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The holiday of Thanksgiving may seem straightforward with turkey and stuffing but has an uglier side that many are unaware of… The origin of Thanksgiving is more complicated than just the story of the pilgrims and Native Americans celebrating at Plymouth rock. It gets a bit darker, and peace ultimately didn’t win out.

 

This will be a look back at the Thanksgiving origin and the real story behind the story.

 

 

The story still starts with the pilgrims but more because of the tragic circumstances they were facing. The winter of 1620 was a notably brutal winter that ended up killing almost half of their people. The colonists decided it was time to create a relationship with their “neighbors.” These neighbors were the Wampanoag Tribe.

 

The Wampanoags taught the pilgrims everything about survival, including fishing, planting crops, and how to better hunt. By that autumn of 1621, the colonists – with their newly developed skills – had enough food and provisions to last them through the winter. They invited the Wampanoag to enjoy their haul and join them in a three-day feast.

 

This event didn’t feature the foods we would associate with Thanksgiving today such as stuffing and cranberry sauce but would feature things like goose, corn, and even lobster.

 

 

The above description is one that seems familiar, and it is true, but the way Thanksgiving evolved may not have been based on this event from 1621. For some later generations of colonists, the roots of their Thanksgiving had little to do with that 1621 event.

 

For some settlers in New England, Thanksgiving was a religious holiday that came from the Puritan days. They would observe periods of prayer, fasting, and giving thanks to God. Different colonies would observe various days of Thanksgiving determined by the leaders of each one.

 

But just one generation later after 1621, when we return to the relationship between the colonists and the Wampanoag, things start to break down. With thousands of new colonists arriving in the area, resources became more scarce. The authorities in Plymouth started to take up more land and dictate the way of life for the Wampanoag.

 

The origin of Thanksgiving as we know it is about to fade away.

 

 

 

It’s important to note that before those events of 1621, disease had already begun to decimate the Native American population. By 1619, nearly 90% of the Native American population in New England had been reduced. The spread of disease would still continue into the 1620s.

 

 

A new leader of the Wampanoag tribe emerged named Metacomet also known as “King Philip.” He had taken ownership after the passing of his father Massasoit. Relationships were starting to fray with the Wampanoag and the colonists, but things would fall apart when Metacomet would wage war after the murder of some of his men.

 

 

 

The Wampanoag would raid the New England colonies who eventually would declare war themselves in 1675. The war was brutal and ongoing. A large number of colonies would get involved with their members being taken hostage and held for ransom. The war pushed colonists into relocating and the Wampanoag to flee their villages.

 

Many towns – including Springfield, Massachusets – would be burned to the ground. The bloodshed and loss of lives were substantial. Not only was there the devastation of villages and land, but supplies, food, and provisions were being diminished.

 

 

The Colonists – knowing their backs were up against the wall – made alliances with other tribes such as the Mohegans and the Pequots. The Wampanoag looked to fellow tribes to form alliances and grow in power. When they approached the Mohawks in New York State, they were rejected and attacked.

 

Things then unraveled for “King Philip” who was shot and killed in a final battle. This man’s father was celebrating with the pilgrims just one generation earlier, and now he lay dead. It gets more gruesome as he would be beheaded and his head displayed on a stick in Plymouth for 25 years.

 

The other members of the Wampanoag would either be killed or sold into slavery in the West Indies. What had started as a celebration of thanksgiving ended up descending into war and death. It is thought that nearly 30% of the English population and half of the Native Americans were wiped out during the wars.

 

 

 

The origin of Thanksgiving can make this a tough time of the year to look back on. On one hand, we have the traditional story with the idyllic setting and the coming together of different peoples. This is the image we have embraced, but it wasn’t the end of the story.

 

It’s hard to picture that this original peaceful situation would descend into a bloody war. The battles were vicious and have been overlooked over the course of time. Today, we tend to just embrace turkey and football while not being aware of what has transpired over the course of this “holiday”.

 

Even though the core of the original day of thanks has stayed with us, we would be remiss to not remember all the events that unfolded. The best thing is to not ignore the entire origins of this holiday, focus on the positive and uphold those original values of sharing, community, and giving thanks.

 

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About the Author: Jamie Logie

 

Jamie Logie is a personal trainer, nutritionist, and health and wellness specialist. Jamie also studied sociology and psychology at Western University and has a counseling diploma from Heritage Baptist College. He has run a blog and top-rated podcast on iTunes called "Regained Wellness". Jamie is also a contributing writer for places like the Huffington Post, Thrive Global, LifeHack and has an Amazon #1 book called "Taking Back Your Health".

 

 

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If you know what depression feels like – the brain clouding, the flat moods, the tiredness – you’re not alone. Over 300 million people around the world have depression, and yet there’s a lot that we still don’t quite understand.1

 

Thankfully, the medical field is developing some new insights that just might help us understand depression better. In a new 2019 study, researchers decided to examine the potential mechanisms of major depressive disorder in teenage girls and found some evidence that could help us better understand exactly how gut permeability (leaky gut) can lead to inflammation, which in turn, leads to depression.

 

 

In this 2019 study, Baylor College of Medicine researchers are directly looking at gut permeability and major depressive disorder, a study that is the first of its kind.2

 

With a sample of forty-one 12-17 year-old teenage girls who were medically healthy, the study measured the severity of the girls’ depressive symptoms, the activity of the autonomic nervous system, intestinal permeability, or gut leakiness, and the number of inflammatory cytokines.

 

To measure whether the girls were depressed, an interviewer performed the Children’s Depression Rating Scale-Revised (CDRS-R) and a clinical interview. The CDRS-R is a rating scale that requires interviews of both child and parent to understand the severity of a child’s depression. Over the past few decades, the CDRS-R has become the most widely used rating scale for assessing severity and change in depression for clinical trials involving children and adolescents.3 In order to collect data on the autonomic nervous system activity, researchers measured pre-ejection period (PEP) and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) data, which are indicators for the activity levels of the sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system respectively. They measured the leakiness of the gut using the lactulose-mannitol ratio (LMR), which involves having the teens first fast overnight and then ingesting a premeasured amount of lactulose and mannitol. The researchers then collected the urine for four hours after ingestion. By looking at the ratio of lactulose and mannitol that passed through the gut lining, researchers could calculate the permeability of the gut lining, or how “leaky” it was. To measure inflammation, the researchers took blood samples and measured inflammatory cytokines.

 

They found that in unmedicated teenage girls between the ages of 14-17, depression severity was associated with increased intestinal permeability, as measured by the lactulose to mannitol ratio. The leakier the gut, they found, the more severe the depression and depressive symptoms. They saw that the higher the concentration of the cytokine IL-1β, the more severe the depression. They also found that increased intestinal permeability may be the path between sympathetic nervous system activation and depression severity. Additionally, their evidence suggested that increased intestinal permeability may activate the innate immune system and push the development of depression.

 

The result of this study also helps clarify the mechanisms through which activating the sympathetic nervous system can increase gut permeability and activate the innate immune system–two things that are likely contributing to depression symptoms.

 

 

If you’re wondering why intestinal permeability is related to depression, let’s back up and walk through the whole pipeline.

 

We start with the immune system. Throughout the last century, psychiatry has been exploring the role of the immune system in certain presentations of depression. Importantly, the gut houses over 70% of our immune system, which makes sense given that the lining of your gut is the barrier between your insides and the outside world. The gastrointestinal epithelium usually forms a single-cell-thick barrier that prevents the free movement of toxicants, microbes, and microbial antigens from entering into the rest of your body. This lining usually does a good job absorbing things we need (like food) and interfacing with foreign things that might wreak havoc–which is probably why most of our immune cells are located in the gut.4 The relationship between the gut and the brain is both complex and important. We’ve all felt the butterflies in our stomachs when we’re nervous or anxious, but it turns out that the relationship between the brain and the gut is actually bidirectional. Not only can our brains affect how our guts feel, but our gut can relay its state of calm or alarm to the nervous system and send those immune reactions up the vagus nerve to the brain.

 

To understand how the gut and depression are related, we should first better comprehend the triggers for inflammation, what inflammation is, and how it happens.

 

 

So what IS inflammation in the first place? Inflammation is the body’s defensive response to stresses, like injury or the ingestion of bodily-incompatible chemicals. Upon approaching a stressor, the immune system kicks into a higher gear to heal the body.

 

Stress is a catch-all term, a trigger that links hormones to inflammation. Essentially, when the body thinks something is wrong, the body releases hormones that tell the body to be on the lookout and get on defense, and inflammation occurs. These triggers can come in all forms, many of which are actually staples of modern American life, from sugar to stress to pesticides and pollution to anxiety to beyond. Whether psychological or physiological, stress drives the inflammation response by telling the brain to release cortisol, the steroid hormone that acts as nature’s built-in alarm system and makes it for our bodies to use blood sugar for energy so that we can flee from whatever is causing the stress.5

 

Once inflammation is started, not only does inflammation cause more inflammation, but recent studies have linked low-grade inflammation to depression. When inflammation reaches the brain, cells begin to take their limited supply of tryptophan to produce more anxiety-provoking chemicals like quinolinate.6 Medical literature has found that inflammation seems to be a consistent marker of depressive symptoms, like flat mood, slowed thinking, avoidance, alterations in perception, and metabolic changes.

 

 

So let’s understand how exactly a leaky gut can lead to inflammation – the body’s language of imbalance.

 

When the body is stressed, the junctions between cells in the stomach can be less effective than they should be.7 This allows bacteria and toxicants to enter the bloodstream that can continue to cause widespread inflammation and possibly trigger a far-reaching reaction from the immune system.8 Having leaky gut cause inflammation sets off a problematic chain of events because the gut has a direct link to the brain through the vagus nerve.9

 

The medical field has been slowly inching up on a fuller understanding of the link between intestinal permeability (“leaky gut”) and depression. Previous studies focusing on depression and have found the chemical hints of leaky gut. For example, one study showed that patients with a recent suicide attempt had higher concentrations of an anti-lipopolysaccharides (LPS) antibody, meaning that the immune system had either encountered more of or reacted defensively against LPS, which is a molecule that marks microbe-associated patterns in the body.10 In another study, compared to healthy controls, adults with depressive or anxiety disorders, who didn’t have any symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders, still had higher concentrations of fatty acid-binding protein-2, which is produced to signify impaired intestinal epithelium integrity.11 These studies, and the first study we discussed in this post, suggest that intestinal permeability may be impaired in depression.

 

 

 

All of this sounds kind of complicated, but really, this approach to depression-seeing it as a symptom that results in unhealthy inflammatory balance-means that we might be able to do more about it. It means that depression isn’t happening because of genetics or not enough serotonin. Instead, you’re probably experiencing low-grade inflammation that’s happening because your gut is stressed and leaky. The goal is to send your system a signal of safety – from the gut, from the mind, or by lessening perceived stressors and burdens through detox.

 

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Dr. Brogan is boarded in:

Psychiatry/Psychosomatic Medicine/Reproductive Psychiatry and Integrative Holistic Medicine, and practices Functional Medicine, a root-cause approach to illness as a manifestation of multiple-interrelated systems. After studying Cognitive Neuroscience at M.I.T., and receiving her M.D. from Cornell University, she completed her residency and fellowship at Bellevue/NYU. She is one of the nation’s only physicians with perinatal psychiatric training who takes a holistic evidence-based approach in the care of patients with a focus on environmental medicine and nutrition. She is also a mom of two, and an active supporter of women’s birth experience. She is the Medical Director for Fearless Parent, and an advisory board member for GreenMedInfo.com. Visit her website.

 

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By now we all know and understand how precariously balanced our lives are and what a fragile state the world is currently in. As a result we are all being called to a greater awakening and action. We are needing to be at our most inventive, intuitive and inspired so that we may transform our world and gently guide it into a better place. Noticing and questioning our life and its purpose is a good starting point.

The intense energy being experienced over the last few months is radically quickening your processes creating deep and lasting change and transformation. Inner awareness is crucial as the changing frequencies of your energy will reveal any remaining blockages that need to be cleared and released. You will be challenged to act with increased wisdom and motivated to act with more balance. Currently you are clearing and releasing many lifetimes of old karma. Remember this before you react or respond to whatever challenge is arising. Take a moment to observe yourself, your thoughts, your feelings and your emotions. Question whether your reaction is relevant to the present moment or triggered by the past. Become conscious of what is driving you to react and the energy behind that reaction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can a soul stay too long on Earth?

QUESTION: Masters is it possible one can stay too long on the earth realm, living past their soul contract? ~Sue, USA.

ANSWER: The simple answer is no. In addition, not all souls have contracts when they incarnate. Many just decide what lessons they wish to study and set up environments that will allow them to have those experiences. A soul is always exactly where it needs to be to have the learning it desires.

Even if a soul has made contracts with other souls, they are not permanently unequivocal. One party or the other can choose to change the conditions and go in another direction. There are no predetermined absolutes in a human lifetime. And a soul may end their Earthly experience at any time they wish, whether or not they have learned all they set out to accomplish.

These factors are true because every soul has complete freedom of choice to decide each phase of their human incarnation. That said, if you had made a contract with someone, they could determine that they no longer wish to fulfill their promise. It doesn’t happen too frequently, but you can never make a soul do anything it does not choose to do.

A soul bothers with contracts only when they are determined to have a particular experience. They normally will only make one with another soul with whom they have had prior lifetimes so they are pretty sure the circumstances will be completed.

Unless a soul has decided they want a short life, or has agreed to leave at a special time or under certain circumstances, the exact time the soul returns Home is not determined before the life begins. The soul makes that decision when they sense it is no longer beneficial for them to remain or they wish to leave an unproductive existence and begin another.

What should I do?

QUESTION: Masters, I wonder why I’m feeling so lost. I don’t know if I give up my marriage or if I try one more time, there are times I want but there is another than not. I don’t know if I continue my life in a country that isn’t mine, or if I should go back to mine. I am always undecided. What would be my best options? ~Anita, Ireland.

ANSWER: You are feeling lost because you do not wish to make decisions for yourself. You don’t want to take the responsibility of deciding something that you might not like later. You always defer to what others say and tell you to do, and then you can blame them if you are not happy. It is time to put on your big girl panties and start taking charge of your life and choices.

You never stop and ask yourself how you “feel” about an action – it is always what do I “think” about this. That means taking all the opinions of others that are stored in your brain and reviewing them. Your own feelings are never engaged or even considered.

You do not think you have the ability to see what is needed. This life’s lessons do include working with self-confidence and self-doubt, but you ignore addressing them by relying upon others instead of considering alternatives for yourself. You are saying to those around you that they are more aware of what would be “good” for you than you are. They are not in your body so that is a ridiculous proposition. It is time to honor yourself and make those choices for yourself.

Nothing is intended to be permanent on Earth; it is just one large classroom for learning. There is nothing wrong with changing your mind or direction when you do not feel comfortable where you are. Does your marriage resonate with you? If not, it is time to try something else. Don’t feel comfortable in your current locale? Move on to something else.

Always know you have time to make these decisions. Nothing should be rushed. See how each alternative feels to you. Don’t feel you have an obligation to any particular path or person – because you don’t. You wouldn’t buy an expensive outfit without trying it on first, so remember that when making decisions.

Don’t attempt to do everything at once. Take each facet of your life and see how it fits. If it is still good for you, stay there. If it makes you uncomfortable, try on the other choices.

Healing self

QUESTION: Masters I would like to ask you about nurturing love of Self and self-worth- how? How can I do this? I work on myself and seek to uncover and heal entrenched belief patterns of shame and guilt. Often as soon as I clear an experience, I feel empty- missing something familiar – and I feel like I sabotage myself then by starting the old negative patterns all over again. Masters can you please give me some signposts out of the old patterns. ~Cath, Australia.

ANSWER: You have done good work on going through some of your lessons, but after you rid yourself of the unproductive ones, you have left the area they filled empty. That makes it feel like they should come back – and they often do. What you need to do is start filling those voids with unconditional love for all the work you had to do to accomplish banning the patterns from bothering you.

Pulling in the unconditional love of the universe is a way of loving yourself for all the work you have done. You are giving yourself a pat on the back for getting rid of unneeded lessons. It is easy to accomplish. Say you have just banished a sense of guilt over a decision previously made: you see it no longer serves you, and…poof!…it’s gone. But there is that spot it occupied. Quietly meditate on positive loving energy, congratulating yourself on the good work – the love flows in and takes up the space.

Examine each and every belief that controls your behavior. Anything that generates doubts or fears should be addressed and examined to find out why it is there. You can replace those negative beliefs with a love of self, and this will open you to connect with your higher self and thrive.

You choose what your reality looks like by the beliefs you allow to remain and control your actions. Change any that run counter to the things that resonate with you. Don’t be afraid to have a continual rotation of beliefs so that you learn all you came here for. Remember, you are in charge.

 

Toni from Croatia asks the Masters: I met a girl. I am 46 and she is 26. There is strong connection between us, nothing physical, but I love her with all my heart, and I think she loves me too. I am married but there was never such a connection in my marriage, don’t think love is there or ever was. I was looking for real love my whole life but never found it. Is there any chance I could ever be with this girl, maybe in a next life, I want it so much?

Answer: One of your lessons in this life was exploring romantic love and all its facets. With this introduction to what true love can feel like, you have a gauge for what your marriage has become. There are all kinds of aspects to a relationship – not just love. Some of it is a sharing companionship, the creation of the next generation, and a sense of safety and security. That has defined a good portion of your union. You have freedom of choice to decide the rest of this life and subsequent lives.

Lavínia from Brazil asks the Masters: Help me please, I'm desperate! I left a relationship 6 years ago, but I can't forget it! I think about him a lot, sometimes I dream! I got married and have a 5 year old son, but I can't forget him! I am stagnant! I've been freaking out several times and I'm messing up the life of my son and husband! I do not know what else to do! help me please! Did I fantasize about it or do we have the same connection? I need an answer!

Answer: You have created a fantasy about your former crush. All you remember are the good times and there are none of the stressors that occur during your marriage. You think he would be perfect and not argue, disagree, or give you the obligations you now face. That is all a dream. Your family loves you. Give them the love and respect they deserve and replace your memories with factual events from your current life.

GN from Brazil asks the Masters: An apometry session told me I have a spirit in the energy field of my womb. A tarot reading also detected this being and said it is a future son of mine. Is this true? Do I have a contract with him? If so, will it be from my current partner? Is he my twin or soul mate?

Answer: You do have a soul hanging around you with whom you had discussed its coming to you in this lifetime. You did not have a specific contract of when it would come or what it would do with you. It is not a soulmate or a twin soul – just an acquaintance who thought it would be fun to spend time with you. When, and even if, it comes into this life is up to you and whatever sperm donor you choose. There are no absolutes in the physical world.

S. from the US asks the Masters: When I was a child I would talk about an “imaginary friend,” a polar bear, that would watch over me. Was this one of my guides? Does she still protect me?

Answer: This was indeed a guide who knew you felt most comfortable with its having the appearance of a bear to be cuddly but also ensure protection. She has assumed many faces during your lifetime, depending on what you wanted. All you have to do is ask her to be there and she is. In meditation you can set up a safe meeting place where you may discuss things.

Ricardo from Brazil asks the Masters: Nightmares during sleep are somehow traumatic. how we should soberly and intelligently understand these nightmares during sleep.

Answer: Nightmares have many causes, such as food and drink before slumber, reliving traumatic games you play or movies you watch, and emotional needs to fulfill. They may also be places where your soul travels at night to learn things. There is no one answer. Start by telling yourself you wish to remember the events when you awaken. Write them down and observe patterns. Then you can start dividing them between teaching events, upset bodily functions, and putting yourself into movie scripts.

 

Anna from the US asks the Masters: Please help me with this….I recently reconnected with my great cousin, the only person in my family who would communicate with me. I learned from her that my brother has a brain tumor. My brother was one of my sexual abusers in younger years. About 10 years ago, he manipulated my dying mother into changing her will and left nothing for my son and myself. He also poisoned the rest of my family with the story that I stole money from my mother, and that she had financed my “elaborate” lifestyle. I never lived such lifestyle but dreamed and worked on it for many years. I now live in a self-created tiny house and have shed most of the anxieties and depression - it’s a constant work in progress. I have forgiven my mother and my brother but feel not compelled to contact him. Am I lacking empathy?

Answer: Empathy is an Earth concept. It has no spiritual teaching ability. It allows you to share the torment of others in addition to your own studies. You owe your brother, and the other family members, nothing. What is important is that you spend your time honoring yourself for the great job you have done channeling your life lessons into meaningful wisdom. He has been covering up what he did all those years out of guilt and fear that he would be condemned by all. He figured that cutting you out of the family and making you a bad guy would take all the attention away from him. Continue to let it go as you have been doing and send him loving energy that he might understand what he has done before he returns Home.

 

 

 

Brig from the US asks the Masters: I very much hope to hear from you in regards of guidance. I am 70, Reiki Master, Meditation teacher, and multi creative individual who never learned to walk a middle ground. Always one extreme or another. I feel urged to offer advice to people and offer also spiritual guidance. After much sexual and verbal abuse during most of my life, I learned to assume responsibility for all of my emotional extremes. I no longer suffer from anything. So, what is holding me back to attract a nice companion who is interested in more than sex? Why am I attracting negative and needy people into my life? How do I develop my intuitive gifts?

Answer: You give off a strong vibe so that those who are needy feel you will be able to assist them. When you reach out and help people, whether or not they ask, they think you are there for the taking, and with men when it comes to sex, they feel you are there to satisfy their needs. You need to define for the universe the type of companion you desire. Be as specific as possible so that the energy will be understood by those responding. Divide your regular life of assistance from your personal life of companionship so there will be no misunderstanding. Intuitiveness comes from practicing sensing everything around you. What kind of energy is that? What does that person seek? Stop thinking and just feel.

Nai from Brazil asks the Masters: I totally blocked any feelings towards my mother. I have never had a healthy relationship with her since I was a kid. She has helped me several times in the beginning of my adult life. However, I realized she made a game of controlling me, besides her efforts to help me. Finally, last year she passed all limits and even almost put police in my family life for nothing, just to satisfy her illusions and desires. Then, I cut her from my life, now she is resentful and trying to reconnect, but I have no feelings and empathy towards her. Are my problems with her from past lives?

Answer: Nothing is from a past life – it is all from this life. You each had a series of lessons you were working on and they ended in conflict. She wants to be in control and used manipulation to attain that. Anything she seemed to do to help you was just to tie you to her. You have no obligation to have anything else to do with her. Just remember what has happened and don’t repeat it in your life going forward.

 

Mônica from Brazil asks the Masters: What's between my mother and me?

Answer: You are both learning the lessons you chose, and you are not communicating your feelings to one another without getting emotional. Try listening before responding to what she has to say.