Let’s go through Information Guide 1: Learning to Understand Stress – Recognizing Reaction From Response. Allowing you to download, ground and integrate the knowledge and wizdom in preparation for Part 2.
‘So what’s your most important brain’ I ask?, pause again, ‘your heart is your most important brain, it’s where you learn to use your emotional awareness and heart-mind intelligence’. ‘It’s where you learn to process your emotions, your energy in motion, and through stress many of us can struggle to process through our thoughts, feelings and emotions, stuck in our heads and reaction’. ‘When we learn to feel through our thoughts, feeling and emotion’s, our energy in motion, we can use our emotional awareness and heart-mind intelligence, not just go through life but growing through life’. The reality is, children and youth are caught up in so much stress, fear and emotional confusion, struggling to internalize, feel, sense and grow through the process. Once we learn to recognize reaction from response, that our struggles are our strengths and adversity can bring opportunity to grow, stress becomes a powerful energy that can be harnessed, and we can learn to release our true potential within.
Use questions Above Has An Ice Breaker: Adults can go through this Part 1 – StressWize Information Guide to download the insight and perspective. Then guiding children or youth through the process, you can use these simple questions from the introduction above as an ice breaker, giving them some insight and perspective in preparation for Part 1 – Insight & Perspective 1.
Stress: Dealing with Your Thoughts, Feelings and Emotions = Process: Keeping it simple, my perspective is; stress is learning to deal with your thoughts, feelings and emotions, processing through your energy in motion, when we experience the demands, pressures, problems, issues, challenges and the many dynamics of life’s stress. Positive & Negative Stress – Building Resilience & Character: There are many myths about stress and its effects. However, the fact remains that without some stress, none of us would even get out of bed! A certain amount of stress helps us to feel stimulated and challenged, driving us forward and giving us direction in life.
Positive stress can be taking on a mental task or a physical challenge, dealing with your fears, thoughts, feelings and emotions, your energy in motion, learning to go through the process, experiencing the positive stress, you feel a sense of achievement. Exercising a positive release through movement, exercise, weights and fitness, you can apply a positive stress on the mind and body, pushing through a good workout, doing a martial arts or preparing for sports. Stress Build Up: Learning to control, release and channel emotional stress and physical energy, turning negative stress in to a positive outcome.
Negative Stress: Going through life’s challenges, the demands, difficult times and more concerning issues, without a positive release and process, negative stress can build up inside, many of us weighed down by life, getting stuck. The negative stressors around us can be consuming, picking up the negative energy we can take on people’s stuff. Negative stress, unprocessed experiences and emotions from our PAST – Preoccupied About Spent Time. The challenge to process through our thoughts, feeling and emotions, developing our ability to respond – responsibility, using our emotional awareness and heart-mind intelligence. Learning to self-process or share the process, share our stuff with somebody we trust, a friend, family, loved one or professional. Negative stress can take us deeper, challenging us to build true character and resilience to take on the world. The truth is, you are not your thought, feelings or emotions, life is just a process. The saying goes, ‘It ain’t a Problem It’s a Challenge!.
Human Biology: Stress Has Been Around Since Caveman – Stress, Fear, Reaction: Whilst hunting to survive and feed the family, the caveman would experience the potential threat of the saber tooth tiger or woolly mammoth. Experiencing fear and danger, triggering the reactive amygdala part of his brain, the caveman would experience Freeze: feeling overwhelmed, powerless and shutting down, consumed and shutting down he would get eaten up in the situation. Flight: the caveman would run and get away, avoiding the stress of dealing with the situation, living to hunt another day. Fight: the caveman would use aggression but could often lose control, caught in a fight for survival. Fawn: is a common reaction in today’s world, known as people pleasing, avoiding uncomfortable conversations, hiding behind our emotions, giving our power and control to appease a person, situation or an authority.
Caveman – Moving From Reaction to Response; Learning to stay calm and present, using strength, strategy and skills to overcome the challenge of the sabre tooth tiger or woolly mammoth, the caveman would develop their ability to respond, over time successfully harnessing the skills to live, hunt and survive.
Our Old Reactive Caveman Software: In today’s technology information age, many of us running our old reactive caveman software, through stress and fear, running a program and belief system on our internal hard drive and operating system. Human Technology: Upgrading Our Bright Response Software: Activating our human technology, switching on and tuning in, we can learn to upgrade our bright response software on our internal hard drive and operating system, developing our emotional awareness and heart-mind intelligence.
Experiencing Stress > Growing Up: Growing up we can experience the demands and expectations of home, self care, hygiene, tidying your room, helping with the chores and contributing around the house. Financial support to buy things and socialist. Developing discipline, respect and values, sharing your life experiences with the family and loved ones, with potential illness impacting everybody. There’s no doubt we need an education system, learning language, how to read, write, do math, science, history,,,, inspired learning, heart minded, but the truth school’s have become like stress factories. More like an Headucation with big class sizes, the stress and pressure to learn, potential indoctrination with control over information, the influence and confusion around of gender ideology. Get your grades in the world of think, feel, do, with the challenge to find inspiration, to feel, sense, be. Finding your way, fitting in, feeling a sense of belonging, the experience of peer pressure or bullying, while seeking to develop friendships.
Becoming a Teenager: Self-identity, who am I, what’s my beliefs, adopting a faith, spirituality, a value system that can help guide us through life. Self-presentation, how we look, what we wear without becoming self-absorbed by the ego, the world of want, materialism and entitlement. Coming in to our teens, going through puberty, managing our hormones, sex education without emotional confusion. There’s the pressure of exams and getting results, finding purpose and a career to help guide us through life. Adulthood: Then there’s financial stress, moving in to the world of employment, accessing a vehicle, having social life, building relationships, communication technology, phones and social media. The ability to leave home, moving onto independent living with all the expenses, find and build a home, have family, just many of the moving parts and stressors on the emotional roller coaster ride through life.
The Wounded Child > Stuck On The Battle Field: However, many of us growing up can experience a broken home, separated and disconnected from family and loved ones. Taken into the system, fostered or growing up in a children’s home like myself. Experiencing excess stress, fear or trauma, struggling with the emotional confusion and the inability to process through life experiences. Repeating patterns, the domino effect of broken and damaged relationships. Lacking positive role models, mentorship, emotional support to help guide you through life’s challenges and difficult times.
Life On The Streets – Survival Of The Fittest: A wounded child, stuck on the battle field, a victim of circumstance stuck in the past, you’re lost on the streets. Caught up in the negative influences, in survival mode, your reactive caveman software is running your life. Needing money, you’re driven by crime, the gang life, alcohol, drugs and violence, caught up in addiction, you’ve lost control, experiencing the prison system, a baby sitting service, a warehouse for damaged stock, you’re in need of some damage and repair. In rehabilitation, in recovery, it’s time to build strength, build character, it’s time to take control.
Junk Food Culture > Effecting Behaviour: It’s important to get our positive energy intake, learning to eat the right foods and consume the right types of drinks, getting the essential nutrients and energy to help us to deal with the stress, demands and pressures of everyday life. There’s no doubt we are living in the most unhealthiest times, bombarded by constant advertising, in a junk culture when it comes to taking care of our personal health. Studies now show that food allergies, especially amongst young people, are affecting behavior. Dairy is linked to behavioural issues and gluten to irritability. Artificial food dyes have been shown to cause hyperactivity, and artificial soft drink sweeteners such as aspartame are directly linked to anxiety and depression.
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