Lephalala

Luke 18:38 | God is Great | ISTJ

"A tool that bores you is a tool that has finished its job."

[Lephalala @JLephalala]

Waiting for a relationship like those in romantic movies. #1000WaysToBeSingle

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.

[Ashley Mountainstone @BottleBell]

Some patterns I noticed after looking through a ton of patient files the last week — Every sick male patient I’ve worked with in the last year has one or all of the following same beliefs / personality traits and body states - (I tend to do a core beliefs / habits / personality intake before I look at any labs or physical aspects of an illness) :

1) That they are “behind” in something : they aren’t where they should be / or that they missed the boat that others seemingly caught (that time has a finish line and they are running out of time to prove they are good enough)

2) Tendencies to people please, usually stemming from performing/performative behaviors around a mother or father as a means to stay safe or accepted via keeping the peace/not making waves - now a coping strategy into adulthood that is no longer working (if I can be useful I won’t be lost/left behind/abandoned)

3) Too hard on self (internalized criticism, usually stemming from another person and that persons voice becomes their own inner voice)

4) Strong shame or guilt aspects including inner dialogues that are judgmental of themself

5) Living in a functional freeze state (most common I see, when fight or flight fail /weren’t possible in youth)

6) They are living in long term touch & connection deficits

There are many others but these show up so often for me that I thought I’d share.

The labs I might want them to run tell me what in the body broke as a means to get their attention because it was affected by a pattern, but this pattern and belief intake is the why it broke and should be addressed.

Here are what these 6 most common I see in general teach us / could do to us :

Behind: Core belief: “I do not have inherent worth. My value depends on what I produce or achieve.”
Nervous system: Chronic HPA axis activation. The body lives in a low grade threat, constantly assessing whether it has done enough to justify its existence.
Somatic consequences here: Chronic fatigue, immune suppression, metabolic dysregulation, hormonal depletion, accelerated aging. Literature says here: High competence dependent self esteem correlates specifically with cardiac and exhaustive disease patterns including burnout states. Low self esteem predicts physiological dysregulation under stress and suppressed immune markers.

People pleasing: Core belief: “My existence is a burden. I am only safe when I am useful to others.”
Nervous system: Sustained sympathetic hypervigilance wrapped up in a parasympathetic state. The body monitors others emotional states constantly while suppressing its own emotional state. This is the fawn response, a trauma adaptation that keeps the nervous system perpetually on alert even while appearing calm.
Somatic consequences here: Chronic muscle tension particularly in the jaw and shoulders, digestive dysregulation, disrupted gut microbiome, sleep disruption, a vigilance that does not switch off at the end of the day.
Literature says about this state: Chronic people pleasing keeps the nervous system in sustained hypervigilance. Suppressed anger and chronic stress states and absolutely *destroy* the gut microbiome and reduce serotonin production, which means the nervous system loses the biochemistry needed to set a boundary. (much goes down in a body that didn’t express itself.)

[Lephalala @JLephalala]

a country has the sovereign right to decide who enters and stays, and you can’t guilt-trip or “xenophobia” your way out of basic documentation and rule of law.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.

[Lephalala @JLephalala]

As a country we’re exhausted from fighting ghosts while the real monsters (crime, unemployment, corruption) are having a braai in the living room.

[Jentezen Franklin @Jentezen]

When God allows you to go through a storm, it’s a vote of heaven’s confidence in you.

Follow along for daily encouragement.

[Lephalala @JLephalala]

@MissNthabeleng Insulate hot water pipe from geyser to shower

[Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_]

⚡️⭕️ While we were sleeping earlier tonight, the Israeli sourge of terror bombed a worshop in Al-Musayleh and led to the destruction of more than 300 bulldozers and excavators that are used to rebuild southern Lebanon.

The Zionist scourge wants southern Lebanon ethnically cleansed

[Lephalala @JLephalala]

@Enghumbhini Shocking news—Mercedes’ 40,000 layoffs are due to BBBEE sneaking into Stuttgart!😂 Guess the ANC’s been exporting transformation policies—better send Cyril to Berlin to sort out those pesky race-based gas prices! 🤣

[Lephalala @JLephalala]

@kvetchbian Systems designed to detect plagiarism or AI-generated content often flag anything that looks too good or matches patterns in their training data, even if it’s genuinely human-written.

[W Mondale Robinson @mondalerobinson]

It’s disgusting, @DonaldTrump sitting in the Oval Office being told by the president of South Africa that there is no genocide happening in his country, and Donald’s response is to point to @elonmusk and say “no no I heard this.” Then the President of South Africa turns it over to the Minister of Agriculture who is from an OPPOSITION political party and he is WHITE said “there is no genocide” but Trump can’t get pass the fact that he is wrong because of Elon Musk’s racism set him up!!!

We can’t be this stupid

[LADY M³ We EFF❤️ @MapulaMokgosang]

He killed two black women at his farm and fed their bodies to pigs then cried like a victim in court. This is how manipulative Elon's people are.

[Lephalala @JLephalala]

Major South African bank could exit the UK https://t.co/xwbbkWDycw

[Lephalala @JLephalala]

@Rolandschoeman @ginahens1 Some people frame the issue of farm murders as though it is state-sanctioned, making it seem, to an outsider, as though the average Black South African is condoning it, whereas we are also victims of all the things you've explained about crime and government inefficiencies.

[U.S. Army @USArmy]

The #USArmy will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will stop performing or facilitating procedures associated with gender transition for service members.

Stay tuned for more details.

[greg @greg16676935420]

8 days

[Clayson Monyela @ClaysonMonyela]

Update: I just spoke to our sister. The bank in the UAE gave her a discount. I'm happy to report that we've reached the target. We're now handling administrative processes behind the scenes including booking flights etc. I just wanna thank everyone who heeded the call to support this campaign. Ubuntu! 🙌🏾🇿🇦

[Lephalala @JLephalala]

@NomaGee5 @Madiba_z @Musa_Khawula His dream Pear-shaped lady