Understanding Brain Injury
These links are great to help family and friends better understand brain injury. I recommend reading them aloud and then explaining what is similar and different for you.
These are things that help me enter life as fully as possible, giving myself permission to go “as fast as I can, as slow as I must.”
- diet: eliminate processed foods and eat real, whole foods. I am on Weston Price Traditions diet, and we put our supplement budget into our food budget, as real, whole foods have what we need, and are far more bio available.
- exercise: aerobic exercise, ideally only nose breathing. walks, hikes, runs, bike rides. Promotes blood flow, releases stress of life with brain energy, and if we go long enough releases various natural levels of canibinoids et al that I believe are far more beneficial to our brain than if we take the drugs ourselves.
- Develop a note system for people, meetings, events, and projects, ideally pencil to paper, a note card system, as writing pencil to paper is a huge brain connection, cross referenced, and then use it.
- Homeopathy.
- Prayer and faith. Saving the most important one for last: Life with brain injury is stressful and begs questions about our meaning and purpose and why we're here. Prayer and faith are essential for answering both, and giving surety in lifting our heads to the horizon and moving forward to strive to breath God's breath into the world that He first breathed into us. This post, “Out of Soul Crushing Anxiety” may be helpful.
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