Monday, October 28, 2024

Constricted (Narrowed) Blood Vessel Causes and Symptoms

Blood vessel – A tubular structure which carries blood

Blood vessels are the structures of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body. These vessels transport blood cells, nutrients, and oxygen to the tissues of the body. They also take waste and carbon dioxide away from the tissues. Blood vessels are needed to sustain life, because all the body's tissues rely on their functionality (Wikipedia).

What happens when you are in anxiety, stress, fear of failure, and fear of others, fear of this, and fear of that?  What happens when you think your life hangs in the balance? You do not know if you are going to have enough money or enough stuff. You wonder if you will have a job or worry about what is happening on the job.  Your worry about kids and family.  You may worry because you think your life is a mess, you do not have any control, and you think about a whirlwind of things that could go wrong. You continually think, “What about this?” and “What about that?” You do not feel safe here. You do not feel safe there. You are in a constant state of fear.  One becomes one with fear and fear controls their lives.  You can have a multitude of health issue due to stress, anxiety, and fear.

Stress, anxiety, and fear results in a nerve signal released to the sympathetic nervous system which causes our blood vessel walls to become rigid. Our blood vessels have a membrane casing, which blood flows through.

As you become scattered and feel smothered, the walls or the membranes of your blood vessels and your arteries begin to stiffen. This stiffening of the blood vessels is called cell membrane semi-rigidity. As the cell membrane begins to stiffen, it begins to thicken. As it begins to thicken, it begins to constrict.  As it begins to constrict. It narrows the diameter of the blood vessel which is carrying blood.

The blood is still flowing normally. But, as the blood vessels begin to narrow from the thickening, only part of the blood is coming through. The rest of the blood is backing up because the diameter of the blood vessel is not big enough anymore. Pressure builds from the blood not being able to flow normally. The pressure of the blood flowing through the blood vessels can be measured in something called blood pressure. Normal blood pressure means the blood is flowing correctly. In high blood pressure, the blood is backing up due to narrowing or constriction.

When a doctor determines you have High Blood Pressure, he wants to give you a drug which is a beta blocker. The beta blocker lies to you. The beta blocker shuts down the neurological pathway causing this syndrome that releases the nerve signal to stiffen the membranes of our blood vessels. When the pathway is shut down, the semi-rigidity goes away, the blood vessel opens and returns to its normal diameter and the blood flows.

Science and doctors are a good resource in explaining symptoms of sickness and disease.  Unfortunately, they cannot tell us the spiritual and physical causes of sickness and disease.  They cannot heal anyone with sickness or disease.  They just treat the symptoms.

Please bear with me as I review what science knows about blood vessels and the symptoms.  They all mention stress as a problem. Stress is fear.

Medical Xpress – Mental stress constricts blood vessels.

Cleveland Clinic – Too much Vasoconstriction, (muscle tightening from stress can raise you blood pressure).

Intramural Blog – Psychological stress/anxiety damages the brains blood vessels and worsens mental health.

National Library of Medicine - Brain-heart connections to stress and cardiovascular disease.

WWW.Science. Org – Chronic psychosocial stress is associated with increased cardiovascular disease.

Havard Health Publishing – Mental stress can curtail blood flow to the heart

Mayo Clinic – Reactions to stress can affect blood pressure

So, we know how stress can affect blood vessels, but they do not know how to eradicate the stress (fear)?

Fear definition – An unpleasant emotion. Like words are terror, fright, destress, worry, and anxiety.

Stress definition – A state of mental or emotional strain or tension.  Like words are anxiety, worry, and nervousness.

Anxiety definition – A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease. Like words are worry, stress, and fear

Worry definition – A state of anxiety (worry).  Like words are stress and fear.

These four word definitions above are a necessity to understand the reason God mentions the word “fear” 365 time in the Bible and the many, many causes of sickness and disease due to fear.  These words are interconnected or linked together

I cannot tell you the number of times people will say “I don’t have fear.”  Well, if you have stress and anxiety, and worry, you have fear.  We all have fear and fear is very detrimental to our physical and mental health.

Fear is an evil spirit and it is called a demon in the Bible (Mark 16:17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons).  Every fear (stress and anxiety) is its own individual fear.  Fear is not one huge fear mountain.  We can have thousands of individual fears and they will remain until we cast them out in Jesus’ name.  Fear will not go away on its own. 

I have few illnesses to share with you that has fear as the primary cause.  I share these because they are good example of what fear does to our mental and physical health.  All can be eradicated by effective prayer.

Depression – Depression is caused by anxiety (fear).  We know this because God tells us in the Bible.  Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression Proverbs 12:25 NKJV.  Havard Health Publishing says there are many chemical imbalances in the brain are the cause of depression.  Doctors prescribe meds for the depression and symptoms remain. Seems to me this is much more complicated than what God tells us in Proverbs. God tells us fear is the cause of depression.  So, what does God give us to heal depression?  He gives us power (authority) to cast out fear, 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power (authority) and of love and of a sound mind.    

Fear is an evil spirit (demon) and a multitude of different fears causes depression.  God give us power to cast out fears in Jesus’ name and we will be healed.  No meds or doctors needed because God promises healing.  My question is: Why do people and especially Believers continue to make doctors their first and only option for depression?   

Roots definition: A dysphoric low mood disorder caused by fear, anger, and despair causing a level of futility (hopelessness) in one’s current circumstances. It facilitates adaptation to disappointment resulting in a pathological vicious cycle.

Possible Spiritual Roots: Conflict at the spirit and/or soul level; spirits of: heaviness and oppression (Spirit of Stupor Romans 11:8); lack of self-esteem; self-bitterness, self-rejection, self-hatred, and guilt causing low serotonin; fear (as in stress and anxiety); sometimes spirits that might have gained access because of a lack of nurturing in childhood.  Depression is a result of a chemical imbalance in the body. It is produced by conflict at the spirit and/or soul level in which the limbic system responds to this stress and the depression is a result of the of the chemical imbalance produce by the body in response.

Note: Prolonged exposure to depression leads to oppression and with it comes the spirit of stupor (Romans 11:8 God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, To this very day”).  Stupor is a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility; a drunken stupor; specifically: a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.  Also, stupor can be a state of extreme apathy (lack of emotion or interest) or torpor (a state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy/fatigue) resulting often from stress (fear) or shock: daze. You will find fatigue and lethargy is one of the primary symptoms of depression/oppression.  They are in deep captivity where darkness does not allow one to see or hear.

Hair Loss / Baldness –The hair follicle is an organ found in mammalian skin.  It resides in the dermal layer of the skin and is made up of 20 different cell types, each with distinct functions. The hair follicle regulates hair growth via a complex interaction between hormones, neuropeptides, and immune cells. This complex interaction induces the hair follicle to produce different types of hair as seen on different parts of the body. 

Hair starts growing at the bottom of a hair follicle. The root of the hair is made up of protein cells and is nourished by blood from nearby blood vessels. As more blood cells are created, the hair grows out of the skin and reaches the surface.

Fear causes vessels to narrow to the point that the blood feeding the hair follicle becomes less and less.  Eventually, lack of blood will not allow the follicle to produce hair.  You see this hair loss with the elderly.  I see hair loss with young adults as well, especially women who have extreme stress/anxiety/fear trying to live up to what society expects from young women.  When I see baldness in younger people, especially men, it leads me to looking at generational fear.

Possible Spiritual Roots:  Generational spirits of: relationship fears due to victimization; self-blame; self-accusation; self-rejection, self-bitterness, self-hatred, and guilt; heaviness and oppression; ungodly grief, shame, and sorrow. Fear of not feeling loved or worthy to be loved.

Note: Fear constricts the blood vessels reducing the flow to the hair follicles.

Erectile Dysfunction and Impotence

Erectile dysfunction (impotence) is the inability to get and keep an erection firm enough for sex.  Having erection trouble from time to time is not necessarily a cause for concern. If erectile dysfunction is an ongoing issue, however, it can cause additional stress, affect your self-confidence, and contribute to relationship problems.

Again, fear comes into play because fear constricts the blood vessels.  This restricts the amount of blood needed for erection.  It is mostly specific to men over 50 years of age due to thousands of fears piling on over the years.

Possible Spiritual Root: Spirits of: fear (as in stress, anxiety, and worry) coming out of self-rejection and lack of self-esteem; fear of intimacy; fear of rejection; fear of failure; shame; fear of not being loved, fear of not being worthy, heaviness, oppression, and regrets.

Note:  Fear (feeling unloved or rejected) constricts (narrows) the blood vessels restricting blood flow to the penis.  Rejection by the spouse and the spouse not living up to a man’s expectations can have a profound effect on the man’s ability to have an erection.  Unfortunately, Hollywood, TV, and media have altered man’s expectations of women to an unrealistic level.  Men’s unreasonable expectations lead to the man having un-forgiveness, anger, and bitterness due to feeling rejected, by a women or wife.

Impotence

Spirits of: fear (as in stress and anxiety) coming out of self-rejection and lack of self-esteem; fear of intimacy; fear of rejection; fear of failure; shame; feeling unloved, heaviness and oppression (spirit of stupor Romans 11:8).

Most God-fearing believers fail to believe what God tells us in the Bible regarding sickness and disease.  They fail to understand that doctors cannot heal you.  Doctors and the medical field can only treat the symptoms.  The church is not any different.  They pray for the symptoms.  They tell you not to do this and not to do that and the flock remains sick and diseased.  We ask God to heal us, which is not a bad thing, but God sent His only Son to teach us how to heal as He did.  God wants us to bring believers and nonbelievers out of captivity, but we fail because of a lack of knowledge, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children, Hosea 4:6.  The Bible and the Holy Spirit are there for us to bring people out of captivity. 

Ask yourself why the church and the Body of Christ are in stupor? Romans 11:8 Just as it is written: “God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, To this very day.”  Ask yourself, your pastor, and the body of Christ why they go to church events and church service sick and diseased and leave sick and diseased?  Ask your pastor or the congregation why they do not have a healing and deliverance ministry like Jesus had with His disciples?  Healing and deliverance in the church is not an option with God. Very few doing it. Very few are praying with effective prayer, James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another [your false steps, your offenses], and pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The heartfelt and persistent (effective) prayer of a righteous man (believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power. Amplified Version.

Bottom line is we and the church are not holding ourselves accountable to God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and what the bible teaches us.

A prayer and healing ministry is very difficult and very frustrating, because most people do not believe and if they kind of believe, they do not make themselves available for effective prayer.  Most want instant healing, but they fail to understand that it is a process.  We can cast out fear, bitterness, anger, unforgiveness, and unloving, but when they bring back these thoughts we need to pray again.  Little by little these issues began to minimize until they are not an issue anymore. Praying resulting in healing is a process.  You cannot have unforgiveness towards someone for fifty years and expect instant deliverance.  Again, healing of our sinful ways is a process. 

Lastly, we are responders to what we think physically and emotionally either good or bad.  T. Sanchez 10-2-2024

 

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