Anxious Andrew

I’ve had this blog for so long that uh… I’ve gotten into things that I shouldn’t and I don’t want to have access to it anymore.

So uh. I’m making a new blog and I’ll be reblogging this to all the other blogs I have on this email and now I’m creating a new one so I might see yall some other time.

I would want to come back to this blog to read some of my posts, but that may not be for several years.

Grim was the world and grey last night: The moon and stars fled, The hall was dark without song or light, The fires were fallen dead. The wind in the trees was like to the sea, And over the mountains’ teeth It whistled bitter-cold and free, As a sword leapt from its sheath.

The lord of snows up-reared his head; His mantle long and pale Upon the bitter blast and spread And hung o’er hill and dale. The world was blind, the boughs were bent, All the ways and paths were wild: Then the veil of cloud apart was rent, And here was born a Child.

The ancient dome of heaven sheer Was pricked with distant light; A star came shining white and clear Alone above the night. In the dale of dark in that hour of birth One voice on a sudden sang: Then all the bells in Heaven and Earth Together at midnight rang.

Mary sang in this world below: They heard her song arise O’er mist and over mountain snow To the walls of Paradise, And the tongue of many bells was stirred In Heaven’s towers to ring When the voice of mortal maid was heard, That was the mother of Heaven’s King.

Since no one posted it, here it is some prints of the Chosen Adventures!

Mood <--> body language is a self-reinforcing loop; your mood dictates your language and also takes cues from the language to dictate your mood. So you can change your mood by changing the body language.

You ever seen a fake smile vs a real smile (or, if you suck at body language like me, had someone point it out to you?) The main difference is whether a muscle in the corner of the eye/upper cheek is contracted or not. This is a major cue that the body listens to to know if you're happy. So if that muscle's been relaxed for a long time (you're not smiling recently), you can make yourself happy by contracting that muscle.

You can also make yourself sad or angry by stimulating various face muscles but like. Why would you.

If you're feeling generally nervous or unsettled, stimulating your vagus nerve will reset a bunch of physiological functions and calm you down. You can do this via various different maneuvres involving tensing abdominal muscles or stretching muscles along the spine that I won't detail here but are easy to look up. This is also used to 'reset' a palpitating heart. Another way to calm down is to tense and then relax the whole body, or to slow and deepen your breathing (the body breathes faster and shallower when nervous so if you breathe slow and deep it goes "oh I guess I'm not nervous then" and starts to calm down).

Sometimes, your nerves are compressed and hanging can relax your vagus nerve.

Eating sweet foods also stimulates your vague nerve (so if you're having a really rough day and you just want to dive into a pint of ice cream or a tub of whipped topping, that's why).

Also, while it does increase your pain sensitivity while you are fasting, regular fasting as well as intermittent fasting increases your ability to switch from high stress to low stress situations without lasting effect, so if you're EMS, military, or another job with high stakes and lots of downtime, fasting one day a week can help tons with your ability to not have a heart attack at age 36.

“And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,” Mark‬ ‭9‬:‭47‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Also, yes, Jesus was friends with prostitutes and people of the like, but they didn’t stay that way. He didn’t want them to stay in the confines of that subculture of society. Jesus came to set the captives free.

The mentally captive.

As for the rest of it, imma just leave these here:

“I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.”

‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭2‬:‭8‬-‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.”

Matthew 6:25 additionally states:

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Jesus was concerned with self-control and right living regardless of what one ate or wore.

Jesus: