Stress as a Choice: Part 3

How many of you are confused about stress and fear? Excellent! Just try it on. You have to leave this present moment and go to the future to experience fear. That is why I use the acronym False Evidence Appearing Real for fear.

Let me ask you, “do you have everything you need right now?” You have shelter, you are not starving? What else do you really need right now? If you are truthful I think you will agree that we have all we need right now. How do you feel knowing you have everything you need right now?

Back to my main point. Stress is a choice. There is no stress “out there”.

Just like there is no anxiety out there to attack you. It is something you make a decision on based on what you have learned, how you perceive things, your experience, everything! Again, the feeling of stress is fear. A thoughts proceeds a feeling. A thought first occurs. The feeling follows.

For example: If I lose my job, how will I pay the mortgage? Then comes the feeling of fear. Then comes tachycardia. Then more stomach acid. Then the blood pressure. All this happened because a thought occurred, one that jumped to the future, and caused a response.

Why? Why do you that to yourselves? As I said, I’m perspicacious, meaning observant, thoughtful, insightful or my definition “getting to the heart of the matter”. I could tell you all the nuances of this or I could cut through all the rhetoric and give you what really happens after its boiled down to the final element. You, like me, will want to observe the following statements for sometime so you can take it on as a belief system of your own. This will penetrate to the heart of your stress. I observed this for a long time and still have not found any reason to refute it. Believe me I wanted to because I fought it the moment I heard it. It is this:

The boiled down bottom line of men’s problems comes down to power.

The boiled down bottom line of women’s problems comes down to security.