Boosting Nerve Pathways Rewards the Heart

BoostingNerve Pathways REWARDS THE HEART

by Lynell Cavner, Owner & Master Certified Bowen Practitioner, Lynell & Company

Turn up the love of alternative healing protocols with your heart in mind.

Your heart is your body’s motor. Without a healthy heart, your nervous system won’t fire properly — it will short circuit. Doing something good for our body and nervous system creates strong rewarding nerve pathways.

Through alternative healing processes that focus on our “motor” (our heart) and our “wires” (our nerves), good self-care and healthy eating habits, we can create stronger brain/body connections.

To develop reward pathways, combine a healthy heart diet with plenty of magnesium- and potassium-rich foods, fewer saturated fats, low cholesterol intake and an increased amount of good water with consistent exercise — a combination of cardio, weight lifting and stretching.

The later includes deep diaphragmatic breathing, which stimulates the vagus nerve system. This nerve helps to lower heart rate, regulates blood pressure and sweating, and much more. It carries sensory information from your internal organs back to your brain. The healthier the vagal tone, the more resilient the body’s response to stress.

Interesting note: If you take an aspirin to prevent a stroke or heart attack because it inhibits an enzyme that makes the blood prone to dangerous stickiness, know that ginger not only inhibits the same enzyme, but it does so without any possibility of gastric bleeding.

Clearly, lives have been saved and extended with the help of drugs and surgical techniques, but those can carry serious risks. They can be invasive, expensive and traumatic to the body.

Sometimes, heart surgery can be the beginning of the end of a normal, natural, lifestyle, and sometimes it can be just what the body needed to wake up and make some changes.

Perhaps it’s time for you to add body and nerve restoration work to your life, helping your body turn on its own healing power through the nervous system; creating those reward pathways. Synapses that fire together will wire together.

This work is powered by the Bowen Method. A session consists of several series of gentle moves through light-weight clothing. There are frequent and important pauses between sets of moves to allow for integration.

It primarily works by restoring the autonomic nervous system, which controls over 80% of the bodily functions.

RENEW Tips FOR TRANSITIONING TO VEGAN Without Committing Social Suicide

by Lauri Mackey, CHHC, Positivity Podcaster & Speaker for Women, Authoress at Lauri’s Lemonade Stand

Hello world, I’m vegan!

You’ve made up your mind, your confidence is high, you are going vegan to be healthy, be kind to animals, and save our planet — but what about all of your social activities?

Here are three tips to help you transition whether it’s family get-togethers or parties with friends.

1. MAINTAIN THE ENTHUSIASTIC CONFIDENCE THAT BOLSTERED YOUR ORIGINAL DECISION TO GO VEGAN.

Whenever we make a change in our life it feels more familiar or easier to go back to “the way things were,” but this is the new you! Embrace it, own it, be proud of your decision and hold your head up high. Smile — because smiling breeds confidence and chases away fear and tension.

2. MAINTAIN A HIGH LEVEL OF ADAPTABILITY WITHOUT THOSE PESKY HURT FEELINGS.

Adaptability means rolling with the punches when others make a “joke” about your food choices. Remember there is always a bit of truth in every “just kidding,” so you are going to let those roll off you like water off a duck’s back.

Adaptability also means being prepared. When asked to a potluck, bring something you can eat and share with others. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve brought amazing food and friends will ask for the recipe! Sometimes this means eating before you go, and that’s OK!

Our culture and most cultures have so many traditions based around food. Change your focus to spending quality time with those you care about instead of the food, and you’ll have a fantastic time!

3. MAINTAIN PATIENCE ABOVE ALL ELSE.

The most important part about this patience is giving a healthy dose of it to yourself. Be patient during the transition to vegan. If you cook something that tastes awful, laugh it off and throw it away! No guilt here, just fun experimentation.

Be patient with others as they adapt to your new lifestyle. The only thing that stays the same is change, but most of us don’t handle change well. Your friends and family will adapt, just give them time.

“Coming out” as a vegan is big, beautiful and bold — sending you the confidence, adaptability and patience you need!