How addiction changes your brain
Drugs Control Addict’s Mind!
Ruling the mind! This is why the world is over-populated with drug addicts. The body’s craving forces the mind to command the body to commit crimes of violence so that it may satisfy it with the drugs it craves. This is why the world is becoming crime riddled by drug addicts.
We maintain most of our bad habits simply because our minds are enslaved by our bodies. This applies also to alcohol, tea, coffee and other stimulants. The body rules by the false philosophy of Eat drink and are merry, for tomorrow we die. This is false. You don’t die tomorrow, but if you continue to live by this wrong philosophy, 5, 10, 20 years later you will be burdened with a sick, prematurely aged body tormenting you daily!
Bob Schuller’s Hour of Power Worldwide TV Sermon – Nov. 4, 2000 was based on Patricia’s words of wisdom at the top of this page.
Doctor Deep Breathing
When You Breathe Deeply and Fully You Live Healthier and Longer
When you pump a generous flow of oxygen into your body, every cell becomes more alive! This enables the four main motors of your body – the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys – to operate and perform better. Your miracle-working bloodstream purifies and cleanses every part of the body, including itself. This eliminates toxic wastes as Mother Nature planned, and fuel (food) and vital oxygen are carried to every cell in your body.
With ample oxygen your muscles, tendons, and joints function more smoothly. Your skin becomes firmer and more resilient and your complexion clearer and glowing. You will radiate with greater health and well-being!
Breathing your brain becomes more alert and your nervous system functions better. You become free from tension and strain because you can easily take the stresses and pressures of daily living. Your emotions come under control. You feel joyous and exuberant. If negative emotions such as anger, hate, jealousy, greed, or fear intrude, you can expel them by positive thinking and slow, concentrated deep breathing.
The deep breather enjoys more peace of mind, tranquility, and serenity. In
Oxygen is the vital, precious, invisible staff of life. – Paul C. Bragg
On an average day your lungs move enough air in and out to fill a medium-sized room or blow up several thousand party balloons.
Super Deep Breathing Improves Brain Power
The person who breathes deeply and fully thinks more clearly and sharply. Oxygen stimulates your brain and logic and intelligence. The more deeply and fully you breathe, the greater your power of concentration and the more your creative mind asserts itself. You will also develop greater extrasensory perception within your body, especially the brain. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
Enjoy high energy vibration living! The more fully and deeply you breathe, the further you will travel to higher levels on the physical, mental, and spiritual planes. Now close your eyes. Relax a few minutes while doing some slow, deep breathing!
The Lungs Are Nature’s Miracle Breathers
Every animal extracts oxygen from the environment in which it lives. Through their gills, fish extract oxygen from water. Insects get oxygen from the air through alveoli, or air cells, in individual openings set in segments of their bodies.
Vertebrate animals, including the human race, have those miracle mechanisms – the lungs. The mechanical equivalent would be a pair of bellows, though the lungs are far more intricate and adaptable. Human lungs are a miracle pair of conical-shaped organs composed of spongy, porous tissue. They occupy the thoracic cavity (chest) with the heart in the center, and are protected by the amazingly strong and resilient rib cage. The apex of each lung reaches just above the collar bone; the base extends to the waistline.
What makes up our lungs? About 800 million alveoli – air cells or sacs of elastic tissue – which can expand or contract like tiny balloons. If these little air sacs were flattened out and laid side by side, the flattened alveoli would cover an area of 100 square yards!
Tiny capillaries (blood vessels) thread the elastic lung walls of each of the millions of air sacs . . . and it is through these that the blood passes to discharge its load of poisonous carbon dioxide and absorb the vital, life-giving oxygen. The average person has five to six quarts of blood, which must be cleansed continually.
Air inhaled through the nose and mouth reaches the alveoli through an intricate system of tubes, beginning with the large trachea, or windpipe, which is kept rigid by rings of cartilage in its walls. The trachea extends through the neck into the chest, where it divides into two branches (bronchi), each leading into a lung cavity. Each bronchus divides into a number of successively smaller branches to bring air to every air sac.
You Have Lungs – Fill Them Up
Each lung sits perfectly enveloped in a protective elastic membrane, the pleura, whose inner layer is attached to the lung, and its outer layer forms the lining of the thoracic cavity inside the rib cage. One end of each rib is attached to the spinal column, but the front of the rib cage is open. This allows the lungs to expand and contract. When you breathe deeply, filling every air sac, your thoracic cavity expands as your lungs fill with six to ten pints of air. This varies according to body build and size. Lungs occupy from 200 to over 300 cubic inches.
This marvelous breathing mechanism is yours for free! You are born with it. It functions without conscious effort, yet without it, you can’t exist. Not even the latest inventions used by hospitals in emergencies, however ingenious, can equal the human breathing apparatus. Perhaps if human beings had to pay a fabulous price for their lungs and air, they would use them to full capacity all the time. Think of the big price you pay for only using them partially by shallow breathing. Remember, we are always only one breath away from death! Now, start enjoying slow, deep relaxed breathing and feel how your body responds.
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