Postpartum psychosis: research reveals full recovery possible within weeks

Sarah West says in the days after the birth of her son in 2012, she felt the emotions many new mothers describe – a mixture of joy combined with anxiety about breastfeeding and whether she was doing everything right.

But around one week after the birth, West’s new-mum anxiety went into overdrive. Despite the exhaustion that comes with being a new parent, she was unable to sleep when her baby slept. Her thoughts raced.

Her doctor diagnosed her with postpartum depression and prescribed West antidepressants. But her symptoms worsened and she began experiencing delusions and hallucinations.

She was experiencing postpartum psychosis, a severe, rare and little-understood condition that can place both mothers and their children in serious danger. It is markedly different to postpartum depression, because mothers experience symptoms such as loss of reality, delusions and hallucinations. This can be accompanied by either mania or depression.

The temporary condition is debilitating, yet research into it is scarce, especially in Australia.

But new research being presented at the annual congress of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists on Thursday found that if properly recognised and treated, women experiencing postpartum psychosis could make a full recovery within weeks and successfully bond with and care for their babies at home.

This is critical because left untreated or misdiagnosed, the consequences of postpartum psychosis can be fatal. In a small number of cases mothers may harm or kill themselves or their baby due the condition, which is beyond their control. The condition nearly always requires hospitalisation to protect the mother and her baby.

The study examined women admitted with postpartum psychosis to a mother-baby unit, Helen Mayo House, in South Australia, over a five-year period from 2012 to 2016.

It found the women often required one-on-one nursing care, and all patients received antipsychotic medication. A few also required lithium, a mood stabiliser.

This treatment saw almost all of the women make a complete recovery and able to return home to care for their babies after an average stay of four weeks, similar to the average stay for other mental health conditions. A key finding was the treatment saw 77% of the women still breastfeeding at the time of their discharge.

West received treatment after a friend told her she was not behaving like her usual self and called the National Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Helpline [Panda]. They advised that West should be taken to hospital immediately for psychiatric care, and West is now a strong advocate for the helpline.

After a four-week hospital stay which included being taken off antidepressants and prescribed antipsychotics, and visits from her baby for bonding, West was able to return home and care for her baby.

Her time in hospital and her period of postpartum psychosis remains a blur, and West says she is still not ready for her family to fill in the gaps for her.

“People can mistakenly describe what women like me go through as ‘baby blues’ or ‘depression’, but I was definitely not depressed,” West says.

“My anxiety went into overdrive, I was experiencing delusions and hallucinations, and really irrational thinking. But so few people know about the condition, and my obstetrician said I was only the second case of postpartum psychosis he had ever seen.

“I think all of the gaps in my memory is my body’s way of protecting me.”

As well as taking medication, West made changes to her lifestyle and learned to recognise when she needed time to de-stress. She has fully recovered and she and her son are now doing well. But West is still fearful of reactions when she shares her story, given the lack of understanding and empathy from some towards mothers who experience the condition.

Postpartum psychosis occurs in about one to two of every 1,000 births, and there is a 50% chance of recurrence in subsequent pregnancies. West wants other women who have experienced it to know there is support and treatment available. She also wants people around new mothers, including healthcare professionals, to be more aware of the symptoms so they can make an accurate diagnosis.

“I know women who are so traumatised from experiencing this that they won’t have another child because they’re terrified,” West says.

“I have to speak up because I don’t like the thought of other families going through what we did. This has to change and to do that we need better recognition of the condition.”

Dr Rebecca Hill from the Women’s and Children’s Health Network in Adelaide led the Helen Mayo House study, and says she believes a key part of the treatment of her patients’ was that the unit accommodated both mothers and their babies.

“While we didn’t specifically study this, my intuition is that it’s better for the mother and the baby to avoid separation because the attachment relationship is vulnerable to trauma when separation occurs,” Hill says.

“It’s distressing to think some mothers may be separated from their babies longer than necessary because they could not access proper treatment. Even a few days’ delay in treatment can expose them to substantial risk.”

But not all states have mother-baby units. In New South Wales for example, there is only one mother-baby unit, and it is only available to private hospital patients who are admitted to hospital voluntarily. Most patients Hill sees with postpartum psychosis are involuntarily admitted, and even Helen Mayo House only has six mother-baby beds.

West, who lives in NSW, agrees more mother-baby units are needed. She believes they may be able to help mothers with bonding and would see women receive more specialised treatment from clinicians familiar with the condition. She says general mental health wards cannot always provide the specialised care postpartum psychosis patients require.

The president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Professor Malcolm Hopwood, says the study shows the importance of identification and early intervention for women with postpartum psychosis.

“The good news for these women is that with the right care they can bond with their babies and care for them like any other new mother,” he says.

Hill says the causes of postpartum psychosis are unknown, with most of those experiencing it having never shown psychiatric symptoms before. It usually presents within the first six weeks after birth. Some research is under way into genetic causes, but this is in its early stages. An accurate diagnosis also means early intervention and monitoring measures can be put in place for any subsequent pregnancies, Hill says.

“For the vast majority of women they will only have susceptibility to this at the postpartum period,” Hill says. “Something at this time makes them exquisitely vulnerable. But the key is that once postpartum psychosis is identified, it is so, so treatable.”

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Postpartum psychosis: research reveals full recovery possible within weeks

Hospitals "dangerously full" during winter crisis, says thinktank

Hospitals were dangerously full during the recent onset of the winter crisis and breached an edict from NHS bosses to keep one in seven beds free, a new King’s Fund analysis reveals.

England’s 153 acute hospital trusts were told by the health service regulator on 9 December to run at no more than 85% bed occupancy between 19 December and 16 January, the internationally recognised level that hospitals are meant to stick to in order to minimise the risk of potentially deadly infections and to maintain the capacity to deal with emergencies.

Hospitals only managed to meet the target for three days over that period and were running at far higher levels of bed occupancy, often exceeding 95%, the King’s Fund found. Occupancy only dipped below 90% on four days since mid-December, it added.

“Bed occupancy rates above 85% increase the chances of bed shortages and the risk of infection. The fact that hospitals have missed the 85% objective by such a significant amount is further evidence of the huge pressure facing hospitals,” said Richard Murray, the thinktank’s director of policy who undertook the analysis.

The NHS entered the winter period with bed occupancy rates already high by historic standards, given that they were at 87.5% in the normally “quiet” second quarter of 2016/17. “The NHS did indeed achieve occupancy rates below 85%, but only on 23–25 December, when bed occupancy often falls as hospitals discharge as many patients as they can for Christmas, ”said Murray’s analysis.

“However, whatever spare capacity the NHS managed to create was quickly eaten up. As a consequence, it should come as no surprise that early January was an exceptionally difficult time as occupancy rates rose quickly above the 95% mark, although they do appear to have eased somewhat since then.”

Hospitals were operating at close to capacity even though flu, the winter vomiting bug norovirus and extreme, snowy weather, which oridnally might make it more difficult for hospitals to cope, did not cause significant problems. But the fact that unprecedented numbers of trusts were forced to declare an alert in the early weeks of January underlined that hospitals have come under unprecedented strain in recent weeks, Murray said.

His analysis, posted on the King’s Fund website, adds: “So with the relative (to date) absence of flu, norovirus and snow drifts, where does the explanation lie? Almost certainly in the clash between the steady, year-on-year increase in demand for NHS services and the ongoing need to constrain expenditure and capacity in healthcare as a result of funding pressures. Cuts in social care have added to this mix by pushing up delayed transfers of care, and may also have contributed to rising numbers of older, frail people arriving at hospital needing admission.”

Between now and the end of this winter, Murray warned: “We need to hope that no unpleasant shocks occur in terms of winter bugs or weather, because on current reckoning the NHS has precious little in the way of excess capacity to absorb them.”

Meanwhile, overcrowding has led two hospitals in Cumbria to breach NHS-wide rules that say male and female patients should not be treated on the same ward.

The North-West Evening Mail reported: “The trust in charge of Barrow’s Furness general hospital recorded 18 breaches of NHS standards on mixed sex wards in December. Of these, eight took place at FGH while the remaining 10 were at FGH’s sister hospital, the Royal Lancaster infirmary.

“Hospital bosses have confirmed the incidents were the result of an acute beds shortage at both sites which prevented patients on critical care wards from being transferred to a medical ward as they recovered.

“Critical care wards can accommodate both male and female patients, but a number were forced to remain in critical care beds for longer than necessary because there were no other places available for them in the hospital.”

The boss of the hospital trust featured in the ongoing BBC series Hospital has unexpectedly resigned after less than three years in the job. Dr Tracey Batten quit on Thursday as chief executive of Imperial College healthcare NHS trust, which runs five hospitals in central and west London. They include St Mary’s, where much of the filming for the series has taken place. The show has won widespread acclaim for its vivid portrayal of the acute pressures facing the NHS.

Hospitals "dangerously full" during winter crisis, says thinktank

Full uptake of cervical cancer screening could save hundreds of lives

Hundreds more women’s lives could be saved every year if every woman invited to come for NHS cervical cancer screening turned up at their appointment, experts in the disease have revealed.

New research has found that screening for cervical cancer is so effective that it prevents an estimated 1,827 deaths a year from it in England alone.

However, if all women aged between 25 and 64 who were invited for screening attended, an extra 347 deaths a year there – almost half the 2014 total of 726 in England – could be avoided, researchers said.

The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, is the first of its kind to establish the impact that screening has had on deaths from the disease by examining screening information from women who have been diagnosed with it.

“Thousands of women in the UK are alive and healthy today thanks to cervical screening,” said Prof Peter Sasieni, the lead researcher, who is based at Queen Mary University of London.

“The cervical screening programme already prevents thousands of cancers each year and as it continues to improve, by testing all samples for the human papilloma virus, even more women are likely to avoid this disease,” he added.

Sasieni and his team reached their conclusions after studying the records of more than 11,000 women in England who had been diagnosed with the disease.

Women aged 50 to 64 who come for screening, usually at a GP’s surgery, benefit the most. There would be five times more women of that age dying from cervical cancer if screening did not exist.

Screening for cervical cancer was introduced across the UK in 1988. Women aged 25-49 are invited to come every three years and those aged 50 to 64 every five years, though in Scotland it is offered to females aged between 20 and 60.

But there is concern that the falling numbers of women attending screening appointments may leave some at risk. Overall, between 70% and 73% of all eligible women turn up and the numbers have been falling since the surge in attendance sparked by the death of the reality-TV star Jade Goody from the disease in 2009.

Dr Anne Mackie, Public Health England’s director of screening, said: “It is of concern that a smaller proportion of women are being screened. This is particularly evident in younger women, with 63.5% of women under 30 being screened every three years.

“We are working hard to address this with academics and local services to investigate and use new ways of improving screening uptake among younger women,.”

The latest data for England showed that 73.5% of eligible women came to cervical screening appointments in 2014-15, down from the 74.2% seen the year before, added Mackie.

Nicola Smith, a senior health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said discomfort and embarrassment deterred some women from attending.

“Most women who are invited for cervical screening do take up the offer but it is a personal choice. Cervical screening saves many lives but no test is perfect and treatment for abnormal cells can have risks.

“If you have concerns about the procedure, for example you find it uncomfortable, it’s a good idea to speak to the practice nurse as there may be things they can do to make you more comfortable.

“Some women may be embarrassed by the test but nurses do tests like this all the time so there’s no need to be worried and you can ask to see a female doctor if you’d prefer,” said Smith.

Older women may not see the point of coming, Smith added. “Older women may not think this type of screening is relevant to them, but while cervical cancer is unusual in that it affects women at younger ages than most cancers, older women also develop the disease”, she said.

Full uptake of cervical cancer screening could save hundreds of lives

Kids" school packed lunches still full of junk food, research finds

Parents are still packing their children’s school lunchboxes with junk food, despite high-profile awareness campaigns on childhood obesity and guidance provided by consumer groups, research has found.

The Leeds University study published on Tuesday found just 1.6% of packed lunches for primary school children met tough nutritional standards set for their classmates eating in the school canteen.

About half of all primary school pupils take a packed lunch to school. Researchers found that only 1 in 5 lunchboxes contained any vegetables or salad, while 52%-60% contained too many sweet and savoury snacks, or sugary drinks (42%), leading to high levels of saturated fat, sugar and salt and not enough minerals and vitamins.

The study, described as “eye opening” by lead researcher Dr Charlotte Evans, saw only a fractional improvement from a decade ago, when 1.1% of lunches passed the standard set for school meals. The minority of children (17%) who eat vegetables and salad had not altered since 2006, it found.

The report found some progress: for instance the majority of packed lunches examined by researchers passed the standards for protein (95%) and vitamin C (75%). There was also a significant reduction in sugary drinks, 46% in 2016 compared with 61%, and a reduction in chocolate-based snacks. But there was no improvement for savoury snacks, such as crisps, found in 60% of packed lunches.

Three out of the 300-odd lunchboxes examined by researchers, in 12 different English primary schools, scored zero – a similar proportion to that found in 2006. One contained blackcurrant squash, a packet of hula hoops and a chocolate roll.

The first statutory school meal standard was introduced in 2006 due to growing evidence linking poor health in adults with obesity or poor diet in children. They limit the amount of foods high in salt, sugar and fats and stipulate that school meals should provide a third of a child’s nutritional requirements. However, although Ofsted says schools must have a policy on packed lunches, there is no law requiring them to abide by the same standards.

Evans, a nutritional epidemiologist, said that she believed the wealth of information on sugar in sweetened drinks may have had an impact on the reduction in the numbers in lunchboxes. But she added that more needed to be done by retailers, food manufacturers and schools if improvements are to be made overall.

Evans said: “I hope the results of the study are an eye-opener, highlighting that more stringent policies need to be introduced if we want to see real change in the nutritional value of children’s packed lunches. New policies for schools, food manufacturers and retailers are needed, which will require strong support from government and stakeholders if progress is to be made.”

The report recommends that primary schools introduce a policy restricting sweetened drinks and encouraging water, salad and fruit. It also suggested parents pack smaller portions of the unhealthy snacks, such as packets of crisps that are around 15g rather than 26g and chocolate cakes and biscuits of 20g. More choices of snacks low in saturated fats and sugars and higher in fibre were needed, it said.

The children’s lunches that met the standard all contained sandwiches with a protein filling and some salad.

Evans said: “Parents struggle, and there are many reasons why children don’t have better quality lunches – cost, peer pressure, convenience, time. Providing information to parents is a start.

“However, we do need to do more than provide information to parents to see a greater impact, such as improving school policies, reformulating products and reducing portions of snacks given to young children. For example, providing a small portion of crisps in a sealed container rather than the full bag.”

Few packed lunches met the standards for energy (12%), vitamin A (17 %), iron (26%) or zinc (16%), due to the lack of fresh salad and vegetables, the dearth of non-processed meat or fish as well as the lack of whole-grain bread.

Sharon Hodgson MP, chair of the all-party parliamentary group for school food, said: “The research highlights the need for more action to be taken on food put in children’s packed lunches, something which the school food APPG has recently called for. Despite positive moves with regards to the food provided as part of a school meal, food brought in by children in their packed lunches is lagging behind. Therefore we need more action to be taken if we want to see positive changes.”

Flora, which commissioned the research, is calling on the government to raise awareness and to do more to ensure the national standards for school food are being met in packed lunches. It has distributed 631,000 lunchboxes containing a healthy lunch planner and made available tips online.

Kids" school packed lunches still full of junk food, research finds

Firefighter feels like a "normal guy" year after unprecedented full face transplant

A Mississippi firefighter who received the world’s most extensive face transplant after a burning building collapsed on him said Wednesday that he feels like “a normal guy” for the first time in 15 years.

Patrick Hardison, 42, said he can now eat, see, hear and breathe normally, thanks to last year’s surgery. He even has a full head of hair and hits the gym twice a week.

“Before the transplant, every day I had to wake up and get myself motivated to face the world,” Hardison told reporters at NYU Langone Medical Center. “Now I don’t worry about people pointing and staring or kids running away crying. I’m happy.”

Hardison was a volunteer firefighter in Senatobia, Mississippi, when a building collapsed on him in 2001. He had 71 reconstructive surgeries before the transplant.

While there have been nearly 40 face transplant surgeries since 2005, Hardison’s was the first to include a scalp and functioning eyelids. Doctors have since fixed up some features and removed his breathing and feeding tubes.

Hardison has no scars on his face, and although he resembles his old self, some of his features are different. His eyes are smaller and his face is rounder, but he still has sandy brown hair.

The divorced father of five said one of the best moments of his life was seeing his children for the first time after the August 2015 surgery. Four of his children attended the news conference.

His 21-year-old daughter, Allison, said she cried after seeing him because she was so relieved.

“After the injury he wasn’t normal on the inside. He was very unhappy,” she said. “Now he’s happy with himself and happy with life.”

Hardison can finally drive and live independently thanks to his new field of vision. Previously, Hardison could see only through “pinholes” because doctors had sewed his eyelids partially shut to protect his eyes, he said.

Eduardo Rodriguez, chairman of Langone’s plastic surgery department, said Hardison has not had any issues with transplant rejection, which is due to his medications, his children and his strength.

“He’s a remarkable individual,” Rodriguez said.

Hardison said he hopes to meet this fall with the family of his donor, a 26-year-old artist who died in a bike accident in Brooklyn.

“I’d like to say that I’m the same old Pat, but that would not give enough credit to the amazing journey I have gone through this past year,” Hardison said. “The road to recovery has been long and hard, but if I had to do it again, I’d do it in a heartbeat.”

Firefighter feels like a "normal guy" year after unprecedented full face transplant

Consciousness is light and Physique is sound – The Lumen Octave Full Spectrum currently being.

What is the torus- we contact it the LumenOctave?It starts by beginning to appear at your self and your body as a battery. Yes, a battery. Just as a battery has a magnetic field, your entire body has a magnetic field, which I get in touch with your LumenOctave.

There is a magnetic discipline to anything at all that has an electrical charge to it. Similarly, the LumenOctave has an upward moving flow, a downward moving flow, and a spherical flow. For our fields to be completely engaged – upward, downward as nicely as spherically – they have to be activated and totally engaged. Yet for most of us, the total magnetic discipline is not always engaged.

Most of us, when we talk of our spirituality and our consciousness, we tend to target on the upward flow we are actually pushing upwards and striving to reach out to larger dimensions. However that is only 1 partof what is required to engage the magnetic system. The other two parts include the spherical movement, which is every little thing that is taking place correct right here, at the eye degree in your existence and exercising the things that make you a successful human being. Then there is the downward movement, which is about engaging the factors that make you a fantastic physical being and make you a great manifestor in the physical sense.

To have all three of these magnetic components engaged is what I refer to as  full spectrum living, which is actually about becoming capable to activate oneself in all the different dimensions! By means of the LumenOctave, you really activate your magnetic discipline – your torus, as it’s referred to – so that what you generate on the within of you is a effective magnet…. a magnet for your soul’s particularly designed purpose, and whatever is naturally and inherently needed for you to receive the ideal that existence has to offer you!

That may seem like manifesting the place that you need to be in, the task that you require to have, the relationships with the men and women that you need to have close to – all of the options that arise by means of your new magnetic capacities. What you are turning your entire body into is a magnetic system – a totally healthful, completely engaged magnetic field – that can entice to you what is in your highest and very best great, as an alternative of possessing pre-conceived, pre-prescribed and constrained notions of what is very good or appropriate for you.

The LumenOctave activation will take location by means of studying the language of the soul, which is felt in the entire body as sensations. By way of activation, you return to your “natural code” by purging the entire body of deeply held soreness, negative psychological patterns, limiting beliefs, and unhealthy relationships. By activating the LumenOctave, we are connecting with that portion of us that is unique to us and entirely in our highest advantage – and we really do not do this conceptually, we do this through a really effective method that I’m about to share with you.

Remain with me…. I’m going to switch gears now and get a tiny a lot more technical for a second.

Activating the total spectrumIt’s essential to look at your body and your thoughts and your consciousness in the identical way as these three overlapping spectrums. There is a light spectrum to your consciousness – everything that you are mindful of. When you search through your light spectrum, you see colours, you see things happening in this spectrum of light. Your entire body, in it’s reliable state, is vibrating at a certain frequency inside the qualities of sound. So it is fundamentally the consciousness of light merging with the vibrations of your entire body.

The far more you can tap into this light spectrum wholly and totally and perfectly align with this octave of your bodily method, the more choices you have at your disposal. This happens primarily through consciousness coming down and integrating with your glands. The glands have every vibrational tone of your physical body, so they are giving out colors and frequencies, and if you can activate them to their all-natural state, you will be ready to bring your remarkable light likely into the bodily actuality.

So for those of you who are pondering “how do I turn into the wonderful being I know that I am in my meditations, and I really feel that I am in my heart? How do I actually dwell out that energy?”….

The important is in merging with your physical physique, which indicates you’re going to have to upgrade your sensational actuality. These sensations that are coming out from the glands have to be in their normal state and not a programmed state. Simply because most of the glands have been limited or written above, or blocked by foods and GMO’s and bad programming, we have to re-understand the plans that are accurate to our nature so we can return back to what it feels like in our activated state, with our engaged magnetic discipline – LumenOctave. Then we can turn into Totally embodied as intended…. and as a result vibrantly alive.

Moving into the technique….We’ve been talking about consciousness as it relates to the body, because you as a consciousness – as a extremely large becoming – are previously ideal. You are presently wonderful because you have selected to be in the entire body. This is a decision, you chose to come into the physical entire body, and you are picking to apply all of that correct here…. making an attempt to discover how to apply all of the knowledge…. all of the amazingness that you are into the bodily actuality.

What is the ideal way to do it? This is the approach that I’m going to share with you. I’m sure that most of you are going to enjoy this simply because his will revolutionize your life.

Turn the focus of your thoughts onto the sensations of your entire body. Feel what your body feels like. Feel the sensations inside of your physique by dropping into a total sense of the exquisite nature of your bodily physique. By performing so, you will be capable to entry greater intelligences that exist inside the entire of consciousness which is totally at your disposal…. when and only when you employ the sensation of your physique.

The thoughts is kind of like a lens, and no matter what it tasks onto, it commences providing power and energy to. It really commences decoding it, simply because thoughts is an interpretive substance. For example, if you are viewing two folks interact, and you emphasis your lens on people two folks, your mind will immediately start trying to make sense of it all…. like he is saying that, and she is saying that, and you become “involved” in the expertise. It abruptly turns into a element of your actuality. But all the thoughts is performing it is simply interpreting a actuality that is occurring…. interpreting information like a machine. It is a rather properly-oiled machine.

What we are taught to do is to constantly venture that lens of the mind outside of ourselves. And what I am proposing is that the mind, which is the lens by itself, is going to be only as successful as a single organ. If we chose to tune into and knowledge the whole physique and not just the thoughts, we grow to be complete spectrum beings. In other phrases, using the thoughts at its total prospective – which is its interpretive capabilities – you are turning the concentrate of that lens inwards and into what the physical entire body is feeling like. And a total new planet – a previously unknown world of details – is then available to us!

Activating intelligenceInitially, when you turn the target of the lens into the physical entire body, you will produce a simple awareness of those sensations. However as you go deeper into that knowledge, your connection with the sensations becomes more sophisticated, and in flip, the thoughts gets to be much more intelligent at interpreting sensations. You will commence realizing, as I did, that there are different sensations at different organ levels that have certain plans and paradigms connected to it, and if we can reside inside of the harmony of people sensations, we are now not only utilizing the 1-dimensional organ of the mind to interpret and make sense of and navigate the planet close to us, but we are now accessing the full spectrum – we are accessing the info that each gland and organ has come to acquire about our reality.

Our bodies are constantly interpreting every little thing that is taking place around us. Sometimes with our thoughts alone, we might actually “feel” some thing physically and have a sort of “reaction” to it, but we really do not in fact know mentally why we reacted that way.

With the entire body, if we use all of it – if we use the full spectrum – we grow to be infinitely far more intelligent. We have entry to so a lot far more information that the mind may possibly not know what to do with all of it at initial. However, with the fine-tuning of this strategy, and the fine-tuning of this instrument, you will let the most important data to undertaking onto the display of the mind so that you know why you act or react as you do, and then you will have all the information that you require to act and react in the way that leads you to your very best location – a type of “super pathway”. The entire body offers you the ideal navigation device, consisting of the complete spectrum data technique rather than the one-dimensional details technique of the thoughts.

The bliss instinctTo get this technique even more, when you concentrate on your body, you commence realizing that you truly feel really good the thoughts will actually activate sensations. So as you surrender into the physique, and you truly feel how the physique feels, you will boost your sensational feelings in the body, you will improve your sensational expertise, and it is going to intensify your sensations. You will commence to tap into and cultivate your birthright…. the sensation of bliss!

My proposition to you is that this lusciousness, this blissful sensation that is being ignited by simply turning the lens of the thoughts onto the body…. just go with that, commit to that, simply because there is something deeply intelligent about letting the sensations run the present. The sensations are so much more into the complete spectrum tuning of who you genuinely are.

You will know when you are undertaking this approach appropriately when you are in a position to commit to the luscious, the blissful, the love-filled sensations that start making in your physique, and you keep inside of the harmonic flow of those sensations. Then you will be living your life in bliss, you’ll reside your life in lusciousness. Slowly, you will end questioning if this is the superior way. The emotions will guidebook the way and never ever steer you incorrect.

Initially, there could be some concerns, but preserve experimenting with it. Any choice created from a spot of lusciousness and bliss is far superior to a choice manufactured from the mind. It is far far more connected than the projecting, compartmentalized and fragmented way that the thoughts tends to make choices. Deliver your focus back into the physique, truly feel the sensations, permit your self to connect to your lusciousness, feel what feels good to you, and go from there.

Joseph Campbell was quoted as saying “follow your bliss”. Here now, you are being taught how to regularly do just that. You are properly on your way to following your bliss instinct. By engaging your LumenOctave, you will infinitely improve the way you dwell your life in no time!

Consciousness is light and Physique is sound – The Lumen Octave Full Spectrum currently being.