Long-Term Effects of Stress on the Body

Today I want to talk about the long-term effects of acute stress on the body. I also want to share how quickly these effects can dissipate with intention and dedication to making life changes.

Even when we are physical, our bodies are concentrated energetic fields. We aren't really here. Not really. What is "here" anyway? Where is "here"? What does it mean to be "here"? What does it mean to be solid?

Such existential questions are not really the topic of this post, but they bear some weight. If we are primarily concentrated energy--a consciousness dreaming itself or thinking itself into solidity--then our bodies are far more sensitive than we truly know. Diseases can manifest solely from thought.

Having been on Earth (and I write this with a cheeky smile right now), it makes me wonder how many times I had a cold just because I thought about having a cold. Because everyone around me was saying, "Oh, there's a cold going around." Then I have a day where I feel tired, for any reason really, and boom. I start thinking "I'm getting a cold." And suddenly two days later, I'm sick with a cold.

Har-dee-har-har. Very funny! Actually, once I understood the concept of collective density clearing, I stopped getting colds. Really. Because I knew that "there's a cold going around" meant "we're collectively clearing density right now". Ah, now that's a different approach. I can do that without having a stuffy nose and a scratch throat, no need!

I digress.

No, I don't digress. This is all important. It's all relevant to a very complex topic at hand.

Your thoughts can manifest diseases. And constantly stressful thoughts, energies, and situations can also manifest diseases. Or mental illness. Or anything unpleasant. Like cancer, which I suspect is a belief system so deeply ingrained it can kill you by eating your body alive. This would take a lot of data, research, and a massive effort in psychological therapy... But I do wonder the rates of people with cancer and the presence of deep trauma and wounding that is unaddressed for an entire lifetime.

When you live in an environment that is inherently stressful, or work long hours in one, it will take a toll on you. Most of us are familiar with exhaustion, the prevalence of mood disorders, repeated encounters mild infections, and chronic pains in the body (most commonly the spinal column but also the knees and feet). But it can get worse the more acute the stress is and the more sensitive you are to stress. The more you are aware you are energy made matter, the more stress will bother you.

Why? Because you are more capable of addressing the energetic problem. Your very awareness of yourself means you have the ability baked in to find the imbalance and correct it. Therefore, repeated refusal to address the energetic dynamic leads to increasingly difficult to handle malaise and illness.

So, for me? What happens?

I face supreme exhaustion. Sleeping 10-12 hours at a stretch, with that stretch often interrupted. Not with nightmares. I am past nightmares. Just waking up and staring at the ceiling as my spine feels like it's slow roasted over a fire. My nervous system is frying itself and I can feel it.

I get dizzy doing any kind of physical activity. I am completely at fault for blaming this on "ascension symptoms". No. It was my nervous system overclocking itself until it was smoking just to keep me upright and functioning.

I also stop digesting properly. Food just does not get absorbed well. Goes right through my guts, and (yeah this is going to get gross, but let's just get gross) I can smell all the half-processed sugars leaving my system. Like a brewery gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Now, in this instance, I had a choice. I could keep living in the stressful environment, which only continued to get MORE stressful with every day that passed. Why? Because my soul was at that time telling me "LEAVE!" and I was saying "No! I'm scared!" Meanwhile, things just kept getting worse until I finally said, "OKAY! I'll leave."

The leaving was stressful, but...

You know what? 24 hours after fully removing myself from that environment, I found myself staying up past 8 pm. Something that hadn't happened in a year and a half. And I stopped feeling dizzy and easily winded (though I was much bruised from moving boxes and using my body as a forklift). And I ate food, and by god, it came out properly.

All because I committed to changing my life circumstance and removing myself from that stressful situation.

Yet it took me a long to get there, because I just kept on doing what I always do: push through the symptoms. Just "whatever" my way through it. "Yeah, yeah, body. I know you're griping. You've got more I can squeeze out of you. I know it." And I could, because I can heal myself at the same time I'm killing myself. (This is not a sustainable practice.) All while not telling anyone what was happening to me. I just kept my mouth shut and soldiered on. It was a co-worker who made a comment after I left my situation that I was actually smiling for the first time in weeks. I didn't realize I'd been that tamped down.

That is how strong the effect of stress is on an energetic body. It's so powerful that merely removing yourself from the environment changes your whole system. Almost instantaneously. It is also so powerful that refusing to change your circumstances will manifest serious disease in your whole system.

Honor your body. Really honor it. That's what I've learned. Now I'm babying this vessel like nobody's business. I refuse to put myself through that hell again if I can at all help it. So, if I'm busy with work and I find myself getting tired in the middle of the day, guess what? We're stopping work and going to go relax. Right now. My ego says, "But what about so-and-so who needs this?" And the rest of me says, "Is the world on fire? No? We go relax. So-and-so will manage to survive to live another day."

If I'm out somewhere and surrounded by negative people? Guess what? We're leaving. Check, please! Bye!

If I'm in a relationship with someone who continually gaslights and emotionally bullies me? Guess what? Adiamas!

I thank you for your time. Adiamas.

--Kyriel