Mind Set |

March 28, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Can Symptoms Of Depression Lead To An Emotional Storm Of Healing?

Depression reminds me of a slow drizzle on a gray day.

Depression feels like a slow drizzle.

I mean it isn’t something you would associate with a down pour.

Depression is more like an endless gloomy day.

We have had an unusual number of gray drizzly days. Every time I look out my window I feel a bit depressed.

When I get out in the drizzle, I pull my coat around me tightly and hurry through my daily walk.

Well today, I looked up at the sky from my desk and wondered what kind of a walk I would have today.

Intermittent clouds threatened to make it soggy, and after the pounding rains last night, I wondered if I might need an umbrella.

By the time I put my shoes on and leashed up the dogs, it looked like the sun was going to shine down on us.

We hit the road with the cool trade winds blowing a light drizzle in our faces, and the sun warming our backs.

Right away I was struck by the loud sound of flowing water from a stream that had accumulated where there isn’t normally a stream.

“What a treat!”

Just the sound seemed to wash away my dark mood.

When we reached a part of the road where the flowing water traveled through the tall grass and splashed down small unseen water falls, it seemed like the sound was all around us.

The little stream that runs beside our daily walk had come to life during the down pour last night.

Where the new road is being plowed at the end of the pavement, there was glistening beauty, and sparkling playful waterfalls where the bare earth lie exposed yesterday.

I took the time to be still and breathe in the wonderful peaceful feeling the stream had created.

The flowing water seemed to have made the world pure and clean again.

My light mood was a gift from the storm.

Your symptoms of depression really can give way to an emotional storm that can wash away the wounds of the past if you allow it.

Mother Nature’s dramatic storm had washed the world clean. When you let your emotions RIP… they are capable of washing YOU clean.

Whether it is excitement or intense grief, the shear power of the emotion can be felt in your gut, and often causes you to feel like if you don’t move or make some kinda noise, you will just burst. Powerful emotions get your juices flowing.

If you suppress an intense emotion you can feel it rot your gut and climb up your throat.

Did you get the message when you are very young that it is not okay to express unpleasant emotions?

Stuffing your emotions will cause you much suffering.

Emotions are your spiritual compass. They are meant to give direction in the moment they arise.

It is your choice to follow the direction your emotions point you, or ignore them.

When you choose to deny an emotion you prevent the release of that energy so it stays in you and harms you.

Emotional Facts You Should Know Continue reading article →

Mind Set |

March 16, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Would You Like To Discover The Meaning Of Happiness?

Release Negative Energy So That You Can Vibrate With Joy!

Have you ever had your good mood soured by someone’s bad attitude?

Shoot, with public cell phone use these days, you can share all the drama in a strangers life, if you stand in line with them long enough!

Ever tried NOT to eaves drop on half a conversation being screamed into a cell phone?

Its just not doable without putting a finger in each ear saying “LA-LA-LA-LA!” (No wonder so many people keep their ears plugged with audio devices.)

If that high decibel conversation is negative, and you forgot to bring your ipod, ya might be tempted.

If you prefer to avoid childish behavior in public,

Try This Helpful Tactic

*Visualize the noise hitting you like a brick wall for a few minutes.

*Now FEEL the noise passing through you, like wind through trees.

Feel the difference?

Like noise, you can’t necessarily SEE negative energy, but you CAN feel it!

When you bump into someone in a powerful bad mood, you can feel your good mood sour, can’t you?

Can you shake it off and continue with your happy day?

That depends entirely on how much negative energy you are carrying around in your body.

Would you like to reduce your stored negative energy so that you can stay happy even when someone is raining on your parade?

Would you like to discover the meaning of happiness?

Negative energy creates powerful emotions. When you release negativity, you release tension. You lighten your load.

Harness feelings of resentment, judgment, and dread, and you will rot your guts out!

Release them, and you will feel the weight of the world being lifted from your shoulders.

Happiness is the quality of your vibration, isn’t it?

Intentionally Create Happiness

From a light-hearted perspective, it is very easy to find things to be grateful for.

Life challenges you and you forget to notice.

Can you focus on gratitude in the midst of chaos and confusion?

You are vibrating with energy all the time.
Your energy is dark, fearful and powerless……..
Bright, joyful, and full of appreciation………………
Or somewhere in between.

The Goal is to Vibrate with a higher frequency.

Low frequency vibration is suffering.

Grow your skill at choosing to release low vibrational frequency and shift your focus to a Joyful memory.

Start where you are!

YOU ARE HERE:

(From Ester and Jerry Hicks’ book Ask and It is Given)

1. Joy/Love/Appreciation
2. Passion
3. Enthusiasm/Eagerness/Happiness
4. Positive Expectation/Belief
5. Optimism
6. Hopefulness
7. Contentment
8. Boredom
9. Pessimism
10. Frustration/Irritation/Impatience
11. Overwhelm
12. Disappointment
13. Doubt
14. Worry
15. Blame
16. Discouragement
17. Anger
18. Revenge
19. Hatred/Rage
20. Jealousy
21. Insecurity/Guilt/Unworthiness
22. Fear/Grief/Despair/Powerlessness

Are you closer to a beautiful chime of Joy, or a harsh GONG! of despair?

It really doesn’t matter where you are.

YOU CAN GET TO HAPPINESS!

Got feelings of anger, revenge, or rage coursing through your veins? Release it before it robs your Joy.

How? Anyway you can, just don’t injure anyone else while you do it. Nobody deserves to have your negative emotional puke dumped on them.

Take it to the back yard, a sound proof room, or some other isolated place.

scream
stomp
curse
throw yourself on the ground
heck cry it out if you need to

Just get that nasty energy out of you and prepare to refill yourself with love, light, and laughter.

Once you have cleared out the ugly clutter of emotions, you will have made room for new emotional frequencies.

Be aware that every 17 seconds you send out a signal that will attract ALL like frequencies to you.

Make sure you are careful what you focus on.

You don’t want to yuck yourself up again!

The space you have just cleared out, is like a vacuum. It will pull new energy into the free space.

There are many ways to exert your will over your focused attention. Putting your awareness on your heart is an easy button to intentionally create happiness!

Attract Positive Energy To Raise Your Vibration

*Think of a happy memory. One that makes your heart soar!
*While you let yourself enjoy that memory, focus on your heart.
*Breathe the happiness of that memory into your heart, as though you are actually breathing with your heart.
*Keep your focus on your heart for as long as you can.

This is actually my own humble version of a technique called “Freeze Frame” that is a HeartMath tool.

At the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) Research Center, they are “exploring the physiological mechanisms by which the heart communicates with the brain, thereby influencing information processing, perceptions, emotions and health.”

One of the early pioneers in neurocardiology, Dr. J. Andrew Armour, introduced the concept of a functional “heart brain” in 1991.

His work revealed that the heart has a complex intrinsic nervous system that is sufficiently sophisticated to qualify as a “little brain” in its own right.

The heart’s brain is an intricate network of several types of neurons, neurotransmitters, proteins and support cells like those found in the “brain proper”. Its elaborate circuitry enables it to act independently of the cranial brain – to learn, remember, and even feel and sense.

For centuries, the heart has been considered the source of Emotion, Courage and Wisdom.

Now science has verified the fact that your heart has the ability to learn, remember, feel and sense!

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Heart Math Is Powerful Science

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP
The Life Breath Coach
Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds Joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Heart Disease |

February 10, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Is Awareness Enough To Fight Heart Disease?

“Being aware” is not an action step.

It may inspire you to take action, and it may not.

Making someone aware is lip service. Asking good questions is a step in the right direction. Discussion can give life to inspiration.

Inspired action requires that you get past denial.

Denial is very popular. It feels good. That is, until your problem gets right in your face.

Even though at this point, you are suffering the consequences of your denial, you may still cling to it.

Until you take back your power, you will not feel better, and you can’t heal from heart disease or any other disease.

Can you take inspired action, and still be in denial?

That is a good question. Usually denial is what keeps you on the side line, or keeps you so attached to your disease process that you never seek help to heal. If you can’t imagine yourself feeling good and living well, then you won’t be able to achieve it.

Recently I came across a story that tore my heart out. The story is about a young woman who was definitely taking inspired action.
She was a role model for inspired action, and her family loved and cherished her.

She had struggled with a weight issue all her life. Her family and friends, and even her “shrink”, considered her a hypochondriac and often joked with her about it. (After all, she wasn’t too proud to admit that she was.) Her many complaints fell on deaf ears, and she brushed any concern aside out of habit.

Until……her final complaint.

“I am so dizzy,” she told her mother over the phone.

Then the line went dead and a 19 years young woman, in the prime of her life, was gone.

Over the years she had learned to ignore her discomfort:

heavy sweating
not being able to catch her breath
being overtired
working hard to lose weight with little results
tendency to be “lazy”

This beautiful young woman lost her life to a congenital heart disease called myocardial bridging—a defect where an artery, instead of going where it’s supposed to in the heart actually goes through the heart muscle.

Her story was written by a close friend, who wishes that the American Heart Association would do a better job of raising awareness about Congenital Heart Defects, and remind people that often, genetics is the only cause.

Do you know that there are tests, treatments, and surgical repair for congenital heart defects?

Most people don’t. If you are far too young for heart disease, but experience symptoms like the ones listed above…..please complain loudly to your health care provider.

Be heard and live!

If you are listening to the American Heart Association, be aware that they promote profitable Cholesterol Lowering Drugs without warning us of the dangers.

Find out what the AHA won’t tell you!

Join The Life Breath Club and get all your questions answered by The Life Breath Coach.

That’s what The Life Breath Club is for!

Become a Member Today

This is a private membership site to protect your medical privacy.

It’s FREE!

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP
The Life Breath Coach
Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Drug Safety |

February 3, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Is American Heart Month Inspiring Your Low Cholesterol Diet?

low cholesterol diet

A healthy heart is truly something to celebrate!

Any inspiration to improve your diet is a good thing.

However, if you are planning to make a contribution to the American Heart Association in honor of American Heart Month, please reconsider.

This “non-profit” organization is so busy supporting the pharmaceutical companies and the “drug it chop it out mentality”, that they have lost sight of the fact that diet and lifestyle are the way to reduce heart disease.

Diet and lifestyle do get a lot of lip service from the American Heart Association, but the cash is spent largely on promoting the profit of drugs and surgery.

With the type of money that is available to the American Heart Association, they should be ashamed of their half hearted effort to support the average American on their journey to change.

They are doing nothing to fight the poison in our food supply or the early signs of huge trouble from genetically modified foods.

Change isn’t easy.

It is much easier to build hype around cholesterol lowering drugs and rake in huge profits.

Efforts to educate and facilitate change will take more than a one day event, or even a month of events. Support needs to be ongoing. Bringing people together, in an effort to build community is the answer to reducing heart disease.

Does the American Heart Association have enough money to support Boys and Girls Clubs, so that kids get active early in life?

Do they have enough money to supply churches and community centers with dried beans and grains?

How about supplementing the electric bill for lung disease and heart failure patients when they can’t afford to operate their home oxygen machines?

How about organizing walking and bike riding clubs, or supporting local organizations to do it?

You need support all year, not just for the month of February!

Diet and lifestyle change is a process. Talking about it, and creating “awareness”, stops short of actual HELP.

The American Heart Association has an army of volunteers.

Every American, including this army of volunteers, should be asking the American Heart Association just where their money is spent.

Do You Know How The AMA Spends All That Money?

They claim to have “invested” over 543 million dollars from 2005 to 2006. The money, they say, was spent first on research and professional and public education, and then in “advocacy” and community service programs.

Americans need to hold this “charity” accountable. They CAN do more, and they SHOULD do more!

Want to celebrate American Heart Month? Continue reading article →

Meditation&Exercise |

January 28, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Confusion: Ever Feel Like You Have Your Head In the Clouds?

Do you ever notice confusion … walking around like you’ve got your head in the clouds?

You know… spacey?

Like….. ”what the heck was I just doing?”, or “what was I saying?”,

or “what did I come in this room to get?”

Oh come on, you know you do.

What is that all about?

Yesterday I bumped into Bonnie, a patient I used to care for. We were both out shopping, and just tickled pink to have a chance to catch up. I’m sure the other shoppers were wanting us to stop blocking the isle, but we just couldn’t help ourselves.

Bonnie is a colorful lady who loves antiques and beautiful bright colors. Her house is a fun place to visit. My kids were amazed by the place and always begged me to schedule with her when they could come along. They loved the house and Bonnie loved them.

I’d do my usual routine, express my concern about her low oxygen levels, and nag her to use oxygen 24/7. Then we always took time to laugh it up and enjoy each others company.

I noticed that after our delightful isle obstructing visit, I felt like I had my head in the clouds. You know, spacey. I even forgot what the heck I had come into WalMart to buy.

“That sweet old lady does that to me every time,” I thought with a smile. I always seem to be floating just above myself when I spend a little time with this charming, busy lady.

Even though she is very sick and needs to slow down and care for herself, she is still living at a crazy pace that has been the norm all her life. From her costume jewelry, snappy dress, and makeup, to her antique hunting and social life, Bonnie’s life is simply exhausting.

She just never learned to slow down and heal, even though she spent 3 weeks on a ventilator in ICU and almost died more than once.

Low oxygen levels cause short term memory loss. So Bonnie has the excuse of not remembering what changes she should make, long enough to make them.

If Bonnie had discovered the ability to heal herself by listening to her intuition, she could have slowed down long enough to smell the roses years ago.

The problem was that if Bonnie slowed down long enough, Continue reading article →

Social Connection |

January 10, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Are You Mourning the Loss Of Your Loved One Before Their Death?

Death is a part of life. When someone you love dies, your life goes on without them.

Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia can effectively take your loved one from you. Though your lives go on, the person you loved is gone. They are no longer who they were. Someone else is living with you.

Grieving for the loss of a loved one that is not dead is a heart wrenching kind of pain.

Do you feel angry and sad? Continue reading article →