The Age of Stress as a Precedent

The cover story of Time Magazine on June 6th, 1983 declared America “In the Age of Stress”. It depicted us as a society consumed by demands for our resources and threats to our well-being.
Since that time in 1983 when the official diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was first categorized by the Board of Medicine and Psychology there has been little effort made to define the parameters of stress, thus leaving us (the lay-person) to define ANYTHING with an overwhelming effect…. as stress.
Because stress is a natural form of physical reaction to our environment, I feel it vital to understand the nervous system, its fundamental (base) response, and its contradictions.
The word “stress” has been so overly used and emphasized, as to describe everything from marital discord to juvenile delinquency, that I find it prudent to discuss the implications of typical (physical) stress vs. the “stress scapegoat”.

Stress has now become a way to blame our fears and psychological malaise on every unpropitious occurrence. These situations could easily be handled if we understood our personal reactions and childhood traumas, and knew the difference between a natural Fight/Flight response or an overly stimulated psyche.

I really wanted to post this up, so you guys could get a close look at something very special starting to happen. We are here (in this time) for a reason… hold on to your bootstraps…. we’re going for the “Big Ride”!!

Recently a friend of mine reminded me of a powerful prayer stated By Saint Germain as the I AM “Activity”. I had forgotten just how powerful this prayer is, and have started to use it again in my daily activities. So I’m posting it for you to use as you wish.

This photo taken from the Saint Germain Foundation site, is said to be the representation of the Individualized God-Self. For more information on the photo and description of Saint Germain, you can visit that site here…      (www.saintgermainfoundation.org/)

The I AM Activity;

Mighty I AM presence, fill me so full of Divine Love that every person, place, condition and thing is instantly harmonious and obedient to the I AM PRESENCE.

SO SHALL IT BE DONE , SO SHALL IT BE DONE, SO SHALL I BE DONE.

I AM that I Am… (Your name here)….. And I ask for the most beneficial outcome with…(situation or issue here)…. and in all that I do today.

SO SHALL IT BE DONE , SO SHALL IT BE DONE, SO SHALL I BE DONE.

I get this type of question more often than not from clients…and it’s posed in a few different ways. I too have asked myself from time to time “what the hell is going on with me?!”

But the gist of the feeling (or question) is something like this…  “I’ve lost interest in people, friends, work or family”, a gnawing feeling of dread and/or anxiety… the loss of curiosity for studying, or spiritual growth… and sometimes the total bottoming out of energy which often gets labeled “depression”.

It’s hard for me to communicate or deliver the fundamental question to clients because we are so “in it” (in the experience of it) that we miss a crucial stage.

In my world, there are two categories of complaints we as humans express.

There are the symptoms of a situation or issue (which has the most acute form of attention), and then there are root issues… which would be the deeper question or “cause” for the complaint.

”Why am I here?”

“What’s the meaning of life?”

“What am I suppose to be doing with myself?”

“Why am I so unhappy?”

Divine Spirit, who’s voice I long to hear in the wind.

Tree of Soul

I know your breath gives life to all the world….please….hear my cry for strength and wisdom.

Help me walk in your beauty.

Make my eyes behold the red and purple skies you have painted to remind me you are still there.

Make my hands respect the things you have made, and my ears sharp enough to hear your voice.

Help me to be wise so that I may understand the ones you have sent to help me…your people.

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.

Help me seek pure thoughts, so that I may always have the intention of helping others.

Lead me to compassion without fear always overwhelming me.

I seek strength, not to be greater than another, but to fight my greatest and most dangerous enemy….. Myself

I want to be fit to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes, so that when my life fades I may come to you without shame.