Primary activities that interfere with adrenal health and your life energy.
- Working too much: Due to insecurity whether it’s boss sponsored or yourself, the end result is you go too hard and long beyond your adrenal’s reserves. Your boss can be asking for too much and you may be a willing participant or not but you still go on. You need to honor your needs. The job or others will not. Its time, to take care of yourself. Now, is an opportunity to learn to recognize when you are approaching your exhaustive boundaries.
- Incongruence: Personal dishonoring. You say no when you mean to say yes and you say yes when you mean no. This can involve work, friends, community and family. This state causes distress and disgust for oneself. It would be beneficial reduce your activity so you can hear yourself think and feel clearly. Subsequently, discern how to follow through on that foundation rather than react.
- Over-indulgence: Excessive occupation with anything such as food, drug, sport, etc. can result in an imbalance where your primary needs are neglected. Sleep can be interrupted if your belly is too full, prevents laying down and raises blood sugar where you remain in a wakeful state. Sports can be practiced or played exceeding body limits where one’s reserve and immunity are broken down. Sports are OK but there needs to be a steady buildup, not an all out blast of epinephrine, to the point of exhaustion. Consider Tai Chi, Qi gong and Yoga which builds energy rather than depletes it.
- Harassment: Whether it’s a personal relationship work relationship or neighbor, this can be very disturbing. When sleepless nights are not unusual then there needs to be some of assessment as to whether the relationship should continue or remedied. Working with a counselor, psychotherapist or Spiritual Life Coach can be very beneficial in resolving this concern.
- Menopause and Andropause: The liver in the body can become excessively warm due to toxicity. The warmth travels up while cold moves down. When liver heat rises, the waves to varying degrees heat up everything up through to the head. At night, the heat causes sweating, keeps us alert, excess thinking, avoidance of deep level (REM) sleep, etc. When you cool the liver with diet and Chinese herbs, this aspect is removed from the equation.
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