Stress

by Richard Reeve on January 30, 2009

in @CCSeed

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It’s amazing to watch how stress operates in our system.  This past weekend our heating system broke. For the three days we had no heat and the family stayed with the In-laws.  Each morning our problems got worse and at one point I feared we were not going to be able to fix it.

Now fast forward to last night.  Though the heating problems are solved, my body was in a vulnerable state, and the achy misery of the flu decides to take up residency.

I can see how last weeks dream of Cliff Road relates to all this.  So the question I ask you for help on:

How could I have traversed this stretch of road differently?

What practices do you employ when you know your body has been compromised by stress?

As I say in the dream “there had to be another way to do that…”  I”m all ears.

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  • richard~

    sorry to hear of your aches, chills and migraine. i can get utterly paralyzed by a flu or a bug, but i believe that's the body's way of removing all other stresses so that it can perform the task of fighting off whatever has come as the unwelcome guest.

    the most important thing to me if i'm stressed is sleep. i'll sleep a 12-hour cycle if i feel my body needs it. amazing how healing sleep is. much repair gets done and often that's all i need. i don't know much about dreams, but i bet you could actually employ the subconscious while you sleep to aid in the repair of your body - literally dream yourself well.

    healing soups, like your butternut squash bisque can be miraculous at times like these. in fact, bringing the diet down to monk-like simplicity of miso soup and brown rice is a good way to clean and alkalize. disease thrives in an acidic environment, so don't feed your "visitor" coffee, wine, red meat, dairy and tobacco.

    but back to your cliff road and the idea that it portends something larger...it seems we are all heading toward that cliff unaware, on the one road we know. we've had scouts up ahead for years now telling us there's a sharp drop-off around the next corner, yet we continue down the road that we know - there is no turning back...let's just hope that as in your dream, the drop is merely a massive shift in perspective where we all dust ourselves off and have the good sense to collectively ask "is there a better way now?"

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  • Hi Richard,

    I certainly am not an expert at decyphering my dreams but I am beginning to take note of the relevance.

    As far as stress, the first thing I do is succumb to it, let it through then realease! Very important to employ the full support of your mind...breathe in/breath out.

    Glad your heating angst has been resolved!

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  • Cindy, Detlef and Alden,
    thanks for the support and suggestions. Unable to answer more, but know they are much appreciated.

  • Hello, Richard~

    Sorry to hear about your heating troubles, and hope to hear that this has been resolved. The weather in your neck of the woods has not been kind ot you this year, and I know what a tribulation this can be.

    As a vet, and suffering from PTSD for almost 45 years, I have known my share of stress. I have developed unique coping skills, that, although they will not work for many, work for me. I think we all need to have these things in our life. It has taken me all these years to find out what works for me, and with each passing year, they change and I need to readjust. Being of a hedonistic inclination, I find my watch words are moderation and routine. Without these my life would be a shambles.

    I do not think you could have done this any differently. One must take care of the home, must work, and thus expose themselves to travails. A monk living in the woods can be bitten by a mosquito and suffer indignities from that bite. We cannot lock ourselves away from the indignities that life has a tendency to throw at us no more than we can fly. I am not one to ask "what if" and I find that if I go into a self analysis mode, I get confused and upset. I therefore take life as it comes at me, good or bad. it is all we can do.

    Peace,

    Alden~

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  • If you believe that nothing ever happens to you by pure accident you gain autonomy, you gain the possibility of insights into your life, you have the chance to rather actively shape your fate than to passively endure it.

    But there's a flip side: if anything goes wrong it's nobody's fault but yours. If you're falling sick, you probably made a wrong turn somewhere up the road. That might be a fruitful perspective, but as you are sick, you are not only sick but you have to find that wrong turn, assuming you followed some false option somewhere - instead of concentrating on being sick and getting well.

    So being sick the most fruitful working hypothesis seems to be: "I'm not the captain. Flu (in my case: the knee) is. I enjoy being passive, and it's okay that I am being cared for (I hope so). I enjoy the break from my activities, gaining new perspectives for the future. I will be well soon and stand on the bridge with renewed energies."

    All the best, get well soon.

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  • The old fashioned cure - rest and chicken soup. Honestly, it works wonders.

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