| George Russell, M.A., D.C.
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Get It Out in the
Open
It's
winter now -- in our economy! Don't let it make
you sick. If you
feel bad right now - fearful, like you want to put your
hands over your eyes;
paralyzed; or just
plain "bad" all around, it's helpful to remember that
it's you're
not the only one going
through this. Don't go it alone if you want to
stay healthy. Your
life may be going fine, but that very same life
becomes difficult
and painful when you don't face and discuss fear.
Then you're less resilient when challenge
occurs for
real.
Think about it: If you
want to stay healthy in your body and steady in your
life, you need to know that you're
not the only one feeling
worried -- up
against a wall you can't even define. The biggest
corporation in the world is in bankruptcy right
now. You are no less competent that anyone else;
some of the best "experts " in their fields were not
prepared for this crisis. That doesn't have to ruin your
life, but it is real, and it is part of the reason you
are worried and challenged. So it makes sense to
feel a unity with others all around the world, and not
to feel like you need to hide from or resist your
challenges. We all
need to get connected with people we can open up to, to
talk about our fear and distress, and to get clarity
about what is true for us right now for us so we can
keep our feet on the ground and our minds in
order. This sharing we need to do isn't
complaining, and it may not even yield specific help,
though it's likely to improve things. No, this
action is to keep body and mind healthy so we can
survive or even thrive no matter what comes our way in
the next six months and
beyond.
What I'm
observing in my patients and friends, and in myself, is
that fear can make people freeze in anticipated or
real despair. From time to time, or all the time,
we're paralyzed in the feeling that we have to do
something -- but we can't think of what it is
we have to do. Worse yet, some of us are paralyzed
to the point where we can't express, even to ourselves,
what we're afraid of. And that muteness may
be more dangerous to us than some of the
things we're afraid of. Fear, and the
frozen alienated feeling it can lead to, manifests in
the body. Random feelings of depression and
despair manifest as lower back pain, a vague
feeling of physical distress, fear of serious
illness, or the inability to fight off the
flu. These are all things I've seen in
clients. To get them well I've had to get them
talking, not just to me, but to the people they can
depend upon and who depend on them. Please
talk to somebody. Talk to people with whom you
feel comfortable. Share ideas and strategies that help
you deal with the feelings. Think of your sharing as an
act of generosity, since other people are going through
the same thing as you. Below is a step-by
step breakdown of what you just read. It might be
helpful to print it out and carry it around with
you. And please forward it to people who need
it. 1. To be ready for
anything, you have to stay healthy in your
body and mind. You have to find and stay with your
true resources (where is your true wealth
invested -- and how are you managing it?), and
close to your support people (they're a big part of
your wealth portfolio). 2. You need
to track yourself, with help - so that you know exactly
what you're afraid of. This requires rigorous
honesty, discernment and courage. 3.
It's easy to feel that acknowledging fear will make it
worse or threaten your friends and family.
But only "getting it out there" can keep you from
freezing, paralyzing and taking unhealthy actions in the
face of your fear. So even if you're in
denial - be honest about it. Your silence will
protect neither you nor your loved
ones. 4. The stock market is
crashing, companies that seemed secure are falling like
apples, and you and your friends are losing things
-- jobs, money... There is no question
that this is affecting your physical and mental health,
and you need help with it. Fear of losing a
beloved second home is different from becoming homeless,
but the fear feels the same in your body and affects
your health the same way. 5. Among my
patients, fear is making people unwell. You may be
one of them. But if fear is what's making you
unwell physically and mentally, you can become well
again. 7. Reason for opening
up: you are not talking to manifest your weakness,
but to access your strength and resources, which are all
around you even if your terror has made them temporarily
invisible. Find people who are trustworthy and can
also open up about their fear and reveal their
strength. Honesty about what you fear will help
you clarify what's true, what's true today, and what you
need to face real and imagined
challenges. |
Got
resilience? Come to a Tuesday night
group, 6-7:30 starting January 13th. $20.00 with a
guest, or free if you can't afford $20.00. If
there's one person attending, you'll get
a treatment for
$20.00! if there are more people, we'll work on
resilience. Follow this link to sign
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Quotation, as cited in
the current White Crane Journal --
"I think now we're misled so
often. We have our eye on the horizon looking for
a genius of some sort to save us. There is no
genius coming. The genius is already here.
It's in the community. And our difficulty seems to
be that sometimes we confuse the manifestation of genius
in an individual with the notion that that's where it
resides. But it doesn't reside in an
individual. It's in the community of people." --
Barry
Lopez
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