Your Brain and Its health

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Your brain is the command and control center of your body. If you want a healthy body, the first place to ALWAYS start is by having a healthy brain.

9 Things that Enhance Our Brain

1. Positive Social Connections — the people you spend time with determine your health and longevity.
2. New Learning — when you stop learning your brain disconnects.
3. Diet — we either consume the nutrients that help us or the toxins that harm us, the SAD is associated with heart disease, cancer, diabetes, depression, ADD/ADHD, Alzheimer’s. Food is medicine or poison.
4. Sleep — essential for blood flow to the brain, without sleep there are very serious consequences.
5. Physical Exercise — acts like a natural wonder drug for the brain
6. Healthy Anxiety — for inspiration to change
7. Meditation/Prayer — calms stress, chronic stress restricts blood flow to the brain which lowers brain function and prematurely ages the brain
8. ANT Killing — don’t believe every stupid thought you have
9. Gratitude — write down 3 things you are grateful for every day and within 3 weeks you’ll notice significant difference in your level of happiness, this is the best anti-depressant

Thought Bubbles: Rejoice Today? you Bet!

Rejoice Today!In this small prayer study that I read I ran into something most inspiring to day. It had to to with several Bible verses. I think that you would like to know about when just faced with the wall of fear, overwhelming depression and chaos:

He is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble Psalm 46:1

His is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer Psalm 18:2

a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head Psalm 3:3

fullness of joy Psalm 16:11

faithful in all His words and kind in all His works Psalm 145:13

merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness Psalm 86:15

my light and salvation Psalm 27:1

So when the fear, chaos and blind terror that is depression and anxiety keep the above in mind, sister and brothers! We will win!

Amen!

Thought Bubbles

I am claiming a new step in my healing process. In recent weeks I have had to put myself back on antidepressants. I was off of them for almost two years. Due to another health crisis, allergies, the depression as depression did not emerge, but as anxiety. Yes, different side of the coin, but the same disease. On many occasions I asked all my relatives, friends and church buddies to pray. I know that prayer works, for I have studied it for years. I may not have used it as often as I should have though. Here is one of those emails that my cousin, April, co-ordinator of several Good News clubs in the Jacksonville, FL area wrote me.:

Janet, 

I  have been praying for you and David & did so this morning, and will continue.  Here is a verse that has lifted me out of discouragement and despair: Just keep claiming it and praise the Lord!  God is doing big things in your life and the enemy just hates it!  Speak these Scriptures out loud and sing to the Lord your favorite hymns, it brings the Lords presence in and dispels the darkness.

P.S. 138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, Thou wilt revive me;  Thou wilt stretch forth Thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Thy right hand will SAVE ME!!!!  The Lord WILL ACCOMPLISH WHAT CONCERNS ME; (my Husband, my job, my allergies, my depression, etc.)... 

Dear Lord, I thank you that you are Janet's keeper, the shade on her right hand...protect her from all evil; He will keep your soul. 

P.S. 121:5 & 7. In my trouble I cried to the Lord, and He answered me.

PS. 120:1.  Ps. 145:18-20 The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.  HE WIILL FULFILL THE DESIRE OF THOSE WHO FEAR HIM; HE WILL HEAR THEIR CRY and WILL SAVE THEM.  The Lord keeps all who love Him....

Read Ps. 91:14-16, & Ps. 55:16-19a, put your name in the verse.  I am sorry I am so busy.  I have a very big Children's Ministry Conference Sat., all day.  But I will still be remembering you Dear One, Jesus never fails!!!!  This web site is 

awesome biblicalrestorationministries.org, it has a lot of very powerful, helpful Biblical teaching.

Thought Bubbles: God and Prayer

God may not answer prayer for these reasons:

• Your relationship with God has been neglected, you have focused on carnal things, refocus on Him.
• Timing is not right for Him to answer:other plans, other people's minds and thought must be brought into line with His plans.
• He wants develop patience and faith in me. Having me look for his response is one of those ways.
• Also maybe my reasons for what I want are not the correct reasons for wanting that thing.

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Thought Bubbles: I ask God to heal me.

I asked Aaron how do I pray to stop this depression? He said ask once, when praying again just thank Him, knowing that what ever you have ask for is done and you are asking God to show you, to open your eyes to how He has done it. A way to build faith. I did it and got the immediate voice in my head "You have never asked before"  Not like this I replied, and the Voice said I know. I will apply my strength to growing in the Faith.

Thought Bubbles: The Spiritual Life Ensues

Something happened to me when the people at YFCC prayed for me. I began to see the statements of the Bible differently. The darkness inside my soul began to recede. I had always thought of the devil as an imp with a pointy tail. Red body, gleeful devilish eyes, but nothing that was going to bother me. Ah, but when I began see the devil as the depression and how the depression was robbing me of my light, of my joy, then, yes the devil was real and the only solution was the light of God. The sin was not see it this way. Once I saw it and asked God to forgive me, well I heard this booming voice "I forgive you". It was not my inner voice, but a much stronger, louder voice. One of strength. Not timid. I had thought that I was not a sinner, I did not steal, murder, lie, cheat on my husband, etc. So why was the message always confess your sins when I had not sinned? How, or why should I feel convicted it I had not sinned? That is where the problem lay, I could not  see where I had sinned, so I remained in sin, and in terrible depression. So I asked God to strengthened my faith. With each doubt, He would send me a message almost immediately. I was at work, mind you. Sitting there wondering if God was really there. Within seconds a little boy, about 5 or 6 walks up and hands me a little plastic baggie. Inside was a business sized card that read Godisnowhere. At first I read it God is no where, then as God is now here. It stunned me. It had a piece of candy in the bag and I ate it. The reality of the moment set in. God had spoken to me instantly. Also the sugar started a fatigue problem, further underlining that what I was going through with my health was real, and that God was very much with me in everything in my life.

Another Downturn

The last adjustment on the implant was about a month ago. Many stressful things have happened since then. The first two weeks I was feeling the tingling in the brain most of the time. (Tingling in the lower left rear quadrant of the brain has happen for many years. It now happens after prayer, singing, using traction on the neck, all releasing chemicals, perhaps serotonin-editor) Then I had a period of time that I was constantly on the move and did not have a minute to myself for about two weeks. Then the tiredness started, it lasted for two days and then the anxiety came full blown and then the depression. I will say that the depression was not as deep. This was the first time since the implant was turned on that I had a full blown episode. but at least I knew that with the implant it would decrease within hours. Knowing that really helped. I still am not totally back, but it is much better with each day. If I get stressed during the day the anxiety comes, but I can control it with my thoughts.

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Finding a doctor

Cheryl at Cyberonics is an angel. Every number I called this AM led down to a dead end, wrong number, can't take your type of insurance. At first I told myself, what's the use to have a procedure done and the only doctor to deal with it is in Daytona? almost 45 miles away? By the forth or fifth negative ending call, I was in tears. So when it comes to dead ends I turn to Cheryl. She said she will try again. May be a neurologist will do the dosing, and I can stay with Dr. Fig. I don't like it, but for the start it could be done.
There is another thing that I have been doing. Knowing that doctor Fig decided that He would not prescribe any more drugs, and I was still going into depression, I decided to
take more of what I have. I know that this will possibly harm the liver, and make me run out sooner than I should. But I can refill my scripts on the fifth day before they are empty. This gives me more meds. I can only take 1/2 a dose of any that i take, and that will help me get through. I don't want to do that, but I don't want to slip into the depression.
I think it maybe time to look elsewhere for a doctor. I think Dr. Fig doesn't know what the hell to do for me.
I am having constant migraines now. Taking OTC med for that. but Migraines can be helped by the implant.
I will wait and pray. but the prayer thing, well, I don't know about it. I still do it,and we will see.

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Family's Reaction

I had hoped that of all the people in my circle that would understand my plight would be my brother, John. I love and respect him and honor the fact that more than likely he will always be there for me. He has steadily maintained that if I just eat right, exercise, and pray and learn to balance stress that everything would be OK. To a certain extent I can see his point. I have been doing that very thing for the last six months and over the years that this has affected me I,  have tried all sorts of combinations of food, meditation, medications, prayer, exercise and psychotherapies that I could afford. I am by no means perfect in following all these programs either when they are combined or separate. But, I'm going through yet another down turn at this time.
I just would like to point out if I had a viewable handicap instead of a deficient brain that it would be socially inexcusable to ask me to carry on as if everything is normal. This treatment of "just buck up","hunker down", or any such advice is frustratingly constant. I guess because I am not lying under covers and crying constantly (which did happen about three years ago) that I can cope with life, and I better well stop my quest for living a higher quality of life. Ah, that is the quest, the quality of life, the feeling of a happy memory that can be recalled at any time, an ability that most people have. It is the difference between living the life that God intended, or existing as a shell. A shell pumped full of drugs.

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