"Healing Tip o' the Day #672" by Flick SnotGrass

[Flick_SnotGrass]

"Healing Tip o' the Day #672" by Flick SnotGrass

Tip #672 is Listen to some Spike Milligan and sing either "I'm walking Backwards to Christmas" OR "The Ying Tong Song"

KARAOKE STYLE AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS.

So, Like I said, I was born with an extremely severe case of excema....

I don't want to wallow

[well maybe just half a cup then]

but there were days in my early teens with:

my face,

neck,

arms,

knees

etc

bleeding, scabby

and worse

over-exhausted from very little sleep, due to the red raw night scratching,

[adrenal fatigue too probably]

that I realized to my horror that

Valerie,

Vyonne,

[insert Girl's Name here]

were ALWAYS GOING TO BE WASHING THEIR HAIR!!

They either had very dirty hair OR they didn't want to have a cup of tea with me.

The Doctors of the Day said my condition was "Genetic" and "There is nothing we can do for Flick" and "Sorry about that but he is an interesting specimen, er ... can I let my students have a prod at his hide" and "So on".

"Nothing can be done".!!!!

I plumbed depths of black helpless depression back in those dark days of 1962.

Fortunately I have a stubborn streak.

"Bloody difficult sod" is how my mother puts it, bless her cotton socks.

I found a furiously angry part of myself that said "Bugger that!" and worse

and I began my search for tools and techniques that could heal me....

.... I don't have scabs anymore .... I'm not called 'Flick ~ The Big Red Dog', anymore either

Steal from me...

no really....

I have a long list of tools that I use to this day that I have picked up, used and honed over the years and here's todays Healing Tip o' the Day #672 just for you....

#672 - Listen to some Spike Milligan and sing either "I'm walking Backwards to Christmas" OR "The Ying Tong Song" KARAOKE STYLE AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS.

"Why?"

Because, Laughter produces endorphins and beneficial 'feel good' neurotransmitters.

Your breathing will improve your Heart Rate Variability, HRV and will help calm you.

It is also quite difficult to be bloody miserable while singing The Ying Tong Song out loud.

Try it, you'll see.

Be better than well,

Flick SnotGrass

[Quercus]

Aha! Found you!

Forums / BB Social Zone / Worst Joke Wednesday

A thread designed with you in mind Flick. See you belong here 😊

[Flick_SnotGrass]

Hey Guys, thanx, I'll check it out. FS

[Doolhof]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks Quercus for pointing us in the right direction regarding the jokes thread. Sometimes I get myself so twisted up trying to find things on computers! I think my brain was made for the 1800's . Ha. Ha.

Still haven't had time to look in that joke book. Maybe tomorrow.

Right now I need to rehydrate I think and sit under the fan for a while to cool down.

ROLL ON WINTER!

[Flick_SnotGrass]

Hey Paul,

You asked for info on CES, Cranial Electro Stimulation a couple of daze ago & I've been meaning to get back to you.

I've been using my Canadian CES device for a while. I can get very panicky & the CES calms me right down & cheers me up if I'm down.

CES is often used as a brain calming tool but can also be used to wake your brain up & get it functioning at its peak w/o caffeine. CES works by passing very small pulses of electrical current through the brain. The pulses are carefully ‘sculpted’ to entrain & entertain the neurons in your brain which, in turn, create many wonderful effects.
It sounds scary to pass weak electric currents through your head but it’s not, it is very safe.
What is CES good for?
Lots of things, experiments have been conducted which improve symptoms of insomnia, depression, anxiety, drug addiction, pain and cognitive dysfunction.
CES can also be used to increase your sense of calm, brighten up your brain, help you mediate more deeply and even help you to be more creative.
Some people with Fribromyalgia find their pain lessens with certain CES frequencies.

The roots of brain electro-stimulation go back well over 2,000 years, when Galen, the philosopher and physician used electric eels to provide electrical stimulation to treat a variety of ailments including melancholia, depression and epilepsy.
Modern CES research was begun in the early 1900s and today there are about 40 different manufacturers of CES devices, each using their own proprietary frequencies and waveform types but basically, they all work on the same principle of applying small, very faint electrical fields across the head to produce different types of outcomes from calmness to brain brightness.
There have been well over 300 clinical studies using CES, spanning 60+ years and over 25 devices. Scientists have completed extensive analyses of the best studies of CES and cross-referenced them into effect-size so they can be compared to the effectiveness of pharmaceutical drugs.
There are very few, mild, side effects of CES compared to the many unwanted side effects of pharmaceutical drugs.
There is ample physiological evidence showing the effects of CES on the brain and why the applications are so wide and varied.

Bottom line, for me the best part of CES is that it is safe, with few side effects, it is easy to use, the efficacy is high and the equipment is fairly inexpensive.

Hope this helps Paul,

cheers,

Flick

[blondguy]

Thankyou Flick

The more information the better. I am on a continual learning curve so your info is appreciated big time!

You have some serious knowledge on this Flick......( Cranial Electro Stimulation)

Looks like I have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Even though I have reduced my chronic anxiety back in the 1990's do you think it may help with peripheral anxiety?

Thanks again for your knowledge and help on this Flick

My Best

Paul

[Flick_SnotGrass]

Hey Paul,

You wrote "Looks like I have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Even though I have reduced my chronic anxiety back in the 1990's do you think it may help with peripheral anxiety?"

Yes CES could def help you....let me teach you and You are very welcome to my knowledge my friend.

OK, I know this makes you Ozzies shiver ~ I'm a self professed Tall Poppy on this field of electrostim. I'm an expert in the application of neuroplasticity.

Nowadays I teach people how to feel a lot better using Cranial Electro stimulation, transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, Micro Electric Therapy, qEEG, neurofeedback together with certain Irish and North Somerset Accents.

How do I know how to do all this? It's my job as a Cybernetician.

Yes, I'm a Cybernetician, the science of which studies the flow of information throughout large, complex, goal oriented systems like your brain.

Yes, There's more, I'm a PhD in Cybernetics, Masters in Applied Psych, 1st Class Hons Elec Eng, Professional Voice Actor and Comic [I was given lessons by Spike Milligan...long story, need a gin and tonic for that one...sorry if your dry.

"Wow, you've been busy Flick."

Yeah. Paul, [and the rest of the gang reading] these accomplishments were driven by major MH issues, a terror and panic which provoked within me an extremely high need for achievement and recognition from a very young age, all driven by the fact I was born 65% covered in scabs from birth.

Excemea...

Atopic Dermatitis.

Sebreum Neural Dermititis

.... Hell...

I was bourne in 1949, at a time when the doctors and specialists of the day would tell me and my parents that what I had was 'genetic'...which is Doctor Code for "You are stuck Flick..terrible sorry about that...we are out of ideas... but we do have an upper middle class English accent and that will be ten ginees please."

Kinda makes you mad and drives you.

ALL THIS TO SAY PAUL, "help with peripheral anxiety?" YES, ASK AWAY. Paul, Keep ramping up your learning curve on electroceuticals...be greedy, you are at the centre of your healing universe...I am here to help us all get better than well.

Now I need a lie down.

OMWARDS! ~ my latest mantra,

Cliff

[Doolhof]

Hey Flick,

Thanks for sharing. I might go out and get myself a few of those electric eels!

Cybernetician is a word I have not heard before. I guess for some of us, the thought of having electrical currants running through our heads is a bit like Frankenstein awakens, or "One flew over the Cuckoos nest".

In saying that, I did chat with a guy once who said the electric currant treatment was the only thing that was working for him with his mental health issues.

The brain is certainly an amazing "thing". How does one go about having it kick started and re-booted?

Cheers from Dools

[Flick_SnotGrass]

Hey Dools,

Actually, I offer a very nice line of fresh electric eels and the good news when they're all used up, I have some very good recipes for curried eel, buttered eel, eel flambé and my all time favourite eel & chips with mushy peas in a newspaper.

Cranial Electro Stimulation is the art and science of passing extremely weak electric currents through the brain. Yes, I know, it conjures up images of Electro Convulsive Shock Therapy, doesn’t it? But it is not.
CES is very safe, non-invasive and very different than you may initially imagine, and far from new.

The currents we are talking about with CES, would hardly light a single LED, using only millionths of an Amp, way less that ECT which uses very very large currents. I'm not into that.

Dools you wrote "The brain is certainly an amazing "thing"." It sure is.

"How does one go about having it kick started and re-booted?" There's lots of ways...maybe start with "The Brain's Way of Healing" by Norman Doidge and "The Woman Who Changed Her Brain" by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young. Both Canadians. Great books.

Next, Google The Brain Reprogramming Doctor and dig into some of the Science and Technologies of applied neuroplasticity, Brain Plasticity and Brain Elasticity....all the same idea...

Actually, our Brian's [which are reading these words for you btw] are so smart they can rewire and reboot themselves IF you know how to tickle them into action ~ that's what Cybernetics allows you to do.

We shouldn't be surprised really, we are in the Third Millennium after all!!!

Hope this helps, ask more questions all I ask are jokes in return!!

OMwards!

Flick SnotGrass

[Doolhof]

Hey Flick,

Thanks for all the information. I will check out the books and the Google sites.

Jokes, MMMM I am still a bit short on them. Here is a random one from the joke book I still haven't managed to read:

Wife: "There is something wrong with the car. It has water in the carburettor."

Husband: "Water in the carburettor? That's ridiculous."

Wife : "I tell you there is water in the carburettor"

Husband: "you don't even know what a carburettor is! Where's the car?"

Wife: "In the swimming pool."

That reminds me of the time I told my husband there was something wrong with the brakes in my car. He told me there was nothing wrong with them! As we were about to drive to my sister's home via a very hilly and curvy route, I suggested we take my car and he drive.

When we almost went through the fence on the other side of the road, and almost plummeted down into the valley, because my husband could not slow the car down adequately on the corner, he decided , YES there was something wrong with the brakes!

Cheers from Dools

[Quercus]

Hi Flick,

I found a news article lately (I was newspapering up windows to prep for painting) which made me smile...

The West Australian April 6 2017. A scientist at Curtin Uni experimenting with using what sounds like CES to manage depression and anxiety. I folded up the page to read once we finish painting but I wanted to share that with you.

I hope you are better than well too. Looking forward to more tips and tricks to manage MI if you have any more?

❤ Nat