Carolee Merrill 949 363 6767

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Change Your Mind Change Your Life
Carolee Merrill 949 363 6767 www.gatewaystohealtha
ndwellbeing.com
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Discovering how unconscious physical, mental and
emotional habits create stress, aging, addiction
and disease.
Through awareness and simple lifestyle changes
reclaiming youthful vitality, joy and well
being.
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Stress Statistics
Stress, Excess Cortisol and Aging
Cortisol is released from the adrenal glands in
response to stress or low blood glucose.  A meal
that has insufficient glucagon (protein),
cortisol acts as a back up system to try and
increase glucose to the brain. Cortisols
primary mode of action in times of stress is to
shut down eicosanoid synthesis. Eicosanoids are
signaling molecules that control the most complex
networks in the body. Effecting cardiovascular
disease, triglycerides, blood pressure and
arthritis. The correct ratios of macronutrients
can actually decrease hormonal miscommunication,
thus slowing and reversing aging.
Scientific research has established that stress
is the core factor in physical, mental, and
emotional disease. The Federal Government, the
Centers for Disease Control, The Mayo Clinic,
Yale, Harvard, and Stanford University Medical
Schools state that up to 95 of all disease is
directly caused by stress. Dr. Bruce Liptons
research at the Stanford University Medical
School found that what makes us sick up to 95 of
the time is the stress that is caused by holding
a wrong belief about ourselves, others and our
lives. Research from the Office of National Drug
Policy, Harvard, Duke University, and the
American Psychological Association found that the
annual economic burden of brain-related disorders
has reached over 1 trillion. Nearly every
disorder is directly related to stress, with
addiction number one. A research study at the
University of California, San Francisco showed
that stress speeds the aging process by harming
DNA.
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Changing the Mind

• To create change in ones life it is essential
  to understand that true, lasting change only
  occurs when there is a change to the inner
  workings of the mind.
• Until there is an understanding of how the mind
  effects the emotions and state of happiness or
  unhappiness, there can be no lasting change.
• The mind will perpetually insist that your
  external world is the cause of depression and
  unhappiness, and that one must change the
  external.
• Its a curious dilemma of the fox guarding the
  hen house, that is for the most part not seen or
  questioned.

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Recognizing Mental Stress and Well Being Where
are you in the columns below?
Mental Stress
Mental Well Being Saying No', 'I can't'
- Saying Yes, 'I can!'
Disapproval Self/Others -
Approval Self/Others Mental Confusion
- Mental Clarity
Thoughts of Fear, Anger, Grief -
Courage, Acceptance Mental Tension
- Relaxed, Creative
thinking Wanting Control, Approval, Safety
- Allowing, Being Mental Resistance
- Allowing, Welcoming
Judgment, Attacking, Blaming -
Allowing, Forgiveness Constant Thinking
- Spacious, Quiet Mind
Resentments, Grievances -
Forgiveness, Freedom Bored
- Curious Deadly
Serious -
Playful Humor Complaining
- Appreciation I am
Separate -
I am connected with the world
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Stress, Brain Chemistry, Mental Health and
Neurotransmitters

• Mental health relies on neurotransmitters and
  hormones being produced, utilized, and
  metabolized properly.
• Hormones and neurotransmitters govern our moods,
  emotions, behavior, and sleep patterns, as well
  as every aspect of our physical health.
• Stress resulting from false beliefs causes
  imbalances of hormones and neurotransmitters.
• The diminished availability of just one
  neurotransmitter or a disruption in its path can
  adversely affect every aspect of life and health.

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It is estimated that 86 of Americans have
suboptimal neurotransmitter levels!
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Suboptimal Neurotransmitter Levels

• Depression, low mood, mood swings.
• Insomnia, sleep disturbances.
• Addiction.
• Difficulty concentrating, focusing or
  remembering.
• Autism, anxiety, irritability, tension, panic
  attacks.
• Fatigue, lack of energy.
• Migraines, headaches, PMS or Menopausal
  symptoms.
• Weight issues, sugar, alcohol, food cravings.

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• Every thought has a biological impact on the
  body and emotions
• and influence our heart rhythms.
• Thoughts of frustration causes a chaotic
  heart rhythm pattern
• creating stress and raising levels of the aging
  hormone, cortisol.
• Thoughts of appreciation cause a coherent
  heart rhythm, and
• raises the youthful, happy hormones of dopamine
  and oxytocin.

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Balancing Brain Chemistry

•  Our thoughts and attitudes alter our brain
• chemistry.
• When the body and mind can make its own
• feel-good neurotransmitters again, the
  craving
• for sugar and alcohol disappears.
• True peace, joy, optimism and centeredness
• replaces mental and physical fatigue, anxiety,
• depression and nervousness.

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Benefits of Coherence
Coherence Significantly Improves Brain Function

• Increased ability to self-regulate
• 40 improvement in long-term memory
• 24 improvement in short-term memory
• Increased ability to focus
• Increased ability to process information
• Increased reaction times
• Higher test scores
• Improved ability to learn

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Serotonin, Dopamine and Endorphins Created
Naturally Lowering Stress
MEDITATION, HEARTMATH produces optimum
levels. POSITIVE THINKINING raises levels. DEEP
BREATHING is one of the most important
ways. SUNLIGHT bright light increases. EXERCISE
one of the best natural ways. ELIMINATING SUGAR
Sugar creates imbalance. SPENDING QUALITY TIME
with loved ones. SEX is a powerful
producer. LAUGHTER and smiling have a positive
effect on. OMEGA 3 and VITIMIN C increase
levels. EAT SPICY FOODS like chilies', peppers
and jalapenos. EAT fruits, vegetables, lean
protein, nuts and seeds.
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AttitudeEvery thought has a chemical reaction in
your body. Change your mind- change your life
The Brain on Happiness Alert, Energized
Norepinephrine Pleasant feelings
Dopamine Supports parasympathetic arousal A
happy mind Creates resilience Counteracts
depression and anxiety
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Beliefs and Disease

• Dr. Bruce Lipton's research at Stanford University
  found
• 95 of all the diseases is created by stress.
• Wrong beliefs like Im not good enough or
  "Something is wrong with me" cause up to to 95
  of all illness and disease.
• The membrane of the cell is the brain of the
  cell, not the nucleus.
• Our beliefs are stored in the membrane of our
  cells.
• Unless we are fully aware of what we are doing
  and why we are doing it at every moment, we
  are always acting on our unconscious programming
  stored as beliefs in our cells.

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Revolutionary Understanding

• This is revolutionary in understanding how
  thoughts control our lives, and physiology.
• What Dr. Lipton is saying is that cellular
  function is not hard wired by DNA, but influenced
  by stimuli, or thought fields and beliefs.
• The stimuli, or thought forms trigger one of two
  states growth or protection, and a cell cannot
  be in both states simultaneously. Its either
  growing, or its not.
• Negative beliefs and thought patterns can
  eventually produce disease in our bodies and our
  minds.
• The cell will go into protection response
  regardless of whether the thoughts have a basis
  in truth, or not.

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Quantum Psychology Core Beliefs

• Quantum Psychology is based on quantum physics,
  neuroscience, and self
• inquiry practices.
• Approximately 90 of our nervous system is not
  developed at birth.
• Developed through the process of modeling and
  incorporating beliefs, and
• perceptions of care takers.
• Our nervous systems only select a tiny
  percentage of stimuli- roughly
• .000054, of the billions of stimuli we are
  exposed to, as significant.
• Our concept of reality and our experience of who
  we perceive ourselves to
• be is based on this unconscious process of
  abstraction run by our nervous
• system, and is beyond our awareness or
  comprehension.
• The intention of Quantum Psychology is to undo
  the false core beliefs and
• false identity and core beliefs of what and
  who we perceive ourselves to
• be that was created our nervous system and our
  childhood imprinting.

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Object Relations

• Field of psychology refered to as Object
  Relations- an infant believes that he or she is
  one with the mother.  
• Five to twelve months the infant realizes that
  they are separate, which produces a shock- the
  trauma of the realization of separation.
• Quantum Psychology postulates that due to this
  trauma the nervous system- to understand and
  organize this shock- decides that the shock
  occurs for a reason.  
• The conclusion becomes what is called a False
  Core- or the prime concept, belief, that you have
  about yourself around which you organize
  everything you experience in life.

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The False Core and the False Self

• This False-Core Conclusion then masks or hides
  your essential core and acts as a driver for your
  personality.
• Following the creation of a False-Core
  Conclusion, the nervous system produces a
  False-Self Compensator.
• This is an attempt to ensure that the trauma of
  the realization of separation shock never occurs
  again.
• A way to hide, heal and protect itself from the
  pain of the initial trauma.  
• In this way the False-Self Compensator is
  created as a solution to the problem of the
  False-Core Conclusion- which isnt true!
• The following is a list of the most common
  False-Cores and compensatory False-Selves. 

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False-Core Conclusions False-Self
Compensator

• There is something wrong with me.   I
  must be perfect.
• I am worthless.                                  
          I must prove my worth.
• I cannot do.                                     
             I must overdo.
• I am inadequate.                                 
         I must prove I am adequate.
• I do not exist.                                  
             I must prove my existence.
• I am alone.                                      
              I must connect.
• I am incomplete.                                 
          I must become complete.
• I am powerless.                                  
          I must be overly powerful.
• I am unlovable.                                  
            I must be overly loving.
• I am out of control.                             
           I must control the chaos.
• I am crazy.                                      
               I must be sane.
• I am trapped.                                    
              I must get free.
• I am not safe.                                   
               I have to create safety.

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Unraveling the False Core and the False Self
The most useful piece of learning for the uses
of life is to unlearn what is not true.
-Antisthenes 444 - 365 BC.
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Mindfulness and Health and Well Being

• Research studies correlate a direct relationship
  between mindfulness and health and well being.
• Research at the University of Rochester, the
  University of Massachusetts Medical School, and
  the University of Wisconsin.
• Cultivating mindfulness, nonjudgmental present
  moment awareness helped to lower blood pressure,
  reduce the risk of heart disease, boosts the
  immune system and reduced chronic pain and
  emotional reactivity and to create greater health
  and well being.

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Becoming the Observer

• A powerful way of disempowering negative
  thinking is
• to become the observer of your thoughts.
• Simple process of detaching from thoughts and
  
• observing them without judgment.
• Experience that there is the thinker part of you
  and
• then there is a "you" who is the observer.
• Being the observer helps you to stop identifying
  your
• thoughts as who you experience yourself to be,
• Negative thoughts and emotions begin to
  dissipate.
• With practice, this can result in the quieting
  of the
• mind and emotions, and the experience of peace
  and
• expansiveness.

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Becoming the Observer - Present Moment Awareness

• Take 6 long, slow deep breaths. Feel each
  breath anchoring you in the
• present moment.
• Feel a deepening of present moment awareness
  with each step.
• Become the Observer of your thoughts.
• Become aware of the living sensations flowing in
  your body.
• Become aware of your surroundings.
• Adopt an attitude of allowing and accepting flow
  of appreciation.
• Feel a smile emanating from your heart and
  permeating your being.
• Adopt an attitude of forgiveness of self and
  others. Practice forgiveness.

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• From this quiet mind you find
• yourself fully present in the
• moment.
• Not regretting the past or
• worrying about the future.
• In this quiet, peaceful present
• moment, there is a natural
• flow of positive emotions of
• love, joy, and enthusiasm.
• From this place you have the
• capacity to create and enjoy
• your life.

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Finding Truth and Peace Through Observation Where
are You Placing Your Power?

• Observing the words you speak, the thoughts you
  think, the
• emotions you feel, the stories you tell
  yourself.
• Look for situations and thoughts and words where
  you place
• happiness outside yourself, where you blame
  and try to control.
• Become aware of unconscious agreements and
  beliefs you have
• that are creating unhappiness in your life.
• Reframe thoughts, beliefs and stories I am
  creating a story
• about this person or circumstance on why I am
  unhappy.
• It is a lie.

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You can change the way you think and feel by
changing what you say when you talk to the mind.
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Benefits of Humor

•  Gets you out of your head and away from your
  troubles.
• Helps you forget judgments, criticisms, and
  doubts.
• Creates endorphins and helps to balance brain
  chemistry.
• Helps you solve problems, connect with others,
  and be more creative.
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• Helps to shift perspectives in a bad situation,
  finding the irony and
• absurdity of life.
• Eases anxiety, fear, and depression and adds joy
  and zest to life.
• Relieves stress, improves mood and enhances
  resilience.
• Creates a relaxed, positive, creative, joyful,
  and balanced perspective.

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Physical Factors in Mental Well Being

• Dehydration,
• Shallow Breathing,
• Acid ph Balance, 
• Sugar consumption, and
• Lack of exercise
• all contribute to an 
• unbalanced brain
• chemistry and can
• contribute to depression
• and negative thinking

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Emotional Factors in Mental Well Being
Our feelings are a wonderful barometer of our
well being. When we are not caught up
in negative thinking, our feelings remain
positive, and we feel joyful, loving and
peaceful.   When we are feeling fearful, angry,
or depressed it is a sure sign that our thoughts
have become negative and dysfunctional.
  Developing this awareness and making the
decision to eliminate negative thinking can be
dramatically life changing.
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Appreciation and Wonder of
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Beauty
All Around US
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Alter your own brain chemistry With thoughts of
appreciation, gratitude, joy and love.
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Carolee Merrill 949 363 6767 www.gatewaystohealtha
ndwellbeing.com