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Chia’s books helped me overcome anxiety starting with the inner smile…a year later I’m a qigong addict…
Chia’s books helped me overcome anxiety starting with the inner smile…a year later I’m a qigong addict…
If we look at the long history of the world I am not sure this is true. Go back to egypt, china and roman times and through the dark ages and consider world war 1 and 2. Life had little value to the controllers. Emperors and leaders would kill villages, communities and take young children and rape and murder. Food was scarce. The plaque killed millions, almost half of europe.
Our society seems to think they are special in comparison to past generations. IMHO this is the root of much of the problem.
bagua
If we look at the long history of the world I am not sure this is true. Go back to egypt, china and roman times and through the dark ages and consider world war 1 and 2. Life had little value to the controllers. Emperors and leaders would kill villages, communities and take young children and rape and murder. Food was scarce. The plaque killed millions, almost half of europe.
Our society seems to think they are special in comparison to past generations. IMHO this is the root of much of the problem.
bagua
Except that threats back then were actually real,
and stress was burned off by the hard physical labor
that people did.Today threats are imagined, and with work being
non-physical, the stress has nowhere to go, except
to generate anxiety disorders.People responding to real threats *are* living in the present,
people responding to imagined ones are not.And this is where we agree.
S
Except that threats back then were actually real,
and stress was burned off by the hard physical labor
that people did.Today threats are imagined, and with work being
non-physical, the stress has nowhere to go, except
to generate anxiety disorders.People responding to real threats *are* living in the present,
people responding to imagined ones are not.And this is where we agree.
S
Except that threats back then were actually real,
and stress was burned off by the hard physical labor
that people did.Today threats are imagined, and with work being
non-physical, the stress has nowhere to go, except
to generate anxiety disorders.People responding to real threats *are* living in the present,
people responding to imagined ones are not.And this is where we agree.
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Thats a lot of assumptions.Except that threats back then were actually real,
and stress was burned off by the hard physical labor
that people did.Today threats are imagined, and with work being
non-physical, the stress has nowhere to go, except
to generate anxiety disorders.People responding to real threats *are* living in the present,
people responding to imagined ones are not.And this is where we agree.
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Thats a lot of assumptions.>>>People responding to real threats *are* living in the present,
>>>people responding to imagined ones are not.Please explain to me how you disagree with this statement.
S
>>>People responding to real threats *are* living in the present,
>>>people responding to imagined ones are not.Please explain to me how you disagree with this statement.
S
Except that threats back then were actually real, and stress was burned off by the hard physical labor
that people did.
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I don’t know stress was burned off. I find it hard to believe during world War 1 and 2 they stress, fear, terror was burned off.Same goes for slaves and peasants during dark ages. Starvation, fear of death. Slavery in the use, daily terror. On and On.
Today threats are imagined, and with work being non-physical, the stress has nowhere to go, except
to generate anxiety disorders.
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Not affording health care, suffering from no health care. Not having money to pay for children’s care. Very high unemployment rate, if we consider the real rate, no the fake rate they use, so many with no or little money. Their stress is real.People responding to real threats *are* living in the present, people responding to imagined ones are not.
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I don’t think it really matters. Ask a child if the terror they feel from their belief in the boogeyman is not real.In a way, the pain from imagination is worse than reality.
A few observations of life and history.
Our modern culture just allows for the complaining, its acceptable.
Except that threats back then were actually real, and stress was burned off by the hard physical labor
that people did.
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I don’t know stress was burned off. I find it hard to believe during world War 1 and 2 they stress, fear, terror was burned off.Same goes for slaves and peasants during dark ages. Starvation, fear of death. Slavery in the use, daily terror. On and On.
Today threats are imagined, and with work being non-physical, the stress has nowhere to go, except
to generate anxiety disorders.
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Not affording health care, suffering from no health care. Not having money to pay for children’s care. Very high unemployment rate, if we consider the real rate, no the fake rate they use, so many with no or little money. Their stress is real.People responding to real threats *are* living in the present, people responding to imagined ones are not.
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I don’t think it really matters. Ask a child if the terror they feel from their belief in the boogeyman is not real.In a way, the pain from imagination is worse than reality.
A few observations of life and history.
Our modern culture just allows for the complaining, its acceptable.
You make some valid points.
Yet, at the same time, I don’t remember when I
was growing up or in my parents generation,
when there was more war and “less comfort”,
people being afflicted with anxiety disorders.And by afflicted, I don’t mean just being
diagnosed or simply complaining, I mean having
the condition so that it is debilitating to them
and they can not function. Anyone who actually
has had an anxiety disorder knows what I mean here.
Yet, overall, for the most part, this was something
you simply did not see.It appears as though even though life was just as
stressful before, maybe even more so, people were
able to “handle it”, but today much less so. The
real question is why.S
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