FAQ
Q: How can you get rid of toxic fear?
- Fear that results in suffering comes from ego and expectations.
- Passive fear is sadness, anxiety resulting in inaction. - Active fear is anger resulting in harmful actions, loss of intellect, person is no longer mindful or present. - Fear (active/passive) can take you away from reality and makes you useless in the moment. How to fix it: Awareness counters this uselessness. To create awareness use box breathing in the moment for balance. Love (especially of yourself) can counter fear over time and make you courageous, bold, and requires action.
-Don’t suppress divert this energy. Give it back to the origin through meditation. - Meditation is a way to balance cortisol. But you can’t just sit down and clear all thoughts immediately. Meditation is not possible during anger. Meditation is only possible when you are able to be present and bring your awareness back. Meditate can be used to prevent this cycle from occurring again and not allowing the anger to persist in the background. - You have to practice in order to clear your mind. - First start by deciding not to have selfish and harmful thoughts. Every time negative thoughts arise convert them to positive, selfless, harmless thoughts and behaviors. - Treat yourself like a friend and detach yourself from the situation. If you have negative thoughts about yourself give evidence from your life to counteract this thought as if you were talking to a friend.
- Passive fear is sadness, anxiety resulting in inaction. - Active fear is anger resulting in harmful actions, loss of intellect, person is no longer mindful or present. - Fear (active/passive) can take you away from reality and makes you useless in the moment. How to fix it: Awareness counters this uselessness. To create awareness use box breathing in the moment for balance. Love (especially of yourself) can counter fear over time and make you courageous, bold, and requires action.
-Don’t suppress divert this energy. Give it back to the origin through meditation. - Meditation is a way to balance cortisol. But you can’t just sit down and clear all thoughts immediately. Meditation is not possible during anger. Meditation is only possible when you are able to be present and bring your awareness back. Meditate can be used to prevent this cycle from occurring again and not allowing the anger to persist in the background. - You have to practice in order to clear your mind. - First start by deciding not to have selfish and harmful thoughts. Every time negative thoughts arise convert them to positive, selfless, harmless thoughts and behaviors. - Treat yourself like a friend and detach yourself from the situation. If you have negative thoughts about yourself give evidence from your life to counteract this thought as if you were talking to a friend.
Q: How do you rule your mind
You can control your mind by being a good person and decreasing mental conflicts
- You can purify the mind in 4 ways through behavior1. Through friendliness, loving action, and pleasant nature opposite of hate.2. Through compassion/kindness opposite of anger, cruelty. 3. joyfulness/goodwill is the opposite of sadness4. Letting go is the opposite of ego and attachment
- You can also control you mind by controlling your breath. Your brain and body work better when they are have oxygen. When people get anxious they have irregular heartbeat, and shallow breath affecting oxygenation and interrupting your ability to think properly and make good decisions.
- Jahan I, Begum M, Akhter S, et al. Effects of alternate nostril breathing exercise on cardiorespiratory functions in healthy young adults. Ann Afr Med. 2021;20(2):69-77. doi:10.4103/aam.aam_114_20
- In this study, Yoga-based ANB exercise for 1 month brought significant improvement in cardiorespiratory parameters (pulse, SBP, DBP, FVC, FEV1, and PEFR) in the study subjects.
- Sinha AN, Deepak D, Gusain VS. Assessment of the effects of pranayama/alternate nostril breathing on the parasympathetic nervous system in young adults. J Clin Diagn Res. 2013;7(5):821-823. doi:10.7860/JCDR/2013/4750.2948- This study showed that the parasympathetic tone was enhanced appreciably in the participants. The observations of this study suggest that the yogic exercise of A.N.B. influences the parasympathetic nervous system significantly.
- You can purify the mind in 4 ways through behavior1. Through friendliness, loving action, and pleasant nature opposite of hate.2. Through compassion/kindness opposite of anger, cruelty. 3. joyfulness/goodwill is the opposite of sadness4. Letting go is the opposite of ego and attachment
- You can also control you mind by controlling your breath. Your brain and body work better when they are have oxygen. When people get anxious they have irregular heartbeat, and shallow breath affecting oxygenation and interrupting your ability to think properly and make good decisions.
- Jahan I, Begum M, Akhter S, et al. Effects of alternate nostril breathing exercise on cardiorespiratory functions in healthy young adults. Ann Afr Med. 2021;20(2):69-77. doi:10.4103/aam.aam_114_20
- In this study, Yoga-based ANB exercise for 1 month brought significant improvement in cardiorespiratory parameters (pulse, SBP, DBP, FVC, FEV1, and PEFR) in the study subjects.
- Sinha AN, Deepak D, Gusain VS. Assessment of the effects of pranayama/alternate nostril breathing on the parasympathetic nervous system in young adults. J Clin Diagn Res. 2013;7(5):821-823. doi:10.7860/JCDR/2013/4750.2948- This study showed that the parasympathetic tone was enhanced appreciably in the participants. The observations of this study suggest that the yogic exercise of A.N.B. influences the parasympathetic nervous system significantly.
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Q: Why do we get sorrow when we want happiness?
- We create sorrow because we don’t know how to regulate our mind and body. When your mind lies to you it creates suffering by damaging your self-image, relationships, and experiences.
- When you rule your mind it is your best friend.
- When your mind rules you it is your worst enemy.
- As humans our capacity to destroy is matched only by our capacity to heal.
- The body continually attempts to reach balance and we can assist our body's healing process.
How to fix it:
- By identifying errors in your thoughts you can identify and change errors of thought.
- Changes in thought can lead to changes in behavior.
- This allwos you greater capacity to regulate your emotions and creat happiness.
- These modalities create time for your body and mind to self-heal. If we add these to your life you can help diffuse the buildup of stress and imbalances that are caused by stress during the day.
- These modalities create time for your body and mind to self-heal. If we add these to your life you can help diffuse the buildup of stress and imbalances that are caused by stress during the day.
Q: Why is the bad stuff easier to believe?
- Negative/bad thoughts have stronger emotions tied to them than neutral and even positive thoughts.
- The more emotions that are attached to a thought the more intense the thoughts become and the more resistant to change.- By repeating thoughts over and over in your head the brain begins to believe them and attaches even more emotions to them.
How to fix it: - In order to 'clean up' these thoughts we need to defuse the emotional charge from the thoughts, adjust our self-talk, and not take ourselfs so seriously.
- The more emotions that are attached to a thought the more intense the thoughts become and the more resistant to change.- By repeating thoughts over and over in your head the brain begins to believe them and attaches even more emotions to them.
How to fix it: - In order to 'clean up' these thoughts we need to defuse the emotional charge from the thoughts, adjust our self-talk, and not take ourselfs so seriously.
Q: Why do all mental health providers ask about sleep?
Sleep is used as a barometer for how well your brain is functioning. Many things can affect your sleep:
- Stress
- All types of mental illness
- Physical illness
- Medications and Substance abuse.
Once your have poor quality of sleep or low quantity of sleep your brain begins a negative feedback loop making a bad situation worse. To interrupt this negative feedback loop we need to fix underline problem (if possible) and implement sleep hygiene. Sleep hygiene is a natural way to train your body and mind to get better quality sleep.
Q: How long is the first appointment?
The first appointment is usually 2 hours long.
