Neurotransmitters and how does my Sense of Self when I fight addiction

So what are these guys and how does it affect us?

The human brain is composed of roughly 86 billion neurons.  Neurotransmitters regulate mood, cravings, addictions, energy, libido, and sleep.

Our brain lacks 4 things when we are trying to break this bad habit.  Trying to break an addiction  affects our behavior and causes imbalances which is why the cycle of trying to break it is so hard.

Addiction steals joy and the souls feel like its rotting.  God says, the thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy.  John 10:10


I believe that no one wakes up and truly says "I want to be an addict or an alcoholic today"

So lets take a quick look of what this thief steals.

Dopamine deficiencies can cause fatigue, memory lose, depression, addiction, personality disorders, chronic fatigue, panic.
Serotonin deficiencies can cause constipation, nausea, blues, insomnia, addiction, depression, learning disabilities, thought confusion.
Acetycholine deficiencies can cause anxiety, stress, learning difficulties, agitation, mood swings, memory lapses, attention problems, diminished comprehension.
GABA deficiencies can cause insomnia, sleep disorders, muscle pain, muscle tension, stomach cramps, high anxiety, inability to think clearly, headache, hypertension.
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Dopamine deficiency is responsible for depression, fatigue, memory lost, depression, personality disorders along with panic.

Serotonin deficiency causes the blues, insomnia, depression, learning difficulties and confusion.

Acetycholine deficiency causes anxiety, stress, agitation, mood swings, attention problem and diminished confusion.

GABA deficiency causes insomnia, sleep disorders, muscle pain, stomach cramps, high anxiety, inability to think clearly, headaches and hypertension.

In other words you become lifeless and depressed as well as you are not able to find any pleasure in any area of your life.  Hopelessness is a good word to describe this feeling.

Think about that feeling of not being loved, the feeling of shame and guilt, panic and stressed out.

Why is it so hard to get better.  It's a disease but a disease that can be treated if you are actually "wanting the help".  However you have to want it.  You have to have the will to survive the will to pick yourself up and find your "Sense of Self"

What is this Sense of Self?  It's how we take care of ourselves and NOT what others think of us.  It's having a connection with our divine source (Our God, our Spirit, the one who says that all things are possible through him)

The only thing that can steal the Sense of Self is loosing the Sense of Self due to loosing the goodness you see in yourself.

God created each and everyone of you with "Good" and not evil.  It goes back to that word "Free Will".  The ability to choose life or death.

If you are looking for further information, stayed tuned because there is more to come.  Start today by saying With God All Things Are Possible (Matthew 19:26).  I Can Do All Things Through Him Who Gives Me Strength (Philippians 4:13).  Remember to believe with all your faith and cast your care.

If you are a parent who is looking for "HOPE", then you found your answer with these blogs.  Stay loving, stay praying and know that Jeremiah 29:11 says that God has  plan for good and not for evil, a plan for hope and a future.

If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God who gives to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or fault finding, and it will be given to him.  James 1:5 

 Matthew 19:26 says with God all things are possible and this includes overcoming additctions.

A point to ponder on my friends...





 

Dopamine deficiencies can cause fatigue, memory lose, depression, addiction, personality disorders, chronic fatigue, panic.
Serotonin deficiencies can cause constipation, nausea, blues, insomnia, addiction, depression, learning disabilities, thought confusion.
Acetycholine deficiencies can cause anxiety, stress, learning difficulties, agitation, mood swings, memory lapses, attention problems, diminished comprehension.
GABA deficiencies can cause insomnia, sleep disorders, muscle pain, muscle tension, stomach cramps, high anxiety, inability to think clearly, headache, hypertension.
- See more at: http://www.opiate-freedom-center.com/opioid-addiction-naturally-increase-your-bodies-endorphins-serotonin/#sthash.T9CqsW3L.dpuf

Mind Binding Spirits of Addiction

This is for all the parents out there who are praying for a lost one to be found.  Maybe it's a brother, a sister, an aunt or an uncle, a son or even a daughter.

As I was reading in the battlefield of the mind I came across some interesting information that I never linked together for myself.  Even after years of studying, I never knew that I could ask for evil thoughts (foreboding-anxiousness) to be cast down (thrown out) 

I never really knew that mind binding spirits (bad seeds, thoughts of addiction (food, drugs, alcohol, sugar, etc.)) could control your mind from the seed the devil places within our thoughts and that it was something we could ask God to remove from our heads. 

The thoughts of evil spirits Lurking around is plain ole creepy but they do exist because the devil (the fallen angel) exists.  It mentions many times in the book of life (bible) that Jesus called demons by name and commanded them to leave.  

What name will you give your demon?  Drugs, alcohol, control, worry, fear, addiction, it has a name!  

However if you ask every day for God to help you and command them to leave your head (throw the thought out), then by Faith and Belief they will be gone.  

How many times do you have to ask? Hundreds or as many as it takes until he knows that they no longer control or rule your mind.  That is a choice you make.  It’s called Free Will.  God places before you “Life and Death” hoping you will chose life.  However he will never take away your ability (Free Will) for you to choose this and the devil never runs out of lethal darts to throw against us when we are trying to move forward which is why we must continually ask for Gods help.

So for all the parents praying for a loved one, keep on praying because God can use those prayers to open someones ears and plant a seed of Hope.  However we must trust his perfect plan even when we can't see things working.  Gods timing is not our timing.

As you stop and think about where you are in your life and how to avoid those same lethal darts again and again, do thoughts of "how do I do this" and "where can I find the tools" come across your mind?

Ask the “Spirit of Truth” to show you the way, ask for understanding but search for the signs.  

Faith is a product of the Spirit.  Only you can decide to believe that his will can be done.  You can’t do it yourself, you can’t do it in the flesh, you do need his help or the devil will control your mind all the way to hell (death)

When I read this today, it dawned on me, that this is a test of one's faith.  It’s a test you have to tell yourself you won’t fail and begin to realize that the devil tests all of us with a loved ones weakness.  He would love nothing more than to see a parent fail, to see a grandparent fail, a loved one fail, a brother or a sister fail the test of faith.

“Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?”
2 Corinthians 13:5

“Don't worry about anything, but in all your prayers ask God for what you need, always asking him with a thankful heart. And God's peace, which is far beyond human understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:6-7

God tries to open your eyes through someone praying over you but it's up to the person being prayed for to listen: (I have leaned on him in my weakness and never once did I deny his name)  although a journey with a loved ones choice is hard, you must find your strength in God because he will make you a better person because of the lesson.  You see I too am learning to trust as I wait on his perfect plan.

“I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.”
Revelation 3:8 NIV

A point to ponder on my friends...

Addiction - Looking for the answer?

So how many know about addiction?  What are the many ways are there to be addicted?  How many things include addiction?
I recently ran into an old acquaintance who was looking for some coaching with one of their kids.  It dawned on me as I looked on line at statistics at all the moms, dads and grandparents had no way of knowing where to start.  How on a limited budget that the options were slim.

How do they begin to gather the knowledge, to obtain the support or even where to begin.  If you are that parent, that grandmother, that friend and you are looking for someone to ask, then extend this page to them and have them email me at luckytwobeme@gmail.com

They need hope, they need answers and they need awareness.  It's easy to say, go talk to your pastor, your priest, their parents but is it really that easy?  

I believe the answer is no.  You forget that people are embarrassed,  misinformed and disbelief sets in.  It can't be my child...

Well in a world where drugs are sold everywhere and made available to just about everyone, don't say it can't be my child because it can.

Have hope and let me know if you need our support.

Reach out and ponder on how easy drugs are to get.  I think you'll be surprised.

Hoping to hear from you...

Primary Foods

So what exactly are Primary Foods?

Well Integrative Nutrition (IIN) coaches understand this very well. 
Visit:   www.integrativenutrition.com

Primary Foods are the foods we need that don't go on our plates

Spiritual
Exercise or Daily Activity
Career
Relationships

When these primary foods are off balance, then our secondary foods, which are the foods we eat, are off balance as well.

What Primary Foods can be off balanced in your life?
What Primary Foods can be off in an 18 year old's who has no one to mentor to them?

Let me know your thoughts on this.

A point to ponder on my friends...

Stop trying to be everything to everyone

In order to have an impact on a smaller group of young adults,  you have to stop trying to be everything to everyone.

It's one small gesture of kindness that they will notice in the end. 

A point to ponder on my friends...

Well it's official. Lucky2BeMe is now a 501c3

Amazing, after 3 years we are now officially a 501c3.

Next in line.  Try to find a grant writer who can help us write a grant to be able to get some funds for these graduating teens to attend some college and or a tech school.

I've been making my way through Integrative Nutrition which is a school founded by Joshua Rosenthal.  It is one of the most exciting classes I've ever taken.  What it has taught me about education (my background is a systems engineer obtained at a community college) is that these graduating teens can obtain a certification as a health coach (providing they are interested in health, nutrition and fitness) and start a business after 1 year.  Way less money than a 4 year degree and just as important as a systems engineer.

So my goal is to help these graduating teens become certified health coaches.  If you search the need for these educated health coaches, you'll realize in todays fast paced life that doctors don't have the time to educate you on becoming healthy from the inside out.  That inflammation starts on the inside by what we put into our bodies as well as the effect of the environment and what it does to us internally.

After watching my mom pass away from lung cancer (not caused by cigarette smoke), I saw the need for people to have someone who cares about them, someone who will just listen but more importantly, someone who will offer hope.  None of this was offered to my mom lying in a hospital bed and she was given no hope by the doctors who treated her due to the fact that they didn't have the 10 minutes to give her the hope she desperately needed. It takes little to no effort to offer someone hope.   If it weren't for my daughter Taylor, who is also in this class with me and a fitness coach herself, my mom would have passed away with no hope at all.

Why don't doctors educate on crowding out the crappy food we eat by crowding in some of the healthy more nutritious foods.  Why do they want to offer a pharmaceutical pill or a surgery to fix something that may possibly be fixed by foods that contain Antioxidants, Flavonoids or Carotenoids  within our foods?

Flavonoids are a group of plant metabolites thought to provide health benefits through cell signalling pathways and antioxidant effects. These molecules are found in a variety of fruits and vegetables.
Carotenoids are a class of more than 600 naturally occurring pigments synthesized by plants, algae, and photosynthetic bacteria. These richly colored molecules are the sources of the yellow, orange, and red colors of many plants (1). Fruit and vegetables provide most of the carotenoids in the human diet. 
Antioxidants are a molecule that inhibits the oxidation of other molecules. Oxidation is a chemical reaction involving the loss of electrons or an increase in oxidation state. Oxidation reactions can produce free radicals. In turn, these radicals can start chain reactions.  Free radicals are highly reactive chemicals that have the potential to harm cells.

Why aren't we educating our young adults about Primary Foods?  Physical, Career, Relationships and Spirituality.  We want these young adults to be successful, compassionate and caring yet we offer them nothing to educate them on the reasons for it.

Why is it that the medical community supports pharmaceutical pills to fix and not supplemnts and nutrients to help. 

So with this said, my goal is to educate you on helping yourself help yourself through nutrition for your inside, relationship and career building , forgiveness and love for the soul and exercise for the body.

By providing this information, we can educate one young adult on the importance of primary foods and how becoming a health coach can put them on a path to success just as a systems engineer is on a path to success.  Both equally important but one less expensive than the other with the same opportunity to make money. 

A thought to ponder on... 

Be Still

Something we all need to remember.  When we are still we hear his words...