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Love And Affection: How It helps People To Bond Emotionally
Love And Affection Help Us To Bond Emotionally. To be affectionate, you also have to be intentional. Most couples lose the ‘spark,’ and the relationship becomes cold and dull. Familiarity sets in. Women are auditory, and men are visual. Words and actions are important when it comes to showing affection. Affection helps people in all types of relationships bond. Our relationship with our parents growing up, especially between a father and a child, is supposed to be affectionate. A father’s affection toward a child greatly and positively impacts the child’s psychological development. Other Types Of Affectionate Relationships Our relationship with God Parent-child relationship Romantic relationship Friendships Interpersonal relationships What Is…
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The Brain Chemicals That Make You Happy
God has blessed us with chemicals in our body that aids in our physiology. Throughout the body, various types of hormones and chemicals contribute to our body’s functions and processes. Examples include Estrogen found in the female reproductive system, Cortisol helps to control stress, and Melatonin helps with our sleep cycle. Knowing the brain chemicals and hormones responsible for healthy mental and emotional well-being is imperative regarding our psychological health. How Our Upbringing Induces Certain Chemicals And Hormones It all starts in childhood and how our upbringing contributes to our psychological health. The father-child relationship is significant, and the more positive the relationship, the healthy a child will grow up and become. During…
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10 Ways To Nourish Your Soul (Mind)
We are a soul in a body, and our soul was created to give Love and to receive Love, and because we are created in the image of God, we know that God is Love. God created us so we can thrive in an atmosphere of Love and affection; the absence of affection may be detrimental to a person’s soul. For instance, a person brought up in a toxic environment may grow up to have mental health and emotional issues such as anxiety, depression, insecurity, and anger. This reason is why God gave us guidance on how to raise children. Ephesians 6:4 AMP says – Fathers, do not provoke your children…
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How Brain Development Affects Emotional Development
What makes us who we are? It is our self-esteem, personality, and self-worth. Of course, we may characterize all that as who John or Mary Is. But with that, we also are born with innate personality traits, such as a person who is introverted or extroverted. How about a person who has anxiety or insecurity or a person who has depression? Are those innate personalities, or does our environment have something to do with it? Hopefully, this blog post will shed light on how we develop emotionally. The Human Brain And Its Compartments (What makes Us) Which Part Of The Brain Houses Our Self-esteem, Emotions, And Motivations How Do Traumatic Experiences…
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How To Overcome Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Obsessive and compulsive behavior happens when a person obsesses over a particular thing or exhibits a compulsive behavior about something (usually with an unhealthy fear at the root of the behavior). This disorder may typically happen when a person out of fear believes something terrible may happen to them or the people close to them when they don’t keep certain rituals. So to maintain safety, they may be compelled to keep specific actions obsessively. For example, continually washing their hands or compulsively keeping a specific ritual/activity. This disorder may also highlight superstitious behavior, which may worsen OCD. OCD starts with trauma, and then fear sets in, and Fear causes…
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How To Overcome Codependency And Separation Anxiety
Codependency is the body/mind unconsciously seeking affection. This seeking of emotional fulfillment may come in the form of being dependent on a significant other for our emotional needs, being dependent on our work, and it may also lead to addictions. What Causes Codependency Issues? A person may become codependent because they may have been brought up in a home where affection was missing (the parents were emotionally detached), causing the absence of Oxytocin in their brain development, an essential chemical for bonding and regulating emotional responses. A person may begin to work on themselves by nurturing their soul and creating an environment that will stimulate the ‘happy chemicals’ Oxytocin and Serotonin through sensory stimulation…
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How To Prevent Mental And Emotional Health Issues In Our Next Generation
How can we prevent the next generation from living with mental and emotional health issues? Is that possible? Yes!! The next generation can be healthy mentally and emotionally. Still, it will take a committed group effort from everyone, from parents to educators to the healthcare industry, to make this happen. Characteristics Of A Person Living In A Healthy Mental And Emotional State What Are The Steps To Nurturing A Healthy Next Generation It all starts at home, and the responsibility, first and foremost, falls on the parents. At LNJ Life Coaching, we are creating awareness regarding parent-child bonding and its importance for the child’s healthy psychological development. Secondly, parents, educators, and caregivers…
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How To Overcome Unhealthy Fear And Live With A Sound Mind
The Fight Or Flight Response Adrenaline and Cortisol are important hormones because they help the body protect itself from danger. These hormones are commonly known as ‘the fight or flight response’. They work like this; when you are faced with a frightening moment, your first response may be to fight or run away. These hormones help us to decide what to do and what happens is that our adrenaline shoots up and puts us in survival mode to protect us from danger. In this respect, fear can be a good emotion because it helps us to make a safe and decisive decision. But fear can become unhealthy when our Adrenaline…
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A Christian’s Perspective On Mental Ill-Health
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10 NIV) The enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I hear in the news of many people committing suicide, from pastors to young children, which is not supposed to happen. Mental health illness is real, and it is not a respecter for persons. Anyone can suffer from mental ill-health. Often, people suffer from mental ill-health in silence, and they don’t reach out to anyone out of shame in most cases. What Is Mental Ill-Health? Mental ill-health issues affect a person’s thinking, feeling, behavior, and…
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Staying Strong Amid The Covid-19 Pandemic
As we all know, the past year has been tough on every one of us. The pandemic has caused severe damage to our society and personal lives. I want to take this opportunity to extend my sympathy to anyone who has lost a loved one to this pandemic. I also want to encourage people to continue to take care of themselves, wear a mask, and abide by the social distancing guidelines. You might save a life with your precaution. The pandemic has not only affected our society, but it has affected us personally, and also it has had a great deal of damage to our mental health. Studies show that suicides have been…
