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The Uplifting Effect of Endorphins
By Openhand
Contributing Writer Wake Up World
The world is moving through challenging times. Sometimes events and circumstances can get heavy. Whilst processing our stuff is positive, wallowing for too long in negativity can be counterproductive. It can create a downward spiral. So how might we keep our heads above water? How might we balance the ‘playing field’ when we’re processing density? Well one answer is ‘The Endorphin Effect’. Endorphins are chemicals we can produce in our bodies to block negative energy and make us feel positively uplifted and joyful inside. So how do you activate endorphins when needed?…
It’s all a question of choice
Is the glass half full or half empty? In actual fact the glass is always full – its half full of air! Its just an example of choice – how we choose to see things in life and to experience them. We can choose either to attune to the darkness all around us or the light through it.
When we see only the darkness and allow ourselves to become identified with that, here’s when our internal trouble begins – although processing our inner attachments and releasing the pain is good, wallowing in it certainly doesn’t help us move through. If we allow negativity to dominate our experience then internally we reproduce chemicals in the brain which flood our bloodstream, invade our bodily cells and create the feeling of internal stress – yes we’re actually changing our very cell structure to become stress!
But we can prevent this from happening with practice and perseverance. When we process out our attachment and identification with the negative by confronting it ‘head on’, then we can actively soften into the lightness of life, which exists everywhere even in the midst of darkness. Then we begin to release other chemicals from the brain – endorphins – which prevent the invasion of negative energies into our cells. Our cells are pumped full of the sense of joy and love which helps balance the playing field.
(NB: It’s important to note: I’m not encouraging people to avoid processing density and darkness, I’m suggesting ways which can help find the light through it.)
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