THE NEW STRESS

In reading the title, you may be thinking: “The new stress?… as though we do not have enough of it already…” Yes, there is already too much, and yet, there is a new one in town, one that has been present for a while, now on a notable increase.

Consider electrical appliances, built to handle a set amperage. Unless there is a surge protection, a sudden, unexpected electrical surge will cause bad things to happen to the appliance’s circuitries.

What we are witnessing on the world stage is a case of gradually increasing surge in amperage, in the context of the new energies that are imbuing planet Earth and all and everything in it. The exponential increase in extremis and volatility, such as aggression, violence, hostility, and sharp stock-market swings, is one of numerous symptoms of a world at large being unable to properly handle and contain the impact of the increase in energetic potency in the air. We all breathe these energies, just like the air we breathe, although using a different aspect of the human system.

Those whose lives are progressing along the non-linear evolutionary pathway can better handle these energies with their expanding perception, energetic containment capacity, and deepening self-awareness. Awareness of how one’s system is naturally handling the increase, and awareness of the bigger picture fact of it happening.

High energies can be mentally and emotionally intoxicating. Reckless ambitions, being subject to biases, being mentally or emotionally – or both – out of balance, using an expanding creative capacity to progress self-centred agendas… Being exposed to the daily uptick of fresh potent energies delivered by the evolutionary tidal wave in progress loads into that which is out of balance in people, congregations, and those holding power over others.

The outcome is that lack of containment and purposeful energetic channelling gives rise to scenarios where energies that are there to be used for constructive purposes are used for its anti-thesis. Consider that no day passes without the outbreak of a new conflict somewhere in the world.

This evolving event calls for watchfulness, developing self-awareness, anticipation, being able to slow down, not being given to be influenced by the flavour of the day, to highlight a few developmental pathways. It is also creating unprecedented personal growth opportunities for those in pursuit of deeper meanings and higher fulfilment. This opportunity is right at our fingertips. Everything is in place in us to connect to, and for one’s life to be a part of the process of the creation of a bright new future.

What happens when humans need to handle the unpredictable symptoms of energetic intoxication? Such as the frenzy of who gets there first in ever decreasing shelf-life cycles; needing to cope with draconian edicts issued by insane minds; the young needing to find their way in an increasingly chaotic world; exponential increase in bullying, a sharp rise in dementia of all sorts – to mention a few from a long list.

Much of which is being caused by rapid change that the world is not equipped to comprehend. So, it deals with managing symptoms rather than seeking to perceive the causes. The deeper it gets into being played by the symptoms, the more it disconnects from the greater causes.

The process of seeking to connect to the driving truths of what is happening calls for a grown-up maturity and responsibility present with the few, whose voices are muted inside of the shrieking white noise of the 21^st century. Because if the world is to pay attention to the reason why, it will have to change its ways, which will bring it to a standstill – a bit like the Covid day – but much more extreme. Because it may not be able to return to the ways of old, and the non-linear ways of the future are not to be found in its yesterdays.

Consider for a moment the miraculous moment, when a semi-conscious human became fully conscious and thereby, newly self-aware for the first time. Waking up to the fact of being alive and the very fact of existing. The nature of awakening brought about by the future may offer a similarly natured experience, that we cannot conceive from within our current formations. What we can do is prepare for it by not being subject to the fixings of our yesterdays.

This presents a demand on the human faculty – to align, let go of what no longer belongs, seek to perceive, learn to be quiet and still, listen, sense and feel, be open to new ways of thinking…

Physiologically, the human system is made to operate inside of set boundaries and balances, referred to as homeostasis, where the natural tick-tock elasticity of the sympathetic and para-sympathetic systems constantly seeks to return the body to a state of equilibrium.

However, most humans alive are living with a physiological state referred to by science as allostasis, which is a permanent state of being physiologically out of balance. Until the system can no longer tolerate it and starts to break down, which has numerous expressions, each person and their unique balances.

21^st century humans are experiencing stretched to the limit tolerances. And the new stress calls for the development of the kind of tolerances that are specific to the process of increasing energetic containment and inner channelling.

At this stage you may be thinking: “Is there a way forward through this seemingly impossible maze?” The answer is yes, absolutely yes, and to one’s greatest benefit. Please read on…

The human body and its incredible range of systems – the physical and the electrical – is a sensitive, delicate, vulnerable design. Think of what a needle can inflict upon a body. And yet, the soul-mind quality of belief can make it incredibly resilient, able to endure and rise to equal great challenges.

Marching to its own universal heartbeat, evolution progresses in tiny steps. When the human system resonates with evolution’s intangible harmonies, it goes through all manner of tiny adjustments and non-linear leaps. It has its own timing – the human may either decide to find ways to be open inside of this flow or be too busy with whatever else that occupies 21^st century humans.

Leaving this part with an open question: What is the nature of stress that may be felt by those feeling the proximity of this evolutionary opportunity, and yet unable to be with its flow due to being too occupied with other things that may be interfering with this process properly lodging and working in oneself?

Human are made to change and evolve. This is our time in the sun, to engage in a thrilling journey of self-discovery, and develop futuristic skills. Each person inside of the uniqueness of the gift of being one of a kind, with a natural ability to contribute to humanity’s future in one’s unique way. Much in little is the way forward. Mindful small actions that resonate near and far go a long way in this process.

The best remedy to stress is in being and staying close to oneself, finding out what this means, knowing and being firm about one’s boundaries, and in being in the self-discovery journey of bringing to life the vast range of one’s natural versatility and perception capacity, about which much has been written in previous Fulcrum Insights.

Humans are made to be pioneers of bright futures, rather than being arrested in lost causes

With best wishes,

David  

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