I really never thought i'd be doing a blog on 'stress'.
Socially such things are shunned as unacceptable. "A blog on stress, what's wrong with you?" "Oh she must be stressed out" "Oh she must have some problem"..........all these ideas of what people feel or think has always been a consideration for me.
Maybe that's why today I'm finding my way down the alley of facing one of the biggest issues in my life - stress, stress, chronic, debilitating stress.
I actually never realized this was the source of so many problems I have been facing in the last so many many years..........whether a car accident or multiple surgeries or endless faulty tooth procedures, or a chronic muscular problem that crippled me completely.
It's not that there wasn't physical elements to it, or sometimes maybe simply being at the wrong place at the wrong time. But today I realize, the stage on which all this was set, the underlying aspect of this all has been stress.
A realization that came to me as I almost reached a situation of a mental breakdown brought on by debilitating stress.
And that's when I realized............I was creating stress. It was no situation, no person, nothing outside of me that could create this very paralyzing may i call it emotion in me. It was me creating it myself. It was my reactions, my ways of looking at things, my strong dislikes, my judgements, my attitudes, my desires, my expectations of myself and others................it was me and only me.
When I saw this it was though I had hit upon a jackpot, as though I had discovered something phenomenal.
I guess the thing with internal realizations is that there aren't any big firecrackers, there aren't any big events to highlight a huge internal discovery that you make. It leaves you feeling a bit confused rather. Because on one side you feel this deep sense of amazement, this deep sense of freedom that this discovery has brought about in yourself. At the other you question it's enormity for it comes so silently.......
I guess the biggest things in life come silently...........
For me the realization that I create stress brought with it a new power.
Now it was in my hands to also find a way out...............
And that's why I began this blog.....to make sense of a journey that unfolded through a series of endless intense physical problems for 8 years........to finally bring to me the root of the issue........stress........
Socially such things are shunned as unacceptable. "A blog on stress, what's wrong with you?" "Oh she must be stressed out" "Oh she must have some problem"..........all these ideas of what people feel or think has always been a consideration for me.
Maybe that's why today I'm finding my way down the alley of facing one of the biggest issues in my life - stress, stress, chronic, debilitating stress.
I actually never realized this was the source of so many problems I have been facing in the last so many many years..........whether a car accident or multiple surgeries or endless faulty tooth procedures, or a chronic muscular problem that crippled me completely.
It's not that there wasn't physical elements to it, or sometimes maybe simply being at the wrong place at the wrong time. But today I realize, the stage on which all this was set, the underlying aspect of this all has been stress.
A realization that came to me as I almost reached a situation of a mental breakdown brought on by debilitating stress.
And that's when I realized............I was creating stress. It was no situation, no person, nothing outside of me that could create this very paralyzing may i call it emotion in me. It was me creating it myself. It was my reactions, my ways of looking at things, my strong dislikes, my judgements, my attitudes, my desires, my expectations of myself and others................it was me and only me.
When I saw this it was though I had hit upon a jackpot, as though I had discovered something phenomenal.
I guess the thing with internal realizations is that there aren't any big firecrackers, there aren't any big events to highlight a huge internal discovery that you make. It leaves you feeling a bit confused rather. Because on one side you feel this deep sense of amazement, this deep sense of freedom that this discovery has brought about in yourself. At the other you question it's enormity for it comes so silently.......
I guess the biggest things in life come silently...........
For me the realization that I create stress brought with it a new power.
Now it was in my hands to also find a way out...............
And that's why I began this blog.....to make sense of a journey that unfolded through a series of endless intense physical problems for 8 years........to finally bring to me the root of the issue........stress........
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