Thank you for a great session!
I didn't quite understand, how does mental blocking produce acetylcholine?
My best guess is this happens because our choices cause changes in the body. Like say we let our anger flare up and burn out of control. This corresponds with changes in the nervous system, the cardiovascular system, as well as the endocrine system - just about everything. Our health and mood is really tied closely to our peptides.
Laura
wrote in The Wave:
Elmer Green, a pioneer of biofeedback stated, “Every change in the physiological state is accompanied by an appropriate change in the mental emotional state, conscious or unconscious, and conversely, every change in the mental emotional state, conscious or unconscious, is accompanied by an appropriate change in the physiological state” (Pert 1999, 137).
And it is in this idea that we find a key. If it is true that our physiological state can be manipulated, causing a change in our mental and emotional state, then what we must do is learn to control the emotional and physiological state by conscious will.
So there's a complex system - we take in a situation, and our how we respond to that information makes changes in the body, affecting our balance of peptides. Which also affect our next choices. It can easily be a vicious cycle, with an affront from a petty tyrant causing anger, leading us to lash out, which may be exactly what they want, leading to further provocations, etc.
We could also say that letting the anger get out of control and taking the petty tyrant's bait is an effect of not engaging in mental blocking. There's a number of different terms used for the same self-defense process - non-identifying, self-remembering, mental blocking, etc. As far as I know, the main function of acetylcholine is mental clarity. So my guess is that the practice of maintaining clarity of thought at all times causes changes in the body and probably increases acetylcholine. Makes it easier to notice the tyrant, or the negative thought loop, or whatever it is, and disengage.
What would be psychological means to protect ourselves (if we are not using nicotine)?
There's a thread about mental blocking. It sure takes a lot of practice!
I'm reading the transcripts for the 3d time now and something came across from the following passage: Q: (L) In a previous reading you stated that the Lizzies tried to abduct my eldest daughter and that I "stopped" it. At the time I should have asked, and am asking now: how...
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The other psychological means would be to read lots of psychology books, learn about our weaknesses, our lower tendencies, our triggers, etc., and be watchful for them in our day to day life, and learn to nip them in the bud.