Resolution or Intention?

Ok so it’s that time of year where we start thinking about change in January…. and the whole new year… new you band wagon...

It’s often a period of reflections, growth and change. And, after this last year, intentions may be the better route to take.

✿.｡.:* ☆:**:. Have you resolved to change something for your new you? .:**:.☆*.:｡.✿

I haven’t... but I’ll explain shortly. There nothing wrong with wanting to change something... but resolutions also place lots of pressure on us, especially if it’s something big and/ or really important to us.

We’ve all been there though and fallen off the wagon. So how do you feel? I mean, you skip a gym session, you eat a packet of hob nobs, you sprain an ankle and can’t do your daily runs? Pretty crappy, right?

⭐️ Well there is no need to feel this way... and here’s why…

A resolution is something that can often make us feel like we haven’t achieved what we set out to do and we have failed at something. Can be pretty discouraging and disheartening, there’s that crappy feeling.

⭐️ So here’s what I do instead of resolutions I put out intentions! Yep I put them right out there in public, into the door inverse and feel all the feels.

⭐️ So why don’t choose intentions over resolutions? An intention, is where you are a little kinder to yourself, so if you miss gym session, it’s ok, you just pick up where you left off. It’s not the end of the world. You still have the same motivation, but if you mess up, you just simply start again. Sound better? Let’s face it life happens when we are just making plans... so we have to adjust and adapt!

⭐️ Remember goals are not set in stone- there needs to be wiggle room and flexibility... so long as you’re trying your best, who could ask for more? 

⭐️ How many times have you thought, if I could just do/ have/ be this one thing my life will be so much better? Think back... was it actually better when you got there? More often than not, it hasn't made a difference to bettering your life, or you have already moved onto the next thing!

⭐️ So I recommend putting your intentions out there... and intend rather than resolve to accomplish your targets!

⭐️ So in 2021, the start of a new decade, here are my 5 recommendations to help you implement positive intentions, be kinder to yourself and love the process and journey to reaching your targets and not just getting to the end result.

1️⃣️- ᕼᗩᐯE ᔕOᗰETᕼIᑎG TO ᗩIᗰ ᖴOᖇ- TᕼIᑎK ᗩᗷOᑌT ᔕOᗰETᕼIᑎG TᕼᗩT YOᑌ’ᗪ ᒪIKE TO ᗩᑕᑕOᗰᑭᒪIᔕᕼ. 

2️⃣️- Iᖴ ᒪIᖴE ᕼᗩᑭᑭEᑎᔕ, TᕼEᑎ ᗪOᑎ’T ᗷEᗩT YOᑌᖇᔕEᒪᖴ ᑌᑭ- ᔕTOᑭ ᗩᑎᗪ ᔕTᗩᖇT ᗩGᗩIᑎ ᗯᕼEᖇE YOᑌ ᒪEᖴT Oᖴᖴ, ᗩᑎᗪ ᑕOᑎTIᑎᑌE ᗯITᕼ YOᑌᖇ IᑎTEᑎTIOᑎᔕ. 

3️⃣️- TᗩKE ᗩ ᔕTEᑭ ᗷᗩᑕK- Iᖴ IT’ᔕ ᑎOT ‘ᒪIᖴE Oᖇ ᗪEᗩTᕼ’ Iᔕ IT ᗯOᖇTᕼ ᗷEIᑎG ᑌᑭᔕET? ᒪET IT GO, ᗩᑎᗪ ᗰOᐯE Oᑎ. 

4️⃣️- ᗷE KIᑎᗪEᖇ TO YOᑌᖇᔕEᒪᖴ- ᔕTOᑭ ᗯITᕼ TᕼE ᑎEGᗩTIᐯE ᔕEᒪᖴ TᗩᒪK- YOᑌ ᗩᖇE ᗩᗯEᔕOᗰE, YOᑌᖇ ᑕEᒪᒪᔕ ᒪIᔕTEᑎ ᗩᑎᗪ ᖇEᔕOᑎᗩTE- ᔕO TEᒪᒪ YOᑌᖇᔕEᒪᖴ ᗩ ᑭOᔕITIᐯE ᔕTOᖇY! 

5️⃣️- ᗩᑎᗪ ᔕO ᗯᕼᗩT Iᖴ YOᑌ ᗪOᑎ’T GET TO TᕼE Eᑎᗪ ᖇEᔕᑌᒪT- YOᑌ ᗰᗩY ᒍᑌᔕT ᕼᗩᐯE ᗩᑕᕼIEᐯEᗪ ᔕOᗰETᕼIᑎG ᗷETTEᖇ ᗩᒪOᑎG TᕼE ᗯᗩY!

⭐️ Hybrid Therapy UK wishes you all a fabulous new year and hope that you have your intentions set for 2021 💜

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Resolution versus intention

Tuesday morning thoughts…

Frequencies are everything.

Everything is frequencies.

Things we encounter daily affect our vibrational frequency.

We are vibrant beings- notice how when we are vibrating at a higher resonance how awesome we feel!

Frequencies influence is in more ways than you realise.

Every thought we have emits a frequency out into the universe. This creates resonance. And every frequency returns to source. So essentially what we think about, we bring about- so every thought we put out there comes back to us. 

We are highly influenced by the people around us- via their energy field. Did you know you have an every field that extends outwards around 2m? Well this affects us. We have energy radiators and energy drains- think about how you feel when around people in your life. When you are around those vibrating at a lower resonance you can feel drained of energy and not able to reach your potential.

Words matter, particularly when they’re in the form of lyrics in music. Consider what you listen to, as this has a direct impact upon what you attract. Also the frequency of the music- as in the rpm, amplitude, volume also directly affects cellular resonance and your own frequency vibration.

Visual stimulation via the things we see/ watch programmes the brain- we become accepting of what we see... it can become reality. Look and watch things that enhance your mood and help you vibrate at a higher frequency.

Your environment affects your mood- surrounding yourself with disorganised, cluttered, dirty workspaces will lower your vibration and your mood. So tidy up and get organised. It’s amazing how much better you feel after a spring clean! 

Be mindful of what you say. Speaking badly, blaming, complaining and moaning becomes a habit and lowers your vibration. Start the day with a positive word and make this a habit. We get to choose what we say. 

Attitude of gratitude... being grateful influenced our vibration... sometimes it may feel difficult to find things to be grateful for, but when we flip our perspective, we often find there is much to be grateful for. Start being thankful for things and open the door to higher vibrations and positive things happening. 

What we think about we feel, what we feel we attract.

Thoughts are electric.

Emotions are magnetic.

Be the kind of magnet you want to be

💜

Free radicals man!

So what is a free radical?

We think of free radicals as the waste products from chemical reactions that take place in the body, when the body doesn’t possess the resources to deal with them they can build up in the body. They become a concern when there are too many as they can cause damage to lipid (fat) structures, protein structures and can also alter our DNA molecules.

How are they produced?

Now this is a bit sciencey… during our metabolism, electrons and hydrogens are transferred from coenzymes to oxygen within the electron transport chain. The end result of this is H2O, but along the way, free radicals are produced.

During this process, sometimes oxygen can gain an electron, this generates a free radical called a superoxide, which has an unpaired electron (electrons are unstable when they are unpaired- they don’t like it). The superoxide can gain another electron form the ETC- this will react with 2 hydrogen ions to form hydrogen peroxide- this can then react with an electron forming a hydroxyl radical (another unpaired electron).

How is damage caused?

Hydroxl radicals are very reactive! They do not like to be unpaired and so they scavenge, to find another electron. However, they are indiscriminate and can take electrons from healthy cells, such as lipids in cell membranes, this damages the cell and can lead to degeneration or disease. When a hydroxyl radical takes a hydrogen atom from a lipid, like a polyunsaturated fatty acids, it produces a lipid radical and water. This lipid radical is then free to react with oxygen to form another lipid radical, removing hydrogens from other lipids and forming free radicals- a chain reaction. This chain reaction and damage links to ageing  disease, DOMS and influences recovery after exercise.

The immune system

When exercise is heavy, intense and overly stressful, the immune system is suppressed. Injury to muscle cells occurs from training and pro-inflammatory cytokines, anti-inflammatory cytokines and cortisol levels increase. (Cytokines are proteins produced by cells and interact with the immune system to regulate the body’s response to diseases/ infection by altering cellular behaviour). 

Cytokines

Pro-inflammatory cytokines stimulate neutrophils and monocytes to the site of damaged tissue. They are often produced in response to local injury.

The production of IL6 levels in the blood increases in response to the perceived threat (injury) but is counterbalanced by the release of cytokine inhibitors (IL1ra and TNF-R) and the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL10. These inhibit the  duration of the inflammatory response.

Antioxidants

The production of free radicals has already been briefly described, with the most common being; Superoxide radicals, Hydrogen Peroxide, Lipid radicals, Nitric oxide, Singlet oxygen  (closely associated with the oxidation of LDL), Hydroxyl radicals (HO• – A superoxide combined with nitric oxide)

Free radicals may damage cell membranes through lipoperoxidation and damage DNA.

The body has a defence system to combat this, the antioxidant system, which naturally up-regulates in response to a stressor. The main ones are;

  • Enzymes-  Catalase (CAT), Superoxide dismutase (SOD), Glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and Glutathione reductase.

  • Non-enzymatic- Vitamins A, E, and C, Glutathione, Ubiquinone and Flavonoids – quercetin, resveratrol

  • Trace elements- Selenium, Copper, Zinc, Manganese, Uric acid, Albumin, Ferritin and Bilirubin

An imbalance occurs when these defences is outweighed by the production of free radicals, the body is then undergoing “oxidative stress”. This can be due to an increase in free radical production, a decrease in antioxidant levels or a combination of both. 

If you would like to know more about oxidative stress, then please contact me, there are some sneaky signs and symptoms that may give an indication to this.

Heal from within

Heal from within

So I got to thinking, that I might share some of the things that I do, and that I advocate and recommend, that you can try to have a POSITIVE impact on your life and to sustain HEALTH.

This is how I support my health and my immune system.

Essentially, anything you can do to work towards treating your self well, will help you become your best self, even during this challenging time.

Pay attention

Pay attention

Holistic health and wellness looks at the whole person... I try to cover everything with my clients. In fact you could probably say that in addition to the hands on therapies I practice that most of the work goes on away from the treatment session in between treatments- after all we heal ourselves from within, I am merely a facilitator 💜

Hormone health

Women’s hormone health is key.
What I have found affects this more than anything else is lifestyle and environmental factors, that are mostly modifiable.

Chronic stress literally affects us at a cellular level, this affects all of our body systems- everything is connected.

Your endocrine system works in multiple areas of the body and depending on the info it receives, it dictates what hormones and the quantities that are released. This can screw with your hormone levels that affect everything from your mood to your weight!
Once the hormones get screwed up it’s often a perpetual cycle of shitty symptoms and poor medical care!

I’ve been in this cycle, I couldn’t see it at the time, but in retrospect all the signs were there. If I hadn’t found ANF I’d be really ill right now!

Like anything, treatment is a process, I have had chronic stress for decades- from being bullied as a child, to being an athlete that was hospitalised, crappy relationships, to a long career in a toxic environment... but to me this was normal, because it was my life!

I’m a pure example of what 25+ years worth of pain and symptoms becoming ‘normal’ life were! Yes I know hard to believe I’m that old 😂

I knew nothing about poor lighting- blue light from the tech I was using affecting my health.
I knew nothing about how stress is stress and the body doesn’t recognise the source just that there is stress and deals with it the same.
I thought hammering myself in the gym was helping me, not adding to my dysfunction.
I thought that climbing the career ladder, that stress and lack of sleep and working harder was necessary.
All of this was BS!

I am not mostly recovered- I had chronic CNS stress and inflammation for years, it’s a process and healing is happening.

What I can say is this...
After having ‘hormonal trouble’ since age 14 and being prescribed the pill for my symptoms!!!! Since my PCOS diagnosis in my 20’s, I’ve had zero conventional treatment as doctors go to is the combined pill or progesterone only pill for symptom relief, they don’t have a clue about causality! And neither did I.. until my late 30’s!!!!

I’ve had no pain medication in a long while- almost 2 years, and I used to chew naproxen like sweets.

Know there is a better way.

Just because pain is common, doesn’t mean it’s normal 💜