My recovery protocol is constantly evolving. My diet, supplements, exercise regimen, spiritual practice and healing focus, are ever changing, depending on what I feel is most important for restoring my health at a given point in time.
Lately I have been focusing on living with a positive, cheerful state of mind. I have also been focusing more so on manifesting what I want rather than healing what I have … what I don’t want. I have been doing so through daily expressions of gratitude.
That said, here are my daily gratitude expressions:
- Thank you so much for enabling me to live in excellent health
- Thank you so much for enabling me to return my body to homeostasis
- Thank you so much for enabling me to emanate divine love from every aspect of my being
- Thank you so much for enabling me to live my life in cheerful enthusiasm and awe
- Thank you so much for enabling me to live my life in divine trust
- Thank you so much for enabling me to trust and believe in myself
- Thank you so much for enabling me to live each moment of my life in a state of joy, simply for being and doing
I have also been focusing on developing a positive self-image through a technique I have been practicing after reading Wayne Dyer’s, Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life. I look in the mirror and repeat, “You are beautiful.” “You are a beautiful soul.” “You are a beautiful aspect of the Universal-Energetic-Intelligence.” “You are a beautiful participant in the flow of life.”
I believe this practice helps to stimulate the release of dopamine, serotonin, GABA and oxytocin, which is intended to raise my baseline dopamine levels.
I thought this might be a good time to summarize my recent experience and strategy in overcoming anxiety. I’m still in the process, but I have made progress, particularly in my learning and understanding of anxiety and how to overcome it without taking pills [which is always an option].
Seek and ye shall find!
I have been wrestling with the issue of deserving for my entire life. There have been so many occasions when a joyful experience was followed very closely by a painful one! When I was 12 years old, my most exciting athletic accomplishment was followed shortly thereafter by my most painful one. When I was 16 years old, I had the best year of my life in hockey. The following year was my worst. When I was 20, I enjoyed the best baseball game of my life. I got kicked out of the next game in the first inning!
Let me begin by saying, even though I’m writing a post about anxiety, I thankfully, do not experience a lot of it. The situations that cause me to experience anxiety include speaking in front of a crowd, packing for a trip or being late for something. These situations are infrequent.
Highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive 
A few weeks ago I started waking up in the middle of the night feeling a bit panicky. It was due to some tightness in my throat [causing me to want to swallow repeatedly] and my tongue sticking to the top of my mouth. It was making think I might suffocate. I knew it was nothing serious [I wasn’t going to suffocate], but still, it was really starting to play on my mind… freak me out! I think it was triggered by the medical marijuana I was taking, because I was also feeling a lot of emotional upheaval during the day. I was getting to the point where I was scared to go to bed. I was doing everything I could to make the feeling go away, but it wasn’t working!
You can recover from PD!
As a follow-up to my 
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