Living in Gratitude
These days, everywhere we look we see challenges and to each of those we offer personal reactions. With the extended lock down in India affecting ONPASSIVE’s IT hub, I suppose it’s time to realize we’re at a place in history where we can say with certainty that COVID-19 is creating the new norm. For those of us thinking it would pass like every other crisis without leaving its mark, it’s a wake-up call. Look around at the world; at the changes brought about specifically by this epidemic. Of particular interest to us, is the huge shift in the way people work and the vehicle for the vast majority of that shift has been online media. This is part of the shift in global conscious I have been preaching about for months and we can never go back to the way it was.
In keeping stride with this, ONPASSIVE’s vast, digital ecosystem will be right on time. And as much as I love ONPASSIVE, it’s also about you and the quality of life you live that interests me greatly. Because two years ago I didn’t know I had great value and worthiness. But now, I would like very much for you to know you have value and worthiness and you can enjoy life. You too can be happy in this very moment; right where you are now on the way to where you are going. And if you can appreciate that, you will arrive at a place you want to be.
So, having said that, COVID-19 has provided an opportunity to for us all to pause; to retreat from our lives and, in doing so, to remove the constant stimulation we get from our environment that continually reminds us of who we are, what we do, and who we spend time with. This is because we’re not using the same modes of transportation, we're not seeing the same people, were not engaging the same activities… Now we’re engaged in a personalized retreat that puts us in the comfort of our homes. For how long is anybody’s guess. The beauty of this can be found in seeing who we emerge as because this uncertainty is changing us all. You see, like they always have, environmental conditions have a way of causing us to be uncertain; leery even. We look at the uncertainty with a keen eye because we know things happen that we can't predict. With COVID-19, we moved away from everything we knew and was predictable… like our morning routines. We have moved from things that were known to us into something that's not known; into an unknown. This means, to make a difference, or to create a level of control, we have to be creative; as witnessed by the many innovative changes brought about in the last several months. Changes, I might add, that are right on par with what ONPASSIVE is building. But the fact is we’re not facing an internal crisis, well… maybe some of us are… but the real challenges are coming through the circumstances found in our external environment.
And here is where the rubber meets the road, so to speak. So please hear me on this. Because our response to those external circumstances cause each and every one of us to move into a primitive state of response through our autonomic nervous system that drives us, our bodies anyway, into what we call a sympathetic response; the fight or flight response we learned about in early psychology.
It forces us into an emergency mode where the brain and body enter an alarm state. This is because they perceive a threat coming at us from the outer environment. When there, they also dose us up with adrenaline, cortisol, and other stress hormones. For a little while that's fine. Everybody, all organisms, have to deal with short term stress of one sort or another. The gazelle spots the lion about to pounce, it kicks in the stress response that gives it everything need to “amp” up, run, and stay alive. The gazelle is safe ten minutes later and the body goes back into homeostasis. But if our perceptions to the outer environment keep that stress response going for extended periods… weeks, months and even years… it creates continual stress which prevents the brain and body from achieving homeostasis, it keeps us out of balance.
Our reactions to circumstances that are unpredictable or uncertain, make us think things are going to get worse, and cause us to want to control the outcome. And those perceptions, and the feelings that come from them, are the exact motivation needed to activate that fight or flight response we mentioned earlier. So, when we live in fear or anxiety of things we cannot predict or control, we mobilize enormous amounts of energy used for awareness of our environment to find the danger we perceive. But our bodies only have a certain amount of energy. And it’s well-known, if there's no energy available to our inside environment for repair and well-being, then we become a lot more susceptible to the conditions in the outer environment affecting us internally. In other words, responses based in fear, aggression, frustration, pain, and suffering, are actually things that weakens us.
Right now, in history, we are in a period where we have to become conscious about the relationship we have with our body. We need to be aware that we are amazing human beings complete with an immune system more than able to combat the bacteria, virus, disease, and cancer, etc., that can happen to any of us at any moment.
Think about it like this… during normal life activity we're reacting to traffic, coworkers, the news, etc. Our response to any of these things happening in the outer environment can cause us to feel some of the limited emotions were talking about. So. if I ask, “Why are you angry? Why are you, frustrated or suffering so? If I’m told, it’s the traffic or the news or coworkers, I’m being told, whether they know it or not, that those outward things are to blame for the way they feel which, in essence, says they are vulnerable to the environment against their will and have no control. They're telling me that something in the outer world is actually controlling and influencing how they think and feel. So, if there is anything that we feel is controlling us, or that we feel we have no control over, we’re [usually anyway] taking on the attitude of a victim. According to our thinking, we are a victim to our environment. It’s that mindset, that consciousness, if you will, that causes us to become more susceptible to everything in our outer environment. So, as a result, our internal environment gets compromised. Our internal environment, which is responsible for metabolism and assimilation, growth and repair, including our immune system, get compromised. It gets weakened.
And we're all looking for answers. We all know innately that there's more to who and what we are than our existence in this physical realm that we call reality for a time. And that feeling, which is difficult to pin down, has brought a great deal of us to a point where we're looking for more and more truth. And when we learn, when we understand that change, the type of sustainable change we’re talking about here, can cause us to actually become greater than our body, to be come greater than the conditions in our environment.
So, it’s right now that these things we’ve learned though the new sciences of quantum, along with meditation and such, has been learned for a time such as the one that we are currently in. We know that fear and the stress hormones affectively suppress the immune response. Why do you think Jesus commanded us a ga-jillian times, “Do not fear” and “Fear not.” Because it’s bad for us. Bur fear is powerful. It causes us to live in survival-mode so that we see very limited possibility at every turn because, while stressed out, we select scenarios in our mind that helps us prepare for the worst-case scenario. But if we trade that fearful, emotional state for an elevated emotion like love, gratitude, appreciation, inspiration, or thankfulness… research has shown that one change will move us from the sympathetic nervous system. By doing this, we’re telling our body that it's safe in the present moment, and to activate that elevated emotion and practicing that for 10 minutes A-day, perhaps 2 or 3 times a day, then our immune system will strengthen by 50%. Along with elevated emotion, there is also a very simple breathing technique that will put us in a calm state and enable us to appreciate more easily. I talk in detail about this and its benefits, in part three of “The Matrix” video series and even provided “Affirmations” to put you to sleep at night.
To see this video: https://youtu.be/UxKFCHfir5k
The Matrix, Part 3 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/lERRqYHQktw
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