Are you addicted to negative or positive feelings?

Okay, we Scorps are good at this ....transformation, regeneration, etc....so wanted to throw this out...

Dr Candace Pert says that our emotions actually create our bodies because the emotions are really chemicals that bond to every cell in our body.

Positive emotions create positive cells....do you tend towards negative or positive?

If your body/mind is used to the negative, you will create this in your relationships, becoz your body/mind unconsciously wants a "fix" of negative emotions...

What I'm doing: when someone or something evokes negative in me, I move away from it....because I don't want to be an addict...I want happiness...

Eaglegurl

"Positive emotions create positive cells...."

*speechless*

Watz a positive cell ?...And watz negative ?...How are these structurally different ?

" don't think she means literally, GA. I hope not."

I understand. Perhaps Egirl just wanted to speak abt similar cells exhibiting different functional characteristics. Downward/Upward ion flow as they call it. But still...there has to be a link.

hehe..Bling U obsessed with Ur watch I see.

You have to read her book "Molecules of Emotion" It would take to long for me to explain here.

Egirl

She is an authentic Western doctor, trained at Johns Hopkins, who discovered that our bodies produce their own opiates (heard of "endorphins"?) and that our body is hard wired for pleasure.

"(As an aside, don't you just love it when woo woos find a scientist who they think supports their beliefs? This is always triumphally presented as ?proof? or something that their altie therapies work, although these very same people will parrot ?science doesn't know everything? when confronted with something they don't like. Hilarious.)"

Nail. Head.

"who discovered that our bodies produce their own opiates (heard of "endorphins"?) and that our body is hard wired for pleasure. "

Thatz beside the topic. Tell us r U trying to suggest that cells can be externally influenced to contribute toward creation of positive pulses....endorphins ..choline ...serotonin ?

Or do we need to practise meditation for that ?

"*triumphantly"

...You do realize s/he isn't reading this, right?

"You're the only one to mention my little demo
*beams*
"
Sorry but the credit shud belong to me.

hehe ...yeah I drew the attention.

"Stop trying to steal the spotlight, GA!!
"

LOL...All Urs ....I just wanted the credits.

Benefits of Serotonin:

Serotonin is believed to play an important part of the biochemistry of depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety. Serotonin has many functions in the human body including the control of appetite, sleep, memory and learning, temperature regulation, mood, behaviour, cardiovascular function, muscle contraction, endocrine regulation and depression. Serotonin acts both as a neurotransmitter (a substance that nerves use to send messages to one another) and a vasoconstrictor (a substance that causes blood vessels to narrow).

Serotonin is widely implicated in the treatment of various disorders, including anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, stroke, obesity, pain, hypertension, vascular disorders, migraine, and nausea.

Serotonin Sources:

Serotonin rich foods are carbohydrate based e.g., pasta, starchy vegetables, potatoes, cereals, breads.

Brain Builders -

Avocados
Bananas
Beef, lean
Brewer's yeast
Broccoli
Brown rice
Brussel sprouts
Cantaloupe
Cheese
Chicken
Collard greens
Eggs
Flaxseed oil
Legumes
Milk
Oatmeal
Oranges
Peanut butter
Peas
Potatoes
Romaine lettuce
Salmon
Soybeans
Spinach
Tuna
Turkey
Wheat germ
Yogurt

Yupp...Traditional chinese herbs can do miracles.

hehe, i don't know about antibling, but i love it. 🙂

Notso thatz not the recommended way of increasing the count 😛

" cabbaged my brain a fair bit on weed,when I was at Uni"

I did it with nicotine...though a few Indian wonder herbs brought me on track.

messed with nicotine ...too much of smoking.

Yep it does....And a hard core smoker I was....close to 40 a day.

Yeah ...that kinda intake was indeed heavy. Kicked it one day. Has been a smooth ride so far.

LOL...that was jaw-gripping indeed. After a few months it goes normal again.
Have U seen those NHS adverts ?....funny.

" ones with the fish hooks —
yeah,they made me look up....simple idea,yet eye catching/obvious...."

exactly...creative.

"LOL! You've just been nominated for "Quote of the Day."
"
hehe...I know I am human.

*Sigh*

Let's try this again...then you can go back to reading about anal stimulation, hair style s "down below", or any of the other crap that seems to permeate the Scorp. board these days.

Dr. Candace Pert has defined emotions as chemical events...got that, Yama?

"When the same chemical events repeat themselves over and over again, the result is a cumulative emotional history. This history comes with identifiable patterns and predictable responses, which become embedded or "hardwired" in our brains."

Pert explains that if we feel the same type of emotions over and over again, the cells in our bodies grow receptors that are used to that type of emotion...they then subdivide, and we have a bunch of cells in our bodies that crave the same neuropeptide messages...thus we become addicted to our own emotions.

Perhaps I don't explain it that well...I am not a scientist, just trying to delve a little deeper.

Proudly woo-woo, Yama, cos I know it works,

Eaglegurl
single mom to two kids
own my own home
thin and attractive
professional musician in steady musician job....my secret? being woo woo

Thankx blingy...

"That person who does the "critical thinking" in skeptico sucks in critical thinking. S/he hasn't given any logical reasoning besides the fact that the person Pert is a drama queen."

Still, that was a kickass quote, and I don't the blogger was trying to call her a drama queen.

"Dr. Candace Pert has defined emotions as chemical events...got that, Yama?

"When the same chemical events repeat themselves over and over again, the result is a cumulative emotional history. This history comes with identifiable patterns and predictable responses, which become embedded or "hardwired" in our brains.""

Brains are malleable-no shit?

"Pert explains that if we feel the same type of emotions over and over again, the cells in our bodies grow receptors that are used to that type of emotion...they then subdivide, and we have a bunch of cells in our bodies that crave the same neuropeptide messages...thus we become addicted to our own emotions."

How and why does this happen?

"How and why does this happen?"

U know she cant publish the whole book here..Yama.

LOL....And No thoughts = No cell.

"U know she cant publish the whole book here..Yama. "

Is a rudimentary explanation too much to ask for?

Message posted by: Gaurav_Aries on 1/15/2007 12:12:39 AM ip: xxx.xxx.xxx.10
LOL....And No thoughts = No cell.

yeah i was going to mention that also...😛

I feel I have raised the "tone" of this board.

*Prissy wiggle of the shoulders*

My mission accomplished, I feel no further need for explanations...

Egirl

"Is a rudimentary explanation too much to ask for?"
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/tech/medicine/OriginandNatureofEmotions/chap5.html

GA-I didn't really read the whole thing, but it doesn't seem to even mention said positive/negative cells, etc.

"The insinuation was strong."

Really? The blogger sounded pretty sympathetic.

"Besides why mention all this while criticing her book? Since when was what a person did outside of the research work that is being criticed part of the analysis of a work?"

Well, it's part of the book.

"but it doesn't seem to even mention said positive/negative cells, etc."

No itz about basic explanations on the origins of emotions. Sorry, I should have made that clear at the outset. But to understand the topic better itz kinda essential to go via the basic route.

Well, thanks anyway.