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⭐️Motivation is the reason
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September 16, 2022
How L-tyrosine Can Help You Get Stuff Done
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Feeling sluggish? Tired? Unmotivated? Try L-Tyrosine for Motivation
If you’re struggling to get stuff done, you might not be getting enough L-tyrosine. L-tyrosine is an amino acid that’s essential for the production of dopamine and norepinephrine, two neurotransmitters that play a role in focus, attention, and motivation. A lack of L-tyrosine can lead to feelings of fatigue, brain fog, and low mood. Supplementing with L-tyrosine can help increase dopamine and norepinephrine levels, leading to improved mental clarity and focus.
L-tyrosine is also a precursor to thyroid hormone, which means it plays a role in regulating metabolism. Thyroid hormone is responsible for some of the body’s most basic functions, including heart rate, body temperature, and digestion. A thyroid hormone imbalance can lead to weight gain, hair loss, fatigue, and other symptoms. Supplementing with L-Tyrosine can help improve thyroid function and boost metabolism.
The Benefits of L-Tyrosine
L-Tyrosine has a wide range of benefits that make it perfect for anyone looking to improve their productivity.
• Prevents Fatigue: One of the most common complaints among adults is feeling tired all the time. If you’re constantly struggling to keep your eyes open, it could be because you’re not getting enough L-tyrosine. L-tyrosine helps fight fatigue by increasing dopamine and norepinephrine levels in the brain.
• Improves Focus: Are you easily distracted? Do you find yourself losing focus when working on tasks? If so, L-tyrosine can help. The increased dopamine and norepinephrine levels caused by L-tyrosine help to improve focus and attention span.
• Boosts Mood: Low mood is a common issue among adults. If you’re feeling down or blue more often than not, it could be due to a lack of L-tyrosine. Supplementing with L-tyrosine can help increase dopamine levels in the brain, leading to improved mood and overall well-being.
• Enhances Thyroid Function: As we age, our thyroid gland begins to slow down production of thyroid hormone. This can lead to weight gain, hair loss, fatigue, and other symptoms. Supplementing with L-Tyrosine can help enhance thyroid function and boost metabolism.
If you’re looking for a way to boost your motivation and get more done, then you should try L-tyrosine. L-tyrosine is an amino acid that has been shown to increase levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain, which can lead to improved cognitive performance, increased focus and concentration, and reduced stress levels.
June 4, 2022
Healing From Work Addiction, Stress, And Exhaustion
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Self-care, both physical and mental, is the key to keeping yourself from burning out when working in high-stress occupations. Employers need to educate themselves about common symptoms of stress related to the job for employees in order to prevent burnout, mental health issues, and addiction. At Laguna Shores Recovery, we have experienced mental health professionals that can guide you through managing stress while getting sober.
If you or a loved one are experiencing this type of situation, it might be time to work with health professionals who can guide you on reducing and managing stress before it becomes an issue for drug abuse. Many working professionals develop a substance abuse problem because they cannot handle the stress associated with the job. A person who has work-related substance abuse addictions and difficulties is likely to have psychological distress, depression, and relationship problems.
A person who has a work addiction may not be able to stop engaging in this type of behavior, regardless of the negative ways that this may impact their personal life or their mental or physical health. Because a work addict is driven by a desire to become a better person, it may become very difficult to feel fulfilled over time, leading to increased psychological distancing, or feelings of negative or cynicism toward ones job, and decreased effectiveness. In some cases, when work stops providing any kind of satisfaction, it may result in the pursuit of quick fixes, such as drugs or alcohol.
It is also possible that someone in recovery may use work as an addiction replacement, this was my own experience with my own business. Also, Workers in addiction recovery fields can beat themselves up about their failure to cope better with the stresses, dissatisfying client outcomes, or negative emotions surrounding the work environment. For some, chronic stress may contribute to a substance use disorder, as they seek drugs or alcohol to dull feelings and escape from the causes of chronic stress.
Burnout has consequences for our mental health — it also may place us at greater risk of developing a substance use disorder if we turn to drugs or alcohol as a way of managing stress. Burnout may also create lasting changes in our bodies, making us susceptible to illnesses such as the common cold and the flu. Feeling physically tired and exhausted more often than not, experiencing headaches or other illnesses, and being unable to eat or sleep may all be signs of burnout.
Characterized mostly by feelings of depletion or energy exhaustion, burnout results from chronic workplace stress. If over-stress feels like drowning under the weight of responsibilities, then burnout is the sense that everything is running out. If the constant pressure makes you feel powerless, frustrated, and totally worn out, you might be headed down a path toward burnout.
If we ignore the feelings of discontentment, great pressures continue to mount, eventually leading to the phenomenon known as burnout. Unfortunately, many of us experience the negative forms of stress far more than we do the positive ones. Negative stress causes us to feel worn down, down, and exhausted. Small-scale office politics, unexamined work, unclear expectations, feelings of drudgery instead of purpose, and many others contribute to feelings of dissatisfaction.
One problem that has significant consequences is burnout–that sense of relentless stress and dissatisfaction that can make it difficult to function effectively in your job, as well as in other aspects of your life. Pushing yourself to the point of physical and mental exhaustion on a regular basis in your job is one major contributor to developing burnout. Employees experiencing prolonged periods of stress may lose the motivation and creativity to do a good job.
Long-term work stress may cause changes in behavior, such as missing work, low job performance, depression, anxiety, and sleeping problems. Problems at work, or in the home, may take a long time to resolve, and that may cause the person to feel like the weight of each issue is constantly being placed on his shoulders; overwhelming him. Personal issues, like a loss, may become exacerbated by difficulties related to their job, leading the individual to feel overwhelmed and helpless.
There are positive steps that you can take to manage overwhelming stress and rebalance your life. At the same time, we can help you tackle any mental health disorders you are experiencing in combination–including issues rooted in feelings of job exhaustion–so you begin your recovery journey better able to make beneficial changes that restore work/life balance. From depression and anxiety to job burnout, we can help you learn strategies to improve your mental health — and, if you are in recovery, protect your sobriety. There are many things you can do to help you curb burnout, keep you mentally healthy overall, and, if you are in recovery, protect your sobriety.
The road to recovery is complicated, but treatment can provide the tools needed to sustain sobriety and handle stress and fatigue. If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction and work-related stress, a professional rehabilitation program may provide the assistance needed to reestablish a healthy, balanced life. Trained interventionists can help working professionals deal with stress without turning to drugs and alcohol.
If you or your loved one needs help managing work-related stress or chemical dependence, training in stress reduction combined with therapy can help break this troublesome cycle. Mitigating the risks that job stress, burnout, and eventually, self-medication may bring is not just important to your job security, it is important to your physical, emotional, and psychological wellbeing.
In attempting to cope with stress, many workers try to self-medicate through drugs or alcohol — a mistake that can spiral into substance abuse problems and other problems. You can learn ways of dealing with stress, but if you discover you cannot cope, this could lead to complications, like an addiction to drugs, alcohol, and other substances in order to deal with the elevated level of stress. According to The Journal of the American Medical Association, the stress caused by work-related addictions may weaken the immune system, which, in turn, increases the persons risk for disease.
Cognitive therapy may also be supplemented with acupuncture, massage, meditation, yoga, and other complementary therapies in order to foster new habits for relieving stress, which will help to keep work and relationships, passions, and interests balanced.
June 4, 2022
Mentally Rehearsing Things In Our Minds
The Mental Practice Technique is where you visualize yourself performing a certain task in order to prepare yourself mentally. Used by many of the greatest athletes in the world, studies have shown that mental rehearsal helps build self-confidence, boost motivation, decrease anxiety, and increase concentration. Mental rehearsal, also called visualization, is a training technique used to create an experience in the mind, with the goal of improving physical skills through deliberate imagery of performing those actions.
A new study suggests that mental rehearsal–imagining yourself performing a routine, like competing in skiing–improves performance by conditioning your mind to perform. The technique of mental rehearsal can also be done to calm the nerves, to numb out specific emotions, and desensitize the self to specific negative or unexpected outcomes. By constantly repeating and mentally practicing, you are also anticipating what may come up and setting yourself up ahead of time. By repeating something in your head, unconsciously, you will pivot toward this intended result.
If your visualizations are leaving out many details, then you are more likely to simply visualize something, without training or conditioning your mind to do it. Because what you might be doing with visualization is picturing yourself up on the stage doing whatever it is that you are doing.
You might not be an athlete or soldier, but this same process can apply to just about anything that you do in your day-to-day life. Just as with practicing a sport or instrument, you cannot simply practice a few times and suddenly become great at it. Whether you are sitting around your house or you are actually performing a task, you can practice everywhere, anytime.
Whether you are practicing physically, performing or rehearsing it mentally, you will get plenty of benefits from this app. Many of us will probably never become legendary, and practicing in your mind is something that all musicians, no matter what your level, absolutely can benefit from. In other words, the data is mounting to show that mental practice, when done properly, absolutely makes all the difference in how you play. Researchers are finding increasing amounts of neurological and physiological evidence that supports what high-level athletes like basketball great Larry Bird, Olympic diver Greg Louganis, and golfer Tiger Woods have known for years: mental practice leads to real changes and palpable improvements in performance.
In an intriguing recent article for Forbes, Andrea Morris reviews groundbreaking neuroscience research at Stanford University showing how the mental execution of a task leads to actual learning and improvement in performance. Andrea Morris notes that the study has similarities with the method of mental rehearsal used in the field of performance psychology, in which visualizing an athletes performance may contribute to performance under live conditions. The results suggest that adding mental rehearsal to regular physical training can promote the acquisition of skills and increase the overall student achievement. Along those lines, our findings showed that performance of the experimental group on new skills was better.
A University of California study says that such practice works because mental practice and physical movements share the same neural regions. As far as patients are concerned, the value of mental rehearsals as far as aiding in the rehabilitation process, practicing different motor tasks in your mind before actual movement, may be beneficial too. Combining mental rehearsal with physical exercises may be a good alternative for situations in which costly equipment or processes cannot be used.
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May 28, 2022
The Vibrational Nature of Your Reality
I have spent 10 years coming to the realization that I am the creator of my own reality and that everything is vibration. This was a painful realization because it made me face my chronic patterns of thinking to assess how I had arrived where I f0und myself. This is what I discovered: Because of my low frequency thoughts, rooted in lower vibrational emotions, I was manifesting in my own experience things like drug addiction, jails, prisons, and relationships that were chaotic. These certain emotions are now red flags about my own point of attraction and this realization has allowed me to create a life that I am overjoyed to be living
Show me what you are thinking every day and i’ll show you where you are headed.
If you are new to vibrational schools of thoughts, popular in metaphysical teachings dated back hundreds if not thousands of years, this article is for you. I am by no means a master at this but this line of thinking, regarding thought vibration, higher frequency emotions, and the human body have been a very beneficial tool that has allowed me to help others, become more confident, and allow me to navigate my life without as extreme highs and lows.
Similar to radio waves, which are heard plainly yet are invisible, your vibrational frequencies are derived from your cumulative thoughts, emotions, and consciousness, which are constantly being transmitted outwards to the Universe. The more awareness you channel into your internal body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes. Your thoughts, vibrating with a specific frequency, bring about your feelings, and it is the combination of both that determines your body’s vibration. Our thoughts and feelings establish the frequency we vibrate, and our vibrations ripple outwards, drawing in energy moving at a similar frequency.
We have meat and bones, and even we are basically just energy moving in rapid motion, and this energy has a vibrational frequency. Everything is energy, and it has vibration — everything from the chair you are sitting in, the thoughts you are thinking, the colors you are seeing. Because everything is made up of energy, each person, place, and thing vibrates with different frequencies. We humans vibrate as well, and we do at varying frequencies, which are usually caused by things happening to us, psychologically, physically, and emotionally.
If we start identifying those energies as a part of who we are, we may find ourselves stuck in a lower vibrational state. The easiest way to recognize a negative vibration is by being mindful of when and how we experience resistance in ourselves. Your emotions are your guide.
Positive vibrations feel comfortable, whereas negative ones may leave us feeling uncertain, anxious, and worried. Positive vibrations are higher-frequency thought patterns, attitudes, emotions, whereas negative vibrations are lower-frequency thought patterns, attitudes, and emotions. Essentially, thoughts vibrating high are more likely to be powerful, positive, healthy thoughts, while thoughts vibrating low are more likely to be negative, damaging, and disempowering.
Experts studying vibrational energy have suggested that specific emotions and thought patterns produce higher-frequency vibrations, such as gratitude, happiness, joy, serenity, and acceptance. You are able to recognize when you are experiencing low-vibration emotions such as envy or sadness, and take action to move into a higher-vibrational emotional state such as joy, gratitude, or peace. When you are operating on a lower vibrational frequency in your mind, you are giving off negative vibes, you are feeling sorry for yourself, dwelling on things that have already happened, feeling unhappy and low, and emotions such as anger, fear, and resentment are normal.
Your thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, meaning your thoughts are all operating on the same frequency. Our thoughts and feelings have frequencies, like sounds and lights, radio waves, or UV waves, thought ripples around your mind, and our thoughts are manifested in reality, whether we are conscious of them or not. I was not conscious of the thoughts that were ruining my life, driving me deeper into lower vibrations, causing me to attract terrible experiences, quite frankly. While it is accurate to say your thoughts become things, it is more accurate to say that your vibrations become things, because it is ultimately your vibrations that determine what is drawn into your life. Of course, emotions hold vibrational frequencies too, and working with this second Universal Law may help you to get around those.
The entire idea of the law is not just that we all have a particular vibrational frequency, but also, that if we are caught up in an experience or situation with low vibrations, we can learn how to correct our vibrations. The Second Universal Law helps us to recognize when we are moving through thick, heavy emotions, so we can release the thickness and keep the vibration up. As spiritual writer Shannon Kaiser explained to MBG, The rate or rate of vibration that something is moving is called its frequency, with the only difference between one item and another being its rate of vibration. Feeling causes the appropriate vibrational shift, and possibly a decrease in energy, which, in turn, influences our cells biological functions, and thus, our minds, bodies, and souls.
Just like you, I have experienced the depths of profound lower vibrations that have kept me in self defeating cycles, not realizing that I was actually a co-creator in my experiences and relationships.
in the depths of addiction, negative emotions, and being a ‘careless’ unconscious creator of my reality.
Several years later after having read hundreds of books, reframed my experience, and with a greater focus on being a conscious creator.
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