Mind games can be fun. The sort that you play with yourself without the usual thinking of playing with the Gertrude or the Peter.
Listening to Coast-to-Coast AM podcasts gives new perspectives, sort of "out there" which is far from the mainstream babble. It's fun babble.
One evening a guest on the show spoke of the amygdala, what it does, where it is. The guest spoke of when it was discovered, how its function can be affected in different ways.
About 25 mm inside your head from where your forefingers can rest on your temples is where the amygdalae are. Almond shaped, they control emotions, memories, decision making. Amygdalae are very sensitive. They can be affected by stress, psychological & emotional disorders which impacts our behavior plus many responses.
The amygdala also plays a role in fear response, pleasure, social situations. This makes it a crucial part of the human brain.
The right & left amygdalae have independent memory systems while working together to store, encode, interpret emotion. The right stores negative emotion, the left, everything else.
As an aside just because it's interesting:
~Feelings of fear are stored in the stomach & intestines.
~Feelings of repressed anger are stored in the lower back.
~Feelings from trauma are stored in the hips.
~Anger & suppressed rage are stored in the buttocks.
~Feelings of love are stored in the whole brain.
~Anger, frustration & anxiety are stored in the forehead.
~Sadness is stored in the heart & lungs.
~Resentment is stored in the liver.
There is more information on which aspects of life are stored in which areas of the human body. It's listed online, your fave search engine can tell you. My career is in a field other than medicine, still, I enjoy researching this sort of information for myself, also for you.
Now to the meat of this entry. Meat. Mmmm. Meat, good.
The exercise I'm going to do the best to describe for you is termed Stroking The Amygdala or Stroking The Amygdala Forward.
As with many fun brain games, it may or may not help you to win at LOTTO, it may or may not be strongly felt at first.
Ready?
Let's do this.
Get yourself into a relaxed, calm state of mind in a dark or dimly lit room. Breathing exercises help. You knew that, right? Smarty shorts!
Laying on a bed or other comfy spot is conducive to this exercise. Having at least 15 minutes to do this, more if you can, is fine.
Clear your mind as you do your breathing pattern to calm yourself. Push whatever cares in your life, to the side. When you are so relaxed that you could possibly doze off, this is ideal. You might even fall asleep for a bit.
Close your eyes.
Imagine that there are 2 soft feathers stroking your temples in a slow, light, forward motion on both sides of your head.
If you wish, you can use your fingers with very, very light pressure.
If you have 2 feathers, you can use those.
When I first began doing this, I used 2 feathers.
Now, it's easy to just imagine that I have the 2 feathers.
After you begin this exercise, you might begin to feel sensations in your brain. As if something is moving around in there. It has yet to be proved, maybe something is actually moving.
When you feel it, you will know.
The first time I did this exercise, it took around 5 minutes to start feeling the sensations. Little butterfly flutters at first. As I did this exercise regularly, the flutters felt increasingly stronger, more rhythmic.
After a week, I began to feel stronger flutters plus something else. I began to see colors in a kaleidoscopic effect. At first they were very soft, stationary. Within 2 weeks I was feeling stronger flutters, brighter colors plus more different colors which began to move in a more intense kaleidoscopic effect.
This is the most similar to what I see.
Using this exercise helped me to reduce stress, banish a headache, recover from heartbreak, calm my worries. It sounds so simple, I realize. In confession, I was very skeptical at first. Then, the thinking that crept in as a, "What do I have to lose? What is it possible to gain?" sort of feeling.
It's a simple exercise that anyone can do with little to no equipment needed. Just a bit of time, patience & of course your head.
What is the old school phrase?
"Try it, you'll like it."
Hopefully, this simple exercise reaches people who find it useful in managing everyday stress or the occasional traumatic event.
Truly, I would like to know if this helped you. If you wish, let me know in the comments section below this blog entry.
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