In the current real estate climate it's easy to slip into the survival mode. In the survival mode we handicap ourselves and get bogged down. We can run the risk of our belief system changing to the scenario of its "us" against the world - usually a world that is out to get us or do us wrong.
Your body is a good barometer for what you are feeling and experiencing at any point in time. Fear, anger, frustration can lead to headaches and flu like symptoms. This is pure survival instinct. This overload of adrenaline has a profound effect on the brain's memory-making process. It can stump the creativity process.
It is during times like these that the body needs more care than ever. The best thing that can be done for high stress levels is good body care. People should get eight hours of sleep at night, eat healthy foods and concentrate on relaxing as much as possible. I know this sounds hard when you are involved in trying to earn a living, but we all need to cut ourselves some slack.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. -- William James
Another way of dealing with our current woes is changing our attitudes. Negativity can be a habit...
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -- Henri Bergson
How often have you wanted to change an aspect of your life, only to find that aspect repeating itself again and again? Repeatable patterns of behaviour and choice-making are forged by success and pleasure... and stress and fear.
Humans are very adept at adaptation. Whatever our life-experience is, if we maintain it long enough, we adapt to it. Even when it's uncomfortable. Ben Franklin once said that a person only needs to do something for two weeks consistently for it to become ingrained as a habit.
Adaptation to survival mode is common for many of us who have lived with stress and conflict for a sustained period of time. Overcoming it is not always simple and easy in the short term (most habits have subtle cues as w ell as obvious ones).
But overcoming it is just what needs to happen for our lives to become freeflowing, full, and pleasurable.
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