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Only nasal breathing infuses each breath with nitric oxide, a free radical that kills germs, and dilates the blood vessels which promotes relaxed feelings. It is a core strategy that coupled with the will to achieve something important to the individual guarantees improved performance and understanding.

The Inner Game theory of relaxed performance demonstrates that the highest potential performance is often achieved by allowing the self freedom to fail, thereby heightening the ability to succeed when pressure of performance is lessened and feedback on performance becomes holistic and self regulating. This idea is akin to the Zen mind where the focus on nothingness allows comprehension of reality in ways that are closed to the mind which seeks answers in panic.

Essentials of treatment: in every session

1. Find out the goals of the client for this session.
2. Develop rapport for the session
3. Make interesting what ever you make as suggestions to improve their lives, that is, the suggestion must be: easy to comprehend, easy to do, demonstrably effective in the moment, and must lead to the client seeing improvement toward their goal.
4. Use your brand as a gatekeeping mechanism to select those clients most effectively treatable by you.

Achieving our client' goals is the bench mark of success in every service field. Personality may be the vehicle of delivery but the achievement of what the client came for is what keeps the client coming back.

We do not need to know 'how successful' by any other standard than the regular presence of the client when the client is in need.

Humanity agreed to have stability and guarantee of resources. https://phys.org/news/2019-10-private-property-productivity-precipitated...

Breathing and relaxation techniques for the anxious male is more than accepting who you are, it is about utilizing who you are to achieve stability, peace of mind, safety and advancement of a career.

The highly sensitive person is always in a state of agitation, which when properly trained, is enthusiasm.

What makes an intervention succeed is autonomy

Art comes from fear, love and anger, as does language

Fear of stronger agencies, both people and government,

love of self, one another, concepts, family

anger at oppression, loss of love, life and liberty

Conditional cash transfer implies debt, moral psychological

Anatomy of the Temporal Lobe, J. A. Kiernan. (Epilepsy Research and Treatment, Volume 2012, Article ID 176157, 12 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/176157
"Electrical stimulation of the human amygdala causes feelings of fear. In laboratory animals, such stimulation leads to autonomic and other behavioural responses associated with fear"

(Editor: this picture of a bell curve is a place holder that will be replaced with a more detailed bell curve illustrating standard deviations, which are the values in the equations below.)

From: What are the economic impacts of conditional cash transfer programmes? A systematic review of the evidence, 2012, Naila Kabeer

(Underlining and italics in this summary were done by Robert Marek, not the author, and reflect the opinions of this reviewer, his comments are noted as such.)

Here is the article:

Pre-trauma verbal ability at five years of age and the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in adult males and females

Kim Steven Betts, Gail M. Williams, Jacob M. Najmanb; William Borc; Rosa Alatiad

Higher power is what is more important to be than the addiction

The amygdala creates a sense of urgency. Real feelings shaking us.

Marriage counseling is about making the relationship healthy. Healthy is about not being anxious in communication.

Some of the great coaches equate relaxation with the ability to concentrate. It seems concentration is ideal as a state of mind for accomplishment of a goal. The fundamentals of concentration are being rested, having practiced the skills of performance to a high degree and having a goal.

See Bud Winter, Relax and Win

I believe that for some highly anxious people, breathing comfortably is a fundamental skill.

Interesting title as Anxiety is a leading cause of discomfort and incapacity in clients as well as the hungry beast in the daily agenda of causes that are espoused as worthy of Social Work attention and action.

Three domains exist because we, the sw, connect with people differentially. The core of social work is the professional growth of philanthropy. Philanthropic feelings need refinement if caring for the welfare of individuals as they must function in a social environment.

Statistics
Religion as cure
Drugs as cure
Pills as cure

The amygdala is a two almond shaped organ in the brain that does damage control without thinking.

Satring with the right foot, tighten it up

Cannabinoid receptors. Wainscoting event. Purpose cannabinoid receptors, The bypassing of significance appreciation and planning. Cannabis is a parasite on humanity.

In one of the short stories about Sherlock Holmes, the author describes a client of Sherlock as going into a ‘brown study’

Wouldn't it be great to be able to loan money to C1 for a car, anxiety and physical health impacted by losses; potential for sustainable financial stability improved by having a reliable vehicle.

Or, C2 whose financial worries are exponentially compounded by emotional losses and poor self regard. Wouldn't it be great to offer her down payment for rent.

The need to help people is real, most can pay it back on a graduated scale. Some cannot pay it back and wouldn't it nice to be make a cash transfer directly to the vendor of the client's needed service.

EMDR is like hypnosis, leaving a cavity of missing negative feeling, but a feeling it was nonetheless. How to instill joy of life in its place? Remove fear, you said. Again, this is a removal of feeling trapped, a good thing in itself but not more than an instillation of hope and support for future action. Respecting and enlarging their 'Purpose' in life may be useful to having an interactive life in a community, you say. So, let us make sure we understand what the person sees as their purpose before removal of a negative emotion/memory.

What is the health that I as a Professional Social Worker want for my clients?
It is seen in their autonomy and ability to nurture others. Health is not static nor isolated to an individual.

Community is given and bestowed person to person.

To intrude, without being intrusive
To help without becoming needed

Who is this gentleman that has done so much for marginalized people in India and Pakistan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazle_Hasan_Abed

I can only applaud his richness of spirit and ability to focus on twin goals of poverty alleviation and self sustainment. Impressive.

Nature favors abundance:

The peacock, nest building by the male for the female, the sun and thermal vents in the sea. Scarcity promotes violence and duplicity.

Humanity takes the accumulation of abundance to excess with its ability to accumulate wealth.
Slavery represents the worst form of weaponized economics, where the cost of overseeing a slave is less than the cost of free labor.

What lesson can be learned from slavery where the availability of tractable human life is a resource? Can we mitigate the burden for those who want to be free to work?