Hi Craig1129,

All that you listed I had, If I did timeout at that time, all the faith in the world would have not saved me(not against faith, it just wasn't working for me)...I was severly deficient in sodium...a few more hours I would have been in a coma, then by morning dead.

Best to you,

Marie

This is good advice--it's truthful. But for some, it will be hard to implement. The reason? It comes down to pure energy:
energy affects the physical, but for some, they need to work at the physical to give a little hand up. Like, for example, a pinch of Sea Salt in pure spring water can be just what the docotr ordered--and then the mind-in-error (trapped in loops of fear-based thinking) can be overcome by the other mind--the part of us that is always connected to Source, but gets ignored.

If the human vibration goes to the level of fear, it is not an act of will or the ordinary mind-in-consciousness that can 'lift it'. That amounts to asking the part that created the problem, so to speak, to solve it. This is like the old paradigm concept of people 'lifting themselves up by the bootstraps'.

So, a good thing to help a person rise out of the spiralling pit is EFT. You can tap on anything and everything, even just 'all this low-energy looping hopelessness'. I strongly urge people to check out EFT and learn the sequence, which is not hard, and most importantly, use it. It's easier to learn it when you have a little burst of energy--and keep it in the "I'm only human" toolbox, for when you feel small and needy,and tend to attract only more of the same.

Then the sense of the original poster's message to unhook from forums and seeking, will make a lot of (newly higher-vibration)sense.

C.

I agree that the fundamental issue is hyperactive sympathetic response.

You need a timeout. Take a break from the forums. Have faith your body will get you better on its own because it will. Casually observe your mind and catch yourself when you are feeling unnecessarily fearful. Eventually, you will become less and less sensitive. If you wake up and feel worse than you did the day before, don't panic.

If you have a problem with nervously scratching at yourself until you bleed, relaxing will help. It'll keep you from scratching, and eventually you'll stop doing it in the future. But you still should put a band-aid on that wound.

If you don't pay attention at crosswalks and end up with a broken leg, you should practice paying better attention. Practicing care doesn't mean that you shouldn't use a crutch while your leg heals.

If you're freaking out and anxious all the time because you overstimulated your stress response, you should calm and relax your stress response system. Should you suffer poor digestion meanwhile, if you don't have to? Take vitamin C, take enzymes. Poor digestion will make it that much harder to ease your stress response, so supplement to take that stress off while you're working on relaxing. Being dehydrated? Drink salty water frequently. Ease up on potassium. Being dehydrated won't help the healing.

B vitamins, Rhodiola rosea, lysine, licorice, small frequent meals, avoiding Sugar spiking, restful sleep, N-acetylcysteine... There are many things that are not directly about "de-clenching" that help our lives be more pleasant, livable, and give us a stronger foundation from which to heal our bodies.

Yes, certainly the fundamental problem is that we've got our stress systems hyper-reactive, and we won't be better unless we solve that problem. But let's not leave out the fact that there's help along the way. No need to struggle anymore uphill than we already are.

For more info on the stress system, look up "LHPA axis".

And I just found this, it seems interesting:
http://www.thebodysoulconnection.com/EducationCenter/fight.html