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WHY NOW?
Like dripping water wearing away at a rock, every day your hidden anger and fear wears away at your body's ability to stay healthy.
The irony of it all is that the part of you meant to protect you, the sympathetic nervous system, the Fight or Flight mechanisms, is actually causing a slow, downward spiral in your health.
How? Let me first explain something about your sympathetic system. It is absolutely essential in times of acute stress: it speeds up your heart rate, increases your blood pressure, sends more blood to your muscles, activates the adrenal glands to provide you with that extra burst of energy and alertness to escape danger. Very important for survival.
But.
It also shuts down your digestive system, because digesting and absorbing your food, what your body needs to repair and restore itself, goes on the back burner during "crisis mode." First you have to survive!
And that's all well and good when the stress of a crisis is short-lived. Because afterward the intense activity of the sympathetic system backs off and the body's systems become balanced again.
The "protection" and the "repair" parts work in harmony again. But what we know now is that that "Fight or Flight" activation, from the constant, low-level anger and fear of past childhood experiences, can suppress the "repair and healing" parts of the body. Dampen the immune system's ability to respond appropriately. Even cause it to go into overload...autoimmune disaster.
One of the main villains in this scenario is cortisol. Often referred to as the "stress hormone" because of its powerful connection to the stress response, it's invaluable during acute stress. However, continued, long-term release of cortisol leads to weight gain, insulin resistance, suppresses the immune system, increases blood pressure...and the list of disturbing effects goes on.
That's "Why Now"...because you just might stop the dripping on your "rock" and even reverse that downward spiral.
You just might find that releasing your baggage frees you for new levels of energy...and life.
That's Why.
