{"id":6567,"date":"2015-12-01T17:49:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T22:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:49:28","slug":"the-great-brain-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6567","title":{"rendered":"The Great Brain Rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"

When my mother<\/a> was dying, during the last period when she wasn’t really talking coherently,\u00a0my sisters described how she was really restless and\u00a0struggling … A thousand expressions passing across her face in a short time,\u00a0even in her sleep, as she physically groped for and asked questions directed to things and people long gone. Clearly she was experiencing a lot of emotional pain, although there were also moments of great calm.<\/p>\n

We deduced that she was working through unresolved anger and emotions that had accumulated throughout her life. That she really had to go through that process\u00a0in order to die.<\/p>\n

I have consciously\u00a0experienced something similar in these last two weeks, both waking and in dreams, with very vivid visuals. All these random pieces of my life floating around that I am reflexively trying to\u00a0lasso up and either throw into the recycle bin, cause to evaporate,\u00a0or somehow gather into a more coherent whole. This sorting process seems to go on pretty much constantly.<\/p>\n

I think that in November my brain had reached its limit, and hit the emergency brake rather than colliding head-on with the ultimate\u00a0brick wall. It tried to warn me<\/a>, but I didn’t respond decisively\u00a0enough.<\/p>\n

An enforced rest, the way I used to get bronchitis or depression when\u00a0I had overdone it.<\/p>\n

My friend Kimberly<\/a>, who has known me for 30 years, calls it “The Great Brain Rebellion” and she is drawing cards for me to illustrate the concept:<\/p>\n

\"KBM
C 2015 Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think we probably all need to do some level of brain cleansing on a regular (daily) basis. Sleep is of course the natural way to do this, but who ever gets enough solid sleep?\u00a0This is why holistic health care practitioners all seem to\u00a0recommend meditation.<\/p>\n

I am more physically active every day, and take care of more of my own needs every day.<\/p>\n

I’ve been able to answer some minor work emails and do little things like bank transfers for staff. I have\u00a0made phone calls to doctors, nurses, insurance \u00a0company, etc. But there’s a heavy brain tax\u00a0to perform even such minor acts, so I am not able to do much socializing other than some occasional emails.<\/p>\n

It’s just been hard to focus on much other than staying alive and staying comfortable.<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 2015. Remember that date: Nov. 15, 2015, The Great Brain Rebellion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When my mother was dying, during the last period when she wasn’t really talking coherently,\u00a0my sisters described how she was really restless and\u00a0struggling … A thousand expressions passing across her face in a short time,\u00a0even in her sleep, as she physically groped for and asked questions directed to things and people long gone. Clearly she … read more The Great Brain Rebellion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[67,485,493,698,668,696,504,697],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-67","tag-aneurysm","tag-brain","tag-coherence","tag-kimberly","tag-rebellion","tag-recovery","tag-resolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6914,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions\/6914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}