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In modern life, many circumstances stress us to such a degree that 'the body' interprets the circumstances as a life-endangering emergency and so activates the stress survival mechanism.
This happens when the senses, and particularly the sixth sense of mind impression, send false reports of emergency to the CNS. The General takes immediate action and releases the life-saving troops of the hormone norandrenaline. But the troops do not find any enemies out there, and the fight or flight reflex is trapped within the body. There's no fight and there's no flight - only bad moods, worries and misery - and so the norandrenaline turns into a poison.
For example, an executive is in the process of making a difficult business deal, and tomorrow is the make or break day. The executive is obviously anxious and so the sense of mind impression envisions all sorts of possible negative consequences and sends this information to the CNS. This information activates the appropriate response and the survival agent is released, but no use is made of it.
Similarly, if money is scarce and making ends meet becomes difficult, worries and fears are reported through the mind impression agency to the CNS and, again, the General sends the troops out in support. The alarm is false (people rarely die because money is scarce), but we are anxious because we have not been taught how to deal with stress, and so the damage is done.
The same goes for relationships - the dramas of coexisting as partners and spouses, dealing with work mates or school mates, or with children and parents. It is all too much!
There are far better ways of dealing with such problems, but we are not taught these alternatives. Our problems grow out of proportion, they are reported to the CNS as a life threat and the appropriate chemicals are released, but in vain. There's no beast, the predator is illusionary, and there's no fight and no flight - it's just another false alarm.
When not burnt in one big burst of energy, these chemicals are accumulated in the body and broken down over a longer period of time. Their effects include the classic stress signs of our times - such as severe headaches, fatigue and depression.
When this occurs over many years, the amassed effect is bound to blow out in the form of chronic aches, migraines, ulcers, tumors, anxieties, nervous breakdown and, finally, unhappy and premature death. | |
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