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2. What are human "coping" mechanisms but limbic manipulations when
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 06:02 PM
Jan 2020

there's a a fear or doubt that then leads to psychic or physiologic pain. Are you now feeling more settled and content? Allowing, cognitively, a more healthy activity to be your coping activity - running - released powerful substances not unlike less healthy addictive means of coping, drugs, alcohol, anger. It's why we should be aware and ready to learn a variety of useful skills, physically and mentally. Our brains have plasticity and are so capable of change when we cognitively learn how best to be more flexible in our thinking and activities.

Now you've got physiologic pain that reduces that compulsive need to run, objectively, but I see that imagination might still lead you back to that place. For a while, you'll need to find your passion in something that allows your body its power to heal - for a while, running undoubtedly made your body stronger, and that's a good thing as one ages, but those telomeres get shorter - it's an inevitability! Search and you'll find exactly what you need for your little while -- flexibly, over and over again. I wish you will make good and healthy choices without further addiction or lifetime regrets, those in favor of life itself--our time waits for no one!

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