What is the real root cause of anxiety? (part two)
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The world’s anxiety is the result of chronic and long-term stress.
Stress is, hands-down, the biggest disrupter of balance and the number one cause of all disharmony in the body, especially anxiety.
Scientists and doctors have been studying psychoneuroimmunology for years, measuring how our thoughts impact our immune health. Gabor Maté is one such physician who speaks about the connection between stress and dis-ease in the body but there are many others making the connection between stress and health.
On a basic level, when we’re stressed our body shuts down the nourishment of the central organs, sending blood flow to the limbs to fight or fly. After all, our central organs don’t need blood supply if we’re about to flee for our lives.
Stress hormones also shut down the immune system, the biggest energy generator in the body, to conserve energy. This stops the essential process of maintenance, growth and repair that is so important for our overall health.
Lastly, blood vessels in the forebrain squeeze shut, sending blood flow away from our prefrontal cortex to our reactive limbic system. When the body is in fight or flight it doesn’t need to think. When we’re stressed, our intelligence slows down.
This can lead to a paralysis of rational though as we fly into future fears and ‘what if’ scenarios.
The body has become so used to the fight, flight or freeze response, that it is hardwired to look for potential threats, which is why our minds are constantly seeking potential threats and future fears.
There is a chronic anxiety problem in the world because we’re all so stressed which massively disrupts our natural state of harmony, leading to imbalances that fuel symptomatic conditions that we now label anxiety.
Why are we all so stressed?
There’s a simple answer. People are chronically stressed due to the environment we are all living in. We are stressed not just on an emotional level, but on a physical one too.
Firstly, we are chemically stressed through the amount of hormone-disrupting toxins that exist in every area of our lives. From what we eat to what we put on our skin, as well as everything that we don’t know about that still manages to enter our bodies unseen, such as micro-plastics and chemicals.
We also eat many foodstuffs which are actively harmful to the body, as well as lacking essential vitamins and minerals, the building blocks that allow our bodies to function, due to the depleted soil quality we grow our food in.
Secondly, we are bombarded with electro-magnetic stress which can disrupt our delicate bio-energetic field which surrounds us. Unfortunately, the more we rely our phones and computers, the less time we spend in nature which is the ‘natural’ antidote to stress.
We are constantly switched on to all forms of communication, there is no escape and no respite from the news and everything that’s happening in the world. It’s an exhausting environment to live in which is full of constant noise which stresses our nervous systems out on an unapparelled level.
Lastly, we are experiencing stress on a huge emotional level. We only have to look at the past two years of uncertainty, fear and helplessness, not to mention the extreme tension and disruption in the world now.
Only when we start to address our stress on an emotional, energetic and chemical level, can we begin to step back into our parasympathetic nervous system of rest and repair.
Only when we return to our natural state of calm will our anxiety no longer be an issue.
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