SOCIAL ANXIETY

Be the nice kid.

Social anxiety is very common and is curable.

"Within the USA, Asians report lower rates of social anxiety; whites report the highest rates."

The Strange, Surprisingly Effective Cure for Social Anxiety - The Atlantic

Good people will like your imperfections. No one is perfect. 

WHAT IS SOCIAL ANXIETY?

Social anxiety disorder is a fear of social situations.

Symptoms include dreading every day activities like starting conversations or answering the phone.

Sufferers may also avoid eye contact and have low self esteem.

Some may also feel sick, sweat, tremble or have palpitations or panic attacks in social situations.

Sufferers may have cognitive behavioural therapy.

Source: NHS.co.uk

Don't be afraid to smile and be silly.

What I noticed about some South East Asians -

1. They are more likely to be brought up by a large extended family, and not just by a Mother who might suffer from social anxiety.

2. They are less likely to be bullied about sexuality, unless there are fundamentalists in the community.

3. They are more likely to be brought up to be friendly, fun-loving and sociable.

4. They are less likely to think about themselves as individuals. They are more likely to think about the welfare of the group to which they belong.

5. Social anxiety increases when 'Western' or 'fundamentalist' culture is introduced.


Have fun.

How to deal with Social Anxiety?

1. Switch off 'concern for yourself' and concentrate on making other people happy.

2. Laura L. Smith, Ph.D. suggests you might consider these coping phrases when you're in a self-absorbing situation:

Everything isn't all about me.

So what if a few people have negative thoughts about me?

Mistakes just make people human.

No one is going to remember what I did a week from now.

What matters is where my heart is, not how I perform.

KINDNESS AND HEALING; DR DAVID HAMILTON

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Dr David Hamilton writes that giving and receiving kindness boosts the immune system.

Frequent kind acts can reduce high blood pressure and alleviate depression.

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Dr Hamilton says: "We are all wired for kindness.

"We act kindly because we know instinctively it's the right thing to do."


Some people need acts of kindness.

Dr Hamilton grew up in a small community in central Scotland where everyone helped each other.

Dr Hamilton became involved in developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer.

But then he began to see that it was more important to teach people how to use their minds to heal themselves.

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Happiness

Dr Hamilton refers to a study at the University of California, Riverside, where volunteers were asked to perform five acts of kindness a week for six weeks.

The psychologists found that those who performed the acts of kindness became happier.

Marriages work better when people are kind.

Professor Gottman and his colleagues studied 700 newlywed couples for 15 minutes and, by counting the positives (kindness) and negatives (eg. anger), predicted with 94 per cent accuracy who would still be together ten years later.

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Kindness protects against heart attacks and strokes.

Kindness spreads.

Each time we are kind, we inspire someone else to be kind.

Read more: dailymail

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Dr Hamilton writes:

Mind Over Matter

When I was 11 years old and I was in the school library. A book fell of the shelf beside me. It was 'The Magic Power of Your Mind' by Walter Germaine.

At the time my mum was suffering from depression, which had begun a few years earlier as post natal (post partum) depression. I had an instinct that the book would help my mum so I took it home.

It really helped her. It didn’t cure her in a day or anything like that, but it taught her insights and strategies...

I learned a bit about the placebo effect...

Now, there is a wealth of research showing beyond all doubt that your thoughts, beliefs and emotions cause physiological, biological, and even genetic changes all throughout your body... 

Paying attention to your breathing also causes structural changes in the brain in such a way that makes it easier to find peace amid chaos.

Imagining happy things alters brain chemistry that can make you feel better...

Imagining moving your arm convinces your brain that you’re actually moving it, an insight from neuroscience that has reaped benefits for thousands of stroke patients, and athletes...

Mind Over Matter

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Born to be kind

The Most Attractive Quality
Molecules of Kindness

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How a child with Chickenpox stopped itching

How to use visualisation to boost your self-love
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DEALING WITH STRESS

Professor Ian Robertson, one of the top neuroscientists, tells us how to turn your stress into something good.

Step One - Adopt a superhero pose.

Pump the chest out and stand up tall.

This makes the mind feel more confident.

Step Two - Tell your brain that it is excited not anxious.

Say out loud: "I feel excited."

The brain then feels there is an interesting challenge rather than a threat.

"If you are anxious, the stress hormone cortisol will impede performance, but if you are excited, we know that it boosts performance."

Step Three - Squeeze your right hand shut for 45 seconds, opening it for 15 then closing again for 45 seconds. 

This puts your brain in the right frame of mind, getting rid of anxiety, and improving performance.



Step Four - Breath in slowly for five seconds then out for six.

This changes the chemistry in the brain.

Forget relaxing - use your stress.



"Stress is a kind of energy that we can harness," says Professor Robertson.

We need stress.

People who never experience setbacks are often low achievers or become depressed.

According to Dr Robertson, stressful situations and life traumas can trigger incredible feats of creativity.

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You are stressed and your blood pressure is up?

You are grinding your teeth and there is humming in your head?

In the USA:

31% of teens report feeling overwhelmed by stress.

30% say stress makes them sad or depressed, and 36% have experienced fatigue because of stress. 

Stress in America Survey - the American Psychological Association

The Strategy of Tension is at work.


Orlando Mass Shooting..

The spooks use tactics that "aim to divide, manipulate, and control public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, and false flag terrorist actions."

Strategy of tension



Aangirfan has the cure.

"Next time you feel your adrenalin pumping and your brain whirring, remind yourself that stress is useful and that you can probably handle it."

UC Berkeley researcher Daniella Kaufer says that, in the right dose and taken with the right attitude, stress is downright healthy.

"The scientists have shown that stress helps monkey brains generate new cells that boost the animals' ability to learn and remember.

"They believe humans work the same way. Stress builds our brainpower rather than destroys it."

Interview with Science Center



How you feel about stress makes a big difference in how healthy stress is for you.

"People who feel resilient and confident that they can manage stress are much less likely to be overwhelmed by it," says Kaufer.

"Another powerful factor is social support..." Friends and family can help.

Physical exercise helps keep your stress levels within healthy limits...

Continued here: Interview with Science Center

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"Stress is a burst of energy that advises you on what to do."

Good Stress

When the brain feels some kind of stress, it starts flooding the body with chemicals.

This creates a variety of reactions such as an increase in blood pressure and heart rate.

Stress can improve how your heart works and protect your body from infection.

In one study, individuals who experienced moderate levels of stress before surgery were able to recover faster than individuals who had low or high levels.

Good Stress

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Emotional stress that stays around for months or years can be bad for you.

How do you heal the emotional stress?

1. Be yourself

Have fun. Help people.

2. Invent yourself

Decide to become a person who will experience less emotional distress.

Realise that the glass is half full.



3. Love and be loved

4. Get a grip on your mind

Think happy, healthy thoughts.

Dump the negative thoughts.

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5. Don't wallow in the past.

6. Flip the anxiety switch off

There are many anxiety management ideas - breathing techniques, cognitive techniques, relaxation techniques, and so on.

Announce that you will no longer live a fearful life or create unnecessary anxiety for yourself.

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Countries with less stress?

7. Rather than saying 'I'm fed up today' you instead say, 'I have an interesting meal to cook' or 'I have an interesting trip to make.'

You reduce your emotional distress by concentrating on your intentions and less on your mood.



8. Upgrade your personality

You may be angrier or more frightened than you would like to be.

Adjust your personality.

9. Deal with circumstances

Emotional healing requires that you take real action in the real world.

Go and play a game of golf?

Full details here: 10 Tips for Emotional Healing | Psychology Today

CURE - MIND OVER MATTER

A fake and harmless pill, a placebo pill, can actually cause healing endorphins and dopamine to be released in the body.

Fake surgery can heal some patients.

A good doctor or shaman can heal some patients simply with comforting words.

"kissing it better" seems to work.

Jo Marchant 

Doctor Jo Marchant has written CURE, a Journey into the Science of Mind over Body.

According to the research quoted by Jo Marchant:

In Parkinson's patients, a placebo can help the patient, because 'motor neurons then fire more slowly'.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be successfully treated with the use of placebos.

With altitude sickness, if somebody takes fake oxygen, there is a physical change in the body and the symptoms of the sickness are reduced.

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Jo Marchant 

According to the research quoted by Jo Marchant:

Patients can be healed by hypnosis, behavioral therapy (changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour) and the use of 'virtual reality'.

Jo Marchant took part in a virtual reality experiment.

She put her foot in a box of unbearably hot water. 

She felt her foot burning and removed her foot.

Then she put on noise-canceling headphones and began to play a snow-and-ice-themed video game. 

When she returned her foot to the hot water, she barely noticed the heat.

Jo Marchant explains the ways we can rewire our brains and improve our health.

According to Jo marchant: "believing in an angry or judgmental God seems to make people more stressed".

Inflamations can be removed by removing stress.

Jo Marchant refers to the health benefits of friendship, social connections and meditation.

The ft points out that in one part of the UK it was discovered that just 4% of local people were between them consuming up to 50% of the health and social care budget.

One of the 4% is Jennie Woolmington who suffers from lupus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, osteoporosis and diabetes.

To help keep Jennie Woolmington and others like her out of hospital, the local health authority has created 'health coaches'. 



Research shows that in a typical town just a small handful of families cause most of the serious problems for the police, for the schools and for the health system.

Town where boy of 11 is 'behind a fifth of all crime' - Telegraph.

These families would benefit from receiving intensive care from 'coaches'.

The Guardian refers to Mr Hutchens.

Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body.

Mr Hutchens has been depressed for many years.

He lost his job because of his apparent chronic back pain, the result of an apparently minor road accident. 

Immobility has caused him to put on weight, and then develop type-two diabetes.

His heavy doses of prescribed narcotics and sedatives, and his lack of exercise, may be the problem.

Recent research has shown that our brain structure is very flexible, and continually changing.

Practicing certain habits or behaviours brings real physical changes to the part of the brain associated with that activity.

For example, if you decide to learn to play the piano, you will develop more neural connections (and perhaps even more brain cells) in the parts of the brain associated with motor activity and musical ability.

If you meditate regularly for years, you will develop more ‘gray matter’ in the areas associated with attention, concentration and compassion.

So in that sense, rather than being completely controlled by our brains, we have control over them.



Research shows that the genetic structures we inherit from our parents don't remain fixed throughout our lives.

Our genetic structures are altered by the life experiences we undergo, so that the genes we pass on to our children will be different to those we inherited.

Studies of twins show that, when twins are exposed to very different environments and life experiences, in their later life they show striking differences in their DNA.

It could be said that we have the capacity to control our genes, rather than them just controlling us.

'US MILITARY CAUSING EBOLA CRISIS'

Dr Peter Piot in Zaire 1976. Journey To Yambuku Zaire

According to Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine:

Ebola is usually caused by:

1. Close contact with wildlife.

2. Poor hospitals, with unsafe injections and lack of basic hygiene.

My journey back to Ebola ground zero Financial Times‎ - May 2014

Treatment of Ebola

According to Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine:

It is very easy to contain an Ebola outbreak with: 

1. Gloves

2. Hand washing

3. Safe injection practices

4. Isolation of patients

5. Safe and rapid discarding of the corpses

6. Tracing of contacts and observation for a few weeks. 

According to Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine:

Control measures are very simple and inexpensive and can, in theory, be implemented by local professionals and volunteers.

My journey back to Ebola ground zero Financial Times‎ - May 2014

Piot

In 1976, while working at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Piot was part of the team that discovered the Ebola virus.[2][3] 

A Belgian doctor working in Zaire had sent a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had fallen ill for further research after he could not identify the disease. Piot and his colleagues discovered the virus, and subsequently traveled to Zaire to help quell an outbreak which was spreading in the country. 

Piot's team made key discoveries into how the virus spread, and traveled from village to village, spreading information and putting the ill and those who had come into contact with them into quarantine. The epidemic was stopped in three months, after it had killed almost 300 people.[4]



How did Ebola get from Zaire to Liberia, about 3,500km away?

Dr. Cyril Broderick, A Liberian scientist and a former professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Liberia’s College of Agriculture and Forestry, suggests that the U.S. is responsible for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Dr. Broderick, in Liberia's Daily Observer wrote:

"The US Department of Defense (DoD) is funding Ebola trials on humans - trials which started just weeks before the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone...

"The DoD gave a contract worth $140 million dollars to Tekmira, a Canadian pharmaceutical company, to conduct Ebola research.

"This research work involved injecting and infusing healthy humans with the deadly Ebola virus.

"Hence, the DoD is listed as a collaborator in a 'First in Human' Ebola clinical trial (NCT02041715, which started in January 2014 shortly before an Ebola epidemic was declared in West Africa in March.

Silent Crow News / U.S. is Responsible for the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Liberian Scientist



Doctor Richard C. Davis says that, with the U.S. Army at Ft. Detrick, he developed a successful drug to combat Ebola 

Davis says the research was inexplicably shut down two weeks before the first outbreak of the virus in West Africa.

Doctor: U.S. Army Rejected Successful Ebola Drug

Richard C. Davis, M.D., a former flight surgeon with the U.S. Navy, told Infowars that he was leading a project to develop a drug called RC-2Beta.

In the Autumn of 2013, Davis' company began working with the US Army at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, to develop the drug, with astounding success.

According to Davis, the drug "Killed four of the world’s deadliest viruses...

"Everyone was very excited about these results since there has never been a broad-spectrum anti-viral drug that killed so many different viruses without affecting normal (uninfected) cells in this way," writes Davis.

Continued here: Doctor: U.S. Army Rejected Successful Ebola Drug



Between 1946 and 1948, in Guatemala, US government scientists deliberately infected more than 1500 soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and even mental patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases.

None of the test subjects infected with the diseases ever gave informed consent. Some of the test subjects died.

Silent Crow News

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