How to Remove Negative Thoughts? Sadhguru Jagadish Vasudev Answers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJCUC0mRkPo
Sadhguru: There are no subtractions and  divisions in our mind, there is only addition   and multiplication. ‘I will just remove negative  thoughts and I will have positive thoughts,’   all the best, it’s not going to work. It’s just  that you need to pay little attention as to how   it functions. You will see there is a distinction  between what is you and what you have gathered. Well, see the way the question is asked and also  the way normally it’s addressed is, people think   there is something called as negative thought and  positive thought. They want to remove the negative   thoughts and have only positive thoughts. For  such people, I would ask them to just experiment   for ten, fifteen seconds. Let them forcefully  remove one thought from their mind. For example,   next ten seconds, just don’t think of  a monkey. Try not to think of a monkey   for next ten seconds – you will see, you will  be full of monkeys. So, what I am saying is,   this is the nature of your mind, because  in this mind, all the three pedals are   throttle – there is no brake, there is no clutch  – whatever you touch, it will only go faster.
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In this kind of mind, people have been taught  from moral teachers and religious teachers,   “Do not think about bad things.” Well,  since then, it’s been a full-time job.   So, there is no way you can handle the mind like  this, this doesn’t need any great enlightenment.   If you spend two minutes with your eyes  closed, you will realize, you cannot do   anything forcefully with this mind. So, ‘I want to  remove negative thoughts,’ do not ever go in this   direction, because what you want to remove will  become your quality, always you will be on it.   “So, what should I do?” The thing is this –  without understanding the fundamental mechanism of   this mind, because our mind, human mind is the  most sophet… sophisticated computer on the planet.   Even all the supercomputers have come out of this.   When this is the case, is it not important that  we understand the mechanics of how it functions? One simplistic aspect of how  it functions is – there are no   subtractions and divisions in our mind, there  is only addition and multiplication. If you try   to do something with it, it will say, “One more.”  If you try hard, it will multiply into many more.   In this mind, you don’t try to identify what is  positive, what is negative and try to remove it.   First of all, one needs to understand, this  mind of yours, this body of yours is supposed   to serve you. The life that you are is important.  Body and mind are vehicles that must serve us. If you sit in a vehicle, it must go (Laughs),  where you want to go. If it goes to its own   destination, what is the point of such a  vehicle? It’s just a nuisance. Right now,   most human beings are unfortunately, experiencing  this fantastic possibility of human mind   as a nuisance, as a troublesome thing. Well,  this is the most beautiful thing you have.   It’s just that you need to pay little attention  as to how it functions. One simple thing is this –   first and foremost process is… that’s why  we put out this process called ‘Isha Kriya.’   This is to distance yourself from your  physiological and psychological process.   There is something called as, “You” which exists.  This is not a composite of all your thoughts and   emotions and physiological processes. Beyond  that, there is you. If you close your eyes,   even if you cannot see anything, you’re still  there. It is through the window of your eyes   that you are looking out, but if you close your  eyes, it doesn’t mean that you don’t exist,   you still exist. So, beyond your thought you  still exist, beyond your emotion you still   exist, so that you, the life that you are,  this has to come into your experience. Why is it that you’re not allowing  that to come into your experience,   which is the most significant aspect of who you  are? Who you are right now, the most significant   aspect is – you and me are alive right now,  this is it. ‘What I’m thinking, what you’re   thinking’ is not the important thing. We are  alive right now, that is the important thing.   So, it is important that you focus on this  fundamental sense of aliveness within you,   and then you will see there is a natural  distance between you and your thought process.
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Once there is a distance between your  psychological process and your physiological   process, this is the end of suffering. Because  there are only two kinds of suffering that human   beings go through – physical suffering and mental  suffering. Once you create a little space between   you and your mind, between you and your body, this  is the end of suffering. This is something every   human being has to experience and know, otherwise  thinking, “I will just remove negative thoughts   and I will have positive thoughts,” all the  best, it’s not going to work. One hundred percent   it’s not going to work, because nobody can  remove it, they can avoid it for some time. So, when negative thoughts come, you say,  “Ram, Ram, Shiva, Shiva,” whatever you want,   but this is just avoiding, it’s not gone. The  moment you stop that, it will pop back with   great force, otherwise it will come back in your  dreams. So, it’s very important. First of all, you   need to understand – your anger, your resentment,  your fear, your anxieties, the negativity that   you generate; generally resentment, anger,  it is always directed towards somebody.   But we need to understand this is poisons that we  are drinking and expecting somebody else to die. Fortunately, life doesn’t work like  that. If I drink poison, I die.   If I drink poison, you don’t die. So, we need to  understand this. When I say, “Poison” – today,   you can have yourself chemically analyzed. Right  now, ‘what is your blood work?’ What it says,   five minutes of intense anger, check your blood  work and see, there will be lots of negative   elements in it. Literally, you’re poisoning  yourself. So, do you want to poison yourself?   Definitely not. Now the very question is coming  from certain helplessness, ‘What shall I do?’ Don’t do anything. Just sit back and just concern  yourself with something which is the life process,   maybe your heartbeat, maybe your breath,  maybe just the sensation of being alive.   Depending upon how sensitive or how perceptive  you are, accordingly, find something, it could   be a sensation in the body, it could be breath,  it could be heartbeat, it could be anything,   something which indicates life to you. Just pay  attention to that for some time. Slowly, you will   see there is a distinction between what is you and  what you have gathered, which includes both your   physiological and psychological possibility  or mess, whatever you’ve made out of it.
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Just Let It Go | Bob Proctor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etLJnnGwtPM

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See, the point is, you don’t know how  much future you’ve got. What’s gone   is gone. There’s absolutely nothing you can  do about it. Some of you have had divorces.   Some of you have probably had bankruptcies. Some  of you’ve had terrible things happen in the past,  
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but what’s gone is gone. It’s in the past.   And to spend your time focusing on the past is  to spend the only thing that you’ve got, and   that’s what’s right here, right now, because the  sand never stops running. This is all we’ve got,  
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and to spend your time now  thinking of what happened there   is making absolute certain that the future  is going to be the same as the past.   I don’t suppose many of us spend  a lot of time thinking about that,  
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but a lot of us spend a lot  of time making that error.   That’s an excellent symbol. All you got is now.  I remember years and years ago, I suffered with   headaches, terrible headaches. I got to the point  where I was taking Bufferin for the headaches.  
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Then I got to the point where I was  taking Sinutab with codeine for headaches.   There was 16 in the bottle, and I got to the  point where I was taking two bottles a day.   As a matter of fact, most times I didn’t even  remember my head not aching, but I was sort of  
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numb all the time. Of course, with that much junk  in you, I guess you couldn’t be any other way.   I remember talking to this chap. I was in the  Hotel Vancouver and I was picking up two heavy   briefcases or suitcases, and I was in a real  rush to get the airport. He said, “What’s the  
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matter with you?” He said, “You look like you’re  going to pass out.” And I said, “I feel like I   am.” He said, “What’s the matter?” And I said, “My  head is aching so bad. I feel sick to my stomach.   Now, some of you suffer with this, and I felt  like banging my head against the wall, it was  
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so much pain. He said, “Go and sit down in that  chair.” And I said, “I don’t have time. I got to   catch a plane.” He said, “Listen, you can always  get another plane. You only get one head.”   He said to me, “Do you know what forgive means?”  
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And by the way he asked the question, I just  thought I probably don’t, and I said, “Well,   I don’t know.” He says, “Forgive means let  go of, completely abandon. Just let it go   unequivocally, no strings attached.” Now he  said, “If you want to rid yourself of headaches,  
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just forgive all the thoughts  that are on your mind   and you just listen to me,” and he put me in  a totally relaxed state. I felt better than I   had felt for years. You guys, you’re going  to find that your head is aching because  
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of the things you’re not letting go of, and it’s  causing tension and it’s causing an abnormal   state of vibration in the cells and the brain,  which causes the blood to rush to the head.   As you put yourself in a totally relaxed  state, you simply become programmed to relax.  
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I know that I would not be able to do what I  do, as often as I do it and as long as I do it,   if I wasn’t relaxed. Leland Val Vanderwall said  something when we were sitting having coffee,   and I jotted it down. Every time this guy  opens his mouth, he drops a pearl, and so wise.  
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He said, “Let us not look back in anger nor  forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”   Was there ever depth in that? Let’s not look  back in anger. Let’s quit thinking in reverse nor   forward in fear, but around us in awareness. I hope you enjoyed this video. We put a lot of  
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Life Lessons From 100-Year-Olds

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I’ve done all that I wanted to do.
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As long as I can be helpful and keep going.
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That’s the main thing.
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My name is Clifford, but call me Cliff Crozier and I was born on the 6th of September 1915. Makes me now a hundred and one.
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born in Birkenhead in the Wirral, Cheshire. Apart from the war and the time I was at college, I’ve been everywhere in my life. I’ve been retired now for thirty-eight years.
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It always pleases me though that I can keep robbing the government with my pension. hmm It’s just that you keep going. It’s only a number. A hundred and one is only a number and you live for the day.
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A spot of whiskey occasionally helps… …although it’s not on National Health.
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I have a pile of fond memories.
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I sometimes sit down in my chair and think of my past, and I try to sort of reorganize the story about these people that I have got in my mind and mix them up together first, and then pair them all. (laughs) And I think there are quite a few people out there that would be…
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…very very happy to be together because they are such lovely people that they are.
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Amelia Tereza Harper. Tereza, It’s Tereza because it’s Czechoslovakian. A hundred and three, my goodness me. Three is my lucky number. I have always been lucky. I’ve never been unlucky, touch wood. Oh, there’s wood underneath there.
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I was in Czechoslovakia when I was a young girl…
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…and I was living with my grandparents because my father was a prisoner of war.
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We came over to England to be with our father when he was released from the war. Everything makes me happy. I love talking to people. I like doing things. I like going out shopping.
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Once I go out shopping I don’t want to come back. (laughs) I don’t think there’s anything I really need to do…
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…because I’ve done practically everything that I ever wanted to do in the past. I’ve got beautiful memories you know.
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I can live happily forever after because of my lovely memories.
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Why Reading Is Important – 10 Shocking Benefits of Reading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbCJqdrzwcE
In a world where entertainment is right in our hands, you may ask yourself what is the point of reading? In today’s fast paced world, reading is becoming a dying habit because there are faster alternatives to consume on social media.
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I read about a book a month so I’m gonna give you my top 10 reasons on why reading is important and why you should read. 1.
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Reading is food for the brain.
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In my opinion, this is the biggest reason why reading is important.
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Just like how our body needs food to sustain itself and function optimally, our brain needs to continue learning new things to function at peak performance.
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The best part is that you can read fiction and non-fiction to get this benefit. Studies have shown that reading has the power to change your brain structure which makes you more empathetic and improves cognitive processes.
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By reading more, you become smarter since you are consuming a lot of information and you keep your brain in top shape.
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There’s this quote from Game of Thrones that sums this point up nicely.
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“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” Tyrion Lannister 2. You become better at conversations.
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Books help expand your vocabulary which you can then use to express yourself better. Your speech will then be more refined and intelligent.
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Also, since reading widens your knowledge, you are empowered to participate in an interesting conversation.
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With the knowledge you gained from reading, you can add a unique perspective or sustain your argument.
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In this case, reading non-fiction can be better because you can learn about topics that show up more often in a regular conversation like technology. But there are also instances where reading fiction can be better like when there’s a new popular movie out based on a book and you read the original source material. 3.
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You can get mentored by a successful person for a very cheap price. Think about how much a successful person’s knowledge is worth. People are willing to pay millions to have lunch with Warren Buffett.
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If you are a normal person like me, you don’t have that kinda money.
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But with books, you can get mentored by a successful person for less than $50.
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A book is literally the exact words, ideas, mindsets, advice, and even the experience of the author put into a collection of papers.
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It’s almost like if the person is right there next to you speaking to you.
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75% of self made millionaires reported that they read at least 2 books a month. The knowledge you can get from reading is irreplaceable. 4.
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Reading improves your focus and concentration.
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In our fast paced world today, our attention spans are really short. Reading a book can help fix this because when you read, your attention is only focused on the story and you can be fully immersed.
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You might even achieve a flow state where you are 100% focused and forget about the world around you.
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Try reading for 10-20 minutes before work on your morning commute and you might find yourself more focused and productive at the office. 5.
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Reading opens your mind.
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As a reader, you will interact with different stories from different people with different ideas and beliefs.
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This helps open your mind and be more accepting of others as well as improve your ability to judge other people’s character. 6.
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Reading helps relax you.
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When you are reading something good, your mind is more relaxed and the subject you are reading about might even bring inner peace.
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If you are reading fiction, while you may not be fed the images and sound like when you are watching a movie, you can experience the images and sound with your imagination. The feeling you get from finishing a book can be better than the feeling of finishing a Netflix episode. 7.
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Reading helps improve your memory.
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Whether you are following your favorite character through their journey or remembering tips on how to make more money, you will be using the memory area of your brain and keep it active.
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When you really need to remember something important, it will be easier.
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Every new memory you make creates synapses or brain pathways and strengthens existing ones so memorizing will get easier. 8.
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Reading helps you make decisions better.
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When you are armed with all sorts of knowledge, making a decision can be easier because you see all possible options.
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You can make educated guesses on how each choice will play out and pick the one you like best. 9.
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Reading can help you sleep better.
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It can be hard to sleep when there’s a lot of things going on in your mind. Reading for a short period of time can help push away what is bothering you internally.
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Also, we often use electronics late at night which don’t exactly help us sleep better because bright lights signal our brain its time to wake up.
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Reading a book instead can help but make sure you put it down once it’s time to sleep. 10.
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You become who you are meant to be.
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This is a bit cheesy but by reading, you can change your personality or beliefs.
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Books open up completely new worlds for us to grow and develop as a person. Do you read often? Leave a comment below and check out this playlist of book summaries if you are interested.
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How To Meditate For Beginners (Animated)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JslvBcIVtDg
– [Instructor] How to meditate for beginners. In this video, I’m gonna teach you everything that you need to know, from where to meditate, how you should meditate, how you should sit, if you should listen to music or not.
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I’m even going to tell you how to turn off your brain. Where should I meditate? Experts will tell you that you can meditate anywhere, but in my opinion, I think you should just pick a very quiet place where nobody can bother you.
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So this could be a bedroom, or a car, or a local library. Even a forest could work, just somewhere that’s very quiet and very peaceful. How long should I meditate for? I would recommend going for about five to 10 minutes. But it’s really important to set an alarm because if you don’t, you will always be thinking to yourself, has it been 10 minutes yet, should I stop? And the whole point of meditation is not to think. Also, quality is better than quantity here.
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In my opinion, being totally present and mindful for 10 seconds is way better than being a little bit present and mindful for 10 minutes. So longer is not necessarily better. What should I do with my body? Most people will tell you that you should not lay down when you meditate, but I don’t fully agree with this.
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I personally meditate twice a day, once in the morning then once before I go to bed.
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The only reason why I meditate at night is to help me sleep. So at night I will lay down.
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But in the morning, I will always sit because I don’t want to fall back asleep.
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But if you are only planning on meditating one time per day, definitely do it sitting, and I would recommend doing it in the morning. How should I sit? For total beginners, I would recommend sitting in a chair with your eyes closed, head facing forward, straight back, feet flat with your hands just relaxing on your legs. You will see Buddhist monks sitting cross legged with their feet facing up. This is the proper way to meditate.
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But I’ve personally noticed that a lot of newer people find this position to be very comfortable. I still think you should try it, but I would highly recommend just sitting normally in a crisscross position with your legs.
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But if that’s not comfortable, just sit in a chair. Once meditation becomes a daily habit, then we can try moving towards the Buddhist monk position. Should I listen to music? This one is really up to you.
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But for beginners, I would suggest listening to a very calm, relaxing piano song or maybe just something like nature sounds.
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I personally use an app called Relaxing Melodies. And no, this is not a sponsorship, and I listen to a song called “Eternity”.
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But meditating without music is totally fine as well. You have to just figure this out for yourself.
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Okay, now it’s time for the really important stuff. What should I do or what should I think about when I meditate? There are many different meditation techniques, but the one that I usually practice is something called mindfulness meditation.
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This is one of the most powerful meditation techniques in the entire world.
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And the whole idea around it, is to just focus on your breathing. When you are sitting down, you need to inhale through your nose, then exhale through your nose.
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But the key thing here is that you have to focus all of your attention on your breath, like the sensations of the air, hitting your nose, how the air fills your body and lungs, the slight pause between your inhale and your exhale. This focused attention is the thing that will get your brain to stop thinking.
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Now, many new people who try meditation will say things like, “I’m still thinking, “I have an itch that I keep scratching, “I can’t do this, meditation just doesn’t work for me.” It’s completely normal and to be expected to experience all of that stuff.
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I’ve been meditating twice a day for six years, and I still get itchy on my face, thoughts still come into my brain, but if you keep breathing, and you trust the meditation process, those thoughts and those itches will eventually go away.
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However, if you really are struggling not to think then you can use my little boy breathing hack. When I inhale through my nose, I will stick my belly out a little bit as if I’m filling up my belly with air. This is actually known as belly breathing, and it’s actually the most relaxing way to breathe. I know this sounds like incredibly simple and a bit silly, but I promise that if you try this, you will feel so much better, even throughout your day-to-day life.
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Now it’s time for the million dollar question. How can I actually get this habit to stick? The best way to build this habit is to establish a habit trigger.
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A habit trigger can be anything that triggers you to think about the habit that you’re trying to build. For example, I have a friend who wanted to start developing the habit of listening to audio books every single day. So every single time that he ate food, he would listen to an audio book, his habit trigger was eating.
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So every time he ate food, he immediately thought, “Oh, it’s time to listen to another audio book.” So if you’re meditating in the morning, I would recommend you using something like the shower as your habit trigger.
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So right after you shower, it’s time to meditate. Or maybe you can tell yourself that you can’t have your morning cup of coffee or even your breakfast until you meditate. And if none of that works, you can always just place a big sign on your door that says, you can’t leave the house until you meditate. If you want to feel inspired and amazing about meditation, then watch my video where I talk about the shocking benefits of meditation. And when I say shocking, I really do mean they are shocking.
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So feel free to click the screen now and I’ll see you there.
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Why Depression Isn’t Just a Chemical Imbalance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAC9ODvSxh0
[ ♪INTRO ] Chances are that you or someone you care about has experienced depression.
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It’s one of the most common mental health problems in the US.
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Around 16% of American adults will suffer from depression at some point in their life. Given how much we talk about and treat depression, it might seem like we’ve got it figured out, from a scientific perspective.
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But we do not understand as much about it as you might think.
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Especially what’s actually going on in your brain when you’re depressed.
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Doctors have defined depression, or at least agreed on a set of criteria to diagnose it. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, also known as the DSM, is the handbook healthcare professionals use to diagnose mental disorders.
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And the latest edition of the DSM lays out two key symptoms of depression. The first is feeling sad or depressed.
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But many depression sufferers experience this more as a lack of feeling, or numbness, rather than sadness. The second is a loss of interest or pleasure in activities that are normally enjoyable.
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You have to have at least one of these key symptoms, as well as 3-4 additional symptoms consistently, to be diagnosed with depression.
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Additional symptoms can include unpleasant things like: feeling worthless, difficulty sleeping or sleeping too much, difficulty concentrating and making decisions, or suicidal thoughts. Not all of your symptoms need to be severe, but as a group they can make it harder for you to function at work or school, in your relationships, or just in life.
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We know that depression isn’t simply a bad mood that you can snap out of — something is not functioning correctly in your brain. The question is what? One widespread impression among the public is that depression is caused by having too little serotonin. But that’s an oversimplification at best.
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Serotonin is a neurotransmitter — a chemical that neurons use to signal each other.
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When a neuron signals its neighbor, it releases a neurotransmitter, like serotonin, into the synapse — the space between itself and its neighbor.
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The serotonin molecules diffuse across the synapse and bind to their receptors on the neighboring neuron, transmitting the signal.
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Then the signalling neuron reabsorbs — or re-uptakes — its serotonin.
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Some of the most commonly used medications for depression are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs.
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SSRIs reduce the reuptake of serotonin, which increases the amount of serotonin hanging around synapses. But how these medications work and sometimes don’t work show that a lack of serotonin isn’t the only thing happening in the depressive brain.
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If that were true, you’d expect that SSRI medications to work pretty quickly, and to work for everyone with depression — but they don’t.
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Even though serotonin concentrations may go up right away when you take an SSRI, it can still take weeks for people to start feeling better.
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That is, if they even start feeling better at all. SSRIs simply don’t work for all patients.
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Research has identified a few other potential factors that could help us better treat depression. First off, serotonin isn’t the only neurotransmitter that plays a role.
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Research has shown that at least 5 other neurotransmitters could be involved, all of which serve many different functions in the brain and elsewhere in the body — it’s complicated! And the structure of our brains matters too — not just the chemicals inside them.
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Certain regions of the brain, and the connections between them, have been shown to be altered in depression. The amygdala, which helps us process emotions, and the hippocampus, which has a role in memory storage, are among the brain regions that undergo structural changes in some patients with depression. Changes like having a different size compared to people without depression, though we’re not sure what that means exactly yet.
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And rather than merely changing the levels of certain neurotransmitters, studies have shown that antidepressants can actually help new neurons grow in certain parts of the brain. Which may be one reason why SSRI medications typically take so long to work.
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Your brain could be growing new neurons, not just responding to a short-term change in chemical messengers. There’s likely a genetic component to depression as well.
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There is some evidence that depression can run in families, though the association isn’t particularly strong.
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A 2018 genome-wide study sampled a huge pool of genes in people with and without depression. It found 44 variants that seem to be associated with depression.
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These so-called “genes of interest” included genes previously shown to have a role in the growth of neurons — as well as some surprises, like genes previously shown to be involved in immune system function.
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But it’s unlikely that a particular gene or genes cause depression on their own. More likely, it could be the result of how your personal set of genes interacts with your environment and your experiences.
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Some studies have found that variants in certain genes can interact with major stressful events in childhood to affect the rate of depression in adults.
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But not all studies find such strong links between our genes and our environment. It’s still an active area of study.
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So depression is hard to figure out.
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There are so many factors involved, and they all interact with each other — from genetics and environment, to the chemistry and structure of the brain.
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The good news is that even though we don’t entirely understand how depression works, we still have ways to treat it that help lots of people.
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You don’t have to know exactly how an existing medication or treatment works to know that it does work — that patients may respond to it and feel better.
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Meanwhile, scientists are still working to tease out the many, intertwined causes of depression to develop new treatments. So there’s hope on the horizon. Even when you can’t see it.
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Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow Psych, which was supported by our community of patrons. To learn more, check out patreon.com/scishow.
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How Depression Affects The Brain – Yale Medicine Explains

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♪♪♪ – The current standard of care for the treatment of depression is based on what we call the monoamine deficiency hypothesis. Essentially presuming that one of three neurotransmitters in the brain is deficient or underactive.
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– Neurotransmitters can be thought of as the chemical messengers within the brain. It’s what helps one cell in the brain communicate with another to pass that message along.
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– But the reality is there are more than a hundred neurotransmitters in the brain and billions of connections between neurons.
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So we know that that’s a limited hypothesis. – For decades, we thought that the primary pathology, the primary cause of depression was some abnormality in these neuro-transmitters, specifically serotonin or norepinephrine.
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– However, norepinephrine and serotonin did not seem to be able to account for the symptoms of depression in people who had major depression.
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Instead, the chemical messengers between the nerve cells in the higher centers of the brain involved in regulating mood and emotion, which include glutamate and GABA, were possibilities as alternative causes for the symptoms of depression. – We know that these two, which are the most ubiquitous and abundant neurotransmitters in the brain, actually regulate how the brain is changing over time and adapting. – When you are exposed to severe and chronic stress like people experience when they have depression, you lose some of this connections between the nerve cells and the communication in these circuits becomes inefficient and noisy.
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Because of the noisy communication in the circuits involved in regulating mood and emotion, we think that the loss of these synaptic connections contributes to the biology of depression.
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– It’s critical to understand the neurobiology of depression and how the brain plays a role in that for two main reasons. One, it helps us understand how the disease develops and progresses and we can start to target treatments based on that. – There are clear differences between a healthy brain and a depressed brain. And the exciting thing is when you treat that depression effectively, the brain goes back to looking like a healthy brain.
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– We recognize that the treatment for depression is a longterm process because for many people depression is a longterm disorder.
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So we need new treatments.
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We’ve needed new ways to approach depression for people that haven’t responded well to their prior treatments.
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– We are in a new era of psychiatry. This is a paradigm shift away from a model of monoaminergic deficiency to a fuller understanding of the brain as a complex neurochemical organ.
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Improve Your Memory In 4 Minutes

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– [Jessica] We all wish we were better at remembering something, but many of us use the excuse that– – My brain can only hold so much information. – [Jessica] Or.
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– I’m just really bad at remembering names.
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– Turns out there’s no such thing as a terrible memory, only an untrained one.
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(upbeat music) For a national poll, 800 Americans were asked if they had forgotten one of these things in the last week.
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Results showed that forgetting someone’s name was one of the most common memory lapses. – [Man] The biggest reason why we’re bad at remembering names is because we often don’t hear the name. – [Jessica] That is Kevin Horsley.
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He is one of the few memory champions in the world to complete the Mt. Everest of memory challenges which involves memorizing 10,000 digits of Pi. – [Kevin] You’ve had this experience before.
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You meet someone, and they say their name is John. You don’t hear the name, and just move on. And you come back like, “What was his name again?” Because you actually didn’t hear it in the first place. – [Jessica] 90% of the information we receive is visual, so we store more images in our memory than sounds which makes it harder to recognize and remember names when we first hear them.
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– [Kevin] The first thing you have to do is concentrate and make a point of hearing the name, then, you have 20 seconds to give that name some kind of meaning to make it stick. – [Jessica] The best trick to give meaning to a name is to transform it into a silly picture. For example, when you hear the name Horsley, you can picture a horse and Bruce Lee.
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For the name Orwig, maybe picture an oar wearing a wig. The more ridiculous looking the image the better. – [Kevin] It sticks in your mind because we don’t remember things that are logical.
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We remember things that are illogical. So, what you do is you stick it in your memory in an illogical way, and afterwards you can think about it logically.
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– Once you can creatively picture any new information, you’re ready for the next trick.
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Horsley calls it by a few names: the Body Method, the Car Method, and the Journey.
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– [Kevin] They all work on the same principle that they are all things that are in your long-term memory. You know exactly what your body looks like.
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You know exactly what your car looks like. You don’t have to think about it.
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– The trick is to imprint new information onto old knowledge.
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And what you’re really doing here is creating new synaptic connections in your brain, which makes it easier to remember new information, and then convert into long-term memory.
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For example, let’s trying learning all of the films that won the Oscars for Best Picture in the 90s using our body. Let’s start with our feet.
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So, in 1990 the film that won Best Picture for that year was Dances with Wolves.
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You can picture yourself wearing wolf-shaped slippers and dancing in them.
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(upbeat music) Okay, in ’91, Silence of the Lambs won Best Picture, so your knees are knocking together in fear making a lot of noise, so you grab a lamb-shaped pillow to silence them. Moving up your body to your waist.
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In ’92, Unforgiven won Best Picture.
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So, picture a belt that’s really tight wrapped around your waist.
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It’s really uncomfortable and unforgiving. And as you move down the list, you move up your body. Once you have the hang of it, you can use other settings to store, not just lists, but libraries of knowledge. Take a mental journey through your room, or home, to learn all 197 capitals of the world, for example.
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– [Kevin] The journey is what all memory champions are using. This method may seem silly, but what it does is it impacts your memory.
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So, it’s going to be easier for you to repeat it, then, it’s going to be easier for you to use it, and then, you won’t be thinking about these silly images anymore. – [Jessica] Like anything in life, improving your memory takes practice, but the more you learn, the more connections you can build making it easier to learn even more.
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So, the possibilities are endless. Take Horsley, for example, as a child he had issues with dyslexia. By the time he graduated high school, he was reading at a speed of about a five-year-old. Shortly after graduation, however, he got interested in memory. Today, he reads one book a day, speaks three languages fluently, and has earned the coveted title of International Grandmaster of Memory. – [Kevin] For me, it’s been a journey.
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I’ve been studying this for almost 30 years, and everyday I’m still learning something new when it comes to memory.
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How To Increase Your Brain Power | 5 Effective Tips To Improve Memory | Letstute

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Hello friends.
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Few days ago, we made a video on five habits that damage the brain. And that video got an amazing response.
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But many of our viewers wanted to know about five habits that boosts our brain power. So here it is today.
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In this video, we are going to give you five habits that enhance brain power. So let’s start tip number one, follow Mediterranean diet.
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A traditional Mediterranean diet consists of loads of fresh fruits, veggies, whole grains, legumes, nuts, fish, healthy fats like olive oil, Etc. It has been proven that it improves your brain health.
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So do include a Mediterranean diet in your diet plan. Tip, number two, learn an instrument.
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It has been proven that learning to play a musical instrument changes brain waves with Boost listening and hearing skills over a short period of time.
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Basically playing an instrument turns on every single area of the brain. Simultaneously.
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This can result in Long positive changes in your brain tip number three play games according to research, complex brain teasers, which include readjusting strategies and complex planning, helps in increasing memory playing games like chess, Sudoku, crossword puzzles will lead to structural changes because of which your brain gets sharpened. Tip number four, eat dark chocolate.
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Yes, you heard it right? Consuming dark chocolates can make you smarter according to research consuming flavanol. Cocoa 45 days improves blood flow to the brain.
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Also, consumption of cocoa May significantly improve cognitive in older adults with mild cognitive impairment tip number five, meditation, meditating daily for at least 10 to 15 minutes extends cognitive lonja tea.
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And also it decreases stress level.
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So these were the scientifically proven tips to enhance a brain power. We hope you like this video for more such videos subscribe our Channel and press the Bell icon to get notified. Thank you.
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What causes headaches? – Dan Kwartler

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In ancient Greece, headaches were considered powerful afflictions. Victims prayed for relief from Asclepius, the god of medicine. And if pain continued, a medical practitioner would perform the best-known remedy— drilling a small hole in the skull to drain supposedly infected blood. This dire technique, called trepanation, often replaced the headache with a more permanent condition.
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Fortunately, doctors today don’t resort to power tools to cure headaches. But we still have a lot to learn about this ancient ailment. Today, we’ve classified headaches into two camps— primary headaches and secondary headaches.
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The former are not symptomatic of an underlying disease, injury, or condition; they are the condition.
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But we’ll come back to them in a minute because while primary headaches account for 50% of reported cases, we actually know much more about secondary headaches. These are caused by other health problems, with triggers ranging from dehydration and caffeine withdrawal to head and neck injury, and heart disease.
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Doctors have classified over 150 diagnosable types, all with different potential causes, symptoms, and treatments.
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But we’ll take just one common case —a sinus infection—as an example. The sinuses are a system of cavities that spread behind our foreheads, noses, and upper cheeks. When our sinuses are infected, our immune response heats up the area, roasting the bacteria and inflaming the cavities well past their usual size. The engorged sinuses put pressure on the cranial arteries and veins, as well as muscles in the neck and head.
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Their pain receptors, called nociceptors, trigger in response, cueing the brain to release a flood of neuropeptides that inflame the cranial blood vessels, swelling and heating up the head. This discomfort, paired with hyper-sensitive head muscles, creates the sore, throbbing pain of a headache. Not all headache pain comes from swelling.
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Tense muscles and inflamed, sensitive nerves cause varying degrees of discomfort in each headache.
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But all cases are reactions to some cranial irritant. While the cause is clear in secondary headaches, the origins of primary headaches remain unknown. Scientists are still investigating potential triggers for the three types of primary headaches: recurring, long-lasting migraines; intensely painful, rapid-fire cluster headaches; and, most common of all, the tension headache. As the name suggests, tension headaches are known for creating the sensation of a tight band squeezed around the head. These headaches increase the tenderness of the pericranial muscles, which then painfully pulse with blood and oxygen.
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Patients report stress, dehydration, and hormone changes as triggers, but these don’t fit the symptoms quite right. For example, in dehydration headaches, the frontal lobe actually shrinks away from the skull, creating forehead swelling that doesn’t match the location of the pain in tension headaches. Scientists have theories for what the actual cause is, ranging from spasming blood vessels to overly sensitive nociceptors, but no one knows for sure.
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Meanwhile, most headache research is focused on more severe primary headaches. Migraines are recurring headaches, which create a vise-like sensation on the skull that can last from four hours to three days.
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In 20% of cases, these attacks are intense enough to overload the brain with electrical energy, which hyper-excites sensory nerve endings.
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This produces hallucinations called auras, which can include seeing flashing lights and geometric patterns and experiencing tingling sensations. Cluster headaches, another primary headache type, cause burning, stabbing bursts of pain behind one eye, leading to a red eye, constricted pupil, and drooping eyelid. What can be done about these conditions, which dramatically affect many people’s quality of life? Tension headaches and most secondary cases can be treated with over-the-counter pain medications, such as anti-inflammatory drugs that reduce cranial swelling. And many secondary headache triggers, like dehydration, eye strain, and stress, can be proactively avoided.
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Migraines and cluster headaches are more complicated, and we haven’t yet discovered reliable treatments that work for everyone. But thankfully, pharmacologists and neurologists are hard at work cracking these pressing mysteries that weigh so heavily on our minds.
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