Posted by Kimberly Rex
The Impact of Chronic Stress
The impact of chronic stress has both short-term and long-term effects on your body-mind system. When stressful cycles do not resolve or get released, your body-mind system continues to store the pain from the stress within the map of your body. Your body-mind system needs natural ways to support recovery in creating greater calm and restoration.
Stress Response and Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis
Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis
Adrenal Stress originates with messages from your hypothalamus to your pituitary gland that release hormones to react to perceived danger and threats that then stimulate your adrenal glands to secrete cortisol.
Stress cycles have an impact on memory retention, focus, mood, and health. The Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis (HPA) process. The hypothalamus releases hormones that signal the autonomic nervous system to control body temperature, thirst, hunger, metabolic, and autonomic functions. It works with the pituitary gland through endocrine responses to signal the adrenal glands. This response also connects with limbic system (emotional brain) structures including the amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, and olfactory cortex. These connections enable the hypothalamus to influence emotional responses to sensory input.
The hypothalamus sends out chemical messengers to the entire body. It controls the autonomic nervous system and is the bridge between the body and the brain. The hormonal signals from the pituitary gland to the adrenal glands create the release of adrenaline and cortisol.
Adrenaline and cortisol hormones direct energy to respond to perceived life-threatening situations. Adrenaline messages the liver and tissue to release glucose (sugar) that is needed to either fight or run away. These hormones increase blood supply in the heart and lungs in order to supply oxygen and blood to your muscles.
When this happens your energy is directed away from digestion to conserve energy. Cortisol production ramps up to stop your pancreas from secreting insulin to utilize glucose in the bloodstream. This severely diminishes or eliminates the availability of amino acids related to optimal cellular function. In addition, this shift in energy limits thyroid hormones, to complete natural digestion, metabolism, and detoxification processes.
When cortisol is present, this leads to the production of the anti-stress hormone, DHEA to calm your system after a threat. However, the constant need for DHEA can lead to the suppression of your body’s immune response from cortisol overload. Perpetual stress without intervention or relief creates imbalance and disharmony within your body-mind system. This in turn diminishes the ability of your body to deal with bacteria, viruses, candida, or parasitic infection. Long-term stress cycle effects can show up in muscle loss, arthritis, diabetes, chronic fatigue, allergies, PMS, craving for sweets or salty foods, autoimmune disease, immune suppression, and at the far end of the spectrum, cancer.
In order to treat the effects of this past year of stress, this is your personal invitation to nourish your body-mind-spirit system to create greater wellness and well-being. In the process, you can learn new stress avoidance behaviors and actions to replace, restore and create new opportunities for greater ease, resilience, and connection to yourself and others in life-enhancing ways.
Kimberly Rex, MS is an Advanced Resonance Repatterning® practitioner, Person-Centered Expressive Therapist, and Wellness and Well-being Life Coach. She works with people all over the world via Skype, by phone, and by proxy.
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Research for this article came from Resonance Repatterning, Scalar Heart Connection, and Healing Trauma training material as well as Wikipedia sources.
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Posted by Kimberly Rex
Here Comes the Sun: How Light Has a Positive Impact on Your Wellness and Well-being
Here comes the sun. As summer begins, it’s an invitation to appreciate how light positively impacts your wellness and well-being.
How the Sun and Light Impact Your Vision and Energy
The quality of light you receive affects your breath, posture, movement, and memory. It is important to note that physical vision is also related to how you process light for emotional, mental, and physical health, and well-being.
For more on this topic: https://www.windowstotheheart.net/what-impacts-your-vision-of-life-four-ways-to-positive-change/
Natural light has been shown to have an impact on sleep patterns, melatonin production, memory, mood regulation, thought processing, free radical production, cellular communication, and heart health.
Impact of the Sun and Light on Your Cells and DNA
Cell-to-cell communication by bio-photons has been seen in plants, bacteria, and animal neutrophil granulocytes that digest invading microbes. Granulocytes account for about 60% of your white blood cells. Kidney cell communication was also noted. Particular spectral light stimulation (infrared, red, yellow, blue, green, and white) at one end of the spinal sensory or motor nerve roots produced a significant increase in the bio-photon activity at the other end according to a research study by Yan Sun, Chao Wang, and Jiapei Dai’s research. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20221457
In addition, according to Dr. Fritz Popp, a biophysicist dedicated to the study of bio-photons. the coherent emission of bio-photons is directly connected to energy and information transfer processes within biological organisms and has been linked to the function of DNA and gene regulation.
We are still on the threshold of fully understanding the complex relationship between light and life, but we can now say emphatically, that the function of our entire metabolism is dependent on light. ~Dr. Fritz Albert Popp http://www.biontologyarizona.com/dr-fritz-albert-popp/
Impact of Exposure to Sunlight on Your Heart Health
Richard Weller, an Edinburgh University dermatologist and researcher, states that regular exposure to the sun is beneficial for your heart. He suggests that sunlight lowers your blood pressure by increasing both Vitamin D and Nitric Oxide in the body through the skin. This exposure to sunlight would potentially decrease the likelihood of both heart attacks and strokes.
Watch Richard Weller’s TED Talk here:
The Impact of the Sun and Light on Your Positive Intentions
An intention is based on directing thought, attitude, belief, and motivation with action toward a specific goal. The process of forming, sustaining, and initiating your intention for wellness and well-being relates to the production of particular neurotransmitters, memory imprints, and especially the quality of your life energy you have to dedicate to your positive intentions. The importance of creating an optimal environment for new possibilities depends on the transmission and quality of energy and information in your body-mind system.
For more on this topic: http://www.windowstotheheart.net/how-difficult-experiences-affect-your-body-mind-system/
How Resonance Repatterning Works with Light to Enhance Your Wellness and Well-being
Everything is frequency. We experience life through color, light, and sound frequency. Your attitudes, beliefs, arguments, conflict, as well as a sense of well-being all have a frequency.
The process of Resonance Repatterning® identifies specific frequencies that are needed to benefit your wellness and well-being through working with different modalities that infuse or diffuse light and sound at specific tone frequencies, octaves, and locations of need. All of the modalities in a session are muscle-checked for the most benefit to the client based on specific needs. In addition, the following color/light modalities might be part of your process:
- Vision Modalities include a number of color/light, movement, breath, memory, and relaxation activities. Here are a few of the holistic ways to apply light through color from the extensive bank of possibilities in the process of Resonance Repatterning® sessions.
- Color Filter Lens: The client or facilitator on the client’s behalf wears a color gel mask over the eyes. In some cases, there are additional modality details combined with this format.
- The Color Filter Torch is used on particular meridian and energy system points on the body to update information in the body-mind system for more optimal energy flow. This means that color/light works where transmission of light and sound have been interrupted or blocked.
- Silk Color Scarves are placed over various parts of the body or used in the visual field to incorporate the frequency of the color.
This is your personal invitation to create greater integrity in your wellness and well-being with a Resonance Repatterning® session specifically tailored to your needs for positive change.
Register for a session here: https://www.windowstotheheart.net/sessions/
Kimberly Rex, MS is a certified Advanced Resonance Repatterning practitioner, Person-Centered Expressive Therapist, and Wellness and Well-being Life Coach.
