katesmiles-B L O G: SMILE for YOUR HEALTH

SMILE and CHARGE UP YOUR ENDORPHINS !
From katesmiles-B L O G in BraveHeart Women Blogs by katesmiles

Dec. 07, 2009 Blog #7, day 14

Thank you to BHW sister in smiles, Rijuta for her post today and for stimulating my mind about "SMILE STUFF"
Thank you to Drs. Ellie andSugar for their continuing Prosperity Hormone (PH) Calls/Seminars.
Thank you to Dr Radha for her smile and permission to use this picture I took at RISE '09 and thank you to our RISE ever-smiling guest star, Rolonda Watts.



SMILE!




Serotonin Smiles

[We know about serotonin through the PH calls]

Smiling has been found to boost levels of the neurotransmitter, Serotonin. It is a vital part of regulating our moods, sleep, sexuality and appetite.
There is an obvious biological connection to elements of happiness in the production of Serotonin. It goes both ways and producing a good mood, getting good sleep, good sex and good food will ensure the smiles and Serotonin keep pumping.

REASONS to SMILE:

-1- A deep inner smile spreads like a relaxing elixir making us receptive to transform negative energy into positive.
Conversely, a scowl suppresses our immune system by increasing stress, contracting channels and blocking energy.

Research by French physiologist Dr Israel Waynbaum indicates that facial muscles used to express emotion, trigger specific brain neurotransmitters.

-2- Smiling signals happy healing hormones such as ecstatic endorphins and immune boosting killer T-cells.

-3- Smile therapy actually lowers the stress hormones cortisol, adrenalin and noradrenaline and produces hormones which stabilise blood pressure, relax muscles, improve respiration, reduce pain, accelerate healing and stabilise mood.

REASONS to KEEP SMILING.....

-1- A scowl suppresses our immune system by increasing stress, contracting channels and blocking energy.

-2- If you're feeling down the stress hormones secreted with a scowl may increase
-i- increase blood pressure,
-ii- weaken the immune system,
-iii- increase susceptibility to infections,
-iv- exacerbate depression and anxiety.

-3- Frowning triggers the secretion of stress hormones.
[I think a frown is a vigorous scowl]

Endorphins are part of those mystical "humoral factors" alluded to in verrry old medical texts.
Endorphins are released in the brain and and flow through the body to produce the phenomenon of "the runner's high".

We can smile and get the same "rush" that calms. Personally, I love that, as running is a non-favorite exercise of mine.

Lastly, a dash of personal philosphy..if you ever doubted that wo/mankind 'just happened' , think about the thought that went behind putting a brain together that has some 22 tiny smile facial muscles being connected by the nervous system to the, oh so few, itsy-weenie cells in the brain that make our endorphins and the 47 frowning muscles are not!

Til our next batch of SMILE! YOU'RE ON BHW !

I remain in gratitude to you each for being YOU !

Kate Koehne aka katesmiles


References:
URL: http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1457988
Hodgkinson L. (1994) Smile Therapy,
Optima.Klein A. (1989) The Healing Power of Humour, GP Putnam and Sons.
Ornstein A. Sobel D. (1987) The Healing Brain,
Simon and Schuster

Dec. 20, 2009

I am in danger of losing my life!..or am I?

Feelings are rife.

Heartbeat is so fast.

Something of a light panting breath is starting..

Sounds are magnified.

I am warm.

I am cold.

I am startled by bright.

Am I sweating now?

Is my mouth drying?

WHAT'S HAPPENING?

Oh....

It's CHANGE!


Hello BraveHeart Sisters..how many of you have been experiencing , any or all of the above 'symptoms'?

Fantastic!

No change, no growth, no life.

Isn't it interesting how many of the above noted body sensations can fit into many different scenes?

To name a few - fear, terror,anticipation,sex, joy,birth.
How can such common sensations have such polar "applications" ?

I guess that is the human condition.
Under it all we do have choice,
our greatest gift.
We can interpret a life occurrence as fear and go still and silent or we can don reality glasses and see it as the change it is and use the body's energy and the hormones produced to move through it gracefully to our new level.

So if you are packing and wrapping things for storage and forward address unknown instead of wrapping seasonal gifts and baking cookies or you are attending the funeral of a loved one or you don't have your old job to go to in January 2010, or you are getting married-look at it for what is : CHANGE.

Take as many deep vagus breaths as you need, set a new plan, stick to the plan and SMILE, after all you don't want to go to your future without any endorphins!

It is a seaon of joy and renewal no matter what is going on in your own life.
Make it good for you!
Utilize all the BraveHeart tools. If you are not a Core member yet, please consider giving yourself a gift. Listen to all the recorded calls, do the exercises in them, listen to Ellie's affirmations both morning and evening. Your mindset WILL change! Then you are better equipped to handle any change!

A joyous Christmas season to all who read this and all those you love.

Kate Koehne aka katesmiles

28 April 2010

Marianne Anderson wrote :

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

This past Sunday here in Scottsdale I had the privilege to be at a "meet and greet" of BHW community and potential community members.

I was witness to the results the removal of shrouds and "bushels" from so many personal LIGHTS.

The brightness of eyes, the changes in carriage, the weight losses, THE SMILES, the personal energy auras bubbling in the room.......of those seeking to use their inner light to the maximum and they choose to use BHW as the tool.
There were pre- and post- RELEASE attendees at the meet and greet..
The levels of hope and joy between the two were indiscernable.

I, too, am having fantabulous days tending my light and letting it shine to max!

TRY IT , YOU'LL LIKE IT!
Katesmiles

Smile Dance and Be Happy!