Does this sound like
your life?
You wake up in the
morning, more tired than when you went to bed. Sometimes, even though
you can't remember the 5 hours since 2 AM, you are pretty sure you
didn't sleep.
You fortify yourself
with coffee and sugar to make it to work.
By noon, you really
aren't hungry, you'd just like a long nap and you can barely remember
what you did this morning.
Lunch is huge feast
of carbohydrates and fat, fortified with a caffeinated drink and back
to work as fast as possible so you catch up on what you didn't get
done this morning, except that once behind your desk you are in a
stupor.
Some time around 3
PM you have a slight rally of energy during which you frantically try
to catch up only to hit a wall around 5 PM when you can finally
commute home though you probably shouldn't be driving.
Once home, you
microwave something and fall on the sofa watching the news during
which you get an hour of hysterical anchors giving you the doom and
gloom of the day until finally you watch some mindless reality show
where everyone is stabbing everyone in the back, lying and cheating,
but that is reality. Maybe you switch to a comedy where Geeks are
never amounting to anything, the pretty people are stupid and the
rich guys are really, really dumb though that fails to explain how
they made all that money in the first place.
More news followed
the funny monologue to lift your spirits but even it a biting sarcasm
about politics and then you get to toss and turn and worry about your
30 pounds overweight, aches and pains and total loss of energy.
Finally the weekend
comes around and your to-do list is catch up on sleep which you never
seem to do. Even your kids once they hit school are on the same
merry-go-round.
You tried the
vitamins to the point that with a little ketchup you would have three
meals.
You tried exercise
but could barely lift your feet and had even less energy.
You tried the super
food sand they did nothing.
You tried to lose
weight because no matter the symptom, that was what the doctor told
you would solve it, but you can't. If you could lose weight, you
would have done that years ago.
Maybe you even got a
diagnosis of something exotic like fibromyalgia and joined a support
group. You still aren't any better.
You can take this to
a doctor and if that doctor can find an error in my conclusion, let
them prove it.
There is no pill,
position or food that is going to help you.
I am a biofeedback
therapist and started seeing this moment I entered the profession
because it was what I was trained to see. You are suffering from
adrenal overload.
Humans and animals
have what is called a flight or fight response when presented with a
dangerous situation.
Now you may be
thinking the maximum amount of danger you face is a paper cut. That
is the actual amount of physical danger you face, the real danger.
What you are unaware of is make believe danger you face.
It starts with the
news and all the bad things about to happen. Your guns, vote,
freedom, women and way of life are threatened every evening and
before bed by some enemy who probably doesn't care you exist. Reality
shows give you a frightening distorted view of reality in which
everyone is out to get you. Can you really trust the family next door
or the kid in a hoodie? Comedies should be relabeled tragedies
because no one is winning in those either.
Everyone of these
things creates a fear response in your mind which begins the flight
or fight response.
Let me explain what
happens when this response is activated.
First, your blood
vessels constrict in your finger, toes, hands, feet, arms, legs and
outer layer of skin and muscle and start to push the blood to the
core of your body flooding your deep muscles and organs and
preventing you from bleeding to death from non-life threatening cuts.
This also prepares your muscles to fight or run fast. Any athlete
will you this causes a build up lactic acid in the muscle which
results in aches and pains. It also raises your blood pressure and
stretches your blood vessels.
You begin to breathe
more shallowly. You start to tense your arms and legs. You begin to
sweat to make it harder for your enemy to hold on to you and then,
NOTHING.
There is no enemy to
run from or to fight, but your body doesn't know that. It will
maintain this state of awareness and readiness until you wear
yourself out. You don't even know you are doing it because all of
this is happening below your level of awareness. It is like your
kidneys functioning or breathing. You aren't aware of it.
The result is the
life I detailed above. High blood pressure from all the tensing with
no release and if you have a weak blood vessel, an aneurism. All this
leads to a heart attack or stroke. Your immune system is activated to
take care of any wounds and it stays activated until it wears itself
out and you catch every bug that is going around.
Beside massive and
ongoing organ damage, a final punch arrives. It's called cancer. You
in such a unnatural state that unnatural things start to happen
because you are too weak to fight off chemical pollution, allergens
and little infections.
All of this occurs
because of the constant stream of hate, fear and paranoia you are
subjected to every day. You used to go into the doctor's office, DMV,
restaurant and if a TV was on you watched a game show or maybe a soap
opera. Now you get 24/7 panic attack news, very little of which is
factual. Last year I was getting my hair cut and in came a man, livid
over something on the news that was an outright lie and didn't even
affect him. Oh, I take that back. He was shaking, yelling, sweating
and unable to sit still. Yes, it was affecting him.
This is what is
wrong with you. This why you are sick and tired and tired and sick
all the time. This is why your children who face a constant barrage
of tests rather than learning, are sleeping all weekend trying to
catch up. You and them, blurry eyed at noon or later over a bowl of
sugar...I mean cereal.
At the current rate
of hate, fear and spoon fed paranoia, you should start burning out by
30.
Do you know that
burn out didn't exist when I was a young adult? You found a job you
liked that paid a living wage and you planned on being with that
company until retirement. If you were the janitor, that was what you
wanted to be. Who is in a job right now that they want to be? Who
looks forward to going to work in the morning?
I just read an
article suggesting, no demanding, that the author of the Harry Potter
books retire, not on some religious or quasi-philosophical argument
with the books, but because younger authors should be allowed to
publish. She is taking up too much space on the bookshelf. It's time
to let someone younger put their book there.
I even saw a letter
in dear Abby replacement, suggesting that all older workers retire
and open up jobs and promotions for younger people.
Your body knows what
this means, but your brain to foggy from constant fear to translate
it.
Older people just
take up space and food that can be better used to feed and employ
younger workers who are too stupid to realize they are about to be
the burnt out old people they want to replace for half the price.
While we are at it, let's cut social security and medicare so we can
starve grandma and grandpa and kill them with easily treated
illnesses.
Now that we have
done that, let's rewrite history because no one is around who
remembers what really happened. You don't really care because you are
willing to agree to anything if you can just get a little nap.
I am also a
hypnotherapist. Remember that 2 to 7 AM period you are pretty sure
you didn't sleep during but you can't remember anything that
happened. That is what is called a hypnogogic state. This is a very
special mental state in which you are easily manipulated because you
want to go to sleep and can't. You will agree to anything to just
sleep. It is also a state in which you suffer night terrors where you
are paralyzed and can't move. It is more importantly the state in
which you see archetypes, figures that embody all the characteristics
of bigger than life stereotypes. Death shows up at the foot of the
bed in a robe carrying a scythe. Abraham Lincoln comes to take you to
freedom. God shows up with advice or the kid in the hoodie has a
really big gun. This state is very seldom a pleasant one. More
negative than positive figures show up when your world is filled with
fear, hate and paranoia.
Yes, my friends, the
TV, radio and Internet may well kill you with fear, hate and
paranoia.
A certain amount of
fear is justified when there are cobras in the fields, but when all
the snakes are nonpoisonous, the fear of them is what will kill you.
You don't need a real snake to do it.
So right about now
the question should be flitting across your brain about whether
someone is deliberating trying to kill you and everyone around you.
Let me break a few
myths because you are being lied to, bamboozled and conned. The lie
is scarcity. There is no scarcity of anything. There are people
growing a ton..that's 2,000 pounds of food a month using 1/10 the
water a conventional farm uses on less than an acre. It's called
aeroponics. Plants are suspended on a conveyor belt and travel round
and round all day past misters than moisten their roots and feed
them. All plant waste goes to feed earthworms that produce the “soup”
that feeds the plants. I saw this setup at Epcot 20 years ago. Those
squash were humongous! There is self sustaining hydroponics where
food fish are raised in aquariums below plants, eating their plant
roots and fertilizing the plants with fish poop. And for those who
want the conventional in the ground garden there is a family raising
all their food, eggs and milk from goats on less than a half an acre.
There is no shortage of food. Wind and solar power produce enough
power to take the place of oil and coal within a year if we fast
tracked it. There is no scarcity of power. The mint prints out money
by the bucket full every day. There is no shortage of money, just of
money you can get your hands on. There is no shortage of wealth.
Ah, but what about
the pandemics killing me off. You can sell the duct tape and plastic
wrap. By the time you find out about the pandemic, you will be dead
or really wish you were. There is always a case of bird flu in China
and there has always been bird flu in China and it is not coming to
get you because it never has. Every continent has its deadly disease.
We have ours. It is carried by mice and it kills in days but it stays
in the desert in a very specialized environment. You can stop
worrying about it.
You are being
played, conned and lied to about all this. It isn't a problem.
The thing that seems
to have so many people on the edge is someone is coming to get your
gun. Well, not all guns are registered. So, someone has to knock on
every door and physically take your gun away. How many houses in your
neighborhood or apartments in your complex. How long would it take,
even with a good workforce to go door to door in say, New York? Who
is going to do this? Have you seen a hundred soldiers lounging on the
street corner? You don't even have enough cops to fight crime much
let alone go door to door. The government can't even conduct the
census door to door. It is physically impossible.
Now, how much impact
does anything your neighbor does have on you? Playing music too loud
might keep you up at night but in reality, there is very little the
guy next door can do that has any effect on your life. Be honest, if
he running around his front yard nude, your first thought is going to
be...gee, I'm in better shape than that. Are you more likely to be
discussing lawn care or religion? Truth, now. Lawn care won. So why
are you having a religious meltdown because someone, somewhere
belongs to a different religion? It might be because someone on the
news told to and you are too tired to disagree and too brain fogged
to think straight because you are conditioned to fear everyone, hate
anyone not just like you and you know they are all out to get you,
you just don't know who they are but your body is ready to fight or
run 24/7. You are car up on blocks with the petal to the metal and
your engine is going to burn out.
Turn the TV, radio
and internet off. Get to know the people around you. Smile instead of
hiding. Make eye contact. You have nothing to be afraid of. It is all
a lie. The lie will kill you and yes, someone is doing it
deliberately. Remember when you were young. Remember when you
believed in promises. Remember when you worked cheap just to get the
job to get experience so you could get the better job because you
were young and naïve. They sure do make the best workers......and
just as soon as you are too sick and too tired to work and lying on
the sofa in a one bedroom apartment staring at the boob tube or the
computer eating a chemical hash and dying quickly, big business can
make a bigger profit.