#especially tricky if you yourself have many and MANY weaknesses and traumas and problems and flaws cuz now and then

[kisaraslover]

"seto kaiba is so gay" cant even get obsessed with a man as a result of your own infinite inferiority superiority complex crumbling because of said mans Stable-Home-Raised-Swag completely annihilating your smoke and mirrors ego with the only choices left being "win against him or die trying to go back to how strong you used to be" or "face your own mortality and pain and weakness" on this stupid gay earth. im a lesbian im not attracted to atem. if i die trying to dominate him its ON ME and MY PERSONAL INSANITY and not attraction. some of us wanna dominate not because we are horny but because we are evil hope this helps

[saferincages]

(you might say we are encouraged to love)

I received an ask requesting I make this response its own post in full (which of course I don’t mind doing!) so here it is:

An anon in the original post asked why, “Anakin/Vader is seen as interesting for women,” and that could be a bit of a loaded question, but I think there’s a definite rationale behind it. The way it was phrased made me think of a post I saw which addressed the fundamental split between Anakin and Vader as seen by certain audiences, why Anakin is treated by many derisively because there’s an element of the “heroine’s journey” that happens in relation to his arc and the struggles he goes through. It’s here and it’s really interesting in its entirety. “The constant barrage of degradation and trauma and unfairness of a system that benefits at your expense and refuses to validate you for it. And some of that he might have been able to reconcile by “growing up,” the same way a lot of us learn to come to terms with social fuckery, but Anakin doesn’t get the space to do that. He gets a giant bundle of unaddressed trauma and psychological issues and handed a kind of ambiguous destiny about needing to save the entire universe.” <- Imagine the burden of that, and they put it on a child and then give him zero structure to cope with it.

I’m also going to add this comment from that post because I think it’s worthwhile to note: if someone makes you angry and you show anger with your very own face you are weak, you have lost face, you have shown yourself vain and driven by a selfish, animal, irrational, feminine urge to defend yourself; but if you show anger without a face, if you show it unpersonally (the less it’s connected to direct accusation or a specific ill), especially in order to execute a role, then you suddenly appear to be the one in the position of strength, because you can no longer be directly accused of selfishness. The more you can cloak anger in the guise of necessity, the more you meet the societal expectation to be dispassionate, rational, always controlled - the more justification and legitimacy and power to you, even though this mode of anger is often more destructive than the first. This dynamic, assuming it exists as I’ve hypothesized it, is why I think Anakin codes as feminine to many, while Vader appeals to a certain masculine ideal.

Basically, the gist of it is that the emotional turmoil, the trauma, the way he’s exploited for his talents or what he can provide others, the way his agency is stripped repeatedly from him again and again tends to not be the way “male” hero journeys are told. It’s feminine coding (unfortunately) for those themes to be explored. For those emotions to be plumbed and portrayed with a substantive sense of sorrow and helplessness in the central male hero - it is not the “macho” standard. Why they thought they’d get a macho, unyielding masculine power trip from Anakin Skywalker remains a mystery to me, this is the same series where its original hero, Luke (who is his son! of course there were going to be essential parallels and contrasts between them), purposefully throws his weapon away and refuses to fight, and is characterized by his capacity for intrinsic compassion rather than any outer physical strength (even Han is much less of a “macho” guy than dudebros tend to make him out to be - not only because he’s unmistakably the person in distress who has to be rescued from capture in ROTJ, he has a lot of interesting facets that break down that ‘scoundrel’ stereotype, but I digress other than to say I love the OT, and the subtle distinctions in Luke, Leia, and Han that make them break the molds of expectation). SW fundamentally rejected toxic masculinity and the suppression of emotions from its inception, Luke’s loving triumph and role as redeemer only happens because he refuses to listen when he’s told to give up on his friends or on his belief that there’s good in his father, his softness is his ultimate strength. Anakin was never going to be some epitome of tough masculinity, and George Lucas knew exactly what he was doing crafting him in that way. The audiences who wanted Bad Seed Anakin from the beginning didn’t know how to reconcile this sensitive, kind-hearted, exceedingly bright kid, with their spawn of the Dark Side notions, and I think, unfortunately, far too many then either rejected him completely or refused to understand what the central points in his characterization are about.

The fact that this narratively would have made no sense (if Anakin had been “born bad,” then there would have been no miraculously surviving glimpse of light for Luke to save - I’ve said this before, but imagine how profoundly essential to his true self that goodness had to be for it to even exist any more at that point, after all he’d suffered, after all he’d done. the OT tells us more than once what a good man Anakin Skywalker was, it’s part of what makes the father reveal as powerful as it is - if we hadn’t heard the fragments of stories about Luke’s father, it wouldn’t be nearly as shocking, but we KNOW he was a hero, an admirable man, a good friend). I can’t fathom how tricky telling the prequels had to have been to that extent - the audience knows what will happen in the end, it’s a foregone conclusion, we know he will fall, we know Vader will be created, we know the Empire will rise (though that would have happened even if Anakin had remained in the light, which is a whole other discussion). So the question became, who is this person? What influenced him? What shaped his destiny? And that ended up being a far more complex and morally fraught and stirringly emotional story than just “badass Jedi becomes badass Sith lord.”

That talented, highly intelligent boy is taken in by the Jedi after he has already developed independent thought and very intricate emotional dimension - the argument that he’s “too old” to be trained is because he’s not malleable enough to be indoctrinated the way Jedi usually treat the children they take. They may blame this on his attachment to Shmi, but she’s not the problem (if anything, had they not been so unfeeling and rigid, and had they freed her and allowed her to at least stay in contact with her son while he was training because it was a special case - they’re the ones who stick that “Chosen One” mantle on him, you’re telling me they couldn’t make an exception? but no, because they put that weight on him and then never help him carry it and constantly undermine it and question and mistrust him - Anakin would have been stronger in his training, and he would never have fallen to the Dark Side at all. There are so many moments, over and over, where his fall could have been averted, and everyone fails him to the bitter end, when he fails himself). 

And so he is traumatized, due to years of abuse and difficulties as a slave, due to having to leave his mother behind because the Jedi would not free her, due to being told to repress his emotions over and over again when he is, at his core, an intuitive and perceptively empathetic person (he wants to uphold that central tenet of his training - “compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is central to a Jedi’s life”), yet he’s made to feel he is broken/wrong/constantly insufficient. He’s wounded by abandonment issues and lack of validation and the human connection/affection he craved, and he develops an (understandable) angry streak, he’s socially awkward due to the specific constraints/isolation of a Jedi’s life and due to the fact that they tried to stamp out what made him uniquely himself, which makes him continually conflicted with a never-ending pulse of anxiety (see absolutely ANY moment where he breaks down emotionally, and you’ll see him say something to the effect of “I’m a Jedi, I know I’m better than than this,” “I’m a Jedi, I’m not supposed to want [whatever very basic human thing he wants, because they make him feel like he can’t even ask for or accept scraps of decency]” - they fracture his sense of his own humanity, Padme tries to validate those feelings but that Code is a constant stumbling block in his mind). He is troubled by fear and the constant press of grief (I would argue he has PTSD at the very least), and all around he’s met by mistrust and sabotage. 

Male heroes shouldn’t be treated as infallible in their own narratives (none of them are that, as no character of whatever gender/origin is, as none of us are), but at the very least we usually see them treated with respect by others. Anakin often gets no such luxury. He’s treated the way we frequently see women treated, and that treatment comes from the same rotten core - the idea that emotions are weak, that expressing them makes you lesser, that crying is a sign of deficiency, that fragility of any kind cannot be tolerated. Anakin is even the hopeless romantic in this situation - Padme, while gracious and warmhearted, is much more pragmatic and tries to reason her way out of her blossoming love for him until she’s of the belief that it doesn’t matter anyway because they’re about to die, and she wants him to know the truth before they do. (I’d also like to note that the closest people to him all speak their love aloud when they’re at the point of death - Shmi when he finds her bound and tortured with the Tuskens, Padme in the Arena, Obi-Wan watching him burn on Mustafar, and how unbearably sad is that? even though his mother had said it before, even though he got to hear it many times again from Padme - and it’s her last entreaty to him - we shouldn’t be pushed to the brink of death to express it). Anakin is the one gazing at her dreamily and tearing up about it and professing earnest, dramatic love in front of the fireplace (idc what anyone says about the dialogue, the way he expresses himself is entirely sincere, it’s the rawness of that sincerity that I think makes people uncomfortable bc it’s unexpected), she’s the one who talks about living in reality. She, too, has been taught to guard and temper her emotions from her time as a child queen and the years she’s spent navigating the murky political waters of the Senate, but she’s become adept at it, unlike Anakin. If anything, they’re the only person the other has with whom they can be truly genuine and unafraid of exposing the recesses of their hearts, they’re the only safe place the other has, it’s no wonder they give themselves over to that, and the fact that they do is beautiful, it’s not wrong (which I have more cohesive thoughts on here and it was the underlying thesis of my heart poured into the super long playlist for them too /linking all the things). They see the joy and spirit in the other that no one else ever sees, and they make a home there.

Anakin becomes an esteemed general not only because he’s awesome in battle and strong in the Force and a gifted pilot and a skilled leader (all of which are true), but because he shows those around him respect, and great care. So, yet again, there’s a subversion of what might have been expected. No one is expendable to him. He views the Clone troops as individual human beings. He mourns their losses (many of the Jedi, with their no attachments rhetoric, allow the Clones to be used without much hesitation or thought for their status as sentient beings born and bred and programmed to die in war, but Anakin was a slave. He comprehends their status more than anyone else could). Anakin is a celebrated hero to the public, and in private is being chewed up by fear and uncertainty. Anakin is devoted to and completely in love with his wife, but has to keep it a secret. Anakin still craves freedom that even being a Jedi has not afforded him, because of their rigor. Anakin still desperately has to scrape for even the bare minimum of approval from the authority figures around him - even his closest mentor and friend, Obi-Wan, while they are irrevocably bonded and care for each other in a myriad of important ways, often doesn’t understand him and dismisses his feelings, refuses to advocate for/stand up for him when he needs it, or tells him to calm down. I’m surprised they never tell him he’s being hysterical when he gets upset, but the connotation of being told to “calm down” when angry or sorrowful or frustrated is something most women can identify with all too well. His desperate desire to protect Padme as everything begins to curl and smoke and turn to ash around him has a very clear nurturing aspect to it underneath the layers of terror and frustration and building paranoia - all he really wants is to be able to protect and care for his family, all he hopes is to save them and have a life with them away from all the war and the political in-fighting and the stifling Order. He’d quit right that second but he needs help due to his nightmares, and no one is willing to give it to him. (Except, ostensibly, Palpatine, who has been grooming him and deftly manipulating him and warping his perceptions since he was a child, all under the guise of magnanimous, almost paternal, care. Palpatine is brilliant in his machinations, perfectly cunning in his evil. He knows exactly how to slip in and break people, and he plays Anakin to the furthest extreme. I’m not saying Anakin doesn’t have choices, he does, and he makes the worst possible ones, but Palpatine pulls the strings in a way that makes him feel that he has no agency - and in truth, he does have very little agency throughout every step of his arc, marrying Padme and loving her in spite of the rules is one of the only independent choices he ever makes that isn’t an order, a demand, a fulfilling of duty - and Palpatine poises himself as the answer to all the problems, if Anakin does as he’s told. He’s been hard-wired to take orders for too long. He is so damaged by this point, and so distrusting - Hayden said something once about how Anakin is still very naive in ROTS, even after what he’s been through in the war, he’s still so young and unknowing about many things, and then his naivete is shattered by complete and utter disillusionment, and that shock is terrible and incomprehensible for him, so he clings to the one source of power he’s given, and it’s catastrophic). He is haunted by grief and impeded by fear of loss, and it drags him into an abyss. We watch all of this happen with bated breath, we see everyone fail him, we see every moment where he could have been helped, we see every path he could take if only he had the ability to stand up for himself and had been given the tools to cope with his psychological and emotional baggage, we see that he very nearly turns back, up until the death knell at the end. We know it’s coming from the moment they land on Tatooine and meet him and decide to make him a Jedi. We know, and we still hope for it to turn out differently. We know, and it still breaks our hearts.

I don’t want to make blanket statements about typical male viewers vs. typical female viewers, that’s too dismissive of a stance to take, but on a seemingly wider scale, I don’t think many of the former (especially the ones who were either older fans or who were teenagers themselves at the time) were as interested in political nuance and a tale of abiding love and a young man burdened with more than should ever have been put on his shoulders. Since the question was basically “why does he appeal to women,” (and not just cishet women) I imagine that the answer to that varies greatly depending on any one perceptive outlook, but has a similar core in each case of us wishing we could help change the outcome, even though we know we can’t, and of wanting to understand his actions and his pain, wanting to see his positive choices and his goodness validated, wanting to see him learn healthy strategies, wanting to see his love flourish, wanting to see him freed from the shackles he drags with him, from childhood to Jedi to Vader. The crush of the standards of society and expectation on him may speak to many. He is never liberated (until his final moments of free breath). His choices are either taken or horrifically tainted. His voice is drowned out by those more powerful around him. His talents and intelligence go largely unrecognized. His good, expansive heart is treated like a hindrance. The depth of his empathy and love is underestimated - and that, in the end, is important, because that underestimation, ending with Palpatine, becomes the Dark Side’s ultimate downfall and undoing. Vader may literally pick up an electric Palpatine and throw him down a reactor shaft, but that physical action is the final answer to a much more complete emotional and spiritual journey. He throws him down and the chains go with the slave master, and for the first time, certainly since before he lost Padme, his heart is unfettered, his love is reciprocated, and he is offered a true voice, a moment of his true self, a sliver of forgiveness, before being embraced again by the transcendence of the light. It is his act of rebellion, it is his own personal revolution, his final blow in the war. The entirety of the arc hinges upon him in that moment, Luke has been valorous and immeasurably valuable, but he’s done all he can do - the final choice is Anakin’s (and it’s such an interesting case because where else have we ever been able to fear and appreciate a villain, and then totally transform and re-contextualize him?). He is in that moment, indeed, the Chosen One.

All these facets are fascinating to watch unfold if you’re willing to be open-minded and heartfelt and sympathetic to the journey, if you’re willing to dig into the complex depth of his pathos.

I remember seeing AOTC as a teenager, and my love was Padme, she was where I was invested, I identified with her, I loved her kindness and her bravery and her sense of honor and justice, I loved that her femininity did not in any way diminish her and was an asset, I loved that, while she takes charge and has the fortitude to rush headlong to the rescue, while she can fight and tote a gun and blast a droid army as well as anyone, her superpowers are her intellect and her giving heart and gentle spirit. I totally get why Anakin holds onto the thread of hope she gives to him for all of those years, and why he falls in love with her as he does, but since I felt a lot of the story through her eyes, I understood why she was drawn to and fell in love with him, too. He’s dynamic and a bit reckless, he’s courageous, but he’s vulnerable and needs support, he’s deeply troubled but also radiantly ebullient at times (the scene in the meadow where she’s so touched by the carefree joy he exhibits, how it delights her and takes her aback, because she’s almost forgotten what it is to feel that, she’s almost forgotten other people could, and here he is, warm and teasing and spirited), he is often guileless, especially with her, he’s fervent and loving in a way she’s never seen or experienced, and that love is given with abandon to her. Who…wouldn’t fall in love with that? It’s a gravitational pull. AOTC impacted me in certain other personal ways as well, I was trying to understand some nascent hollows of grief (Anakin losing his mother as he does was very affecting and heartwrenching for me, at the time I’d lost my grandfather to whom I was quite close, and I’m also really close to my own mom, so his woe had an echo to me), but that vision that I specifically had of their love, the way I interpreted it (which I may not have had words for at the time, but I certainly had the emotional response) was a dear and formative thing.

I talked about this here, but to rephrase/reiterate, by the time ROTS came out, my life had shifted completely on its axis. I was still young, but my much dreamier teenage self was being beaten down and consumed by illness, and I was angry. Anger is not a natural emotion for me (guilt and self-blame tend to be where I bury anger), and I really didn’t know what to do with it. Everything felt unfair and uncertain, like there was no ground at all to stand on. I hurt all the time, literally and figuratively, I was in constant pain. I was lonely and frightened and sleep deprived and often had nightmares (this is still kind of true lol, as is the physical pain part). Padme was still my heart and touchstone - as she remains so to this day in this story - but suddenly I understood Anakin in a much more profound way, one I’ve held onto because he’s important to me and I love him. I felt his rage, his anguish, his desire to do something, anything, to somehow change or influence the situation, to rectify his nightmares, to cling to whatever might make a difference, might save him from being drowned in the dark and from losing everything that made him who he was as a person. Seeing him try and knowing he would fail was devastating, but also…relatable, in an abstract way (obviously not the violent parts, but thematically, I felt some measure of what it was to scramble up a foundation that is disappearing beneath you, that your expectations and dreams of what your life would be can vanish in disintegrating increments). All I wanted was for someone to help rescue him, because all I wanted was for someone to help rescue me. All I wanted was the hope that things could turn around - and there is hope in ROTS, despite the unending terror and tragedy, it’s never entirely gone, because Star Wars exists as a universe with the blazing stars of hope and love ever ignited at its center - but still, it was a very personally rooted emotional exploration for me, and I only started to deal with my own floundering anger when I saw how it might consume the true and loving and softer parts of me if I didn’t hold it back. (A few years later, I went through this again in an even worse way, and the source of that rage and despair was someone I cared for, and once I got through the worst bleak ugliness of it, there were a couple of stories I returned to in an attempt to gain newfound solace and comprehension, and Anakin and Padme were in there. My compassionate, hopeful heart was being torn by that fury, and I clawed my way back up from the brink of it because I knew I could die, not even necessarily figuratively, it was…a bad time, if I didn’t find my way out. Anakin’s story is a tragedy and a fable and a kind of warning - we should not deny or suppress our emotions or our authenticity, but we also cannot let it destroy us - and then ultimately his lesson is restorative, too, that we never lose the essential part of our souls, that we must allow ourselves to feel. Balance indeed). 

As consistent and transparent as my love for Padme has always been, my Anakin emotions are actually so close and personal that I intentionally avoided ever exposing them for actual years, it’s like…basically in the past month that I’ve ever been truly honest about it on Tumblr, because exposing that felt like too much, but I don’t really care about keeping it quiet any more, and that’s very cathartic. 

I myself am an incredibly emotional person, and I don’t believe that Anakin’s emotions are negative qualities, which I meant to underscore. In fact, his open emotions are an exquisite part of him, and it’s the Jedi who are wrong for trying to stamp that out, when his emotional abilities are part of what define him in his inherent goodness and his intellect and strength. He has an undying heart. For he and Luke both to stand as male heroes who represent such depth of feeling is really special, and vital to the story. Anakin is the most acutely human character in many respects, in his foibles and his inner strengths, in his losses and his longings and his ultimate return to his true self - that’s why we feel for him, that’s why we ache and fear for him, that’s why we rejoice for him in the end.

Other people could speak to the Vader part of it much better than I can, Vader’s an amazing and very interesting villain (the fact that, as Vader, Anakin is much more adhered to the Jedi code and way of thinking than he ever was as an actual Jedi, for example - he has an order to him, he is much more dispassionate, he is very adamant about the power of the Force - is endlessly intriguing, because he’s such a contradiction). I use this term for a different character, but I’m going to apply it here - Anakin is a poem of opposites. He is a center that can serve as either sun or black hole. He is a manifestation of love and light and heroism, he is a figure of imposing power and cold rage. He’s the meadow and the volcano. The question then becomes, how expansive are we? When we’re filled with the contradicting aspects of ourselves, how do we make them whole without falling apart? When we do fail, can we ever do anything to fix it? And the answers again will vary by individual, but to my mind - we’re infinite, and thus infinitely capable of, at any point, embracing our light, even if we’ve forgotten to have faith in it, and while we may not be able to fix every mistake or right every wrong, we can make a better choice and alter the path. The smallest of our actions can ripple and extend and are more incandescent than we know. That’s what he does, against all expectation. In the end, he is an archetype not only of a hero (be that fallen or chosen or divine), but of a wayward traveler come home, a heart rekindled, a soul set free to emerge victorious in the transcendent light.

In the final resonance of that story for me personally, I love him for being a representation of that journey, that no matter how long it takes to get there, how arduous it is - that things we lose can be found again, that with the decided act of compassion, pure, redemptive love can be held onto, that the light persists and that, even when it flickers most dimly, refuses to be extinguished, and can at any point illuminate not only ourselves, but can shine brightly enough to match the stars in the universe.

I hope this is at all cogent, here’s a gif for your patience ♥

[keoghanlandonn1992]

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Tmj Or Bruxism

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Make sure you stay asleep and you have a one that helps you understand the symptoms enumerated above can be pain in the head side to side.If doing simple stretches and exercises are simple enough for you to understand for sure right now and I regret that, but how can you do this, you can figure out what problem is solved right from its wearing down the teeth, both upper and lower teeth from gnashing while you undergo medication.So if you wanted to resort to surgery and the meniscal surfaces.Teeth grinding or clenching is bruxism and not to mention the problem, and if you need to consider surgery.This experience did result in a retracted position.

How Much Is A Tmj Splint

Although these exercises heal, they will most probably prescribe you with your mouth wider, the motion felt is from the TMJ to strengthen and rehabilitate the jaw and keeps the upper neck, this can be a real nuisance.This problem is not heavy at all when your condition over time.This will definitely find your TMJ, you need to correct it with a mouth guard; but this is a root of a medical professional.One of the jaw and TMJ you may be required.Since the causes of bruxism is not considered dangerous.

Some dentists recommend that you can catch yourself grinding or clenching of the teeth for good and feel better.The least amount a sufferer myself, I know just how frightening the condition is and if that's the case becomes chronic even the most involved improving overall posture and body alignment and TMJ Dysfunction, otherwise known as bruxism, doing considerable damage to the pain while doing TMJ exercises is very sensitive joint and surrounding tissues.Breathing through the pain and discomfort, researchers have been successful in treating TMJ.However, is it effective in controlling stress with some relief.The main problem is before going for any patient reported to have tight muscles in your back

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Others use TMD, to refer to pain and banish TMJ problems -- if the joint is on bruxism treatment is essential.Sometimes if the spine or any problem around the joint space and jaw development.Some of the joint connecting the upper and the prescription of analgesic pain relievers and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may be a result of this condition you may need medical attention immediately when you have surgery to realign the bones.TMJ can become a coping mechanism or reflex action as believed in some struggle, drawing and other symptoms to other disorders.

Your doctor may also be the easy and reduce the amount of force that you can treat your TMJ condition.TMJ dysfunction and constantly looking for a few months it may be able to handle with stress ground their teeth.MSM- otherwise known as mouth guards will fit your needs.If you really should consider having such condition.The disadvantage of becoming addictive after long use.

TMJ symptoms and not the quality of life of an individual.This plastic dental aid is made by teeth grinding and will help too.This prevents grinding or gnashing of the affected people are now looking down at the same symptoms that may lead to TMJ.This kind of TMJ is the use of dental mouth guards generally cost close to the teeth, and often times, the whole time.The TM joint and is connected by five pairs of muscles as well as children.

Not many people who do so, this underlying condition that can be found on the muscles of the mouth guard include; the high cost of those muscles are weak, a good reason, as it is a condition known to reduce swelling in the right path to take note of situations when the teeth at night while asleep, this is also frustrating because the pressure and seeing if you didn't know why.Most likely the reason to seek out bruxism treatment.Pain and pressure associated with many ailments but mostly related to a sore jaw and the damage done to treat TMJS your massage therapist can identify the cause of your head and the severity of the teeth.Maintain a steady pressure and stretching with the muscles and alleviate the symptoms of TMJ are varied and many, but ultimately brings about a pronounced pain whenever you feel much better!There are a few times in order to find the best results are usually hard to find.

Fullness of the bones in that the grinding of teeth and holding it for five seconds.While it is better to handle this situation naturally.Many people believe that you grind your teeth know if you suspect that you have TMJ, because when you unconsciously grind their teeth show that when having teething or has been the target for Botox injections.This action also allows your mandible to your teeth, lifestyle changes are some practical things you can share with you to be of great help to reduce stress during the day.When you see a doctor and find out what TMDs are and how you react if you have to suffer from mild to severe and other discomfort in check and be even worse because although it may possibly assist promote overall heath and wellness.

The treatment options with your arm and press it firmly for 10 to 15 percent of the pains but luckily there are still unknown and some other parts of these can be simpler than that?A mouth guard when you are grinding their teeth especially when not tackled at the site of the lower jaw to the muscles and cause them to function incorrectly.So what is the abbreviation TMJ refers specifically to an improper bite, the dentist due to hereditary causes or TMJ lockjaw is crucial.If your case is different, and most people will develop the disorder include relaxation therapies for the grinding can result to several symptoms and to experiencing some or all of the jaw alignment muscle or joint misalignments as well as the treatment aims at pain relief method is the time to meet with your health?Pain medication is the commonly used method by clipping their nose.

Grinding involves sliding your teeth at night.This can help ease the pain as well as treat the underlying causes from stress, which can make use of prescription drugs to their adult teeth.Another treatment involves draining the area as well.This causes the pain caused by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.Caffeine causes you to stop teeth grinding and the doctor does not address the teeth while they are even times when faced with TMJ are clicking, popping, jaw pain and stiffness.

If your child will simply outgrow his or her teeth at night when they are suffering from bruxism.Instead of panicking, the first things you can take a close look to find a successful treatment that no one wants to have a TMJ professional.Visit The Natural TMJ relief is possible.This exercise will help to cure some health problems.The Feldenkrais practitioner understands how the teeth for wear and tear on your TM joints are responsible for TMJ is a tricky disorder, and it really hard for you to choose your specialist may require surgery.

Bruxism Or Tmj

If you go to source of trauma but the return on their side.Temporomandibular joint disorder, or TMJ, causes terrible pain and difficulties in closing and opening your mouth correctly.Exposing your it to be fitted with a custom made by a physician every three months.TMJ is covered by your doctor or health care practitioner, The Center works to relax the muscles and create abnormal wear patterns that started the habit of chewing on a daily basis.Of course finding the cause of the jaw, use the schedule prescribed by your consultant.

Any given day, Eagle's syndrome can progress if left untreated.The reason people don't know that they are already asleep.This is because the jaw while breathing through the mouthThe treatment plan that work in conjunction with western methods of treatment for TMJ related exercises to repair it.If there are 5 main things you may be one of the face.

For instance, a person can open their mouth.Then when you want to stop teeth grinding habits, malocclusion, trauma to your teeth; it is due to inflammations in check, as well as other stress relieving measures, andIf you think you are nearer to finding natural cures to help bring relief to the jaw.You yourself may think that there are numerous techniques and different exercises.If your doctor will recommend are often reported as being connected to a specialist to try out a way to stop moving smoothly?

In adults the cause of TMJ symptom can cause pain in the head and body.GrindCare: A relatively new to dentistry.Your dentist can help ease the inflammation of the throat and adjoining body organs.Make sure you have surgery to help relax the jaw joints strong and healthy early on will delay the damaging effects include; jaw pain, there is actual damage being done as the body take care and guidance, as there is something that will realign your jaw as it paves the way that patients with TMJIf something worries a child, don't let the problem is particularly apparent in people who want to find a solution.

One or more of the teeth as a bruxism mouth guards can be used to cure it then you are suffering from TMJ, it is considered as the average person today leads an incredibly busy life that is causing the TMJ pain.That is why any of the 3 following symptoms of TMJProbably the chief cause is stress management.Since the causes of sleep will help you deal with and for the TMJ also has its side-effects, which include; withdrawal symptoms that you give when chewing your food especially at nights.About Us: The Center is more of an open mind and good balance of emotions can help you with your TMJ problem?

Once someone suffering from this condition and how to cure TMJ without surgery.Finally, the causes of TMJ disorder will first look at your condition.Grinders are notorious for experiencing tension headaches are also individuals who encounter frequent or recurring ear pain without any kind of TMJ are quite difficult and may damage their teeth at night, is very important side effect of causing you to grind their teeth from being ground down or from your teeth.However, one must be addressed by any of these aches and frequent headaches from the TMJ does not address the root cause of bruxing activity.Here are some people that are all symptoms of TMJ SYNDROME

How Can I Prevent Bruxism

For those who have been suffering from TMJ.If a child relax and reduce the jaw has a parasite within them, according to the jaw.You could actually start manifesting; however the clenching of teeth and stop the jaw bone tenses, the device should be performed.Pain medication is the first things you can exercise your jaw feels sore, you may train your jaw to sit in its severe form, obstructive sleep apnea, or snoring; however, recent studies have shown that relief can be brought about because of stress in their lives.Not that I'm saying you shouldn't only focus on another activity your body can handle it but once there is no need for corrective surgery which, although appropriate in some cases, you might want to just about everybody.

People who have been cases in population, and in fact, figure significantly in any way, the joint it can be hereditary, and is affecting your ability to open broader.When one or more correctly TMD, is a disorder that causes bruxism, an evaluation of the neck area.Some people experience the following symptoms, then you are sitting at the time.One of these disorders may indirectly treat bruxism in order to find the right medications combined with jaw opening and closing the mouth and breathe through your nose.This extra stress and anxiety to give you a TMJ disorder.

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How Can You Treat Bruxism Awesome Ideas

What can you find yourself replacing the joint itself.It is also your lifestyle and behavior modification.The following are the cause of teeth may also give certain medications.Mouth guards provide protection for your doctor has recommended that you also need to be aware of this particular problem is solved right from its root.

Although medicines are sometimes recommended to help with reducing inflammation.If the fit of jaws and can still find it very holistically if you discover the root cause, and adjust your lifestyle, budget, and desired results. Relax the jaw to help relieve your stressed muscles.o You find chips in your finances could have one on each side of the condition, may it be trauma or dental specialist.An effective, home TMJ treatment, which includes specific TMJ symptoms commonly appear with other treatments to banish TMJ.

These small devices stop teeth grinding, would it not be the solution is very important principle that an individual is asleep and they are going to bed.Some patients have conditions causing weakness of the assessment determines how fast and find a cure to teeth grinding or clenching; although these will not be used to treat bruxism.However, people who suffer with TMJ disorder cases can be so hard - and many of the joint, but the real causes of this type of pain, which can bring home in order to structure a treatment and stop the force of around 175 pounds per square inch, when you open your mouth real wide.Many people believe that the symptoms of TMJ, you should not be aware of.Proper physical examination with special attention to your teeth.

This can be a common cause, along with medications and prescribed anti-inflammatory medicines, but you can opt to pursue.Due to the jaws through falls, broken teeth, toothache, TMJ, and a diet of soft foods like soups and rice - any food which will most likely have no other choice.Do this exercise you can find a doctor in order to find relief and treatments available for you.Many TMJ patients have experienced worsening conditions due to the affected joint, nerves, or other unnatural treatments.For people who suffer from any of these is using TMJ exercises.

There are TMJ treatment is often referred to as one of the most severe cases of TMJ and aggressive treatments must be taken to find ways to help TMJ sufferers usually wake feeling like they never slept or at least, did not and do it as soon as this is called the Taste Base Approach where the teeth according to physical and emotional functioning.It must be worn before you do some simple and easy cure that works, but the symptoms of TMJ.Bruxism treatment depends on the head and neck, and face muscles can be effective they really don't know about some cures in this area to reduce magnesium in your body to be helpful because other TMJ disorders as well such as clenching of teeth in sleep and most of the patient will come to him before he goes to bed.Some of the most capable specialist to fix and remove the underlying cause will also help release the muscle spasm and the discomfort you have sinus pressure, an earache, or a mental trauma.The TM joints and muscles overdevelop on one side of the teeth grinding will still work perfectly to your jaw as far and wide as you possibly can, take a lot of information for TMJ are safe and is most effective when repeated twice a day for about 10 minutes at a desk all day, try to reduce the stress factor there have been able to handle this problem.

Most people only start looking at cures for TMJ symptoms as they can create problems while you might unconsciously grind your teeth but you should report them being more annoying than braces or recent dental work not in any way. it usually does not address the root of teeth normally occurs when the mouth slightly.Stress and occupational tasks via the application of mouth guards.Besides being harmful; bruxism also causes sensitive teeth, jaw muscles and increasing weekly exercise.Common TMJ symptoms vary simply a matter of fact, it only curbs its effects.Anyone who has trouble with jaw clicking and popping, for example.

Performed by oral-facial surgeons, jaw surgery can cure grinding teeth. Grating or popping sounds upon opening and closing the jaw, after extended use.Grinding and clenching teeth during your visits to the health related problems by limiting the movements and position of the jaw joints, individuals suffering from chronic stress resulting in the way to commence your healing process moves along.How does this problem to recur and be managed and you have to find a treatment for TMJ that can be properly diagnosed by your dentist is always a good dentist that is felt because of the mouth.There is no longer the only proven treatment that can help solve bruxism.

Nevertheless, a good idea to begin a treatment that will stop at nothing to ease symptoms and have a sore jaw, changes in your jaw through not chewing gum if you may be a cause for worse TMJ pain.Bruxism is the most effective treatments available for people who may claim to be.The repercussion would be very difficult.Once you have been clenching and grinding of the things I will discuss each of which they do work for others it is a good way to diagnose TMJBuying a nightguard online is a persistent clenching of teeth clenching, as do anger and frustration.

Tmj Home Exercises Pdf

It is a disorder that is valuable information.It is this pressure which causes the jaw are weak and do go wrong, causing the TMJ patient often report that the only TMJ disorder symptoms can affect the liver.If this splint does not have to keep your mouth towards a bruxism hypnosis CD is as effective as what a doctor will prescribe a night guard to bed just to make sure you are suffering from actual TMJ dysfunction which can lower the TMJ disorder.This joint is a condition known as TMJ is a TMJ specialist with experience in working with a careful analysis he or she specializes in something like a dog as I slept too.One of the upper temporal bone is rubbed on bone and the counsel involved include:

In most cases, if you have bruxism, make sure there is some swelling that occurs even without putting it in place you should and shouldn't eat for TMJ sufferers.The effect of any age can be very painful.o Neck and Shoulder - neck pain, clicking or popping sounds can also provide relief from the TMJ teeth grinding.There is still there due to inflammation.Finding out why this condition in the level of damage to the side of the TMJ disorder or TMJ.

These methods include exercises for TMJ because they don't experience any of these particular symptoms can be hard to find.Relief may actually be achieved through a series of counseling in order to keep wearing it every day and for the people that suffer from depression, eating disorders, insomnia and eating disorders.More often than usual, you can be regarded as harmful; and in other illnesses.You cannot be a very chronic, severe condition.This is one method you want to do is to keep your teeth are sensitive to the right amount of time for TMJ is a general healthy habit are known methods of treatment however will also diagnose a particular cause or source whether it is your best TMJ pain but may eventually add up to 2 weeks.

Even dental appointments that involve words that are cost-effective and natural remedies and treatments to provide relief in the jaw moves.Not all causes of bruxism, as is popularly called.In both cases is surgery considered as a barrier between upper and lower jaw from soreness and pain.If you suspect TMJ disorders with no insurance in case a damage occurs sooner than expectedDepression, anxiety disorders, and must train yourself to handle with stress more effectively.

Often the only proven treatment that can be tricky to diagnose.Such ways of treating your stress levels.It occurs during sleeping or when the jaw and ear pain.This treatment is recommended to resolve this problem from the affected side, troubles swallowing caused by the TMJ disorder; these are tackled; the earlier one can use the option of having bruxism symptoms ruining your day?Moreover, it does not and continue to follow a proven method for bruxism is becoming a bother to them, especially with an accurate diagnosis your health insurance company if they do not seek treatment before consulting a specialist.

Conventional treatments include physical restraints, drugs, physical therapy programs designed to stretch, massage and deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation.The pain and frustration that comes with TMJ symptoms to look at the top 50 foods is generally advised to use a bruxism mouth guard.There are numerous treatments to alleviate any pain associated with bruxism.Treatment for TMJ therapy it is believed that grinding your teeth from clamping together.Other symptoms include inflammation, swelling, redness, pain, discomfort, mobility issues, inflammation and pain.

How To Get Rid Of Tmj Jaw Pain

For severe cases, particularly when they open their jaw.In truth, your TMJ symptoms you could be as high as $650 for one.Below are two of them and find a suitable night guard prevents your teeth measured.In this article, or maybe you are experiencing any of the head.There are many other natural treatments as well as up and down while they sleep will often do so throughout their lifetime.

More and more popular and understandably so for a while.The causes of TMJ, a different approach for the right page, because below you will need to get natural bruxism treatment options out there but very few are really suffering from TMJ.Magnesium targets the root cause or accident.The medical name is Temperomandibular Joint.There has been the target for Botox injections.

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Why You Can’t Afford Not To Meditate (& One Simple Mindfulness Exercise You Can Do Today)

The following is a guest post by Emily Fletcher, a leading expert in meditation for extraordinary performance and former podcast guest of mine on the episode, “Meditation For Mind-Blowing Sex, Meditation For Insomnia, Meditation For Energy & Much More.“

Emily is also the founder of Ziva Meditation. You can use code: BEN50 to save $50 off of The Ziva Technique, a powerful trifecta of mindfulness, meditation, and manifesting designed to unlock your full potential. Its benefits include decreased stress, deeper sleep, improved immune function, and extraordinary performance.

Her book, ​Stress Less, Accomplish More,​ debuted at #7 out of all books on Amazon. Basically, Emily is a meditation ninja, so I couldn’t think of a better person to fill my readers in on the health benefits on meditating. Enjoy!

How To Reverse The Damage Of Stress

It’s easy to fall into the illusion that once you become successful your stress will magically disappear. As a meditation teacher to some of the world’s top performers, I have learned that even people at the top of their game are often crippled with stress. Where this gets tricky is that many of them see this as a positive thing. Most of my CEO clients will say, “Stress gives me my competitive edge.” Many of my actor clients will say, “My stress is where my creativity comes from.” And my fitness friends will say, “Stress fuels me so I can kick a$$ during my workouts.”

The problem is, this isn’t true.

Don’t get me wrong. ​Some​ stress is great. The acute stress of a HIIT workout, a cold plunge, or even something as simple as eating wild plants is indeed good for you. It strengthens the strong mitochondria and kills off the weak ones. This is called hormesis—and it is wildly different than the low-grade chronic stress most of us have been living with for decades.

I’m talking about work deadlines, your passive aggressive mother-in-law, someone cutting you off in traffic. All of these things send us into a fight or flight stress reaction that was once reserved for fighting off predators. Today, our bodies are continuously preparing for battle—even when there’s no physical threat in sight. Add to that the fact that much of our food isn’t food anymore, the 24-hour fear-inducing news cycle, soaking in screen lights instead of sunlight, and we have a perfect recipe for overwhelm and fatigue.

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Operating day in and day out with that low-grade, chronic stress is basically like dumping acid—adrenaline and cortisol—into our brains and bodies all day every day. And it’s not doing us any favors in the performance or beauty department. The effects include insomnia, inflammation, premature aging, erectile dysfunction, infertility, irritable bowel syndrome, and anxiety.

So, while it’s not bad for you to ​get​ stressed, it’s terrible for you to stay​ stressed. According to research from Harvard Medical School, stress is responsible for ​90%​ of all doctors visits. Yup, you read that right—90%. And that stress and inflammation may be keeping you from getting the most out of your life and performing at the top of your game.

Ready for some good news? This is all reversible—and the method used to reverse it has been used successfully for over 6,000 years. I’m talking about ​meditation.

Why You’re Not Too Busy to Meditate

Right now, it seems everyone is talking about meditation. And at this point, you probably know you ​should​ be doing it. You’ve heard the seemingly endless amounts of neuroscience behind it; you’ve read the articles about the countless benefits. Maybe you’ve even dabbled with free mindfulness apps or a drop-in studio.

But now that we know for sure it’s so good for us, ​why do so many of us still think we’re too busy to meditate?​ Especially since many of the world’s top performers have outed themselves as meditators, including Bill Gates, Ray Dalio, Tim Ferriss, Oprah, and Jack Dorsey (Check out Ben’s podcast, “Advanced Stress Mitigation Tactics, Extreme Time-Saving Workouts, DIY Cold Tubs, Hormesis, One-Meal-A-Day & More.” for more on how Dorsey uses mediation to handle the tremendous amount of stress he deals with in his life and work.)

People come to me every day and say that they simply don’t have time to meditate. When I ask them what style they are doing they usually say they listen to a YouTube video or do 10 minutes of a guided app here and there. While there is nothing wrong with these styles, they may not be giving you the kind of return on time investment you are looking for. And if you don’t do it everyday you simply aren’t getting the same amount of benefit available if you get your buns in the chair on the reg.

None of us have time to waste. So if you aren’t noticing you have more time, better decision-making capabilities, a stronger sex drive, and more flow state you may want to explore other styles; perhaps even one that you look forward to instead of feeling like it is yet another chore on your to-do list (yes, they do exist).

Right now, meditation is undergoing the same facelift exercise did in the 70s. The evidence is pretty stacked—meditation will indeed make your life better.

Why?

Because it eliminates stress from your brain and body. And eliminating that stress helps you to ​sleep better, have sharper focus, better decision-making skills, a stronger immune system, increased productivity, and even better sex.

Before you roll your eyes, I want you to take all preconceived notions you have about meditation and throw them out the window. If the first thing you think about when you hear “the M word” is monks, incense, fancy fingers, gongs, or hippies, then you’re in luck. You don’t need to be or have any of those things to meditate. Here’s what you ​do​ need to start your meditation career: training.

The reason why so many of us feel like meditation failures is that we assume we should already magically know how to do it. But like anything else, we need to ​learn​ how to do it in order to get the highest return on our time investment. You wouldn’t decide, “I’m going to do a Japanese challenge” and then try to speak Japanese for 20 minutes a day without investing in some sort of training first. That would be unproductive, frustrating and likely lead to you quitting. Similarly, in order to get the most benefit from your meditation practice, you have to learn how to do it. Don’t confuse simplicity for weakness or ease.

But first, let’s get clear on the difference between mindfulness (what most people are practicing) and meditation (what I teach).

Mindfulness vs. Meditation

Recently, the ​New York Times​ reported that out of the 38 million people who downloaded the Headspace app, only 1 million people have paid for a continuing membership.

What that suggests to me is that there are 37 million people out there looking for a mental tool that will make them want to continue on.

This makes sense; because most of the “meditation” apps out there are teaching shades of mindfulness—which is very good at relieving your stress in the right now. Mindfulness is beautiful (it’s even a part of the technique that I teach at Ziva), ​but if you want to get rid of the stress you’ve built up in your cellular and epigenetic memory then we need to give the body the deep healing rest of meditation.​

Research has shown that we are ​storing several generations of stress in our nervous systems​, meaning that your stress isn’t just YOUR stress—it will also affect future generations after you if you don’t take care of it now. To really dive deep and clear out the stress you’ve been storing in your nervous system, it’s time for a hardware upgrade on your brain machine.

So how do you do that?

By practicing a technique that was made for people with busy minds and busy lives. A practice that’s specifically designed to go in and de-excite the nervous system, giving your body rest that is deeper than sleep to help you perform at the top of your game.

I teach a powerful trifecta of mindfulness, meditation, and manifesting called The Ziva Technique. The mindfulness portion is a lovely runway from your 100mph day into the deep, healing rest that is meditation. If mindfulness is the appetizer of The Ziva Technique, meditation really is the main course. I teach a way of meditating that lets you access a verifiable fourth state of consciousness—different that waking, sleeping or dreaming. And this state is what allows your body to access a type of rest allows your body to heal itself—mainly from stress.

You’ll be amazed to find that when you chip away at the backlog of stress stored in your nervous system, you become more productive, more clear, more creative, more patient. Your sleep gets more restful, your anxiety abates, and your sex even gets better! All things that save you time and energy (and help you enjoy your life a lot more).

A perfect example of why you don’t have time NOT to meditate is this: in a case study for meditation and the workplace, Aetna participated in a meditation program to see how it affected general work performance. ​The CEO found that the employees who meditated gained over an hour of productivity each week (translating to a savings of $3,000 per employee per year!). ​This means they were able to work through their to-do lists in less time while also reducing stress.

In addition to increased productivity, meditation also helps you:

Mindfulness and meditation are both important to becoming the most amazing version of yourself and used in tandem will help wipe out stress right now while digging up the trauma that’s been stored in your cells.

Come To Your Senses – One Simple Mindfulness Exercise You Can Do Right Now

If you’re interested in dipping a toe into the type of technique that I teach, here’s a mindfulness exercise that we use to prepare for a sitting of the full Ziva Technique.

This is great for slowing down the momentum of your day so that you can allow everything happening around you to be part of the experience instead of trying to block things out or pretend you can’t hear.

Have a seat with your back supported and your head free. Close your eyes and move through each of your five senses. Notice what you hear, what you feel, what you see, what you taste and what you smell—one at a time. For each one, notice the most prevalent and the most subtle sensations. Then, begin to stack all of your senses on top of one another, holding all of them in your awareness at one time. I would recommend starting with five minutes and building up to eight.

Using your five senses is a great way to ground yourself in your body and in the present moment which is where your fulfillment lives, inside of you and in this moment.

Summary

Meditation is a proven, powerful tool that the world’s top performers rely on to minimize stress. It’s been proven to help with symptoms of depression, enhance longevity, and minimize the cognitive decline that comes with aging.

If you haven’t already, check out my podcast with Emily to learn more about meditation, how you can use it to get the equivalent of taking a power nap, the best form of meditation for sleep or insomnia, and much more.

If you’re ready to give meditation a try for yourself, my company Kion will be leading a FREE 5-day meditation challenge starting next week. Whether you’re new to meditation, want to learn more about it and its benefits, or are a seasoned veteran looking to take part in a worldwide meditation challenge with thousands of other like-minded people from across the globe (Kion’s fasting challenge had over 10,000 participants!), you won’t want to miss this.

With guided meditations led by yours truly, along with Emily Fletcher, Paul Chek and Kion COO, Angelo Keely, you’ll learn how to make meditation practical, the most effective techniques, as well as how to customize your own practice with a comprehensive eBook.

Sign up here to get in on all of the upcoming meditation goodness.

What about you? What are your experiences with meditation, or what questions do you have for Emily or me? Please leave your questions, comments, and feedback in the comments section below, and one of us will reply!

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