week in review 31-7-26

round up of this week in body-led healing

Greetings fellow human,

Can’t believe it is almost August. Perhaps you have some time to reflect on the first half of the year, pat yourself on the back for kicking some goals, and be motivated for H2. If not, we take the body to calm :)

The most shared media pieces from the last 7 days, excerpts from program 2 in the Somatic Academy: ‘What if Love Was Your Highest Expression? Why Separation Is the Root of Our Suffering and How the Body Can Save Us:

1. A fascinating study from 1939 allowed infants to self-select their diet. Not only did all the infants thrive, but those that were previously sick healed themselves. One had rickets and self-selected cod liver oil until his bones strengthened, and then he didn’t want any more. The body knew. Which gives us cause to pause and ask: What else could the body know? Could it be able to save us in other ways? As we walk that prickly path, test how much of our lives we can quarantine with the assumption that ‘perhaps this is a projection of my internal disturbance, and my body is simply asking for safety?’ Happy people don’t live complicated lives.

   

2. The second most shared video touched on the famous meta-analysis of 218 studies, with a combined 14,000 participants, that found dance provided the highest clinical benefit for depressed patients. One pathway is BDNF. We expand that formula and see that endogenous opioids chronically upregulate BDNF. Why do endogenous opioids fall? Because we are separated. They are our scorecard of attachment. Makes sense. Why ‘consolidate’ or ‘de-prioritise’ our recent memories when we are alone? We obviously aren’t safe. We re-attach energetically, synchronously, and order is restored. Interestingly also, that marginal benefit from magic beans works on this pathway, not serotonin. Recent longitudinal studies suggest it actually reduces serotonin. Modern care industry at it again.

   

3. The third most shared video was the relationship between allergies and autism. During that chat, we bypassed the fact that people growing up on farms tend to have lower allergies. We don’t use highway science (100 people ran across the road, 1 made it, therefore the road can’t be called dangerous), we use observations, that work on probabilities. Such observations relate to activities such as drinking raw milk and being present while manure was spread. Why the connection between allergies and autism? Because glymphatic clearance gets impaired.

   

Time for an update on program 3, ‘A Fragile Elevation.’

It will be a longer one this week, and a huge data dump.

I do it because families are busy raising children and working to put food on the table. Lobby groups are funded by the government to then advise the government what to do. They have no other job. A thought that something might not be right by parents is often squashed for fear of not having enough information. Here is what we know…

There has been some recent controversy in Australia over the gender education placed in schools, after it seemed one-off ‘mistakes’ were appearing as a trend around the country in recent times. Three examples from different states to show this is not just one external provider (these sessions are often outsourced):

• Children's grades were linked to choral recitation of pledges of allegiance to LGBTQIA+.

• Another involved telling students that being gay is more ‘fun’ and they should ‘give it a try,’ along with saying the ‘+’ could mean beastiality, brother-brother love, and sister-sister love, because everything is accepted.

• Another, which appeared today, involved booklets with cartoons of threesomes and an*l sex. None of which is on the provider's website. The parent version is extremely sanitised.

Now if you find that appropriate, then what follows will likely be distressing, so I recommend unsubscribing.

We all remember sex-ed. This is not sex-ed. This is indoctrination. This is a worldview for in-grouping that is by nature exclusionary. You are either in, or you sit on the sidelines as an ‘ally’ that needs to be available for canned applause. If you aren’t one of those, then you are a hurty word. That’s not in-grouping. That’s ruling over. This is Lowest Expression Inclusion Culture.

Highest Expression Exemplar Culture asks for responsibility, not transactional rights. Everyone takes responsibility, and by doing so, we get a commercial outcome, a larger pie. We see this in simple examples of rowing alone, or rowing with six others. When we row alone, we get an endorphin jump. When we row with 6 people, we all get double the endorphins than alone, doing the same thing. We’ll come back to those endorphins later.

The cover story for this indoctrination is, of course, fairness. We want to avoid bad outcomes in childhood. Ok, so what do we know about gender diversity?

It doubled during COVID and has since halved. So, we can not rule out environmental influences. What happened in the body with COVID? Particularly long COVID? Inflammatory marker PGE2 went sky high. What does PGE2 do? It’s an endocrine disruptor. It sends testosterone up in women and down in men, fast. E.g., administering PGE2 to a bull dropped its testosterone by 75% in 2 hours.

Ok, what do we know about human DNA soups before an identification as gender diverse? Historically, three main factors are highly prevalent (1) insecure attachment (2) unresolved trauma (3) psychiatric diagnosis before identifying as gender diverse. Here are some recent stats…

(1) Insecure attachment

• A study in Australia found 82% of children identifying as gender diverse were insecurely attached to their parents. The chances of being one of those 4 out of 5 children increased by three times if they were from a non-intact family.

• A study from Finland found that 51% of children identifying as gender diverse were not living with both of their biological parents.

• A study from Italy found 73% of children identifying as gender diverse were not securely attached to their parents.

(2) Unresolved trauma

• A study in Australia found that 20% of children identifying as gender diverse already were diagnosed with PTSD.

• A study from Italy found 56% of children identifying as gender diverse had experienced four or more traumatic events.

(3) Psychiatric diagnosis

• A study from Australia found 87% of children identifying as gender diverse had a psychiatric diagnosis.

• A study from Australia found 57.3% of children had already been diagnosed with autism or ADHD, and a further 26% suspected they would reach the diagnostic threshold.

• A study from Finland found 68% of children identifying as gender diverse first had contact with psychiatric services for reasons other than gender.

Outside of younger people, the Australian Government Human Rights Assessment released its report this year, and it revealed:

• 48% of LGB people have seriously considered suicide at some point in their lives.

• 43% of Trans and gender diverse people have attempted suicide.

• 29% of LGBTIQA+ Australians rate their health as poor.

• 39% of LGBTIQA+ Australians have a disability or long-term health condition. 10% report a severe or profound disability.

• 73% of LGBTIQA+ Australians have been diagnosed with a mental health condition at some point in their lives.

• 25% of cisgender LGBQA+ Australians and 46% of transgender Australians have attempted suicide in the past 12 months.

• 74.8% of LGBTIQA+ Australians have had suicidal ideation in the past 12 months.

• Up to 40% of LGBTIQA+ people live below the poverty line.

• Rates of unemployment for LGBTIQA+ people are at 12.7%, and 20% for trans and gender diverse people, more than double the national rate.

A recent study out of the US found that children identifying as gender diverse tend to have unresolved trauma, insecure attachment and pre-existing psychiatric diagnoses but also tend to:

• Not participate in sport.

• Have high socio-economic status (more likely to be supportive of gender diversity in the US)

Ok, so let’s say the identifying as gender diverse/trans comes about. What further adjusted risk associations do we see?

• The biggest one is schizophrenia, with a 28 times higher risk.

• The next biggest is ADHD, with a 6 times higher risk.

• Autism isn’t far behind with a 5 times higher risk.

But incredibly, people identifying as GD/trans exhibit higher autism symptoms than people already diagnosed with autism.

What are we forced to examine at this moment? The GABA switch (Is GABA inhibitory or excitatory?). Too much chloride due to upregulation of NKCC1, and downregulation of KCC2. What are these primarily driven by? Or when do they become out of order? High cortisol, low oxytocin and low endogenous opioid expression. Trauma and detachment. That’s why kids in orphanages rock.

How would we know if this is really the area to be looked at? Sensory sensitivity. This is how we most obviously feel GABA as excitatory. This (which is why, if we don’t help bodies to safety, if this is the case) is how we get chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia in later years. So how are sensory sensitivity scores? Higher than autism.

Given what we know about the defense cascade, that the more our body is fighting for survival, the more likely we act ego-centrically, how is empathy? Worse than females with autism, and if an autism diagnosis is present, almost half that of females without autism.

What have we done? We repeated past mistakes.

We used the least socially dominant relationship as a safety net: children.

That’s what we did with ADHD and autism. This is your identity, even though it’s a trauma response, statistically speaking, from the prior generation. When we feel energetically aroused about that, we recognise that our grandparents also had a say. Then we look at the chain in our hand and realise if we continue to play that blame game we end up talking to a monkey who wants to steal our sunglasses. Not our fault. Is our responsibility to investigate. No different with gender diversity.

To be clear, this has nothing to do with sexuality. What we are talking about exclusively is personal distress scores that are self-reported and clinically observed. Everybody deserves to be free from suffering. How have we decided to attempt that? Telling 7-year-old children they are responsible for the emotional regulation of someone with insecure attachment, unresolved trauma, and pre-existing psychiatric disorders. We have asked 7-year-old children to be psychologists. They aren’t. They are children.

What does that do to them?

Firstly, we have added questions to the list. For the first time in human history we don’t know where grandpa went, we don’t know how to downregulate and quarantine our thoughts, and now we don’t even know what gender you are. Have fun. But fairness, right? So surely there is a large percentage of people we are looking after by suggesting people might fit this category. No, based on current statistics, there is a 95-97% chance that won’t be their life story, and yet, with all the stress that exists today for them, and us putting it on them from our stress that is contagious, we ask them: who am I?

Secondly, it tells them that inside of them there is something evil; they probably can’t clearly identify it because they don’t feel evil. They have never been evil, but someone else doesn’t feel good. It must have been them. We have told them that any distress felt by another person they own. We know that in the therapy environment, we call that parentification, and it takes years to unlearn. We have just psychologically abused a child. We are telling a generation of children they are responsible for other people’s emotional states, and they are wrong about their own. You are not safe. You could be evil.

Who is the most likely perpetrator of violence against a gender diverse person? Their partner. Rates of intimate partner violence amongst gender diverse relationships are multiples of non-gender diverse relationships. What contributes towards the likelihood of that?

• Sensory sensitivity is a strong predictor of aggression.

• People diagnosed with autism are two times more likely to be convicted of a violent crime.

• People diagnosed with ADHD are 6.5 times more likely to be convicted of a violent crime.

Which means we are doing two things.

We are telling a 7-year-old child they are responsible for the circumstances of a life that arrives at identifying as gender diverse, that on a probability basis experienced:

1. Insecure attachment.

2. Trauma exposure.

3. Endocrine disruption.

4. Inactivity.

5. Lowest Expression Inclusion Culture

But, importantly, we are also depriving care from a body that has just been through that. The only reason we can possibly get away with it is because of a complete dereliction of duty to observe what we have just read. Modern mental health care is not health care. It increasingly practices ‘affirming care’ which is simply asking a drowning person to save themselves. Psychologists have exported their job to the person in the room seeking help and called it ‘lived experience.’

There was a 75% hit rate on not wanting to be here anymore. That young body doesn’t know that BDNF is negatively associated with suicidal ideation, is lower in people identifying as gender diverse and physical activity is strongly positively associated with BDNF. That young body doesn’t know IL-6 is positively associated with both ADHD and autism symptoms and goes around upregulating excitatory synapses in our brain. That young body doesn’t know that gut dysbiosis means we can acquire new fears, but not extinguish old ones. That body does know all of that, but neither does their psychologist who has a PhD.

But let’s revisit endorphins. They are wholly part of the process of neural synchrony. What is neural synchrony? Your brain, and my brain, act as one. It is how a parent maintains a child's homeostasis because they are biologically incapable of doing it themselves. It is how parents develop an immature brain. It is also how we consolidate individuals. For example, we can tell with 92% accuracy if someone is relgiously affiliated because they will be synched with other people religiously affiliated (in the same town), those non religiosuly affiliated are randomly firing alone. We are dissolving the illusion we are separate, and every cultural thumbdrive around the world arrived at the same place, and today, we have the science to explain why. When our brains sync, we like each other. Of course we do. We think someone else is us, and we are inherently invested in ourselves.

What is important to bring that about?

The usual, such as eye gaze, touch, turn-taking, but what lights a fire under it is ritual. That’s why religion achieves self-other blur beyond simply drumming, singing or dancing. What does that mean? The following are positively associated with neural synchrony:

1. Shared beliefs.

2. Similar level of positive expression during activities.

3. Co-operation, not competition (including minimising differences in appearance).

4. Identification with exemplar of shared narrative.

5. Synchronised behaviour.

Then what happens? You get an attentive, empathetic classroom.

That’s why people in the military have the most diverse friendship groups. No need to picture make or virtue signal. We take off our human suits and just link brains.

1. You have one mission.

2. With your brothers and sisters.

3. Who wear the same clothes and have shaved their heads.

4. Here are the heroes who have completed it before you.

5. Get going.

Now tell me how this possibly links brains:

1. Telling one child they are evil, and the other child is a victim.

2. Telling one child to pledge allegiance and the other child to receive the ring kiss.

3. Telling one child to be canned applause for the other that’s having more ‘fun’.

4. Telling one child the exemplar is the next person with a problem worse than theirs.

5. Telling all children that whatever they feel, want, and desire is valid (even if it is a survival response).

It doesn’t.

This Lowest Expression Inclusion Culture refuses to admit it’s a worldview, assumes it’s human progress, and so dangerously rules over people due to this superior position. The people passionate about this topic are doing it in schools because, on a probability basis, they don’t have children of their own. This is how they pass their legacy on, through other people’s children. We rarely speak about legacy but it is a powerful, invisible, shaper of our lives. If this were not the case, wouldn’t we just enjoy rights in adult spaces?

The state loves it because anything to do with rights is theirs to administer, which means ultimately, they make themselves god-like. They also simply borrow ‘diversity’ goodwill, which means you don’t ask questions about the economy. No different with business. Poison rivers, manufacture in sweatshops? No worries, we’ve got a rainbow flag on the website.

Ok, that was a lot, but hopefully it provides parents with information they need to make educated decisions for their children, and psychologists motivation to upskill in the face of a changing world.

Over to Monday Meditation. We looked at estrogen this week and its relationship with the startle response, did some alternate nostril breathing, then enjoyed the time on the other side of rebalancing.

Lastly, our country rankings. The Aussies stay in pole position, oi oi oi. The yanks have raced into second (kicking the Deutsch off the podium), and Rule Britannia comes in third. Again, to all new entrants, welcome. I hope the material serves you and your village well 🥇🇦🇺🥈🇺🇸🥉🇬🇧

I’ll leave it there for now.

Here’s to your healing 💙,

Jas