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shaxori-fiendline-posts · 4 years

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Blackbox Theater in Gehenna

Ahem. I haven’t done this in a while so, bear with me. No, really, Bear, *grabs shirt hem* I want to wander for a bit. Take a walk with me down the tangents for a bit. So, I’ve been working on my book. My weird way of trying to put myself out there while exercising my mind and imagination again after being stuck in between real life in Malsheem and the inside of my head in Gehenna. Trying to come up with a way I can dress up real life in order to understand what’s going on in a world where anything can happen. I’m trying to make heads or tales of the patterns I think I see in the world around me. Everything starts with a question. And the question drops like a stone into the Astral Sea, sending out ripples of effect in everything. But I can’t see all of the angles to understand where each ripple originated by myself. I try, but when I do I feel like there’s always two sides of my personality warring for control over everything. So, since you’re not only my singular follower on here besides a bot, you’re also the most science brained individual I know that is still willing to pat me on the head and say, “ok, I’ll suspend my disbelief in anything unexplainable by science and just believe for a little bit.”

So, here’s the question that started this particular tangent. I’ve been trying to figure out how to use Lilly as an avatar to help me get my thoughts in line. 99.9% of this writing has been me reverse engineering my friends’ personalities into fictional characters that respond as they might have if we were role-playing the characters I created for them. Jareth is a character, for example, that was once played by my buddy, Jimmy. His explanation for Old Ones was nearly a direct quote as to how he described it to me when I was trying to get a handle on Lilly’s crazy. I could have kissed him. As soon as he explained it, something clicked in my head as I was trying to explain why Lilly is so fucked up. Well, I thought I could keep that one locked up for a while and try to build up to it more, but I just can’t. It feels like taking three steps backward in the writing when I do. But it started raising more questions in my head, and I’ve never been good at juggling. Questions started dropping out from between my fingers, sending out so many questions, I couldn’t keep up. It’s gotten to the point as I’m trying to figure out how to tie off loose ends from earlier chapters without cheesing it (because I’ll fucking forget where I buried the leads and get lost in the fucking minefields again) that both Lilly and I are about to say fuck it, I’m going back to working in the toil and we’re going to do everything possible to forget we ever peeked at the last few pages of the book. We spoiled the ending for ourselves and now we are in a constant state of hurry up and wait. And we’re tired. She’s pissed, I’m just defeated. No, that’s not the right word. Done. Yeah. Thankfully, Lilly is the part of my brain that never stops moving. She’s constantly wandering down through the halls of the Library, (which looks like an MC Esher nightmare, BTW) pulling down boxes and picking through them to try and find all of the pieces of the puzzle to finally get out of my head. And you know what happens when I start to hyper-focus of the pieces instead of looking at how they fit together. Wooo Shiney happens entirely too much. So, when I say I’m done, it’s not the depression talking, it’s the apathy warring with my reasonability. When I say I’m done, I’m mean I’m done giving a shit. I’m done trying to put my life on display in such a way that I can’t tell what tone of voice to read it in. I can’t figure out who it is that I’m talking to. I don’t know who is going to read it which is why I pinpointed a person that doesn’t exist in this world. Normally, I would try to motivate myself by saying “maybe.” But, I’ve always known, just like every kid does, that “maybe” is really “no” in disguise. Unless you get a solid yes and/or proof of validity, anything else is a “no”. You get used to hearing all of the variations of “no” to the point where you expect it from everyone and when you do hear “yes” you immediately question the person’s level of trustworthiness. Are they just fucking with me and, if they are, what are they getting out of it? “You. You want to be my friend? Wait, why? I’m a horrible individual. I’m an asshole. I’m actually proud of the fact that I really could give a shit about the vast majority of the population. All I care about is me and mine.” But my problem is I can’t stop adopting strays. I try to put myself out there to draw in others like me and find the good ones to keep. That’s why Jareth/Jimmy keeps lecturing me about my accidental families. And then I look at the nest of weirdos I’ve created and, well, you’re married to one of them, you know what I’m talking about. Like, I love them all, but they make my brain hurt sometimes. “Yes, kids, I love you, now go play in the corner, Mommy has a lot of shit do and I’m starting to understand while some species of animals eat their young.” I’m so thankful nature decided to take my ability to procreate without fertility treatments. I have enough deviants to keep me amused, I do not need children. At least with mine, I can hand them a pair of scissors and not have to wor... nevermind, I take that back. I can feel the bullshit cough from here. My point is, I’m a tech, I can wrangle the clowns and fix their chainsaws, but I do not have the energy to keep the rest of the circus in order at the same time. The rest of the show has to fall to someone else. That’s why I’m using D&D as a set for the stage. When I try to build the world from scratch on my own, I have to try and make it unique enough to showcase my skills at descriptions, but I get lost in the descriptions and forget that I have to make sure the characters stay on track with the story through their interactions. Using D&D gives me a static resource set to get a mental image of the world in which Lilly lives. With the set already built, I can put down the tech belt and go run with the clowns to burn off some excess energy. But I have to make sure Lilly is rounded out well enough not overwhelm the party. Unfortunately, since the story is inspired by real life events and thought processes (somewhat, it’s D&D for fuck’s sake) I’ve reached the point where I’m going to have to do META ass shit in order to get past Act One. After that, in real life, I have to find some source of income that doesn’t involve donating plasma to pay my cell phone. I want to write. I want to be creative. I have a million and one ideas on things I could try, but I also know that I have to get out of Malsheem if I’m ever going to get to the Feywild for real. And that takes coin because I have yet to figure out portal tech as a practical application. That’s on the shelf marked “the geometry is wrong” in the “don’t go in there, it’s weird” section of the Library. I need an adult to go in there. I just scared myself in two different ways thinking about going in there alone, the first was the atmospheric drop in temperature and the second was the sudden realization that I tend to be smart enough to know better, but too dumb to quit. I will open some box or book and, yeah. I’m not allowed in there without supervision. Ok, that started a ripple of potential hypnotherapy sessions. Provided I could find someone actually capable of hypnotizing me. Anyway. That’s right, the point. Lilly is supposed to be my character, my way of telling my story through the filter of fantasy so I can make sense of it all. And I can’t stay stuck at my desk anymore, hoping and praying that’ll I’ll do something right this time. So, I’m going to make sure she’s at a playable level and do some pick-up games with her when I can get time to myself to be able to play between working at a *shudders* normal job long enough to clean up my credit and get a place of my own somewhere. Then, I’ll be able to reassess the situation without the continuous irritation of Dopple-Mom interruptions. If I have to go back to the call-centers, I might be able to power through it like I did before. I’m just going to have to watch out for the traps I fell into last time. But I’ll have to put the book on hiatus until I’m in a place of my own and can relax when I get off work enough to be able to think freely. It won’t really gather any readers or foot-traffic on Royal Road while I’m working, but I’m ok with that. It takes away the pressure of trying to build an audience while the book is still being written. Granted, that would make it easier to transfer into an actual novel format once it’s completed and have a market waiting for release so I *can* write for a living. But, hope in one hand and shit in the other, all you get is pink-eye. I can’t control who sees my stuff. I can’t control its reception or the opinions thereof that dictate word of mouth marketing. When your success in a field is dependent on the reviews of your work by the general public, sometimes it’s better to just stop giving a fuck. I’m not going to try and build an audience ahead of time anymore. I’m just going to write and release chapters until I have to hit the hiatus button. If the story dies because I can’t find the time or the motivation to write, it’ll just be added to the failed attempts pile. Not the first, not the last. Smart enough to know better, too dumb to quit, remember? I’ll try again at some other point to write a story worth sharing. It just won’t be inspired by real life. Just straight fantasy so I have a place in my head I can visit that’s nice to hang out in for a change.

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aboutearn · 6 years

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It's happened to you. You've searched for something on Google and several promising results appear. You click on a link, but when you get to the site all you see are a few ads and nothing even remotely close to what you searched for. So you go back to the search results and try again, only it happens again and again until you finally find a page with some decent content...or frustration sets in and you give up all together. Why does this happen? How come in this day and age Google can't give you the results you're looking for? A large part of the answer is the growing number of made for AdSense (MFA) sites on the web today. MFA sites are designed for the sole purpose of getting you to click on a Google AdSense advertisement. Define Made for AdSense A site is made for AdSense if its sole purpose is to get users to click on AdSense ads. Its owners don't intend that users will learn from its content or participate in a community. All that they want is for them to click on an ad. A site is NOT made for AdSense if its primary purpose is to provide unique content and the site owner decides to keep their content free by displaying advertisements, AdSense or other. This has been going on for years – television, newspapers, and magazines all generate revenue with advertisements. The difference is that the advertisements SUPPLEMENT the content of the show or article. The same applies for the web. If you have a news site or a forum, placing ads on your site does not make it a made for AdSense site. Why Do People Make MFA Sites? The thing with MFA sites is that they work. The overwhelming majority of the population has no clue what Google AdSense is and doesn't understand that Google and the site owner make money when they click on an ad. By placing these ads in locations that people tend to focus on (Google gives you examples of locations that result in the highest click through), it's inevitable that a certain percentage of visitors will click on the ads – either intentionally or unintentionally. Site owners make anywhere from a five cents to several dollars per click (revenue is split between them and Google) depending on the industry. Big deal right? If you convert 5% of users into clicks and you make 10 cents a click, you're only making 50 cents for every hundred visitors to your site. Well if you make a thousand MFA sites and each gets two hundred visitors a day, you are making a cool $1,000/day. Smart MFA site owners design sites with keywords that advertisers pay more than the standard 20 cents or 30 cents. They design sites with “content” about lawyers and car companies that purchase AdWords advertisements that cost several dollars a click. Re-do that calculation with five dollars a click instead of 10 cents and your jaw will drop. How do they get their traffic? In addition to using conventional white hat SEO methods (like unique content and link building), many of these sites shamelessly also take advantage of keyword stuffing and cloaking – tactics that are considered unethical and are against Google's terms of service. Many also get their clicks in unethical ways – either by clicking on ads themselves or by employing bots to automatically click. This is called click fraud and is also against Google's terms of service. Who Gets Hurt? Some would argue that no one is getting hurt by “tricking” people into clicking. Hey they're not getting charged anything. No, but some advertiser is. Some business that's pouring their hard earned money into Google AdWords to attract TARGETED visitors to their site. Instead they end up paying for accidental clicks. You (the searcher) also get hurt by getting less than optimal results. Imagine an internet where these sites didn't exist. You might actually have a chance at finding what you're looking for on the first try. That would save you some time that I'm sure you'd be glad to have. Should Google Do Something About It? Everyone's first thought is “Google could stop it if they tried.” In reality, probably not. Regardless of the talent they recruit, there are literally hundreds of thousands of people trying to figure out a work around. As Seth Jayson recently said in his article about the same topic entitled How Google is Killing the Internet “I think when you pit a few hundred Google Smarty Pantses -- who are getting fat on stock options and gourmet meals at the Big Goo campus -- against many thousand enterprising schemers on the Internet, the battle will go to those hungry schemers every time.” Google does have a system in place to reduce click fraud and are always improving their algorithm to rid their results of sites that practice cloaking, keyword stuffing, and other black hat SEO techniques. Unfortunately, it's probably not enough. The larger (and much scarier) question is whether or not Google wants to do something about it. For the time being, they stand to make a ton of money off of MFA sites. Until Google starts to see a negative impact from MFA sites there's really no reason for them to rush to do anything about it. Say Yahoo! all of a sudden came up with a way to identify and block MFA sites and provided better search results because of it, Google may be threatened by the potential (or actual) loss of search percentage. But until that happens I wouldn't expect Google to do much more than they are right now. What Can You Do? There's no doubt that MFA sites have clogged up the web with thousands of worthless pages. The best way to reduce the number of made for AdSense sites is probably to do something about it yourself. If you advertise on Google AdWords, don't allow Google to display your ads on their content network (AdSense sites). As an internet user, you can educate others about MFA sites and encourage them not to click on ads. It may not seem like much, but all of those clicks add up – just ask someone who owns a made for AdSense site.

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jamiekturner · 7 years

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What do to when your website is marked unsafe by Google Chrome

Imagine this, you observed a sudden fall in the traffic graph of your website.

Then one day you decided to see your website from the browser end, something on your screen shocked you.

You must be wondering what is this and why the heck this message showed for your website. Allow me to explain.

This is a security warning. And if you’re getting this message for your own website then there are chances that your website is hacked or maybe not.

Yes, maybe not.

Maybe it is just the security warning. And you know why this security warning has popped up? You might not be using SSL certificate for your website. This is one of the major cause.

Ok fine, let’s not just jump into conclusions. Let’s do it in a systematic way. Allow me to explain this matter in detail, step by step.

What is this Warning all about?

Now, Don’t think for a second that Google, Firefox or other consider your website as a malware. There are many uncontrollable forces which drive virus into your website.

So, when the Search engine bot crawls your website, these viruses attack the crawler. This makes the search engine aware of the presence of a virus or any malicious script or page.

So, this is the reason these search engine just warn their user about a possible danger they might put themselves into. This warning is mostly for the non-tech savvy users.

This warning is nothing but just a feature in their “safe browsing feature”. This creates awareness among their users.

After 2016, Google also was said to be marking websites without SSL certificate as unsafe. Just to be clear, this is no punishment by Google. It is just a warning.

There are a number of reasons for such warning against your website.

P.S. Do not panic with these reasons at all. There are plausible solutions for every reason and I will provide you that.

The first reason might be because your website is hacked and someone just got into your website which can damage a hell lot of people.

Maybe some other websites are hacked which are affecting some of your web pages. Then, there are chances when you might see such warning.

There are cases where the website links to some other website which has the malicious script, page or software.

Maybe flash advertising area of your website is out of date or contain some malicious software.

Now, do not panic or overwhelm with this reasoning.

These are actually happening to loads of people who owns websites. These all problems are solvable and not so tricky as well. Let’s have a look at what you can do about this problem.

Solving issues around.

In order to solve these issues just follow these simple steps and you’ll be able to find the root of these warning and then take necessary actions to get rid of it and make the website safe and secure for your users.

First, find out what exactly is blacklisted by Google.

When this warning was issued. This includes the last crawl date of Google crawler on your website.

What exactly happened when Google visited your website? This exactly clears the reason why Google has issued this warning for your website.

Clean up optimization of your website.

Request Google to conduct a Malware review.

The deed is done.

What is Blacklisted?

So, here is the most important question which initiates the entire solution process for you. What is blacklisted in my website?

Go through this link and enter your website’s URL to check what is wrong with your website. Your URL is the largest unit here which includes the entire domain along with its all subdomains.

You can also individually check the web pages if you want. Just copy and paste their URLs in the required place and then you can check it in the link provided above.

When was this warning issued?

Now, you need to check when Google last time visited your website (Scan date).

Generally, the last scan date and warning issue dates are same. Yet, there are cases when the dates did not match.

Google is not continuously scanning your website. Still, there are facilities when you can ask them to conduct a malware review. Let this be the topic for later.

As I said before, most of the time the scan date and the warning issue date are same, But, when they are not, Google unofficially tries to solve people’s confusion by a super confusing statement which is,

The review may have found “suspicious” content that was not “suspicious” enough to have added the site to the malware list – but it is “suspicious” enough to prevent it being removed from the list.

What I decode from this is, when Google did not find anything highly suspicious but just closer to being on that list. They will keep your website on hold until they are not sure either you have that malicious item or not (Wow!!! I almost speak like Google….)

In more simpler language, it is just like a waiting list in which either of the things gets cleared.

There are many cases, which initiate these troubles. Such as,

You cleaned your website and did not ask for a Google malware check which probably leads Google to think that you haven’t finished the cleanup.

You might have removed all the web pages with malicious content and requested a review. In this case, they are now considering that after a successful review you might restore all your malicious content again. SO, do not remove the entire web page, just remove the required malicious content.

What happens to Google Crawler when it crawls your Website?

Next thing you need to do is find out exactly what happened when Google crawler crawls your website?

For this purpose, you need to visit the diagnostic page and then selecting “What happened when Google visited this site?” You may see such warnings,

“Malicious software is hosted on N domain(s), including <malicious domains here>”

“N domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including <intermediary domains here>”

So, now you have knowledge about what is exactly happening. Now, you just need to clean your website up.

Clean your Site up.

Start cleaning your PC first. This is the major source of any vulnerability. So, make sure that your computer is virus-free.

Cleaning up is not just enough, you have to keep a check on all your PC Softwares to be up-to-date. My personal suggestion for storing the password does not use FTP to save your passwords as they keep them unencrypted, this makes it easy for them to steal.

After cleaning your PC, you might want to have a look at this article to efficiently clean your website.

If you’re using any plugin or theme, make sure that they are up to date.

Request Google to conduct a Malware review

This is one of the most important steps if you want to remove your website from the Google’s blacklist. You just need to request from the webmaster’s website and it might take 2-3 hours to scan your website.

When you put the request, first it let Google know that you’re taking care of the problem and Second it keeps you on the priority list of Google for 24 hours.

So, these are the exclusive checklist to follow if your website is marked unsafe by Google. There is no reason to panic, yet you need to take immediate action to avoid any kind of brand conflict.

So, stay calm and act smarter.

from Web Development & Designing http://www.designyourway.net/blog/misc/what-do-to-when-your-website-is-marked-unsafe-by-google-chrome/

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Canada nails down best-ever result with silver in world mixed doubles curling

It was an agonizing way to lose but, in the big picture, it was a huge step forward for Canada at the 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

Canada’s Joanne Courtney and Reid Carruthers gave up an early lead to fall to Switzerland’s Martin Rios and Jenny Perret 6-5 on Saturday afternoon to settle for silver at the world mixed doubles curling championship.

The Canadians held a 5-2 lead through seven ends but a miss from Courtney on her final shot of the game opened the door for the Swiss to claim their leading sixth gold medal in the 10-year history of the event as Perret drew for four.

“We can’t be prouder of this team, but that’s mixed doubles — you make one little mistake and all of a sudden there’s a four on the board and you lose the world championship,” said national mixed doubles coach Jeff Stoughton. “I know they’ll be thinking about this for quite a long time, but they can hold their heads high and be super proud of their accomplishments.”

It was a best-ever finish for Canada in mixed doubles. In the previous nine world championships, Canada had won just one medal, a bronze in 2009 by Alli Flaxey and Sean Grassie.

The Canadians also locked up a berth in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where mixed doubles curling will make its debut as a medal sport. Canada will be joined by host South Korea, Switzerland, the United States, Finland, Norway, China, and Russia.

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The Look at of the Gothic Element of Double in Poe’s Decided on Works The Observe of Doubles in Poe’s Works

Fashionable History

Poe

A vital and innovative reinterpreter of the Gothic inside the literary world turned into Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) who asserted ‘that terror isn’t always of Germany, but of the soul’. His stature as a first-rate discern in world literature is based on his incredibly acclaimed brief memories, poems, and crucial theories, which installed an influential intent for the fast shape in each poetry and fiction. Poe is also well-known for his Gothic style of writing. Fisher affirms that: “Few would treat a challenge to a lengthy-status opinion that Poe became a master of the Gothic horror tale, although many won’t as without difficulty be aware that he did not invent Gothic fiction” (p.seventy two). Certainly, Poe became the Gothic fiction of the eighteenth-century to the inner cries and desires of the individual. Apart from a not unusual theoretical basis, there’s a mental intensity this is characteristic of Poe’s writings, particularly the tales of horror that comprise his exceptional and exceptional-recognized works.

Double

A massive Detail of Gothic genre is the subject matter of double. In Gothic (1996), Fred Botting writes that “on the end of the nineteenth century acquainted Gothic figures-the double and the vampire-reemerged in new shapes with an exceptional intensity and disturbing investments as objects of terror”(p.one hundred thirty-five). It seems so terrible whilst one seems at everywhere and sees his very own image and likeness. The presence of the double, for this reason, will be interpreted as a cause of the alienation of person inside the modern international. Botting expresses that “the lack of human identification and the alienation of self from each itself and the social bearings in which a sense of fact is secured are provided inside the threatening shapes of more and more dehumanized environments, mechanic doubles and violent, psychotic fragmentation” (p.157).

Doubles are seen in distinct bureaucracy and shapes in Gothic texts. The in the main used paperwork are doppelgangers, replicate photographs, shadows, and even mandrakes. In the maximum of Gothic fictions, the theme of doubles and mirrors exist. Dealing with their doubles, characters come to recognize the one’s components and aspects in their persona which have been alien and unknown to them. Doubles appear in numerous paperwork; doppelganger, regulate ego, shadow, twins, replicate images and even mandrakes. As Botting asserts, in Poe’s fiction: “Doubles and mirrors are used to high-quality outcomes…” (p.120). But what seems important to notice is that the meaning which the doubles convey is the same; they’re used to reveal the concept of self-estrangement and self-destruction of the principle characters to the readers. This lack of self-knowledge which in lots of cases results in self-destruction is emphasized by using each author in their works like “William Wilson”, “The Tell-tale Coronary heart”, “The fall of House of Ushers” by Poe. The author’s use of the idea of ‘The Double’ implies that absolutely everyone may be misled by using appearances thru their emotional tendencies, just as all of us can be reassured by way of knowledge thru the operation of his/her rational functions. The term doppelganger which has been remarkably utilized by Poe might be defined first.

Doppelgänger

According to the Merriam Webster’s Dictionary (2004) doppelganger means “a ghostly counterpart of a dwelling character.” In German it derives from Doppel (double) and Gänger (goer), meaning “double goer”, in German folklore, a wraith or apparition of a dwelling person, as distinguished from a ghost. The concept of the lifestyles of a spirit double, a genuine but normally invisible replica of every man, bird, or beast, is a historic and giant perception. To fulfill one’s double is an indication that one’s dying is approaching. The doppelganger is a famous symbol of horror literature, and the theme took on great complexity.

Some memories offer supernatural motives for doubles. Those doppelgängers are normally, but not continually, evil in Some way. The double will often impersonate the sufferer and go approximately ruining them, as an example via committing crimes or insulting the victim’s pals. Seeing is the primary category here; the doppelganger, because it seems and reappears in literary and other cultures, is notably a thing of visual fascination and terror. hence notions of doubling contain not only replications of identification, however also variations in identification, in which the self-seems to be within the incorrect frame. A case which combines the two opportunities would be Oscar Wilde’s “Photograph of Dorian Gray.” The idea of a phantom ‘double’ has existed at some point of recorded records and nevertheless prospers in superstitions, fairy testimonies, and folklore in the course of the sector. It’s far taken critically via A few psychologists for instance of an out-of-frame experience. It figures in many primitive religions, where the ‘double’ is thought to be the individual’s soul. However, the doppelgänger idea has additionally schemed state-of-the-art humans and triggered in them a dread of the unknown and a morbid assumption of doom corresponding to the responses of primitive businesses.

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How Stress Influences Your Heart Attack and Stroke Risk Dr. Mercola By Dr. Mercola Stress has enormous implications for your health. From an evolutionary perspective, the stress response is a lifesaving biological function that enables you to instinctively square-off against an assailant, run away from a predator or take down a prey. However, those of us living in the modern world are now activating this same biological reaction in response to activities and events that have no life-threatening implications whatsoever, from speaking in public to filling out tax forms and sitting in traffic jams. The sheer number of stress-inducing situations facing us on a daily basis can actually make it difficult to turn the stress response off, and marinating in corrosive stress hormones around the clock can have very serious consequences for your health. Stubborn fat accumulation, high blood pressure and heart attack are just a few of the many health consequences associated with chronic stress. Acute stress can also have potentially lethal consequences. I recently wrote about broken heart syndrome — a condition prefaced by acute and severe stress or shock, such as the unexpected death of a loved one. High-Stress Lifestyle Raises Your Risk of Heart Attack There’s no shortage of evidence showing that stress impacts your health. And, since your heart and mind are so closely interlinked, your mental state can have a particularly significant influence on your heart health. According to recent research, stress increases your risk of heart attack and stroke by causing overactivity in your amygdala.1,2,3 Known as your brain’s fear center, this almond-shaped brain region, located in your temporal lobe, is activated in response to both real and perceived threats. Other recent research suggests the amygdala is also involved in the processing of other emotions, including positive ones, as well as the processing of emotional memories of all kinds. Still, its involvement in fear and threat detection is well-established, and one of its most basic jobs is to keep you safe by biochemically preparing you to fight or flee as needed. In this study, inflammation levels as well as brain and bone marrow activity of 293 participants were measured. All of the participants were over the age of 30, and none had a diagnosed heart problem. By the end of the observation period, which lasted between two and five years, 22 participants had experienced a serious cardiac event such as heart attack, stroke or angina (chest pain). Based on brain scans, the researchers were able to conclude that those with higher activity in the amygdala were at an elevated risk of a cardiac event. As it turns out, there appears to be a significant correlation between amygdala activity and arterial inflammation (which is a risk factor for heart attack and stroke). This was confirmed in another much smaller sub-study involving those with a history of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).4,5 Here, levels of C-reactive protein were also measured, showing that those reporting the highest stress levels also had the highest amygdala activity and higher levels of inflammatory markers. Overactive Fear Response Is a Recipe for Heart Attack and Stroke In short, people who are highly stressed have higher activity in the amygdala. This in turn triggers inflammation, which is a risk factor for heart disease. These findings are not concrete proof of causation, however, and need to be validated through further research. That said, previous studies have shown that activation of the amygdala can trigger arterial inflammation by triggering immune cell production in the bone marrow. As reported by The Huffington Post:6 “A healthy amygdala can help to protect the brain against stress, while an amygdala that’s hyper-excitable as a result of chronic stress or other factors can amplify the stress response. The new study shows, for the first time, how an overactive amygdala can cause heart attack and stroke. When stress triggers the amygdala, it activates bone marrow and inflammation of the arteries to create the conditions for a heart attack. ‘Our results provide a unique insight into how stress may lead to cardiovascular disease,’ Dr. Ahmed Tawakol, a Harvard cardiologist and the study’s lead author, said … ‘This raises the possibility that reducing stress could produce benefits that extend beyond an improved sense of psychological well-being.’” Ilze Bot, Ph.D., a Dutch biopharmaceutical researcher who wrote an accompanying commentary to the study, added:7 "In the past decade, more and more individuals experience psychosocial stress on a daily basis. Heavy workloads, job insecurity, or living in poverty are circumstances that can result in chronically increased stress These clinical data establish a connection between stress and cardiovascular disease, thus identifying chronic stress as a true risk factor for acute cardiovascular syndromes, which could, given the increasing number of individuals with chronic stress, be included in risk assessments of cardiovascular disease in daily clinical practice." Other Ways Stress Can Trigger a Heart Attack Stress can also promote or trigger a heart attack in other ways. For example, studies8 have shown that as your stress level rises, so do your level of disease-promoting white blood cells, and this is yet another way by which stress can lead to atherosclerosis, plaque rupture and myocardial infarction. During moments of high stress your body also releases norepinephrine, which researchers claim9 can cause the dispersal of bacterial biofilms from the walls of your arteries. This dispersal can allow plaque deposits to suddenly break loose, thereby triggering a heart attack. A sudden release of large amounts of stress hormones and rapid elevations in blood pressure may even trigger a heart attack or stroke even if you don’t have a heart problem. In the case of broken heart syndrome, the symptoms of a heart attack occur even though there’s no actual damage to the heart at all. According to the British Heart Foundation, broken heart syndrome is a “temporary condition where your heart muscle becomes suddenly weakened or stunned.” The left ventricle (your heart's largest chamber) also changes shape, which adds to the temporary dysfunction. This sudden weakness of the heart is thought to be due to the sudden release of large quantities of adrenaline and other stress hormones. This is what is believed happened to Debbie Reynolds. Adrenaline increases your blood pressure and heart rate, and it's been suggested it may lead to narrowing of the arteries that supply blood to your heart, or even bind directly to heart cells allowing large amounts of calcium to enter and render the cells temporarily unable to function properly. While most will successfully recover, in some, the change of shape of the left ventricle can trigger a fatal heart attack. Having a history of neurological problems, such as seizure disorders, and/or a history of mental health problems is thought to raise your risk.10 On the upside, while the condition can be life-threatening and requires immediate medical attention, it’s usually a temporary condition that leaves no permanent damage. Recognizing the Signs of Stress Many have gotten so used to being wound up into a stress-knot, they don’t even realize the position they’re in. So, the first step is to recognize that you’re stressed, and then take steps to address it. Common signs and symptoms of stress include:11 ✓ Sleeping poorly; trouble falling asleep; excessive tiredness ✓ Binge drinking ✓ Lack of appetite or overeating ✓ Having a “short fuse” / being quick to anger or losing your temper ✓ Feeling overwhelmed, sad or irritable; frequent crying or quick to tears ✓ Headaches and/or general aches and pains Releasing Your Amygdala’s Death Grip Knowing the amygdala’s role in inflammation and heart attacks, it seems reasonable to conclude that part of the answer is learning to reduce the activity in your amygdala. When your amygdala is triggered by a real or perceived threat, oxygen is shunted from your internal organs, including your brain, to the extremities. Essentially, your body is prepared for fighting — not thinking! After all, thinking is of little use when facing a man-eating foe. Muscle function takes precedence. However, in today’s world, critical thinking is really what’s required when facing a stressful situation, be it a traffic jam or an interpersonal difficultly. Fist-fighting is not the most appropriate solution here, yet because of the stress response, your brain has largely been shut off. Step one, then, is to bring oxygen back to your brain. The video above describes a simple breathing technique to help you do that. Simply breathe in to a count of four; hold your breath for another count of four; breathe out to the count of four; and hold again for a count of four. Other Helpful Breathing Methods There are many very good breathing techniques out there that will likely do the trick. You may want to experiment with a few different ones to see if one works better than another. Another one I like is the 4-7-8 breathing exercise taught by Dr. Andrew Weil. Sit up straight and place the tip of your tongue up against the back of your front teeth. Keep it there through the entire breathing process Breathe in silently through your nose to the count of four, hold your breath to the count of seven, and exhale through your mouth to the count of eight, making an audible "whoosh" sound. That completes one full breath Repeat the cycle another three times, for a total of four breaths. After the first month, you can work your way up to a total of eight breaths per session A third method is the controlled breathing method taught by Patrick McKeown, one of the top teachers of the Buteyko Breathing Method. If you’re experiencing anxiety or panic attacks, or if you feel very stressed and your mind can’t stop racing, try the following breathing sequence. Its effectiveness stems from the fact that it helps retain and gently accumulate carbon dioxide. This not only helps calm your breathing but also reduces anxiety. In short, the urge to breathe will decline as you go into a more relaxed state: Take a small breath into your nose, followed by a small breath out Hold your nose for five seconds in order to hold your breath, and then release your nose to resume breathing Breathe normally for 10 seconds Repeat the sequence several more times Countering Stress With the Relaxation Response Once you’ve addressed the oxygenation of your brain, next, engage in some sort of physical relaxation technique, as the stress response causes the muscles in your body to tighten. One simple one that can be done anywhere is to tighten the muscles in an area for a few seconds, and then release; moving from section to section. Start with your feet and legs, and move upward. This may even be done in concert with your breathing exercise of choice. Visualization techniques such as those taught by Dr. Martin Rossman, author of “The Worry Solution,” can also be helpful. Imagery is the natural language of your brain, which is in part why visualization and guided imagery exercises are so powerful for changing thoughts and behavior. As noted by Rossman, the three keys to calmness are breathing, relaxation and visualization. Ideally, do all three. Here’s Rossman’s suggestion for pursuing calmness: Breathe and relax your body part by part, then imagine being in a beautiful, peaceful place where you feel safe. This could be either a real or imaginary place. Spend 10 or 20 minutes there, actively visualizing the serenity of your surroundings, to interrupt the stress response. This will disengage your fight or flight response, allowing your physiology to return to equilibrium, or what is also termed "the relaxation response." This is a compensatory repair, renew and recharge state that brings you back to balance. Mindfulness training — which focuses on being present in the moment — is another strategy that can be very helpful. In one study, people who participated in 10 sessions over the course of one month experienced “significantly decreased” stress, anxiety and depression.12 Mindfulness meditationis a more formal practice of mindfulness, in which you consciously zone in on, or focus your attention on, specific thoughts or sensations, then observe them in a non-judgmental manner. The Emotional Freedom Technique Is a Targeted Technique You Can Use for Stress Relief Last but not least, energy psychology techniques such as the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) can be very effective for reducing stress by helping you to actually reprogram your body's reactions to the unavoidable stressors of everyday life. This is important as, generally speaking, a stressor becomes a problem when: Your response to it is negative Your feelings and emotions are inappropriate for the circumstances Your response lasts an excessively long time You're feeling continuously overwhelmed, overpowered, or overworked EFT is notthe same thing as mindfulness; it is entirely different and used for different purposes. I regard mindfulness and meditation as tools that are useful for your entire life, like exercise for your mind. Ideally, you should strive to be mindful and use meditation daily. EFT is different in that it works best for targetedstress relief, such as recovering from an emotional trauma or overcoming an addiction. You might only need to use EFT a few times throughout your life, while mindfulness and meditation are life-long endeavors. When you use EFT, simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy onto specific meridians on your head and chest while you think about your specific problem and voice positive affirmations. This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation works to clear the "short-circuit" — the emotional block — from your body's bioenergy system, thus restoring your mind and body's balance, which is essential for optimal health and the healing of chronic stress. While the video above will easily teach you how to tap for stress, it is important to realize that self-treatment for more serious issues is not recommended. For serious or complex issues, you need an experienced practitioner to guide you through the process, as there is an incredible art to it; it typically takes years of training to develop the skill to tap on deep-seated problems.

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