Sunday, May 17, 2020

Running on The Emotional Gears



Blurry confusing image, is it right? Can you identify the words and the purpose of this image?
Iam sure, you will give it a try, or it may make you feel uncomfortable as it gives you hard time thinking or reflect or try to solve something that is completely unclear to you.

Hold on, we will walk through this together. and yet, I have another question for you, at the moments of confusion and unclarity, how many of you hear a comforting voice reaching out to you to make things more clear to you? Don't answer as the answer is mostly predictable. Hardly none, so take it easy and give yourself a chance to understand and educate yourself if you can. 
As a believer in the bottom-top approach to reclaim the dignity of human beings, I can simply say, our life is coded from the first moment in the Uterus. It is all about how healthy the cells on a molecular level. The emotional state of a parent at that time, trauma history in parents, and the environment, relationships, connections, lifestyle, diet, and uncontrolled toxins that invade these molecules internally and externally. So, we come to life with precoded epigenomes. 

A pre-mapped topography in your emotional context that will determine later as you progress in life how far you will be predisposed to certain diseases or body deterioration, it is all chemical. You are a living lab. And the control room in this lab is your brain. The results will come out of this room based on the information gathered from every route designated in such a complex structure. Some are designed to sustain life, you want food to eat, heat, survival and for living creatures get their needs may be reflected in behaviors like aggression, dominance, territory, and ritual displays which are run by the reptilian brain. 

Moving up in order to reach safety and comfort, we seek connection. since you are a child you start to pick on behaviors that will give you an understanding on what does connection and relationship means, each according to the type of environment you are in, adults around you and they type of languages that will give meaning to this context and you build up your adaptive patterns or toolbox that will help you feel like you are functioning within the group, the mammalian brain. And here where all types of interactions are taking a form. So, it is not you it is the adaptive personality that takes place. According to the environment, you are in, you may be empowered within healthy relationships, connections, structure, nourishment, and lifestyle. Or disempowered by unhealthy relationships, connections, dysfunctional structure, malnutrition, and maladaptive. Maybe oppressed, suppressed, aggressive, violent, bad habits, a recipe of moral death. Adversity, trauma, self-esteem injuries and the list go on that leave the person with a constant struggle while their brain is developing, so the development has no healthy foundation and here when the person puts so many masks to do life or walk through life.


That leads us to a core point why we have such blurry image along the way, the chaotic, punitive, inconsistent practices, instability of all kinds or what is known," Accumulative Harm Effect", parenting with annoyance, leading through creating tension, anxiety, stress, hypervigilant state that are running on Adrenaline and cortisol secretion, the firey chemicals , creating such oxidative guts , toxin chemicals that damage your neurons, impaired your brain abilities on the way. That moral death recipe act from the sympathetic nervous system, lead the person to have the limbic system instability , reaction mode, impulsive mode, fight, or flight. Danger, danger mentality. Imagine by allowing your brain to run on the negative , dysfunctional unhealthy state as if you are burning the engine that runs your life and differentiates you from reptiles and animals that is lead us to the importance of realizing the roots of your emotional hyperarousal. And if you would like to learn a little bit about emotional hyperarousal or what is called the extremes of emotions, either too passionate , thoughtful, or blown up. There is no middle. people with emotional hyperarousal have passionate thoughts, reactions, and feelings that are more intense than these of the average person, often experience happiness and criticism that make them appear overly sensitive and be off-putting to those around them which in turn can do deep, long- term damage to their self-esteem. They experience meltdown or blow-ups, have to be talked off the ledge when they are overwhelmed by their emotional responses. People walk on eggshells around them. Emotions flare up out of nowhere and then resolve themselves just as quickly. They experience intense cycles of emotions, so sensitive to rejection, teasing, criticism, or the perception that you have failed or fallen short. People around them complain they don't understand the person's reactions or can't keep up with the person's ever-changing emotions. They can't rid your brain of a certain thought or idea when you want to feel like a child who is "faking"  being a real adult due to your uncontrolled emotions. They experience emotions more intensely, more suddenly, more unpredictability, unaware of how physically active. Shifts in the mood, coming and get "blindsided by your own emotions. their strong uncontrolled mood shifts damaged personal relationships or career prospects. Thoughts bounce from one concern and worry to another may passively affect their sleep. here again this the patterns we may face going back to the root of the severe emotional trauma that causes lasting changes in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex region of the brain, that is responsible for regulating emotional response triggered by the Amygdala, brings back to the memory or the mind the abandonment, the loss, the grief, separation self-esteem injuries, facing a person they don't know any more or hopeless, helpless while the person goes in life more damage happen in the main parts of the brain the control room, the engine that structure life meaning and purpose due to the unhealthy metabolism of emotions. So hurting people hurt people, if we function from the point that we are not tuned into the reality what we truly face, where we are and how can we repair this damage collectively, holistically, and with integrity.



That moves us to the wonderful amazing structure of Neocortex of the brain that is orchestrate planning complex behavior and sensory discrimination part of the cerebral cortex and a cortical part of the limbic system consists of grey matter that shapes 76% of total brain volume. If the neocortex is hurt, the cognitive ability of the person will be greatly affected. The Neocortex controls a person's language and consciousness. It has unmyelinated fibers and a grey matter called neuronal cell bodies myelinated axons. The neocortex is derived from the dorsal telencephalon in the rostral area of the forebrain, most of the synaptic connections form the cortex's counterpart. 
Neocortex stores information about the structure of the environment enables mammals to find food needed to survive, sleep-dependent memory processing if you get a good night's sleep because of the function of the neocortex. 80% of the neurons in neocortex are excitatory and 20% inhibitory. The neocortex has a vital role in the person's semantic memory. It plays an essential role in episodic memory recalling important events in your life as well as spatial recognition and auditory information. Imagine allowing with overwhelming emotions, tension, prolonged trauma, stress toxic environments ,a person is giving a permission to lose their engines that hold the meaning to anything around by ruminating or repeating the vicious cycle unconsciously or consciously so we as human are destroying the lives by running life on emotional gears. Shall we give ourselves a chance to learn how you are designed and how wonderful you are made for a good life , so you have the choice, educate? when you are aware, understand, empowered the picture will no longer be blurry.  By: ME," The old Ancient Woman"



Friday, May 1, 2020

COVID-19 And Our Fears




It is true our senses reflect how we react in any environment

COVID- 19 is rewriting the coming phase of human history. A changing paradigm in humans' actions and behavior. And their impact subsequently on how you see the world, and how we see each other at this moment. It is a movie or a book turned into reality.  Reading and watching books and movies about Aliens invading our plant with unknowns technologies and Viruses are a reality we live. Yet, only one fact that no aliens from outer space. We " the globe" are the Aliens.


2020 had bigger dreams and plans I was working on, and diligently trying to fight the odd. Telling myself I can do this, I will do this. Iam in the free land where dreams come true. If you work hard, you will be whatever you want to be. The scenario year after year became different. I became aware that, we humans no matter what religion, culture, tongue, any background, create our own battles that fit the map we have in our minds either to gain control or remain control. As we know the sacrifice of souls for honor or patriotism both have conditioned human life to keep the pride among the tribe.

I realized that we are not alone, each one of us is a variable in any of the equations that fits a specific scenario.  So my search for freedom of voice and choice came in place to face reality. What variable I am, is not my choice in the bigger picture. Working on my own picture or what we call a vision is contradicting the outer vision or scenario. Waves of the ocean turned to be spiky rocks, and you have to face them and get your share of it. Plans, dreams, goals became like a chess game, trying to figure it out. Before I was lead by fears, be the good girl and be obedient, be the kitty cat, nicer, and have no voice. Be the dolly, dress beautifully, and paint your face. Everything was telling me to hide yourself. You aren't allowed to be seen, or being visible and if you do, you will be smashed, dare you.


Early childhood Experiences effect themselves in our older life

These are the patterns that developed over the years, certain societies, ethnic or religion, females have to be in a certain way and the other parts of the world will come to know that and be judged by this frame of understanding about how things go. And unfortunately, you believe. So you walk through your life expecting that the story was told about you beforehand will determine how everything has to go, and the cycle repeats itself, till you are hit so hard that awaken you. The wrong beliefs that made you guided by the shadow of your fears. This garment doesn't fit anymore.

When you learn about how mental games can change the person unconsciously, even without they don't know that is a mental game, you are shocked and subconsciously, you will do what the scenario is telling what you are supposed to do. Your brain waves will change accordingly and your body will act accordingly, once the action is repeated, it is already kept it the memory and next time the scenario is being delivered, automatically you will react, even without you realizing that you were planning to act differently. The consciousness was deactivated and the subconscious is activated. Fearful dynamic about the architecture of our brain and how the Triune bain layers impact how we construct our behaviors according to the elements of input of the equation, and how our senses collect the data to match them with past scenarios and telling your body is this a red light or green light. If you have a painful past, your Limbic system/emotions are on high alert once a familiar scenario repeats itself. The whole experience won't be about who you are with at the present. it is all about what the experience triggered in you. So negative past experiences do affect how we deal with the present.


So, COVID-19 brought to me the persistent question," What are you afraid of?" Listen to them, try to notice them individually, and ask yourself why this or that makes me afraid? What am I afraid of loss or failure? shame or grief? perception or belief? reality or the truth? whatever you are afraid of, this is the true time to face our fears? whatever they find the courage to face them? you won't succeed from the first trial. Your fears will shy out from you when you will realize that fears do exist because you have something to work on and either you run away from it or you are ignoring it. We all have fears yet they are shown in the way we interact with one another on a daily basis. Embrace your fears as they do exist to teach you something and tone into your body and ask what did I didn't get from 0-20 years old and I tried to make this happen and it didn't happen? Why it didn't happen? and what things keep repeating themselves into your life so you get the same results? Are you allowing your fears to gain control over you? or remain control over you? And why control in the first place? did you understand the value of yourself as a variable in an equation and if you do what is your value? Can you write the equation yourself or are you waiting for the mastermind to deliver the equation each time? Did you lose control to find yourself? It is never been late to state the journey of discovering yourself and your value. At this time of Global fear, no one is exempt to get to know their fears and see how they impact the overall of their lives? Do fears serve you positively or on a negative scale?  if any of the fears are impacting you negatively, then you allowed this to happen, Whatever built on early age-positive or negative that what will remain with us and building layer after layer out of it.

In the journey of discovery, Whatever planted in your life, will continue with you along the journey. Keep learning and give your self permission to face your fears. You will never know until you try. Life is like a lab experiment, you may have 1000, 000 trials only a few of them will align with your hypothesis, the rest are lessons learned from.