'Stress' Articles
Notice how anxious and stressed everyone is? About everything it seems. They will make it up if nothing is immediately brought to mind. Stress is any energy expended to overcome inertia, but a lot of our negative stress, if not all of it, comes from a rejection of the deeper way in favour of ego. There is another sort of stress, and it’s not distress. Dancing is stress, and they call it eustress. It is pleasure or joy. You are an actor friends, and you are also acted on. Everybody can dance in one way or another.
“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness” Richard Carlson
“In times of stress, be bold and valiant.” Horace (Ancient Roman Poet. 65 BC-8 BC)
“There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That’s what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.” Garson Kanin (American Writer, Actor and Film Director, 1912-1999)
Overcoming Inertia
This is a law of the universe. From physics, to chemistry, to biology, the world is a balance between two states; action and rest. Now commonly the default state is seen as rest and there are reasons to believe this, but even zero point resonance isn’t without energy. Is zero point just balanced? Basically yes, but it does not mean cancelled out. No real void or zeroed state anywhere, but there are states that are functionally that way for our perception. Not even in math with the discovery of zero. Zero is still a mysterious concept. We don’t really have any… Seek More
Do Something
Let’s take a routine activity. One we often don’t worry about. Someone want to offer one? Cleaning house? Ok, yes. For some people, house cleaning is very simple and not seemingly stressful. Some find it stress relieving. It is, but for one reason, and we can tap this reason in every stressful situation. When you are cleaning house, does anything seem like a big decision? A world shaking choice? No. You just clean because it’s part of a routine, or you just like tidiness. The house cleaning, for those who don’t find it stressful, is just routine. A series of little… Seek More
Renewal Cycle
Why does our stress effect physical health? Disruption of the renewal cycle. Stress is a big factor in heart disease is it not? It is yes, perhaps the biggest. The renewal cycle is a conversion between actual and potential energy. You must act and accept being acted upon, and if you fight this dynamic it’s like strangling yourself. It raises the blood pressure. When you are very stressed you can feel it. You can feel your own blood pressure pounding in your veins, and often people ignore this. They think about acting only and refuse to acknowledge and make choices regarding… Seek More
Always Contributing
There is no such thing as action and non action. The opposition there of, I mean. This is why non-action is such a good practice. When you step back from your acting, your words, or your agenda, like in meditation you can come to realize that nothing has actually stopped, and nothing actually does. People perpetuate the social stigma that we have to basically ignore being acted on. We can’t admit it at work for example, but if we do admit it we find the world doesn’t end so the trap is an illusion. Yes. It’s that phrase “know your… Seek More
Don’t Fix It
I’m not praising group think, but even if you aren’t into group think, you are still a part of that. You are a very important part, and the individualist is giving us something huge. So see your connections, they are your stressors and they are also your strength. Don’t “fix it”. What makes you think you can anyway? Has anyone every really fixed anything? I think fixing just means getting the scale balanced. Yes, it was never not fixed. Nothing actually breaks. You are just acting on the greater way. You are a part of what you fix, and you… Seek More
Response Ability
The world is very simple. So simple it seems to be hard for us to understand. Every physical science has as its bottom line patterns of action and rest. Any physical phenomenon works like this, and so do we. There is no such thing as a place without energy, or a time without energy for that matter, but there is potential energy or “rest”, and kinetic energy or “action”. We tend to keep a very poor balance between these two states of energy, between our potential and our actual life, and in the middle of this is “stress”. Stress is the… Seek More
War On Self
Sun Tzu wrote the Art of War. What is bigger and more scary than war? Anything? War is about as worse as it gets. Suppression is bad too. Oh, suppression is bad. Suppression is war on self, and people love their wars on self. They will fight them, because they are told they should. But what Sun Tzu said is that the way of war was necessary to understand, but not auspicious. He said that the true warrior/guardian wins wars before ever there is any fighting, because he knows the way of war is there and no one is killed.… Seek More
Psychosis
What is psychosis, really? Psychosis is very simple. We all are neurotic. If you do anything that doesn’t serve a practical purpose for you, that’s a neurosis. But if you can choose to do it or not, then that is what it stays, a neurosis. A psychosis is exactly the same thing, but minus choice. So what is all this about not having choice? Often psychosis takes the form of spiritual experiences? I don’t agree that psychosis is identical with spiritual experience. I have noticed a difference. In the case of spiritual experience, well… there is another saying. Before enlightenment… Seek More
Being With Change
Just learning to be ok with change can challenge some of us. This is true, it can be a challenge. But there is an old Arabic curse, “May your every wish be immediately fulfilled”. In all of your struggling to resist change, what if you said nothing can change? You just don’t like change, so from now on nothing can change. Instant still life, pain never healing, rest never coming, or what if you wished no one would ever die? Fatigue, disease, and serious injury would still happen. Sounds like hell on earth to me. Does it to you? Our… Seek More
