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Let's face it. We live in a drama-addicted society. But if a perpetual state of stress-induced drama continues to be blindly accepted as a state of normalcy, if we continue to scoff, "there's always going to be stress," then the impetus to separate ourselves from its malignancy will be lost.
In the drama addiction cycle, when the body reacts to the fight-or-flight fear of death via the sympathetic nervous system, you are not exercising free will. You are at the mercy of physiological reactions going on inside of your body, and nothing more. Now multiply this reactionary state times every experience in your life that has caused you to feel anxiety, worry, stress, or anger. Is it in the hundreds? Thousands? Is it countless? Well then, where is the free will in that kind of life? Spiritual Life Coaching can help you put an end to the drama and subsequently reduce your stress and anxiety.
When the parasympathetic mode dominates we are in a calm, peaceful, relaxed state. The sympathetic nervous system, on the other hand, is designed to put the body in a stress mode. Let's say you get into an argument on the subject of abortion with someone and her opinion clashes with yours, and as a result, the your ego has declared her as the enemy which, in turn, triggers the primitive fight-or-flight/fear-of-death response. This alarming state triggers the body's release of adrenaline, preparing you for any potential threat. But there is no threat. There is only a difference of opinion.
In addition to adrenalin, the locus coeruleus is activated by stress and will secrete norepinephrine (NE) in the brain. Adrenaline and NE then serve to pull sugar from the glycogen storage in your cells, raising blood sugar levels, and resulting in an exhilarating surge of the intoxicating neurotransmitter dopamine. But here's the catch; dopamine cleverly tricks the brain into repeating a similar conflict or drama that created the dopamine high in the first place. And thus, the drama addiction cycle continues. A Spiritual Life Coach can help you to transcend the ego so that you will be empowered to end the drama addiction cycle.
You don't have to read clinical studies to know that stress has an effect on the body. You can feel the pain, the anxiety, and the fear surging through your veins. Your muscles cramp, your stomach churns, and your entire body feels, well, horrible. For people who are chronically stressed, it's very much like having a mild panic attack several times a day, every day, for years on end.
Over time, chronically stressed people begin to become so accustomed to their stress that they begin to know nothing else. Stress is indistinguishable from their daily life. They don't know what it's like to live in a continuous state of calm, peace, and tranquility. And when you try to tell them that there's another way to live, that there doesn't have to be stress in their life--they look at you awkwardly, as if you're speaking gibberish. "How can that be?" They ask, befuddled. "That's impossible," they say. "Life is stress," they proclaim. A Spiritual Life Coach can help you to realize that life is not inherently stressful. Rather, stress is rooted in the judgments and reactions to whatever life brings.
So what do people do to cope with all this stressful drama? A large percentage of them turn to prescription drugs. An average of six million people a year in the U.S. alone admit to prescription drug abuse. And many more, well, just drink or eat their stress away, resulting in alcoholism and obesity.
There are many reasons we feel fear, such as fear of being seen in a bad light, fear of being wrong, fear of loss, failure, rejection, being hurt, etc., but ultimately it all stems from the primitive fear of survival. When you are ego-identified, and therefore identify part of your existence with your own opinions, something as insignificant as losing an argument to another is perceived as a psychological death.
The spiritually enlightened does not retreat to the primitive egoic need to be right. Instead of reacting, they are conscious enough to see through the egoic-drama and therefore choose not to react to it. In other words, they exercise their free will. Spiritual Life Coaching can provide you with all the tools, techniques, and psychology you'll need to become spiritually enlightened, transcend your ego, and subsequently choose non-reaction, non-violence, and non-resistance to the dramas, conflicts, and problems in life.
In the drama addiction cycle, when the body reacts to the fight-or-flight fear of death via the sympathetic nervous system, you are not exercising free will. You are at the mercy of physiological reactions going on inside of your body, and nothing more. Now multiply this reactionary state times every experience in your life that has caused you to feel anxiety, worry, stress, or anger. Is it in the hundreds? Thousands? Is it countless? Well then, where is the free will in that kind of life? Spiritual Life Coaching can help you put an end to the drama and subsequently reduce your stress and anxiety.
When the parasympathetic mode dominates we are in a calm, peaceful, relaxed state. The sympathetic nervous system, on the other hand, is designed to put the body in a stress mode. Let's say you get into an argument on the subject of abortion with someone and her opinion clashes with yours, and as a result, the your ego has declared her as the enemy which, in turn, triggers the primitive fight-or-flight/fear-of-death response. This alarming state triggers the body's release of adrenaline, preparing you for any potential threat. But there is no threat. There is only a difference of opinion.
In addition to adrenalin, the locus coeruleus is activated by stress and will secrete norepinephrine (NE) in the brain. Adrenaline and NE then serve to pull sugar from the glycogen storage in your cells, raising blood sugar levels, and resulting in an exhilarating surge of the intoxicating neurotransmitter dopamine. But here's the catch; dopamine cleverly tricks the brain into repeating a similar conflict or drama that created the dopamine high in the first place. And thus, the drama addiction cycle continues. A Spiritual Life Coach can help you to transcend the ego so that you will be empowered to end the drama addiction cycle.
You don't have to read clinical studies to know that stress has an effect on the body. You can feel the pain, the anxiety, and the fear surging through your veins. Your muscles cramp, your stomach churns, and your entire body feels, well, horrible. For people who are chronically stressed, it's very much like having a mild panic attack several times a day, every day, for years on end.
Over time, chronically stressed people begin to become so accustomed to their stress that they begin to know nothing else. Stress is indistinguishable from their daily life. They don't know what it's like to live in a continuous state of calm, peace, and tranquility. And when you try to tell them that there's another way to live, that there doesn't have to be stress in their life--they look at you awkwardly, as if you're speaking gibberish. "How can that be?" They ask, befuddled. "That's impossible," they say. "Life is stress," they proclaim. A Spiritual Life Coach can help you to realize that life is not inherently stressful. Rather, stress is rooted in the judgments and reactions to whatever life brings.
So what do people do to cope with all this stressful drama? A large percentage of them turn to prescription drugs. An average of six million people a year in the U.S. alone admit to prescription drug abuse. And many more, well, just drink or eat their stress away, resulting in alcoholism and obesity.
There are many reasons we feel fear, such as fear of being seen in a bad light, fear of being wrong, fear of loss, failure, rejection, being hurt, etc., but ultimately it all stems from the primitive fear of survival. When you are ego-identified, and therefore identify part of your existence with your own opinions, something as insignificant as losing an argument to another is perceived as a psychological death.
The spiritually enlightened does not retreat to the primitive egoic need to be right. Instead of reacting, they are conscious enough to see through the egoic-drama and therefore choose not to react to it. In other words, they exercise their free will. Spiritual Life Coaching can provide you with all the tools, techniques, and psychology you'll need to become spiritually enlightened, transcend your ego, and subsequently choose non-reaction, non-violence, and non-resistance to the dramas, conflicts, and problems in life.
About the Author:
In 2007, Spiritual Life Coach, Jason Lincoln Jeffers created The Art of Transformation, a company dedicated to teaching Spiritual Enlightenment to the world. His Spiritual Life Coaching program uniquely combines metaphysical wisdom with ego transcendence, holistic health, life path astrology, shadow & pain-body work, heart-brain intention, the power of presence, and the law of attraction.
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