Abundantly Living Inside Out
Abundance is a noun that is defined as an extremely plentiful or over-sufficient quantity or supply.
A related biblical scripture that is foundational in my life,
3 John 1:2 Beloved, I pray that in every way you may succeed and prosper and be in good health [physically], just as [I know] your soul prospers [spiritually]. My hope is that women live in this world, experiencing life from the inside out with goodness overflowing, inner healing, new beginnings, and reclaiming abundance.
Knowing who we are internally is a key component of abundant living. This article focuses on four areas that are essential to women abundantly living inside out: Emotions, Communication, Thoughts, and Social Well-Being.
Emotions: Understanding the Limbic System
The limbic system, a complex network of interconnected brain structures, plays a pivotal role in regulating various aspects of human behavior and emotion while contributing to the processing of memory and motivation.
These functions include but are not limited to emotional processing, memory formation, motivation, and the regulation of essential physiological functions such as stress responses, feeding, reproduction, and the fight or flight response.
This system is a complex set of brain structures involved in emotion, motivation, memory, and behavior regulation. Key components include the amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, hypothalamus, basal ganglia, and cingulate gyrus.
Knowing what each component does in the context of this article is less important than being aware that the functions are vast.
Although men’s and women’s psychological functions are similar, they process thoughts, emotions, and behaviors differently.
According to recent statistics, the global human gender ratio is about 1:1, with men slightly more than women. For every 100 women, there are 101.8 men, meaning that men account for 50.4% of the global population.
Women tend to feel their thoughts, while men are more concrete thinkers in black and white. When the two exchange communications, men generally process the facts/solutions, while women process the related emotions and their impacts.
Communication: The Power of Connection
Communication styles are distinctive patterns and techniques of individuals when conversing and conveying their messages. These styles go beyond the words chosen; they consist of our tone, body language, and overall approach to communication. By recognizing and understanding different communication styles, we gain valuable insights into our tendencies and those around us. These styles can be categorized into various types, each with unique characteristics and impact on our relationships and interactions.
Assertive Communication
Assertive communication is the most effective and balanced style. Those with this style express themselves clearly, directly, and respectfully. Assertive communicators are skilled at setting boundaries, actively listening, and collaborating with others to find mutually beneficial solutions to conflicts.
Aggressive Communication
Aggressive communication focuses on personal needs and opinions at the expense of others. Aggressive communicators often use intimidation, anger, or hostility in sharing their viewpoints, sometimes resorting to shouting or personal attacks when confronted with differing opinions.
Passive Communication
Passive communication is characterized by avoiding conflicts and prioritizing others’ needs and emotions over one’s own. While this style is rooted in consideration and empathy, passive communicators often struggle to assert their desires or express themselves clearly.
Passive-Aggressive Communication
Passive-aggressive communication blends elements of both passive and aggressive styles. Rather than directly addressing concerns, passive-aggressive communicators express their dissatisfaction indirectly, sometimes with sarcasm, backhanded compliments, or subtle sabotage. This may possibly create confusion and tension in interpersonal relationships, and a lack of transparency and accountability often marks it.
Identifying and improving a communication style can be a game changer in having abundance.
Thoughts and the Central Nervous System (CNS)
Information and the Central Nervous System (CNS). Your central nervous system consists of your brain and spinal cord. It connects to your sensory and peripheral nervous systems and regulates everything your body does.
The three primary functions of your central nervous system are to receive sensory information, process the information it receives (integration), and respond with motor output.
After the brain receives and processes the data collected by sensory neurons (nerve cells), it sends an electrical signal through the spinal cord to the muscles and glands to create a motor output.
When your brain sends signals to the inner parts of the body through your spinal cord, the body reacts to the signals, and you feel warm and gooey inside or cheer for your favorite sports team.
People who experience paralysis within parts of the CNS with disrupted functioning of various portions may require rehabilitation to regain functions. I love studying neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to restore or rewire itself when recognizing the need for adaptation. The rewiring can continue developing and changing throughout life.
When we think differently, we speak differently, and we behave differently. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s plasticity [the quality of being easily shaped or molded) what allows for learning new skills, gathering, using the latest information, and recovering from brain injury.
John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher, Oxford academic, and medical researcher who stated,” Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.”
How one shows up in the world has influences from one’s past and affects one’s present and future.
Social Well-Being and the Autonomic Nervous System
Social Well-Being and the Autonomic Nervous System: The ANS consists primarily of the sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric nervous systems. The ANS is responsible for the body’s involuntary reactions to emergencies and for most of our life-support functions except breathing. The fight-or-flight response comes from the ANS, the sympathetic branch.
The fight-flight, or fight-flight-freeze, is a psychological reaction to perceived harmful events, attacks, or threats to survival. When danger is near, the body says; get out, run, flee. Our intricate body can mature us, protect us, and support us.
Abundant womanhood from the inside out might mean fully embracing every aspect, improving, and engaging with being a woman.
When the four areas covered in this article are completely incorporated into daily living, the end result is abundant living inside out, thriving, and not merely surviving.
References:
*https://franticallyspeaking.com/4-types-of-communication-styles-know-which-ones-yours/
*Simple Psychology-What Is the Limbic System? Definition, Parts, And Functions
By Olivia Guy-Evans, MSc Updated on January 17, 2024.
*World Atlas.com 2024.
*https://womenthrivemagazine.com
About the Author
Name: Karmin R. Jenkins
Professional Title: Founder/CEO
Bio: Karmin is an empowering woman who connects with adult women, military women veterans and fathers of adult daughters, to transform relationships. Her purpose is to help others strategically plan to live Abundantly. Her company, Inner Healing For Abundant Living, Inc, uses a unique Neuroplastic and Multigenerational Healing Framework.
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