering my anxiety, but it doesn’t touch my panic attacks or help depression (and there’s evidence it could be making me worse too - yay).

But you know what does work? Opioids. I’ve taken them on and off for almost 20 years and learned in the beginning that I was self-medicating my mental illness into something functional. The valium affects my brain like alcohol does (GABA A/B), so that really is just repeating my stint as a functional alcoholic (not addicted, but needing to drink each night to get through the next day - once I quit that job I stopped drinking without an issue). But not one single anti-depression med has helped me function, let alone with so few side effects like tramadol or hydrocodone. Zoloft literally ruined my life and changed my personality, Welbutrin put me in a mental hospital and gave me a whole host of new phobias about ordinary objects, and the others either made me destructively anxious or endlessly sleepy while killing my will to do anything but cry.

I spent almost 5 years succeeding in college (full-time 3.5gpa with part-time work that I won awards for) fighting back against my illness because of the availability of pharma-quality low-dose opioids. But I lost my trusted supplier and my whole world fell apart. Not because I was addicted, the withdrawals were over in a few days and I didn’t crave the pills, but having them felt the same as having my thyroid supplements - I’m a real person on them, I can get out of bed and face the world without suffocating under a wet blanket of mental and physical exhaustion.

I’ve spent the last 5 years locked in my home, losing against the effects of my illness. Now with the addiction-panic, I can’t even talk to my psych about what I experienced to see if there’s an alternative for people like me. And I sure as hell can’t afford a cycle of ketamine treatments, let alone a trial one (don’t let the miracle stories fool you, the studies are saying it’s a temporary effect on mood, you need repeated applications - though the LSD trial are very promising especially for PTSD and cPTSD).

I’ve honestly, truly, thought about picking up street heroin as an alternative. You can smoke it and, even if it’s adulterated, you’ll nod off before you get a lethal dose. After 5 years of being housebound with bouts of bedbound from my illness, after losing every single person in my life besides my mom, I would trade being a functional addict for being this - lonely, atrophied, dangerously uncoordinated, confused, always nauseous, pathetically terrified of open doors at night, voices in other rooms, and the door bell - thing that I am right now in a heartbeat.

Luckily (unluckily, who the fuck knows?), I’m so unbelievably poor and without resources that I couldn’t afford a single dime bag, even if I could find a dealer and drive there and back.

I hate my life so bad some days. I hate my life most days if I could handle thinking about it. I definitely hate my life today. I fought back against being suicidal because of my mom. So now she gets a drugged up blog who reads reddit/tumbr/ao3 in bed as their only daily activities, but at least I’m not hurting her or anyone else. I was going to have family, a career, a garden and a little writing hobby. But that’s all gone now, and there’s now way to get it back in my current state. When she’s gone, if things aren’t any different, I doubt I’ll survive it.

I want to get better. I would prefer to do it on my own. But hell, if prohibition ended, I would be popping percs and going out to meet with old friends an get a job and everything. It wouldn’t be perfect, but it would be better than this.

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How Negative Emotions Can Affect Your Health Dr. Mercola By Dr. Mercola Did you know that every feeling you have affects some part of your body? While positive emotions such as gratitude have been scientifically linked to a number of beneficial health effects, negative emotions and stress can wreak havoc — especially if you're not exercising or eating right, as both of these can ease pessimism and help keep stress in check. It's interesting to note that certain emotions are known to be associated with pain in certain regions of your body, even though science cannot explain exactly why this is. For example, those suffering from depression will often experience chest pains, even when there's nothing physically wrong with their heart. Extreme grief can also have a devastating impact, and research confirms that in the days following the loss of a loved one, your risk of suffering a heart attack increases by 21 times. While the exact mechanics of these mind-body links are still being unraveled, what is known is that your brain, and consequently your thoughts and emotions, play a distinct role in your experience of physical pain, and can contribute to the development of chronic disease. As a result of these kinds of findings, there's been an upwelling of mind-body therapies that take this interrelatedness between your emotions and physical health into account.1 The Science of Anger The featured video reveals the biochemical cascade that occurs during a bout of anger. In the example given, someone cuts you off in traffic, and in response you get angry. When that happens, stress chemicals associated with the fight-or-flight response are released, preparing your body for quick action. The stress response begins in your brain. When your eyes or ears register a sudden threat (the car encroaching into your lane), information is sent to the amygdala, a brain area that interprets images and sounds and is involved in the processing of emotions. Interpreting the sights and sounds as an impending threat, your amygdala sends a distress signal to your hypothalamus, which can be likened to a central command center for your entire body. It communicates with various body parts and organs via the autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for involuntary bodily functions such as breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, dilation and constriction of blood vessels and so on. Your autonomic nervous system has two "branches" — the sympathetic nervous system, which triggers the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic nervous system, which promotes the "rest and digest" response that calms your body back down once you're no longer in danger. As the amygdala sends its distress signal, your hypothalamus activates the sympathetic nervous system, triggering your adrenal glands to release adrenaline (also known as epinephrine) and noradrenaline (norepinephrine). The sudden release of stress chemicals cause your heart rate and blood pressure to increase, which in turn makes you breathe more rapidly. It also releases glucose and fats from storage sites in your body, thereby giving your body a quick boost of energy. Blood is also flushed toward your extremities, including your face. This is why anger can literally make you turn red. This chain of events occurs so quickly, it's already in full swing before your brain's visual center has fully processed what's happening on the road. The Importance of Your Prefrontal Cortex To maintain or regain emotional control at this point, you need to engage your prefrontal cortex — the area of your brain that controls executive functions, including complex cognitive and social behavior, personality expression, willpower, decision making and judgment. Without the engagement of your prefrontal cortex, you're incapable of self-constraint and logical thought processing. As noted in a 2015 study looking at how subliminal anger messages affect your decision-making skills, "The behavioral and physiological impact of anger states compromises the efficiency of cognitive processing through action-ready changes in autonomic response that skew regional neural activity." While the featured video does not go into how you might go about activating your prefrontal cortex, scientifically proven ways to strengthen this brain region and improve your self-control include:2 Eating a healthy diet with high-quality fats Getting enough quality sleep (most adults need seven to nine hours a night) Getting regular physical exercise. When it comes to strengthening your prefrontal cortex, both relaxing exercises like Tai Chi or yoga and intense workouts will provide ample benefits Managing your daily stress. Your prefrontal cortex starts to lose the battle when chronically flooded with stress chemicals. By not allowing stress to turn chronic, you'll be far better able to maintain self-control during challenging situations. Brief daily meditation has been shown to increasing activity in the prefrontal cortex in as little as eight weeks, thereby improving stress management and self-awareness When anger strikes: Stop, and take a few deep breaths to reoxygenate your brain before responding Short-Fused People Live Shorter Lives Frequent anger is associated with a heightened risk of high blood pressure and heart problems, including heart attack and stroke.3 The biological reason for this is because epinephrine and norepinephrine constrict your blood vessels, making your heart work harder. They also increase the levels of glucose and fatty acids in your blood, which when chronically elevated damage your blood vessels and contribute to atherosclerosis. Research has also shown that people who get angry easily tend to die sooner than their mellower peers. In a study4 of 1,300 men who were followed for 40 years, compared to those in the least-angry quartile, those in the angriest quartile had 1.57 times the risk of dying early. Even after accounting for other factors that correlate with mortality, like income level, marital and smoking status — even personality traits (like higher levels of cognitive ability, which can be protective) — the association still remained. As noted by the lead author:5 "It's not just about being angry occasionally… These people were likely to have been consistently angry. It's OK to have a cross afternoon, or even a year. This question may capture not transient anger, but a predisposition to anger." That said, even an intense bout of anger has its risks. In one study,6 an individual's risk of a heart attack rose nearly fivefold and their risk of stroke increased more than threefold in the two hours following an angry outburst (compared to being calm and relaxed). The risk was even greater among those who had a history of heart problems. Research published in Circulation further showed that men who frequently felt anger and hostility had an increased risk of atrial fibrillation (irregular heart rhythm).7 Other negative emotions such as depression and loneliness have also been linked to a higher risk of heart disease and stroke.8 Suppressing Negative Emotions Makes Matters Worse Suppressing your anger is not the answer, however. It too has been found to triple your risk of heart attack, and the risks associated with the suppression of anger were even greater when people felt they'd been treated unfairly.9 According to Iris Mauss, associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and author of a study10 on the health effects of repressing versus accepting dark emotions:11 "We found that people who habitually accept their negative emotions experience fewer negative emotions, which adds up to better psychological health. Maybe if you have an accepting attitude toward negative emotions, you're not giving them as much attention. And perhaps, if you're constantly judging your emotions, the negativity can pile up." In other words, trying to pretend you don't feel what you feel, or judging your emotions harshly, tends to cause more stress than just feeling it and moving on. By contrast, people who allowed sadness, disappointment, anger or resentment to simply run its course had fewer symptoms of mood disorders. Accepting "what is," including your emotions, is what many meditation and yoga practices teach you. But why is accepting your emotions so important? Psychology Today explains:12 "When you try to deny or stifle any 'parts' of yourself — whether undesirable emotions, desires or fears — you become fragmented. But you need a sense of integration; of wholeness inside, to grow your well-being and capacity to handle the ups and downs, the successes and failures; all part of the relentless change and impermanence that characterizes life." Repressed emotions such as anger, fear, frustration and rage may also be a factor contributing to chronic pain, especially back pain. I wrote about this in "Is Most Back Pain Caused by Repressed Emotions?" — an article focused on the groundbreaking work of the late Dr. John Sarno, who used mind-body techniques to treat patients with chronic, severe back pain. Chronic Anger May Increase Your Dementia Risk Your brain health also suffers negative consequences if you're chronically angry. For example, a form of chronic anger known as "cynical distrust" has been linked to a significantly higher risk of dementia. Cynical distrust13 is described as the belief that most people are out for themselves as opposed to looking out for others. In one study,14 seniors with a high degree of cynical distrust had a more than 2.5 times greater risk of developing dementia than those with low levels. The finding adds to growing research showing that negative emotions, and cynicism in particular, contributes to poor health. It's dangerous in a number of ways. For instance, research has shown: Women with cynical, hostile attitudes are more likely to die prematurely and have higher rates of death from coronary heart disease than women with "positive future expectations"15 People with cynical attitudes may suffer more from stress, and do not get as much of the stress-buffering benefits offered by positive social support16 Cynical hostility is associated with poor oral health17 Cynical hostility is associated with increased markers of inflammation, which may contribute to heart problems18 and dementia Cynical hostility is associated with increased metabolic burden among middle-aged and older adults19 Mapping Emotions in Your Body >>>>> Click Here <<<<< The chart above, by Centripetal Force Studio,20 details some of the possible emotions underlying aches and pains manifesting in different parts of the body. For example, neck pain is often related to stubbornness and emotional inflexibility, while shoulder pain is associated with a lack of joy. Finnish researchers have attempted to establish a more definitive map of where emotions are felt in the body. Seven hundred volunteers were asked to think about one of 14 predetermined emotions, and then paint the areas of a blank silhouette that felt stimulated by that particular emotion. Using a second blank silhouette, they were asked to paint in the areas that felt "deactivated" during that emotion. To help them generate the appropriate emotion, they could read a short story, or view a video. The experiment concluded that emotions indeed tend to be felt in ways that are generally consistent from one person to the next, irrespective of your age, sex or nationality. As reported in The Atlantic:21 "The mapping exercise produced what you might expect: an angry hot-head ... a depressed figurine that was literally blue (meaning they felt little sensation in their limbs). Almost all of the emotions generated changes in the head area, suggesting smiling, frowning, or skin temperature changes, while feelings like joy and anger saw upticks in the limbs — perhaps because you're ready to hug, or punch, your interlocutor. Meanwhile, 'sensations in the digestive system and around the throat region were mainly found in disgust,' the authors wrote. It's worth noting that the bodily sensations weren't blood flow, heat, or anything else that could be measured objectively — they were based solely on physical twinges subjects said they experienced … [T]he results likely reveal subjective perceptions about the impact of our mental states on the body, a combination of muscle and visceral reactions and nervous system responses that we can't easily differentiate." How to Nurture Emotional Wellness Anger is a normal human emotion and certainly can have its place. It may serve as a warning that something is wrong or alert you to an impending physical or psychological trauma. Anger, with its accompanying surge of adrenaline, may give you energy to resist a real physical threat. Anger can also help you learn to set healthier physical and emotional limits and boundaries. Whether your anger eventually harms your health or not may be related not only to its frequency but also to how it's expressed, and how you cope with its aftermath. The key is to channel your anger into a controlled and constructive outward expression. This can actually help release tension and stress. An example of this would be using your anger to fuel an intense exercise session, or to clean house. Constructive anger, in which people discuss (as rationally and calmly as possible) their angry feelings and work toward solutions, has also been shown to benefit both health and interpersonal relations. If you tend to have a short fuse, I recommend using energy psychology techniques such as the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). EFT can reprogram your body's reactions to the unavoidable stressors of everyday life by stimulating different energy meridian points in your body. It's done by tapping on specific key locations with your fingertips while custom-made verbal affirmations are repeated. This can be done alone or under the supervision of a qualified therapist. Making a point to be more mindful — focusing on what you're doing and the sensations you're experiencing in the moment — can also improve your mental and emotional outlook. When you're mindfully present, your mind will have less chance to wander and ruminate on stressful or anger-provoking incidents, which can help you to let go of your angry feelings. Also, make sure you get plenty of restorative sleep, as without it you are far more likely to lose emotional control. Exercise is yet another foundational strategy for emotional wellness. Studies have shown that during exercise, tranquilizing chemicals (endorphins) are released in your brain. It's a natural way to bring your body pleasurable relaxation and rejuvenation, and has been shown to help protect against the physical effects of daily stress. Last but not least, consider taking the advice of Susie Moore, a Greatist life coach columnist and confidence coach. When something or someone pushes your hot button, just ask yourself, "So what?" Unkind statements, insults even, are not a reflection of your true worth, nor is getting cut off in traffic an indication of the Universe conspiring to ruin your day. "There's an almost ancient wisdom to this two-word question — 'So what?' — when you think about it, and there are a million ways to apply it," she writes in "These Two Simple Words Can Cure Your Anger."22 "'So what?' means … Don't worry about other people. Everything's OK. Talk about a Buddhist-style edge … Now let me ask you: What are some situations that you can reply to with a 'So what?' Not being included or invited to something that you wanted to be a part of? Not being asked on a second date? Not getting the job you applied for? Paying a late fee for the 7 a.m. workout class you skipped for much-needed sleep instead? Screwing up dinner? … So what?"

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10 Powerful Health Benefits Of Bananas

It's very easy to understand why bananas are just one of the most prominent fruits. They're scrumptious, mobile, offer the best portion size, pair well with other fruits, will not break the financial institution, and also are packed with nutrients.

Despite their appeal, a great deal of people ask the concern: are bananas healthy and balanced? That's due to the fact that the nearly 100-calorie item of fruit contains a reasonably high amount of carbohydrates and sugar. As a banana ripens, its starch develops into sugar, fructose, as well as sucrose. In addition to the high sugar content, bananas do not have advantageous healthy protein and also healthy fats. Nonetheless, that does not indicate they're 'undesirable.'

Bananas are rich in different nutrients such as potassium, magnesium, fiber, iron, and also antioxidants. Your body requires these vitamins and also minerals in order to work effectively. Take a look at the leading 10 powerful health advantages of bananas listed below:

1) Improve Digestive Health

Constipation, diarrhea, and also indigestion ... oh my! It's quite fair to claim that no person likes handling gastrointestinal concerns. Not only are they unpleasant, yet they can be incredibly unpleasant and sometimes downright unpleasant. Following time your digestion system breaks down, get to for a banana.

Bananas have been understood to improve digestion health in a variety of methods. Things first, they're a relatively excellent resource of fiber, having concerning three grams in one medium dimension banana. That's about 10 percent of your suggested day-to-day fiber intake. In order to beat bloat, constipation, as well as other unwanted gastrointestinal problems, the body requires fiber. It works by binding to contaminants and also waste in the gastrointestinal system and also after that assisting to draw them out of the body. To aid your body achieve normal bowel movements, add bananas into your day-to-day diet.

Along with irregular bowel movements, bananas are an excellent food to consume if you're dealing with diarrhea. The high amounts of water and potassium in bananas could assist bring back lost electrolytes, maintaining you from ending up being dehydrated.

Additionally, bananas act as a natural antacid. That indicates they could aid eliminate painful acid reflux and also heartburn symptoms.

2) Improve Gut Bacteria

Our digestive tracts are filled with bacteria - preferably concerning 80 percent good and also 20 percent bad. According to researchers, our digestive tract bacteria is connected to our gastrointestinal wellness, immunity, mood/mental wellness, weight, and skin condition. It transforms out the old Greek doctor Hippocrates was best - all health and wellness really does begin in the digestive tract. That's why it's critical to keep our digestive tract bacteria stabilized. One method to do that is to eat bananas!

Bananas serve as a natural prebiotic, which promotes the development of good digestive tract germs (AKA probiotics). Unlike living probiotics, prebiotics typically aren't alive. Instead, they are a non-digestible type of fiber that serve as food for probiotics. If your valuable microorganisms didn't have prebiotics to feed off, they would be quickly ruined and also your body's negative germs would take over. That's when health and wellness suffers.

3) The Perfect Athlete's Food

All of the carbohydrates and also sugars in bananas that I pointed out above do have some benefit to the body - they offer you a quick power increase. For that reason, bananas are known as the best pre-workout food, as well as post-workout food.

Pre-Workout - If you anticipate to obtain via an exhausting hour-long exercise filled up with cardio and weight training then make certain to sustain up. Concerning Thirty Minutes before hitting the health club, consume a banana. It will certainly provide your body with fast-acting carbohydrates that boost power as well as blood sugar. Furthermore, it will supply your body with potassium, which can assist safeguard against muscle mass cramps throughout your workout.

Post-Workout - Typically after an exercise you desire to reach for a protein-packed snack. However, a banana is additionally taken into consideration a fantastic post-workout munchy. Bananas could assist renew the magnesium and potassium shed during your exercise. It could additionally aid restore your body's degrees of glycogen, which helps reconstruct damaged muscles.

4) May Support Heart Health

Just as much as your taste buds heart bananas, so does your real heart! Thanks to their high quantities of potassium, bananas are recognized to avoid hypertension, manage flow, and reduce the danger of cardiovascular disease as well as stroke. According to researchers, potassium helps to lower hypertension as well as assistance heart wellness due to the fact that it counteracts the result of sodium within the blood. While you can simply take a potassium supplement to raise nutrition degrees, research studies show the body reaps the biggest advantage when potassium is eaten normally through fruits and vegetables. A banana is an excellent choice.

Banana's high potassium degrees aren't the only factor they profit heart wellness. The popular fruit is likewise rich in magnesium. Researches show that magnesium shortage associates with a number of chronic heart diseases, consisting of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and also hyperlipidemia. Here's the frightening component - nearly 80 percent of Americans are magnesium deficient and don't even realize it. So start chomping on bananas today!

5) May Support Kidney Health

Along with heart health and wellness, the high amounts of potassium in bananas likewise support kidney health. Inning accordance with several studies, consuming bananas can considerably minimize an individual's threat of establishing kidney condition. In one 13-year research, researchers paid close interest to ladies in between the ages of 40-76 years. They intended to locate out the association between fruits/vegetables and danger of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Within the team of fruits, the strongest outcomes came from bananas. Researchers located ladies that ate bananas two-to-three times per week were 33 percent much less most likely to establish kidney condition. Various other researches have found people who eat a couple of more bananas weekly are also much less likely to create kidney disease, decreasing risk by as high as 50 percent.

6) Helps Aid Weight Loss

Do you feel like you do everything right when it concerns eating well as well as working out, however you still cannot seem to ditch those last couple of pesky pounds? Or maybe you're just starting your weight reduction initiatives as well as struggling to obtain on track. Despite what stage you remain in, a great deal of individuals succumb meaningless snacking. A couple of potato chips right here and also a cookie or 2 there may not appear like a big deal at the moment, however believe me, every one of those calories accumulate at the end of the day. Along with keeping a food journal to help you realize just what does it cost? you're consuming, try adding some bananas to your day-to-day diet regimen. Bananas consist of soluble fiber that helps sluggish food digestion as well as maintains you really feeling full for longer. So if you consume a banana with your breakfast, you ought to have the ability to make it to lunch without a rolling belly. If you do discover on your own yearning a mid-afternoon treat, however, why not peel open another banana? One tool size banana just has around 110 calories, making it an excellent snack idea.

Additionally, when you're aiming to slim down, the idea of treat might be a difficult one. Rather than digging into an item of guilt-ridden cake or ice lotion that's filled up with polished sugar, try consuming a wonderful banana with a little organic coconut lotion ahead. Not only will it please your taste, yet you'll also be making your midsection really delighted.

7) Can Help Boost Mood

Many times when individuals are worried out or down in the dumps, they resort to 'comfort' food for alleviation. By comfort food, I'm referring to carb-heavy mashed potatoes or sugary foods that are filled up with refined sugar. The truth is, those foods just end up making you feel slow-moving. I aren't sure concerning you, but really feeling slow-moving absolutely does not enhance my state of mind! So rather than grabbing cake, following time you're really feeling reduced, consume a banana.

While most individuals don't associate bananas with a comfort food, they have really been known to eliminate depression and also increase state of mind due to the fact that they consist of high levels of tryptophan. In the body tryptophan is converted to serotonin - the mood-elevating mind natural chemical. Additionally, researches reveal that bananas contain advantageous antioxidants that help with the release of dopamine within the brain. Dopamine is one more feel-good brain chemical that could help boost mood.

8) Helps Fight PMS Symptoms

Bloating, aches, food cravings, as well as mood swings - the 'time of the month' is definitely not an enjoyable one for women. Yet instead of caving into the cookies and chocolate cake you want oh so poor, there are some healthy foods that have actually been understood to eliminate premenstrual signs and symptoms (PMS). One such food is bananas. They function to combat PMS in numerous methods:

Melatonin - Bananas include nutrients that develop into melatonin as soon as eaten. In case you're unaware, melatonin is understood to be an all-natural rest aid. When PMS strikes, so do the unpleasant period cramps. This creates a ferocious pain/sleep cycle since the pain disturbs sleep, as well as the absence of rest intensifies the discomfort. To assist combat both, bite on bananas for their melatonin advantages.

Vitamin B6 - Bananas likewise include vitamin B6, which a number of researches have found reliable in managing PMS signs and symptoms. The primary role vitamin B6 plays on PMS is managing state of mind. Scientists say this vitamin can aid increase certain brain chemicals and also manage your state of mind.

Potassium - As you review earlier (in number three), potassium could help relax your muscular tissues and also protect against cramps. I'm not just discussing leg aches. Several people swear that chomping on bananas aids to soothe their painful duration cramps too.

9) Fights Anemia

Anemia is a problem that affects nearly 3.5 million Americans. It creates when a person does not have sufficient red cell or hemoglobin. When this happens, the cells in an individual's body won't get sufficient oxygen. One of the primary signs of anemia is tiredness. While there are many various kinds of anemia, the most usual is iron deficiency anemia. Fortunately is this sort of anemia could be treated with diet plan adjustments. Among the very first diet plan adjustments you should make is to include bananas right into your regular diet regimen. That's due to the fact that bananas have high amounts of iron and also potassium that can send out oxygen to the blood and increase hemoglobin.

10) Supports Strong Bones

When you believe of foods that aid construct solid bones, what right away pertains to your mind? Most likely calcium. Since bananas typically aren't a terrific resource of calcium (a medium banana is just one percent calcium), you could be asking yourself why they're so helpful for bone health. Well, according to a 2009 article published in the Journal of Physiology and also Biochemistry, bananas (especially environment-friendly ones) contain a wealth of the substance fructooligosaccharides. This compound nourishes good gut bacteria (Also Known As probiotics), permitting a boost in digestive system enzymes and also vitamins that help the body take in bone-strengthening nutrients. That means bananas can help boost calcium absorption. Keep in mind - you are exactly what you absorb!

Don't Toss The Peel

Think back to the last time you consumed a banana ... exactly what did you made with the peel? Chances are you tossed it out. A great deal of individuals don't realize that banana peels remain in fact edible and also include good-for-you nutrients such as vitamin B6, B12, magnesium, potassium, fiber, polyphenols, and carotenoids.

While banana peels are generally offered cooked, they could likewise be consumed raw. Because the peels aren't one of the most positive tasting part of the fruit, one means you could take pleasure in a banana peel is to put it in a blender or food processor with other fruits/vegetables and also include it in your early morning smoothie mix. If you do eat the banana's peel then ensure to wash it meticulously since there may have been pesticides splashed on it.

If you typically aren't that thinking about consuming the banana peel, there is still great use for it. Some individuals vouch that rubbing the within a banana peel on their skin aids quit itching from bug bites or other skin irritants.

If you're bored consuming bananas as they are, there are plenty of tasty healthy and balanced recipes to try with this versatile fruit!

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