4:42 a.m. I was laying in my bed listening to the quite outside and trying to relax enough to fall back asleep. A few minutes earlier my dog had decided she needed to go outside. When I opened the back door to let her out, I discovered it was snowing. Beautiful. So quiet. So peaceful. The sound of silence.
At 4:37 a.m. I woke up to my mind jumping from thought to thought. As I lay there trying to go back to sleep there was a loud bang in the house. It had snowed all day and was very cold so I thought a water pipe may have frozen & burst in the basement under my bed. I had unhooked the garden hoses over a month ago and insulated the area so this was really unlikely but it just shows you how a black dog seizes on any little thing and turns it to the negative. The bang was probably some part of the house settling or my dog in another part of the house knocking over something.
It’s good to know the ins and outs of how and why something works when you’re learning a new skill. In teaching martial arts I would explain how to do a particular move and why it should be done a certain way. “Move this way with your whole body, where you are at your strongest, against this point on your opponent, where they are weakest.” There are many ways to do something but usually there’s one way that is more efficient and effective than others. That’s what we were all trying to learn.
Ah-ha or Analysis Paralysis
More reason to take Omega-3 and other anti-inflammatory supplements. It appears that there is a correlation between inflammatory response syndrome and depression.
“Depression is a normal immune system response. The immune system changes the chemicals in an injured person to slow them down in order that more energy can be channeled into healing the body. Among other things that happen is a drop in the levels of serotonin (the feel good chemical.) This is generally a temporary chemical change until the body heals. Under-treated, ongoing chronic pain conditions or the dis-ease of pain, maldynia, eat up and deplete levels of serotonin and other neurotransmitters at unbelievable rates.” Depression, the link to pain
I am working on a new post but until then here’s a couple or good articles.
