Stress Part 1

For more than a year or so now my health quest has grown and one aspect that I knew I wanted to know more of is stress. It will be in segments as I've amassed too much material and further condensing and clarification is needed for future blogs. Also, the ramifications of stress is far reaching and bigger than I had ever thought of thus must devote more time studying, thinking about it. We're confronted with stress all the time, good and bad stress and how to beneficially live with it for optimum health is the goal here. Stress is normal, keeps us alive. It's chronic stress particularly chronic emotional stress that this blog is all about. Eating bad foods causing chronic stress must be the first step to fix before anything else as I've discussed, read my earlier blogs for details on that. OK, ready to share my insights now.

Free-Will

To cure emotional chronic stress in one's life, one simply must think. There you have the answer. " Really", you say? That's what I said, too in my not so distant past. Not only will emotional chronic stress go away but life becomes more meaningfully purposeful in the direction that you've envisioned it to be. Mnnnnnnn, what a concept, meaningfully purposeful as opposed to an emotionally driven randomness without direction. But one must choose to think and your chronic emotional stress is bye-bye gone. My play on words here, "I think, therefore I know." If you don't think, emotions take charge. So think, as it's our only given choice in life. Man's only free-will, an inherently human bio-psycho function that must be done and used whenever one is awake. The alternative, default, lazy state is being idle-minded, allowing the subconscious emotional side to take over and wander about aimlessly. Thinking is not automatic and that's the problem, it's an effort to engage our gray-matter to focus and think. It's a repetitive effort once awake that one must partake in to shoo-away bad stress. Thinking elevated us from all the other creatures but sadly most of us have remained in the low to average rungs of being the supreme human species that we truly are. We are all geniuses when we totally, 100% adhere to the aspect of our conscious thinking process in the pursuit of the truth as human beings living on this earth. The subconscious aspect of our thinking process is a mere estimate of reality. To put it in another way, it's mainly the emotional aspect of our personality, giving us an indication, only a hint of reality. We feel the emotion alright but taking an immediate reaction from it is not a good idea in my book because it may just be from false assumptions. A while back I read or perhaps saw on TV a story of a police officer mistakenly shooting an undercover cop. Apparently as I recall, the undercover cop, gun pointed at and on top of the criminal on the ground didn't get the chance to arrest the bad guy as he was shot by the police officer on obviously false assumption as being the bad guy. Just imagine the emotional tension, (stress), going on there by all parties involved and sometimes emotions are true but other times they're not which is my point here. I must add though, when in extreme danger, life or death, I think that the choice to act instantaneously takes precedence for life preservation, run or fight. That's precisely how the survival mechanism is happening within us all. Unbeknownst by us for the most part are countless of tasks performed in the body for our survival as detected, integrated then communicated for action by our mind, e. g., breathing, digesting, info gathering by our senses and so on. Our genome paved the way for these tasks but through our senses we can program and reprogram the mind. It's a good idea to stick with reality, i. e., facts when programming the mind. That only happens when we summon our forgotten best friend in the world, our free-will to think in accordance with reality. I said forgotten because free-will, the choice to think consciously as the core programmer of our mind is not well known. We are the exception, as we're no longer ignorant, we have the power if we so choose to use it. To totally embrace our conscious mind to conform to the facts of reality and thereby having the possibility of a non-contradictory harmonious life on this earth, is the antidote of emotional chronic stress. We must turn-on the brain-switch of our conscious mind to further assess fact from fiction before taking action. It's all we have going for us in sensibly going forward in our lives. Think of the alternative of not thinking on a conscious level? Is it even possible, you bet, it's the default state of an emotionally driven lifestyle, it's the easy, lazy side of us. I was one, too, of not being even aware of the differences between our subconscious emotional side and our logical, rational conscious side. Being aware that we possess the power as far as thinking, namely, our free-will to think or not to think, is huge as to chronic stress prevention. Life takes on a meaningfully purposeful path, like being on a high on living and not escaping from reality at all. Once directly connected to reality, our conscious mind turned-on, we find ourselves in our rightful place. But we're human and must make that extra effort of turning on the switch of our thinking conscious mind to be able to live in the environment we're in. Making the effort in choosing to think once awake is not only proper but a chronic stress reliever. The default state is our subconscious mind or emotional being at work. Emotions solely used as a guide in our lives, induces stress to chronic proportions hence poor health. Our emotional side taken as the exclusive source for living is what you see all over today, in the past and unfortunately still and will prevail. We've been following our emotions all our lives and perhaps aren't aware of an alternative way of thinking. We've all heard it all said before," follow your heart", "follow your instincts", "go by your gut feelings", "what comes around goes around" and others which are all emotionally driven statements because they're not reality driven by our conscious objective side. The saying ought to be, " follow your conscious mind," and evil stress fades away. Emotions are generalizations of fact, meaning, they're not necessarily factual. Our emotions are all of the accumulated information from our senses since birth stored in our memory banks. Whatever information we've been exposed to as early as being in the womb to birth to now from our senses through our subconscious and conscious minds created our uniqueness, our very own personality. Love, hate, fear, anger, anxiety, you name it are some of the real emotional feelings we've experienced often as human beings. These as well as all the other emotions when left alone within our subconscious mind and not filtered through our conscious mind for validity is the primary cause of chronic stress for most. The reason is because emotions, may not be tied to reality therefore a contradiction. Solve the contradiction, you solve the stress. Contradictions in one's life is removed by......thinking or exercising our free-will, turning the switch on of the conscious mind to focus and decipher the issue then proceeding to act or not. We're fallible and for sure not omniscient but the chances of answers to be found are better when we engage our conscious mind, i. e., think.  Keep asking why till you uncover the truth and also when seriously fact-finding that our conscious mind could not solve, seek out experts on the field. Hopefully these experts you employ are reality based practitioners because most aren't and they got us here. But you know better because you're a thinking being all the time and never will stop asking, why? By asking why, we've turned on the conscious mind to think. A child says why all the time, you can bet that his conscious mind is at work. Just keep asking why till you find the answer, use up all of your resources at hand and when it's important enough find experts to help. Often answers are not yet available but at least you've reconciled that and can move on. In other words, adhere to reality and chronic stress cannot exist. Adhere to unreality and you're a basket case. I am emboldened in saying that to encourage meaningfully purposeful thinking for alleviating stress. With stress levels under control, our health is better and life has a chance to be the way it was meant to be in its full grandeur. Fear not in asking, why, why and why all the time till it's clear so that the path to reality in this world unfolds itself. Don't ever stop asking why, as it's the best way in alleviating chronic stress. Always have a big question mark, ?, and find the root of it first-hand. Question everything and find the truth in order for neurons to propagate correctly and serving us better and better in the right direction. I know, I was meaningfully purposefully redundant because it's so important to understand my point. Once ingrained on thinking objectively or consciously all the time, it becomes easier. There's a lesser need for escaping from reality but embracing it fully when we think and know why. Embracing reality, the truth, facts, logic, reason must be 100% and can't be contaminated at all as it will crumble and induce bad stress. It can't even be 99.999% pure as that .001% contaminant will have to be integrated by our conscious mind as an irrationality in thought process. Free the mind of contaminants for a stress free zone, better serving all for their best interest, unencumbered by false irrational assumptions leading to the best possible life. Oh boy, watch those neurons grow, (neurogenesis), transforming your brain into a fine-tuned machine that knows how to keep you optimally healthy. One must be immaculate, 100%, in order to be high on life and living, my choice for a recreational drug. Emotional chronic stress conquered by being the supreme human being, that we truly all are. So......think, make that choice!
Subconscious=emotion= chronic stress. Conscious=rational=normal stress.

This blog is not all mine so will share references in the future. The relationship of emotional chronic stress and the thinking process, i. e., conceptualization, for optimum health is original as far as I could find.

After reading this, I hope that the big, WHY, popped-in because the thinking gear kicked-in. It's human to be curious and reconciliation will come about only when, we Think! Accepting something without validation is where most find themselves in today. All I have to say is that a more meaningfully purposeful life is possible for all when guided strictly by reason. In closing, capture that child-like wonderment and ask why for anything less is boring and perhaps senseless.