STOP CREATING OVERACTIVATION OF WHAT YOU WANT TO FEEL
- IT KILLS
We often, in our lack of knowing better, use strategies to cause chemicals that have us feel "alive" or to numb us or to escape some bad feeling. But we are not using the correct strategies to handle the problem - out of ignorance. And many of the chemicals, created in excess, are damaging to our body, for we have not evolved to handle them.
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Overactivation of any body system by an outside means causes a “substitution” effect. The body seeks balance. If something else is doing something, then the body stops doing it, as the body system is no longer needed and begins to wither away. In fact, the body may, in seeking balance, seek to do the opposite of what we wanted from the outside substance, so our capacity is often shut down even further. What a way not to live! What a way to waste the great parts of life! How sad!
This is a brief version of what happens.
Drinking a cup of coffee (or maybe even two) can activate the body a bit and hasn’t been proven to be “bad” for one - but...see sidebar. Drinking more than that overactivates the adrenal system and ends up exhausting it, so that you are actually going to experience the opposite of what you want and will go into the “addictive” cycle.
[Read "Addiction - Harmless Weakness?", linking from the Addictions page. The addictive cycle makes you feel worse, so that you need to do the addiction to recover from feeling worse. But the actual way to feel better is to drop the addiction and to use some of the other, better “feel good” strategies laid out on this site - enter the problem in the search engine to go to a discussion and strategy on the item.]
Smoking overactivates adrenaline and dopamine so that your system is less capable of causing the appropriate amount of adrenaline and dopamine, so you actually will feel less good overall! The danger of cancer is, of course, great, while the loss of the ability to breathe freely dampens one’s feeling of being alive and feeling good in general.
Drinking causes you to cut off some of the good sensitive receptors of the good chemicals, so your ability to actually feel good drops way down, causing you to need to feel up again – but on the average, you feel worse! Your body becomes less able to experience pleasure, plus the physical capacity for anything good declines.
Drugs, of course, are obvious overactivators that create depression and even are held responsible for suicidal thinking – even if one doesn’t reach that level, why would one even want to head in that direction????!!!!
Overeating is done to activate serotonin and other “uppers”, but it actually dampens the body’s senses and causes the receptors of good chemicals to dissipate. We have “substituted” food to activate serotonin, etc., so the body becomes less capable and we end up with a permanent handicap (until we totally correct the body). Eating sugar is the same problem. The other physical effects on energy and the immune system cause one to feel less alive and to lose a lot of the experience of life.
[Most people are progressing toward some level of diabetes. Diabetes causes people to die early and even lose the circulation in various body parts, often resulting in cutting off a limb.]
Acting out anger is another means of “overactivation”, creating adrenaline and a feeling of short term power and effectiveness. Does so often enough actually re-wires the brain circuits, makes the mind sense even more dangers and be even more overreactive to false threats. The positive chemical receptors begin to wither and the negative receptors increase. Not a pretty sight! Instead deal with the fear that underlies such behavior.
They all cripple you and not just physically, but in terms of “feeling wise” and emotionally feeling good! It’s an idiotic, shortsighted path to the feelings you want, where you soon dampen or substantially lose the ability to have the feelings you want.
Get a coach or a program to help you stop any of these. Now!
It’s your life you’re wasting and nobody but a fool would do that if they were aware they were doing it!!!!
