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Why Do Emotional Stressors Trigger a Fight/Flight Response?
In my previous post, I shared a group of animated AI images that show a girl who is going through a regular day of school. She is living on the Squiggle of Life and is able to resolve the emotional stressors she experienced. One of those stressors was having to give a speech in front…
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Animated AI Images of Emotional Threats that can Trigger a State-change into Defensive Modes
In my previous post, I shared a group of images I made with the WordPress AI image generator that showed a stick figure successfully escaping a physical threat. A tiger was chasing the stick figure, the stick figure hid behind a tree until the tiger was gone, and then the stick figure ran to safety.…
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Animated AI Images for Fight/Flight Freeze, the Squiggle of Trauma and the Squiggle of Life, and resolving a physical threat of being chased by a tiger by successfully escaping
I want to pick up where I left off in my previous post about the Polyvagal Theory that had 3 pictures in it for Safety, Fight/Flight, and Freeze. Those pictures helped me see that what is going on is an interaction between your nervous system and your environment…when your nervous system senses something that signals…
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Polyvagal Theory: Images for Fight/Flight, Freeze, and an Overwrought Nervous System
The other day I was drawing a chart to try and get clarity about what it means to go from the Squiggle of Trauma to the Squiggle of Life. I also read this article: “The polyvagal theory: New insights into adaptive reactions of the autonomic nervous system” by Stephen Porges and something clicked with me…
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Learning about what the freeze state is and how to get out of it; Polyvagal Chart
(This is an AI generated image that I will explain at the end of this post.) I had a breakthrough this week about being able to see what the freeze state is and how to get out of it. I have written about how I am stuck in a state of immobility. This is a…
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Prayer Request
I wanted to let you know that my Uncle Harold passed away on July 8th. He had been having health problems in recent years and then he fell earlier this year. He was not doing well, so we were preparing ourselves for him to pass away but we were hoping he was going to have…
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Notes on Chapter 2 of Kept for the Master’s Use by Frances Havergal; Imagery of our moments as diamonds
It really helped to write out a prayer in my last post, so I will try to keep including prayers. As I was meditating on what we talked about in my last post and praying for glimpses of Jesus, God reminded me of something I had read in Frances Havergal’s book Kept for the Master’s…
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Quote from G. Campbell Morgan’s sermon “The Burning of Heart”; Imagery of a flame of love to God
I was looking through G. Campbell Morgan sermons recently and saw one entitled “The Burning of Heart.” I am still having trouble with this flare-up of acid reflux, or heartburn, so the title caught my eye. It reminded me that there is a good kind of burning of heart – when your heart is aflame…
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Part 4 of Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s Sermon “The Cross the Proof;” Imagery of God’s love as an artesian well; Imagery of our sin as a mountain-wall; The cross is the present proof of eternal love
“God loves by what I may venture to call the very necessity of His nature.” – Alexander MacLaren I will pick up today where we left off in Part 3 of Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s Sermon “The Cross the Proof” – Learning to Live by Faith. Here is a link to the full sermon: The…
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Part 3 of Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s Sermon “The Cross the Proof”
I will pick up today where we left off in Part 2 of Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s sermon “The Cross the Proof” – Learning to Live by Faith. Here is a link to the full sermon: The Cross the Proof by Alexander Maclaren | SermonIndex The Death That Does Prove the Love MacLaren says that…
