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CHANGING SEASONS: WHEN HAIR CELLS BEGIN TO DIE!




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Nothing stays the same, and you can almost always count on things to get worse before they get better.
We observe the wind, the clouds and brilliantly study meteorology but many times, it seems a little difficult to tune into and quickly adapt to the changing seasons in different portions of our lives. And truly, with all the emotional attachment we’ve had to each peculiar season, it is indeed hard to pack our bags and just move on.
Hair cells undergo drastic changes; from anagen (growth) to catagen (involution) to telogen (shedding) phases. The anagen phase is usually the longest for most hair cells, as about 90% of them are in this phase for at least 3-5 years. Therefore, it serves as a rude shock when involution and shedding of the cells begin to occur.
Such rude shock waves may seem to permeate our spaces and here are a few tips to help us survive the telogen phases of our lives and re-launch into the anagen phases:
1.    1. Get out of circulation! The best thing to do at first is to go into seclusion, trying to understand the season and appropriate steps to take so as to get our feet back.
Isa 26:20
 Go home, my people, and lock the doors! …
2.    2.  Be sensitive. The new comes after the old, always. Forget the previous occurrences. Certain things and people in our lives are seasonal.
Isa 28:12
This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing:
3.    3.  Be ready to take new instructions. In this new season, you might be required to leave your comfort zone. They might also come in a step-wise fashion, climbing the rungs of the ladder might prove difficult if one doesn’t take them as such.
Isa 28:13
But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little;
4.    4.  Do not make haste. This is the time to create more beautiful, greater things; not the time to ‘show people pepper’. Stop trying to prove to people that you have moved on.
Isa 28:16
…he that believeth shall not make haste.

5.     5. Carry out the specific instructions specifically. Do not be surprised if all things you are to do require entirely new and fragmental steps to be carried out- afterall- this is new territory! The same technique will not be appropriate for all situations.
Isa 28:24
Do farmers plow and plow and do nothing but plow?
Or harrow and harrow and do nothing but harrow?


Nothing stays the same. Make the best use of seasons, even when they change.

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