Yeah thanks a lot for making us think about our brains shutting down. more "trust tests"--Jesus I trust in You. I always pray that little short prayer before the light goes off: Jesus Mary and Joseph I give you my heart and my soul. Jesus Mary and Joseph be with me in my last agony and let me breathe forth my soul in peace with you.
I will pray for you. So hard to let go of those comforts. I had to give up wine which I enjoy very much because my digestion cant handle it any more. Just easier without it. I think coffee can make one anxious as well.
Good suggestion. Chamomile and lemon/honey is wonderful. Isnt that what mother rabbit served peter rabbit after his trauma in mr. Mcgregor's garden? I love it when I am not feeling well.
Thank you everyone, for the helpful links and the prayers. I work night shifts so I must sleep in the day time and I was finding that I was becoming very messed up indeed. Yesterday I threw out my favorite tea cup into the trash (it was old and the saucer was broken). After that, I stuck to water only and I am still on water. Now the sparkle has come back in to my eyes and I just had a great sleep/ nap, after you prayed! Fell asleep in the day time with no assistance of Zopiclone. (I often take a quarter tablet of it to fall asleep in the day time so I can be ok again, to work a night shift). So thank you - I have woken feeling and even looking so much better! It is a challenge to be healthy while working nights. The tendency is to gain weight and become dependant on uppers and downers. At times I look in the mirror and don't recognise my tired self.
Chamomile is actually a mild sedative. Might help with sleep when you get off work. My brother in law works night. Its so hard . He is chronically sleep deprived. Regular tea is like coffee--a stimulant. Probably a good idea to give it up. But you have my sympathy for sure.
What did you substitute it with? Sometimes I have a Kombucha instead of a glass of wine, which gives me the feeling I am still having a treat.
Here in the states we have herbal blends with chamomile and they do relax a person and help them to fall asleep. I occasionally drink a cup with honey. It’s healthy. I can appreciate that you are drinking water. I used to hate water but now I like it. I drink flavored seltzer water. A lot.
Usually I just drink water. My husband calls me a cheap date. I have a friend who makes her own own kombucha. She swears by its health benefits.
Hi Frank, thank you, no not Zeitoun, but Christchurch New Zealand, where I live. It is a very special image because when the terrible Earthquake happened here on February 22nd, 2011, our Cathedral was quasi destroyed and a statue of Our Lady (which was in storage on a table upstairs in the Cathedral ) turned around and began to face outwards towards the ruined city. It was such a powerful earthquake that the statue should have fallen and broken in to a million pieces but instead she turned her eyes of mercy towards us and began to be visible to passers by. See here: https://goo.gl/images/rgG6oP Some workmen were permitted to enter the quake damaged Cathedral to go get her and as they hurriedly and anxiously brought her down some stairs they dropped her - so only then she had a little damage and the Carmelite Sisters mended her. She is so precious, she now has her own altar at the St. Mary's Pro Cathedral which is an architectually modernist Church that has taken the place of the broken Cathedral we used to have. The photo I use as my Avatar was taken later when the Bishop decided to have a procession of the miraculous Statue around the grounds of the destroyed Cathedral. Some people at that procession took photos of her as the Sun was setting and the Dome of the Cathedral is in the background The peak ground acceleration of the earthquake was extremely high, and simultaneous vertical and horizontal ground movement was felt, causing people to feel they were both thrown down to the ground, and the next moment hurled upwards in to the air. I was not in Christchurch when it happened, I moved here later. But it was a most frightening experience for people who lived through it. The statue of Our Lady had been in a room upstairs that was only used by Bell ringers and Choristers, apparently, and the statue had been put in that room, left to gather dust, with her back to the window for some years, so imagine the surprise when she was seen looking out the window immediately after the quake. People from all over the world come to see her now. We have seemingly not had any apparitions in the South Island of NZ but we have this statue of Our Lady to make up for that.
Lol, it seems silly, doesnt it, but Ive been addicted to it for 45 years and I go to pieces if I can't have it. I literally lurch from one cup to the next. It is a stimulant and I believe some can handle it, but others are sensitive to it and it messes with them. I guess a lot of people are like that with Coffee, too.
LOL, imagilne my surprise to see so many comments........I am not sure what I am, a morning or a night person. I get up around 2:30, our first office is 4 AM, and find it best for prayer, and somtlimesi go for a walk.....yet the first few minutes can be very hard with the anxiety. It is always about abandonment to God, prayer, and not forgetting that we are never alone. Peace mark
My grandmother used to drink tea all the time. Not ordinary tea but tea that looked like brown soup. Tea you could stand up in. It was her answer to all the world's woes. I believe she would have tired to bring the dead back to life with it. Another of her great deals was boiled eggs with butter; which I adored.
Do they call that Builder's Tea? I think I read that somewhere. My grandmother ,(very Irish although born in the USA) was a tea drinker. You know how chicken soup hmmm is called Jewish penicillin? I call tea Irish penicillin. We were always given tea when we were sick. I still have the little brown tea pot my mother used.
