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Do you know the saying: “control your thoughts, fhan they become your words, control your words, than they become your actions, control your actions, than they become your destiny?
Who wants to have an unfortunate fate? “But it all starts with thoughts. That makes them not harmless and unimportant to simply let them drift.
Thoughts are especially powerful when our minds want to take a nap, especially at night. We wake up and are at their mercy.
Then a harmless incident becomes a threatening scenario, a fleeting remark from a neighbor becomes a powerful prophecy.
There’s only one thing that helps here: trying to slow things down with a decisive “Stop.”
Things look better during the day – but only seemingly. Because these thought visitors can spoil our mood. Or improve it.
The good news is, it’s in our hands.
Studies show that inner affirmations have enormous power and influence our emotions. However, dominating them requires practice and consistent control of our thoughts.
There’s no such thing as thoughtless.
The brain works like a perpetual motion machine. Even when we think we’re relaxing on the beach, gazing into the distance. Admittedly, in a very pleasant situation. But the brain is by no means relaxing here!
People have sometimes even come up with magnificent discoveries or formative works during such beach visits.
The key is to educate our brain, like a child who wants to do whatever it wants. But how?
Many thoughts are the product of the beliefs we’ve acquired over the course of our lives:
“It’s too late anyway!”, “I’ll never be able to do that!”, “I’m not pretty enough!”, “I’m not good enough!”
Who hasn’t heard these phrases suddenly pop into our heads? It’s important to question and correct these thoughts, even if they seem true at first glance.
The truth is what our brain produces.
Here are the 6 parenting approaches for your brain:
1. Ban the words “not” or “can’t” from your brain: the sentence “I can’t do it” becomes “I’ll manage it.” the sentence “I don’t want to do it” becomes “I want to do something differently.”
2. Motivate your brain in this direction: think: “I want to do this or that on topic X today!” before it does.
3. Let your brain think empowering phrases like “I am strong enough!”, “I am beautiful enough!”, “I’ve accomplished a lot, I can do this too!” It’s best to say these phrases out loud in front of a mirror.
4. If your brain makes itself known at night, force it to calm down with short commands like “Stop” or “Later.”
5. Negative scenarios should be postponed until daytime, questioned, and resolved only in the light of day.
6. Sometimes it helps to simply say to your brain lovingly: “Dear brain, I’ve let go of that a long time ago!”
Voilá!
We are full of energy, our mood is great, we are well rested, balanced and can cope with our everyday lives effortlessly.
A fantastic scenario that we wish for the rest of our lives. The score for this is based on good physical condition.
Our hormones play the music: Adrenaline, Cortisol, Serotonin, Dopamine, Endorphins and numerous other great substances.
Not to forget the powerful sex hormone trio of Estrogen, Progesterone and Testosterone. The source of hormones bubbles up at a young age. However, as we get older it starts to fade.
Can we do something about it to keep it bubbling forever?
Lifestyle definitely plays a big role here. Anyone who does sports, about 2.5 hours a week with endurance and strength training, ensures a regular endorphin shot.
The king of excitement and adventure is adrenaline. Small challenges every now and then play in his cards.
Cortisol is an unpopular hormone because it is mainly involved in stress. However, in small doses it is useful because it curbs an overly aggressive immune system.
Dopamine is a relationship hormone. Every compliment we can receive ensures its output.
A true solar hormone is serotonin. It ensures a good mood and a bright mind. We get it when we experience a sunrise, are outside a lot and look at the sun. In the evening, melatonin is formed from serotonin. It allows us to fall asleep and stay asleep easily.
What about the important sex hormones – the most sensitive divas of the hormone landscape: Estrogen, Progesteron, Testoseron?
Here nature is not squeamish and simply wants to take it away from us when time seems to have run out. This hits women particularly hard.
First, the corpus luteum hormone progesterone withdraws when the eggs run out. After that, estrogen becomes rare. At some point, testosterone levels out at a low level in both cases women and men.
Many women then experience unpleasant side effects of deficiency, even though they are in the prime of their life. Some more, others less. This is very unfortunate because women’s ability to have sexual experiences remains unchanged throughout their lives. Live out your sexuality
This is where human intelligence comes into play!
What research and pharmaceutical production has achieved here in the last few decades is phenomenal, with the aim of helping women in their time of need. Like the extraction of hormones from the urine of pregnant mares, which after 50 years is now fortunately a thing of the past.
The modern substances are now produced from plants. They are rich in phytoestrogens and closely replicate human estrogen and progesterone. They are therefore referred to as bioidentical and compensate for hormone deficits, meaning they have almost no side effects
Worth mentioning is the wonderful book “Woman on Fire” by the German-American gynecologist and scientist Dr. Sheila de Liz. She has shed light on this topic and taken away the fear of HRT for many women. http://Wikipedia, Dr. Sheila de Liz
A widespread hormonal plague is hypothyroidism due to a deficiency in the thyroid hormone thyroxine, which is responsible for metabolism. Women over 50 are most commonly affected. Here too, treatment consists of increasing the missing amount of hormones.
The trio of estrogen, progesterone and thyroxine ultimately makes the music that keeps the female body healthy and beautiful – well into old age.
Here are my tips for optimal hormone balance:
1. Exercise to have endorphins (and other hormones) on a regular basis.
2. Spend at least 1 hour outside every day to have enough serotonin during the day and melatonin in the evening
3. Maintain good friendships and relationships with family, which provide dopamine
4. Take on challenges to give yourself a shot of adrenaline
5. Check the levels of thyroxine and sex hormones in order to adjust them with appropriate preparations, if there are deficiencies.
Voilà!
