Great 'piece'. Nice to hear someone talk sense and be connected with
reality. Paradoxes = gifts abound. Whatever you think is right. Nothing is
wrong. It's just shifting of layers of consciousness
Christine
> From: Ode Coyote <odecoy...@alltel.net>
> Reply-To: silver-list@eskimo.com
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:06:21 -0400
> To: silver-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: CS>the vital placebo effect in ms etc
> Resent-From: silver-list@eskimo.com
> Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 06:09:20 -0700
>
>
> But then, what stress is, is defined by what it does...not the situation
> it occurs in.
> It's not the situation that creates stress, but what one thinks about the
> situation.
> What is negative is an opinion.
> Some people thrive on what others would call extreme negativity.
>
> Like, if it weren't for my addictions, why would I even bother to wake up
> in the morning?
> Isn't a health nut addicted to living to an extreme?
> Is not the persuit of health a stressful endeavor based on the negative
> idea of corking off?
> But then, Living is always fatal.
>
> One can even be addicted to the chemicals that result from hating ones
> job. After all, didn't that person structure his entire life story so he
> couldn't 'justifiably' quit?
>
> Remember the old song Wry Whisky? [intentional mis spelling]
> ..if whisky don't kill me...I'll live till I die.
>
> At the bottom of it all, We're probably here to stone out on our various
> chemicals..pick a reason. Any reason will do if it does. If it doesn't,
> another reason gets picked that will.
> Pick a chemical, any chemical..uppers and downers. The substances and the
> suppliers are one and the same.
> Internal/external source..all the same.
> In fact, most external sources work by triggering internal ones...or
> mimicking them.
> The roller coaster goes sideways.
>
> Depression is a powerful drug effect. Why is it that so many depressed
> people seek out depressant drugs?
> Is it so they can explain and justify the effect while denying the desire?
>
> I was severly depressed once. I couldn't find a reason to get off the
> couch even to eat or go to sleep for weeks. I just sat there staring off
> into space, day after day.
> Well this SUCKS! No fun a'tall!
> Then it occurred to me that it was something I was 'doing'...and for no
> good reason. I was, in fact, doing it because I was slam out of reasons.
> [Which is a reason]
> Well, I figured, If I can do all 'this' for no reason, I must not need a
> reason to do anything else.
> I crawled to the mailbox on Sunday. What a pointless effort THAT was!
> But that's the whole point.
>
> ....don't need one. ....and even if I don't have a reason, I do. Not
> having a reason IS a reason.
>
> Lord help those who need 'reasons' to be happy. {The Lord does, in fact,
> help them do what they want to...without prejudice or opinion. If the gift
> of free will were not free, it wouldn't be a gift.}
>
> BTW, there's absolutely no difference between a reason and an excuse. A
> reason is just an excuse you accepted as true.
> If you don't need one of either same-thing, you won't ever be dissatisfied
> with the one you wind up with.
> It just does what you do with it. It means nothing on its own.
>
> If you find yourself picking excuses to be unhappy, you must be happy
> being unhappy. That's the only reason one could possibly use to not pick
> another excuse and do something else with it.
>
> On that note, being unreasonably happy is unbelievably easy. It takes no
> effort at all.
> That's why it's so hard.
> People believe that effort and energy is required to do
> everything...including not doing things.
> But 'not doing' is impossible. Energy "IS".
> ..and reasons are like flies in the sky.
>
> Coffeee...more coffeeeee.
> Ode
>
> At 09:59 AM 4/25/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>> The effects of cortisol and stress on cellular immunity are well
>> documented. Negativity is certainly stressful. Not to mention the
>> adrenal enlargement and exhaustion that follow long term or extreme
>> stress.
>>
>> Garnet
>
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