When we say to people that the Siddatech remedies are all essentially stress remedies, we often get, “Oh. I don’t really feel stressed about anything. I guess I don’t need any of that.” While it’s great that a person can say this and mean it, we appreciate the opportunity to explain Siddatech remedies further. Just because a person’s conscious mind is not currently acting like a rabid monkey doesn’t mean they don’t have stress, it means that they’re not feeling particularly “stressed-out” at the moment.
Hidden stress (subconscious stress, unconscious stress, environmental stress, etc.) is actually the general kind of stress that Siddatech deals with best. Most people view the landscape of their mind and see a few major chunks of unresolved debris. Those chunks are the big worries that occupy most of our attention (money, health, relationship) and rightfully so. The Siddatech remedies are easy ways of cleaning up the bits and pieces of stress that litter the landscape and generally make our head-space less comfortable without being obvious problems.
For example, if a meteorite crashes into your home, it will be very clear to you that the giant stone needs to be removed and the hole in the roof needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Our nervous systems are wired to notice big shifts in the environment. It can often be less clear to a person that has been living underneath major powerlines that a constant, low-level stress is being put upon them.
Modern life has countless ways of slowly chipping away at our balance, happiness and well-being. If a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump right out. If it is placed in room temperature water that is slowly heated, it will not notice the gradual increase and will allow itself to cook. We are in much the same situation. It isn’t necessarily a few big problems that are going to cook us. It’s the build-up of countless little bits of stress that pile up without us being aware of it. Siddatech flower essences help to turn the tide and wipe out the stress before it wipes us out.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Pharmaceuticals as a Stress Remedy?
Western (allopathic) medicine does not acknowledge what we think of as stress and does not have a stress remedy. Western medicine provides a number of psychoactive substances some of which are used as anxiolytics, anti-depressives, anti-psychotics and more. This is an acknowledgement of states of anxiety, depression and other psychological difficulties. Stress however is not considered a medical condition and thus we do not have a pharmaceutical stress remedy.
From a holistic perspective the fixation on the superficial level alone is inadequate. Most of us agree that anxiety and depression are the surface level manifestations of something deeper. For thousands of years eastern and holistic medicine have treated the underlying issues, i.e. the underlying stress. Unresolved psychological, emotional, and other stimuli aggregate along the pathways of the nerves in such a way that the functioning of the nervous system gets impaired in terms of mood, feelings of well-being, and what lots of people would call their energy levels.
There is no pharmaceutical that can improve one’s energy level in a healthy way. There are pharmaceutical stimulants such as amphetamines, but these stimulants are short lived, short acting and have adverse short and long-term effects and can quickly drain the resources of the body. A good stress remedy works to resolve the underlying issues of the primary obstructions that are leading to states of anxiety and depression.
For example, a common complaint associated with depression is that people feel as though they have no energy. In many cases this is a false perception. It is not that a person in this condition lacks energy. They simply have not organized their energy well. Their energy is subconsciously or unconsciously sapped by maintaining old distortions of the electromagnetic fields surrounding the nerves. Because of this there is less overt energy to engage in whatever activities they are interested in - thus the depression. The answer to depression from the Western perspective is to give people an anti-depressant so that they can not feel their stress. In this scenario people actually lose awareness and have even less consciousness of the underlying obstructions. Another option for some is to self-medicate with everything from amphetamines to cocaine and other drugs, or even coffee and nicotine, all of which are stimulants. At best, this category of stress remedy produces superficial, short-term results.
There are a lot of ways in which people attempt to address the symptomatology without addressing the underlying issues. The most frequently used class of pharmaceutical stress remedy for anxiety and depression are the SSRIs - selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors - including Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, Welbutrin etc. As serotonin moves from one nerve to the next, typically the nerve that released the serotonin will reabsorb it. These drugs prevent the resorption of serotonin after it is moved into the synaptic cleft between two nerve cells. In other words SSRIs trick one’s brain into thinking there is more serotonin in their body than there actually is. These substances are great if they need to be used on a short-term basis to get people through crisis situations. But if the underlying situations are not addressed, coming off of these substances can be challenging. And not only does one still have the underlying discrepancies, blockages, distortions, stresses and tensions that they had before but now they have the additional ones that accumulated because their consciousness was not been allowed to engage any of what's been going on during the course of the pharmaceutical consumption. In the short term it can be necessary and critical but these drugs were simply not designed to be effective long-term stress remedies. And in many cases not only are these drugs ineffective but they can create a number of long-term difficulties.
From a holistic perspective the fixation on the superficial level alone is inadequate. Most of us agree that anxiety and depression are the surface level manifestations of something deeper. For thousands of years eastern and holistic medicine have treated the underlying issues, i.e. the underlying stress. Unresolved psychological, emotional, and other stimuli aggregate along the pathways of the nerves in such a way that the functioning of the nervous system gets impaired in terms of mood, feelings of well-being, and what lots of people would call their energy levels.
There is no pharmaceutical that can improve one’s energy level in a healthy way. There are pharmaceutical stimulants such as amphetamines, but these stimulants are short lived, short acting and have adverse short and long-term effects and can quickly drain the resources of the body. A good stress remedy works to resolve the underlying issues of the primary obstructions that are leading to states of anxiety and depression.
For example, a common complaint associated with depression is that people feel as though they have no energy. In many cases this is a false perception. It is not that a person in this condition lacks energy. They simply have not organized their energy well. Their energy is subconsciously or unconsciously sapped by maintaining old distortions of the electromagnetic fields surrounding the nerves. Because of this there is less overt energy to engage in whatever activities they are interested in - thus the depression. The answer to depression from the Western perspective is to give people an anti-depressant so that they can not feel their stress. In this scenario people actually lose awareness and have even less consciousness of the underlying obstructions. Another option for some is to self-medicate with everything from amphetamines to cocaine and other drugs, or even coffee and nicotine, all of which are stimulants. At best, this category of stress remedy produces superficial, short-term results.
There are a lot of ways in which people attempt to address the symptomatology without addressing the underlying issues. The most frequently used class of pharmaceutical stress remedy for anxiety and depression are the SSRIs - selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors - including Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, Welbutrin etc. As serotonin moves from one nerve to the next, typically the nerve that released the serotonin will reabsorb it. These drugs prevent the resorption of serotonin after it is moved into the synaptic cleft between two nerve cells. In other words SSRIs trick one’s brain into thinking there is more serotonin in their body than there actually is. These substances are great if they need to be used on a short-term basis to get people through crisis situations. But if the underlying situations are not addressed, coming off of these substances can be challenging. And not only does one still have the underlying discrepancies, blockages, distortions, stresses and tensions that they had before but now they have the additional ones that accumulated because their consciousness was not been allowed to engage any of what's been going on during the course of the pharmaceutical consumption. In the short term it can be necessary and critical but these drugs were simply not designed to be effective long-term stress remedies. And in many cases not only are these drugs ineffective but they can create a number of long-term difficulties.
Tips: Take a Few Deep Breathes
Most of us who spent some time getting into mischief as kids remember being told, “Stop! Take 10 breaths! Alright, now tell me what happened.” For many adults who want to practice yoga or meditate the conversation is usually similar. “Close your eyes, sit up straight and let the stress of the day melt away. Now everyone take few deep breaths and notice your mind slow down.”
No matter our age, a bit of extra oxygen, the conscious use of the diaphragm and all of the other muscles of respiration allows us to stabilize our nervous system and gain a better handle on our body. Breathing is an automatic process that can be made conscious. When this happens, all of the extras that are tied into breathing become conscious as well (such as tight muscles, tension in our jaw or abdomen, emotions of anger, etc.)
If we take a few deep breaths and stabilize our nervous system right before we take a Siddatech remedy, we have a much better chance of feeling the delicate shifts of our nervous system that occur each time we take a few sprays. The shifts will happen whether or not we are aware of them happening, just as music affects us regardless of whether or not we know we are listening to a 4/4 beat. But if we do pay attention, we can gain the knack of feeling when our nervous system is balanced and when it is less than balanced. This skill can be very useful for navigating through a modern world filled with stresses of all shapes and sizes.
No matter our age, a bit of extra oxygen, the conscious use of the diaphragm and all of the other muscles of respiration allows us to stabilize our nervous system and gain a better handle on our body. Breathing is an automatic process that can be made conscious. When this happens, all of the extras that are tied into breathing become conscious as well (such as tight muscles, tension in our jaw or abdomen, emotions of anger, etc.)
If we take a few deep breaths and stabilize our nervous system right before we take a Siddatech remedy, we have a much better chance of feeling the delicate shifts of our nervous system that occur each time we take a few sprays. The shifts will happen whether or not we are aware of them happening, just as music affects us regardless of whether or not we know we are listening to a 4/4 beat. But if we do pay attention, we can gain the knack of feeling when our nervous system is balanced and when it is less than balanced. This skill can be very useful for navigating through a modern world filled with stresses of all shapes and sizes.
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