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running around like a chicken with its head cut off.” These com- mon expressions describe our physiological processes and en- ergy dynamics with extraordinary accuracy! These word pictures about “losing our heads” speak our body’s truth. The focus of our attention has become very narrow. Our blood is racing towards our extremities and away from our vital organs. We have lost our ability to be fully and consciously present. Our prefrontal lobes, which show us the “bigger picture,” are offline. On the energy level, we are running our survival program, and that is why under acute stress we feel as though “we are going to die.” Stress is omnipresent in our world. Beyond the ups and downs of our personal lives, we live in a time of acute cultural, global, and planetary stress on many levels. Research tells us how dam- aging prolonged stress can be to our bodies, and that virtually all major diseases have a stress component. For most of us, knowing these things compounds our misery. Now we not only feel stressed, but we also feel stressed about being stressed! At this point we may feel some desperation about how to eliminate stress and its debilitating effects. The first step many people take is to look outward at their external circumstances. Who and/or what is causing this stress? Blame and anger make their appear- ance.
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"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin
or most of us, stress is the enemy. We want to get rid of “it” at any cost! Eat chocolate, go shopping, take a walk, take a pill, have a glass of wine—anything to narcotize ourselves
to the panic and overwhelm racing through our bodies. “I’m stressed out of my mind” we may say. Or perhaps, “I’ve been
Let’s take the “who” first. Someone in our lives is not acting as they “should.” This could be our spouse, our partner, our boss, our colleague, our neighbor, our child—anyone close enough to matter. We decide that this key person in our lives must change if we are to get relief from stress! With vigor and often with ven- geance, accompanied by large doses of self righteousness, we take on the mission of getting someone else to act differently so that we can feel better. For those of us who have tried it, it quickly becomes apparent that we are on a “mission impossible.” Suppose we do actually convince a significant other to change on our behalf. What happens? Usually another person with similarly stressful qualities shows up almost immediately! Let’s now go a step further. If the “who” strategy does not
work, perhaps the “what” approach will! Now instead of trying to change someone else, we take on life itself. From this vantage point, we see that things are happening that “should not” be happening…the economy is down…the company we work for
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