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FEAR AND STRESS

Question #1: "I feel afraid a lot of the time. How can I overcome my fear?"

Psychic Advice:
Fear, in itself, is not a bad thing. In fact, fear is one of the tools that your intuition uses to communicate with you because your intuition's primary purpose is to keep you safe at all times. Your intuition will use fear to alert you to danger, but there are different types of fear, and different ways that fear expresses itself.

True gut level fear is activated by both intuition and instinct, which puts your body into survival mode, otherwise known as the “fight or flight syndrome”. The benefit of this type of fear mechanism is that it causes you to act immediately because it perceives that you are in imminent danger (this is an inherent system of self-preservation and protection, much like animals have). The drawback of this "fight or flight" mode is that it causes a surge of adrenaline to be produced, which puts the body into immediate action, but overrides the mind's ability to think clearly. To some degree, this syndrome occurs whenever there is stress, because the body perceives stress as fear, so stress taxes the adrenal glands while also inhibiting the mind's ability to function clearly.

In order for the messages of fear to work properly and to be able to communicate with you clearly, as they were designed to do, you must ideally be able to live in a sense of inner peace on a regular basis. Meditation is helpful for centering you in a state of peace and calm, and it can also give you a greater sense of clarity and attunement with your intuitive guidance.

Question #2: "I am under constant stress, what can I do about it?"

Psychic Advice:
Much of humanity today is living in a constant state of fear and stress. Over time, ongoing stress will wreak havoc in both the mind and the body, and throughout the entire nervous system. This causes a breakdown in a person's physical and emotional wellbeing, eventually compromising the health of body, mind, heart and spirit, because humans were never meant to experience stress on an ongoing basis. Stress was designed to be a survival mechanism when faced with extreme circumstances, which would soon be followed by a return to a normal state of peace.

Breathing slowly and deeply can be helpful for achieving a state of calm and relaxation. When faced with fear and stress, many people hold their breath, which limits the supply of oxygen to the brain and impedes the ability to think properly (this often happens to people who are under pressure, like in interviews or tests). Fear and stress can also cause a person to breathe quickly and shallowly, increasing the heart rate and sense of anxiety, which can lead to a paralyzing anxiety attack.

Question #3: "How can I tell what is real fear and what is stress or anxiety?"

Psychic Advice:
If a person is in a constant state of fear, anxiety, and stress, they will have no way of knowing what is real fear and what is self-created. This is one of the challenges we have in our modern society where many people are constantly dealing with day to day stresses of work and family life, coupled with being perpetually bombarded with fearful images in the news.

When there is something threatening you or someone you love, you will usually feel a physical response or visceral sensations, such as a tightening of your stomach, or the hairs on the back of your neck standing on end, or your heart rate accelerating. There will often be a feeling of uneasiness, a sense that something is not quite right; the greater the danger, the more of a sense of urgency you are likely to feel.

The fear that is most destructive is the fear that permeates the mind and controls your thoughts and actions, producing a constant state of anxiety over time. This kind of perpetual "what if" fear can become paralyzing. If your mind is always running scenarios of what could or might happen, then why would you want to get out of bed? The odds of something actually happening are extremely small, and there is not much of life that can be lived by staying in bed.

Your inner guidance will tell you if there is something you need to be alarmed about, but it will not keep repeating "what if" scenarios in your mind. When you allow yourself to be at peace most of the time, then you can trust your intuition and “gut” to alert you to any real danger, and enjoy the rest of your life.

 

Question #4: "I find as I get older, I feel more afraid. Why is this?"

Psychic Advice:
As we grow older, most of us become more aware of our mortality, and so become more fearful. Children have very little sense of danger and therefore are much more willing to try new things out of a sense of fearlessness and invincibility.

We could live our entire lives on "yellow alert" - just getting in the bathtub can be dangerous (but without it, life might really stink!). There are always risks in life, but just because you could cut your finger with a knife does not mean that you will never use one. It just means that life requires a certain amount of conscientious awareness and mindfulness, and that your mind must be focused on self-love and self-care, and on what you are doing in the present moment.

When you hold a knife in your hands, you have faith in your ability to use it to nourture yourself, not harm yourself. Your mind is also such a tool that can be used either to nourture and support you, or to harm and limit you. Fear of the future stops you from living in the present. Life can only be lived now, so enjoy, and cross whatever bridges you must face in life as you come to them, and not before.

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Ongoing stress, fear and anxiety can take its toll on the body over time, and can lead to such conditions as asthma attacks or heart attacks. The following information might be helpful when faced with such issues.

TECHNIQUES TO LESSEN THE SEVERITY OF AN ASTHMA ATTACK

 Of course, an asthmatic person would want to follow all the guidelines suggested by a physician. There are also a few techniques you can use to assist a person who is having an asthma attack. First, you must stay calm and center your mind on the word “peace”, and tell the person experiencing asthma to do the same. Close your eyes and see a bubble of light around that person, and focus your love on his/her heart. Asthma attacks are made much worse by the acute anxiety that often accompanies them, therefore creating a sense of calm can be very helpful.

 One technique that has been used successfully with people having an asthma attack is for you to sit or stand directly behind the person having the attack, holding him/her in your arms, and start breathing exactly as the asthmatic person is breathing. Then gradually slow your own breathing down which causes the asthmatic's breathing to entrain itself to a normal breathing pattern once again.

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Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article could be very helpful:

“HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE”

"Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is to begin beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital."

- From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital
via Chapter 240’s Newsletter and THE BEAT GOES ON
(reprint from The Mend Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)

WHEN I FIRST READ THIS, I VOWED TO PASS IT ON TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE IT COULD SAVE LIVES.


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