If stress isn’t real, so we can’t “catch” stress, and don’t have a “disease” called stress, then that in turn means the only way to get stressed, is to CREATE stress in your life?
So as an alien from a planet where we don’t have the word stress in our language, because it is not an element we know about, if I want to be more human, so I can fit in on Earth, how would I create stress in my life?
As humans, we are born as superb survival learning machines. We are constantly scanning our environment using our 6 senses (yes SIX), what can we see, hear, feel, smell, taste AND perceive energetically. Our supercomputer of a survival “Reptilian” hind brain then compares that to everything we know from our previous experience, and the wisdom and insight we have at that time, and in micro-seconds, decides if we are under threat or not.
By the age of about 6, all the survival-based rules for living are written to our hard drive as our operating system, and our slower, more obedient, logical rationalising “thinking” brain, comes up with reasons and methods to apply the orders from the survival brain.
Back to our alien human-emulator, Eric.
Eric learns that in order to feel stressed, they need to make stories around the world around them they perceive, and about everything that happens to them. The more the story involves them being a victim of random occurrences in the world, and the less powerless they see themselves, incapable of changing their circumstances and unable to choose a different outcome, the more stressed they are able to feel. With a little practice, Eric is able to raise their blood pressure levels, give themselves constipation, headaches, affect their vision and sleep and energy, and with the right focus can create a whole host of “diseases” and “illnesses”in their body.
Eric sends a message back to the mother-ship on their findings stating that the human skill called the “mind” appears to be both a blessing, as they’ve seen some humans generate massive wealth, joy, happiness and adventures, but also a curse, as most of the humans seem unable to control the application called the “mind” and only succeed in generating poverty, pain, sadness, dis-ease and misery, and that leads to even deeper more complicated patterns of thought labeled as depression, anxiety and lack of self worth.
Eric’s next project, given to them by the Commander, is to find out how to take control of this powerful tool called the “mind”, to manifest ease and joy rather than stress.
Mission accepted?