Nothing is accomplished without STRESS! Ask anyone, on any day of the week, and they might say STRESS is bad, must be avoided or managed and they get STRESSED out. And yet, ask them what STRESS is and they will most likely go off on a tangent of all the things they are doing, and what’s happening in their lives. In fact mostly they will say almost nothing of what STRESS actually is. Instead, they will talk “about it.”
This black box of STRESS is a poison, and even further this drama that surrounds it is created and simply not true. The main contributor and default inventor of STRESS is Hans Selye, and was based on extreme lab experiments on rats in 1929. We will go no further in this discussion on this line topic. However, his experiments were funded by the tobacco industry and virtually invented the smoke break.
Instead we will state simple facts. STRESS is how everything is accomplished, STRESS is necessary, and is the load or energy that makes everything possible in Life and Life Defense!
In self-defense STRESS is access to accomplishing anything and everything. First physically nothing can be accomplished without STRESSING a muscle, joint, or bone. Additionally, the act of learning requires this also.
STRESS is a “load or energy” and how it is applied, how we deal with it and what is accomplished by it is all there really is. In fact it is our “relationship” with STRESS that makes all the difference. STRESS does not have the ability of being bad or good. It is just STRESS and how we deal with that “load or energy” determines the effect it has on our lives.
This outcome is by far positive and in fact negative experiences of STRESS really have to do with perceived not real outcome. What something means to us will determine if sore muscles are a bad thing or a good thing. STRESS!
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