Understand the inherently peaceful presence of Awareness the art of Living in the NOW

<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 28px; background-color: #ffffff;">Understand the inherently peaceful presence of Awareness the art of Living in the NOW, and see that this peace is not dependent upon the condition of the mind, body or world, just as a screen is not dependent on the quality of the words or images that appear on it.</span></p>

Understand the inherently peaceful presence of Awareness the art of Living in the NOW

Understand the inherently peaceful presence of Awareness the art of Living in the NOW, and see that this peace is not dependent upon the con...

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The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonaddicted brain, as manifested by changes in brain metabolic activity, receptor availability, gene expression, and responsiveness to environmental cues

<p><p>There are many biological factors that are involved with the addicted brain. "The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonaddicted brain, as manifested by changes in brain metabolic activity, receptor availability, gene expression, and responsiveness to environmental cues" (2) In the brain, there are many changes that take place when drugs enter a person's blood stream. The pathway in the brain that the drugs take is first to the ventral tegmentum to the nucleus accumbens, and the drugs also go to the limbic system and the orbitofrontal cortex, which is called the mesolimbic reward system. The activation of this reward system seems to be the common element in what hooks drug users on drugs (2).</p><p>Drugs seem to cause surges in dopamine neurotransmitters and other pleasure brain messengers. However, the brain quickly adapts and these circuits desensitize, which allows for withdrawal symptoms to occur (3). Drug addiction works on some of the same neurobiological mechanisms that aid in learning and memories (3). "This new view of dopamine as an aid to learning rather than a pleasure mediator may help explain why many addictive drugs, which unleash massive surges of the neurotransmitter in the brain, can drive continued use without producing pleasure-as when cocaine addicts continue to take hits long after the euphoric effects of the drug have worn off or when smokers smoke after cigarettes become distasteful." (4)</p><p>Since memory and pleasure zones are intertwined in the brain, many researchers have been using psychological approaches to stop drug use. Many rehabilitation centers have used classical conditioning to rehabilitate drug addicts. They combine exposure to drugs combined with cognitive scripts, like statements how drugs have destroyed a person's life or what can be accomplished without using drugs, according to DeLetis (5). By using classical conditioning, the drugs addicts pair the drugs with negative connotations and properties. "Adverse withdrawal symptoms can function as an instrumental negative reinforcer and can be linked to the opponent process theory of motivation." (6) However, drug addicts may relapse and start using again because of many environmental "cues", which are external forces that are associated with drug use in their lives. When the drugs addicts see these cues, their brain circuitry, especially the orbitofrontal cortex become hyperactive and causes these people to start craving drugs again (2). No matter how successful the rehabilitation treatment is, once those "cues" are around, the drug addicts remember how pleasurable the drugs felt and relapse into drug abuse again.</p><p>Through all of the research done about drug addiction and its affects on the brain, one can see how drug addiction is considered a brain disease. Drug addiction is a disabling disease and can ruin a person's life. By taking drugs, a person's brain becomes "rewired" to tolerate high amounts of dopamine neurotransmitters, but once those high amounts of dopamine cease to exist, the person experiences withdrawal symptoms. However, there are ways drug addicts can control their drug intake by using classical conditioning techniques, which allows them to associate drugs with negative attributes.</p><div></div></p>

The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonaddicted brain, as manifested by changes in brain metabolic activity, receptor availability, gene expression, and responsiveness to environmental cues

There are many biological factors that are involved with the addicted brain. "The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonad...

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Bill Wilson is on record for having found a solution in 1960 for treating anxiety and depression using vitamin B-3 therapy and worked tirelessly for eleven years begging for its inclusion into A.A. recovery circles.

<h4>The Serotonin Support Group (SSG)</h4><h4>Is a mutual support group for people who suffer from low Serotonin levels,  wishing to participate in a support group that uses as one method a vitamin supplement as a method of replacement or addition to a diet to help the sufferer.The historical basis of this form of nutritional treatment was discovered and researched by Bill Wilson of Alcoholics Anonymous and it is to promote this Legacy to persons who suffer from low serotonin uptake and depression that the Group was formed.Bill Wilson wished to add a step to the 12 he had produced for AA. We struggle to make that possible and fulfill his promise. Without detracting from the message of recovery in the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. If alcoholics and addictive abusers of other drugs have specific chemical imbalances in the brain, and if these imbalances turn out to be reliable enough and measurable enough in sufficiently large numbers of human addicts, it is natural to wonder whether, eventually, science can find a way to correct them.</h4><p>Some sort of neurotransmitter cocktail, maybe.</p><p>Or just possibly... a pill?<a href="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/page4.html" target="null"></a></p><h4>Bill Wilson is on record for having found a solution in 1960 for treating anxiety and depression using vitamin B-3 therapy and worked tirelessly for eleven years begging for its inclusion into A.A. recovery circles.  His desire was to help alcoholics stay recovered. This means he would have immediately brought this mineral replacement therapy that eliminates alcohol cravings forth without exception. Andrew W. Saul, includes Bill Wilson as an inductee of the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame at the Hotel Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 29, 2006 in his induction speech, “…To this day, selective history records A.A.’s 12-Step Program, but has forgotten, or deliberately purged, what Bill wanted to be A.A.’s 13th step – orthomolecular therapy with vitamin B3.”[Lee Brack1]  In February 2009, Orthomolecular Medicine’s founder, Abram Hoffer and Bill Wilson’s good friend, clarified to me over the phone, “..yes, Lee, he wanted to share this information as an added step and talked about it all the time because he felt so strongly about nutrition…”  Abram Hoffer passed away a few months later in May having lived healthy and happily for ninety one and a half years.</h4><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span></span></div>

Bill Wilson is on record for having found a solution in 1960 for treating anxiety and depression using vitamin B-3 therapy and worked tirelessly for eleven years begging for its inclusion into A.A. recovery circles.

The Serotonin Support Group (SSG) Is a mutual support group for people who suffer from low Serotonin levels,  wishing to participate in a su...

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The results strongly suggest that the mechanism of depression after alcohol drinking may be related to serotonin.

<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #f8f8f8; margin: 5px 20px 20px;"><table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"><tbody><tr><td>We examined tryptophan and serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) levels in the blood after consumption of alcohol. Forty-five minutes after drinking, whole blood serotonin concentration was significantly reduced, whereas no changes were observed in tryptophan level. The diurnal rhythm of 5-HT in subjects who the day before had drunk alcohol was quite different from the control group, but very similar to that of patients with depression. The results strongly suggest that the mechanism of depression after alcohol drinking may be related to serotonin.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #f8f8f8;"> </span></p>

The results strongly suggest that the mechanism of depression after alcohol drinking may be related to serotonin.

We examined tryptophan and serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) levels in the blood after consumption of alcohol. Forty-five minutes after drinki...

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The important thing with serotonin, is to keep it at steady levels.

<p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #f8f8f8;">The important thing with serotonin, is to keep it at steady levels. The medicines that raise the level of serotonin in the brain do so by slowing the reabsorbtion of serotonin. The alcohol increases the availible serotonin for a bit and then it drops off quickly, leaving the depressed person feeling worse, and they tend to not take the medicine correctly when they feel badly or are drunk. High serotonin levels do not mean somebody will feel happy or good, It makes it more likely that they won't feel realy bad.</span></p>

The important thing with serotonin, is to keep it at steady levels.

The important thing with serotonin, is to keep it at steady levels. The medicines that raise the level of serotonin in the brain do so by sl...

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<p><div id="whichRead_1"><p>Emotional eating is when people use food as a way to deal with feelings instead of to satisfy hunger. We've all been there, finishing a whole bag of chips out of boredom or downing cookie after cookie while cramming for a big test. But when done a lot — especially without realizing it — emotional eating can affect weight, health, and overall well-being.</p><p><img alt="diets arent the answer emotional eating" src="http://kidshealth.org/image/ial/images/1415/1415_image.gif" title="emotional eating" /></p><p>Not many of us make the connection between eating and our feelings. But understanding what drives emotional eating can help people take steps to change it.</p><p>One of the biggest myths about emotional eating is that it's prompted by negative feelings. Yes, people often turn to food when they're stressed out, lonely, sad, anxious, or bored. But emotional eating can be linked to positive feelings too, like the romance of sharing dessert on Valentine's Day or the celebration of a holiday feast.</p><p>Sometimes emotional eating is tied to major life events, like a death or a divorce. More often, though, it's the countless little daily stresses that cause someone to seek comfort or distraction in food.</p><p>Emotional eating patterns can be learned: A child who is given candy after a big achievement may grow up using candy as a reward for a job well done. A kid who is given cookies as a way to stop crying may learn to link cookies with comfort.</p><p>It's not easy to "unlearn" patterns of emotional eating. But it is possible. And it starts with an awareness of what's going on.</p></div><div class="rs_skip" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 30.399999618530273px; background-color: #ffffff;"></div></p>

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ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT

<div class="article-header" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; display: table; text-align: center; width: 750px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h1 class="title entry-title" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; color: #696f00; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; width: 670px; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/12/are-you-addicted-to-busyness-are-you.html" rel="bookmark" style="color: #696f00; outline-style: none; text-decoration: initial;">ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT</a></h1></div><div class="article-content entry-content" style="margin: 10px auto 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h3 style="margin: 0.83em 0px; position: relative; font-weight: bolder; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You may be lost in the addiction to busyness if…</span></h3><ul style="margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Your usual response to “how are you?” is “so busy”, “crazy busy” or “busy but good”</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You spend time worrying about how busy you are going to be tomorrow</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You get angry when your spouse or friends aren’t as busy as you</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Your busy life keeps you up at night thinking about everything you didn’t get done</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You make a point of letting people know that you stay at the office after hours</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You check email several times a day</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You zone out during conversations thinking about everything you have to do</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You volunteer for things you don’t care about</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You spend time complaining about how busy you are</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You make list after list to make sure you don’t forget anything during your busy day</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You allocate time each day to clean your desk or organize your stuff</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You regularly eat in your car</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You use a phone in the car because “it’s the only time you have to talk”</span></li></ul></div>

ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT

ARE YOU ADDICTED TO BUSYNESS ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICT You may be lost in the addiction to busyness if… Your usual response to “how are ...

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