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Drug-free stress and anxiety cure
Copyright © 2007 Drew Mcpherson
Anxiety, like any psychological disorder is caused by thought errors. In this particular case, the thought errors are related to the fear of death, and result in an imbalance of noradrenaline, which is usually coped with by an addiction to activity, designed to distract the conscious mind from the constant subconscious chatter about non-existence.
Some typical subconscious thoughts that might be repeated thousands of times per day in the case of this disorder are as follows:
- Oh no I'm getting sick
- I'm dying
- I'm going crazy
- Germs can kill me
- I’m guilty
- I’m afraid of X,Y,Z
The disorder is exacerbated by a hyper-awareness of one's internal physical sensations. These can easily trigger a thought spiral whereby any sensation is interpreted to be related to sickness and/or eventual death. In a way, this is true, as all living creatures are dying, very slowly. However, a preoccupation with this idea can distract from and interfere with life while it is still available, thereby backfiring completely from it's intended purpose.
Symptoms of this form of imbalance are typically manifested as follows:
- Constant worry
- Elevated heartrate / blood pressure
- Shaking hands / extremities
- Constant activity as a coping mechanism (eg: perpetual cleaning, workaholism, overexercise)
- Repeated and prolonged physical illness as the immune system is suppressed
- Insomnia
- Panic attacks
Incidentally, physical illness is also related to this form of psychological disorder because the mind is preoccupied with thoughts of worry and so cannot direct immune and organ functioning appropriately. To put it esoterically, an underlying issue demands to be expressed in some way, whether it is psychologically, physically or spiritually depends upon the stage in which it is in, and how long it has been repressed for. The mechanism of action of this expression is through emotional distress or physical distress due to immune suppression and/or organ malfunction.
The cure is simple yet requires constant vigilance in retraining one's mind / body to react to these thoughts and physical sensations in a more desirable way. Retraining oneself to have a more positive internal dialogue takes time. Especially near the beginning of the healing process, extra time and effort in self-monitoring will have to be spent. The key is to recognize when the spiral towards anxiety / panic is beginning, and STOP EVERYTHING the moment you recognize the cycle repeating. If you are busy at work, stop work, take a break, if you are driving a car, pull over for a moment, if you are out socializing with friends, go off by yourself for a moment, to the bathroom, or someplace you can be alone and away from distractions. If you don't stop immediately upon recognizing the start of the downward spiral, then it will continue and become worse with time. These symptoms are indicative of an underlying issue, and the issue WILL be expressed, one way or another until you stop and pay attention to it. If you ignore it for a time, the symptoms will worsen, and if you continue to pretend like it's not happening, your symptoms will progress to the point where it is physically impossible to ignore, usually ending in a panic attack. Once this happens, you are forced to acknowledge the imbalance, and upon doing so, the symptoms subside rapidly. The key to avoiding getting to this point are to recognize the process early on, and do something about it immediately.
The tricky part is recognizing when the process is beginning early on in the spiral. Once recognition is achieved, then dealing with it in the moment is a meditative process as follows:
1. Free your mind and body of distractions
- get away from people / work for a moment
- stop consciously thinking about whatever task you were currently involved with
2. Focus on your internal functioning
- pay attention to your mind / body and what is happening within
- feel every part of yourself, from your limbs to your brain
- recognize the sensations for what they are, an imbalance
3. Breathe deeply and focus your thoughts
- Breathe as deeply as you can and feel the oxygen entering your lungs
- Feel the life gases being assimilated by your alveoli and distributed into your bloodstream
- Feel your internal organs and brain being oxygenated with the life-giving substance
- Repeat a key phrase with calming semantics over and over such as "Oxygen is Life" or anything you find calming
- Try to use the same key phrase each time. Eventually this will become a conditioned trigger which you can use throughout the day to abort anxiety spirals as they begin. It will become more and more effective each time you use it.
- Visualize the molecules of oxygen or life force flowing outward into your body from your centre point, your lungs, your heart chakra
- Feel the tingly sensations of your nerve endings coming to life as the healing energy flows through you
When you initially start the healing process, this meditation will be necessary several times per day. I recommend that you do a 30-60 minute meditation at least once per day in addition to the small breaks that you will need to take. A good time to do a long meditation is in the morning when you wake up and/or at night when you are going to sleep. The restorative effects of this are quite powerful and very noticeable.
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Da Roo
Life is the solution to a problem that has no definition
Last Online: 2008-07-03 9:35 AM
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Auntie Em
The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.
The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.
"Johnny, do you have a story to share?"
"Yes ma'am. My daddy told a story about my Auntie Em. She was a pilot in Desert Storm and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory
and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol and a survival knife. She quickly drank the whiskey all the way down, knowing it would shatter and go to waste otherwise and just then her parachute landed right in the middle of twenty enemy troops. She shot fifteen of them with the gun until she ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke, and then she killed the last
Iraqi with her bare hands."
"Good Heavens" said the horrified teacher. "What kind of moral did your daddy tell you from this horrible story?"
"Stay the f--- away from Auntie Em when she's drinking."
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The Spectacles Parable
Copyright © 2007 Drew Mcpherson
A man was searching for his lost spectacles. He traversed back and forth, high and low, near and far searching continuously for his spectacles. He was having difficulty seeing without them, but continued on despite his handicap. He put in that much more effort to try and find them, even using his hands to poke around while seeking them out. He was so determined that he refused to pause his search even for a moment. People frequently kept trying to stop him, to get in his way, but he paid them no heed, and pushed past them, continuing his search. How rude, he thought to himself, these people have no business interfering with my task, as he carried on in spite of all their attempts to prevent him from finding his spectacles. After a long life of hardship and toil he began running out of energy, wearing down from a hard existence of unending searching. Eventually he had absolutely no energy left whatsoever, and his time was up. As he gave up his search and sat down on his deathbed, something poked into his buttocks. It was his missing spectacles, stuck to his backside the whole time. All of the people who had tried to shake him from his focussed search were trying to inform him of this fact.
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Life is the solution to a problem that has no definition
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