Psychologically,
war is a confusing phenomenon in how it affects us.
Some people become very patriotic, while others rail
against it as inhuman. Others draw themselves into a
mental cocoon and try to ignore it… pretending it isn't
happening. Still, others feel the cold grip of fear
surrounding them. What is common to all, however is
that stress is increased because of the uncertainty
of what will happen. The future is unknown and it may
be dark.
Even those who are
very hawkish and want to level the enemy with overwhelming
firepower and know that we have the ability to do it
are under more stress. Certainly, those who are afraid
are under stress. Fear is the biggest stressor there
is and excess stress can cause bad things to happen
to our minds and bodies.
Stress is simply
a response to life. If you live, you have stress… so
it is a normal part of life. However, if it gets too
high or is too long lasting, things can break. Depending
on our personalities and how closed we are to the flow
of life force through our bodies because of negative
forcing functions in our subconscious; our breaking
stress levels are different.
Even if stress levels
go very high, but do not exceed our breaking strength,
while we are still in the elastic response mode, nothing
bad will happen to us. We actually may be able to step
back, view with a kind of elegant detachment what is
happening, and perhaps gain perspective on our own lives
and its difficulties. In essence, we are sharper in
discernment and can grow in positive insight and strength.
However, if our
breaking strength stress levels are exceeded by the
addition of the war stress, it can produce deleterious
consequences for us. The extra stress can send us reeling
into mental and emotional illness and even into physical
illness if the situation persists for too long. You
will get warnings of impending breaking stress levels
by how you feel. Sweating for no reason, headaches,
undue fatigue, irritability, sleep disruption, anxiety
and depression amongst other symptoms can signal the
approach of the break. These warning signs call for
corrective action before things get worse.
Some sufferers will
respond by taking medicine, praying, visiting psychiatrists,
psychologists and counselors. Others will do nothing
and try to brave it out without breaking. Others will
just break. Some may even enlist the aid of conventional
hypnotherapists, who cannot legally treat the symptoms,
but can help them to relax thereby somewhat relieving
their stress. An enlightened few will find a hypnotherapist
who can get to the root of their high stress and release
the negative forcing functions of the source problems
within them. With this release, the breaking stress
threshold is greatly increased and the sufferer can
handle the war stress without undue difficulty.
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