Addiction to stress or freedom?

A lot of us are terrified to end the effects of stress in our life.

Sounds strange, doesn't it? Terrified…..but, many of us are addicted to the adrenaline state associated with high stress.

We don't think we are, we think, oh my gosh, I'd love a break, oh my gosh, I’d love to have some rest, but the reality is, the adrenaline state is hyper addictive.

It is why we like high-intensity exercise and why we like extreme diets and why we like to be multitasking and to have a million things to do, and why we like it when our phone is constantly buzzing with notifications.

Our cells are used to a high adrenaline state. We are comfortable living there and even though it is definitely the cause of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, chronic pain and arthritis among many other things, we are terrified to let it go.

There's a part of us that fears….if I step out of that, then what the heck is there?

I won't get anything done. I’ll be useless.

That fear is profound and it keeps us from moving forward.

I see this all the time, the fear of what if I don't know the me that isn't stressed out all the time? What if I can't function and my life falls apart?

What if I get bored without having a million things to do?

Can I ask you, do you think any of that's ever going to be true?

What if you love who you are when you're relaxed and happy and joyful instead of feeling worried, fearful and bitchy all the time?

What if, you discover or rediscover things that you actually love and spend your time doing those instead of all the litany of obligations you've taken on as a hallmark of this stressed-out state?

What if you discover that your body is a luscious living structure and living in it is so much fun when it's not constantly tight, bound up and restricted because of a stress state?

The addiction to stress is going to be the biggest scourge of modern time. We watch it alter the world as Western society makes its way into other countries and they go from having active, busy lives with longevity and happiness to pain, misery, diabetes, chronic disease, and depression.

The only antidote to this is to begin to mitigate the effects of stress by an implementing a diet that reduces the actual stress response at the cell level by giving the body back what we've burned up by carelessly using body resources for most of our lives, and by beginning to bring our conscious awareness to what we do, think and say every single day so that we can actually have the life of our dreams.

That's what we're really talking about, the life of your dreams is waiting on the other side of burning that candle at both ends.

When you live in that state, there is no room for health and vision and creativity and expansion because you're constantly contracting into a space of, there won't be enough, I don't have enough energy, there's not going to be enough money, I'm fearful of this, I'm fearful of that, I can't keep up.  From that space, nothing new gets generated.

So what's it going to be? An addiction to stress, or freedom?

Blessings,

Dr. Julie

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