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The Stress Response a.k.a. Flight or Fight Response: Is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack or threat to survival (or ego, or happiness invested thought) 114

EGO: I - Any thing that I think separates/distinguishes me from others. — Self Image 115

H.I.T. : Happiness Invested Thoughts – Anything that I have my happiness or ego invested in. 116

“The state of meditation comes when the ego is put to sleep via silence” Second Chance p 73 117

Stress Response : Hallmarks • Rapid mobilization of energy from storage sites -- Inhibition of further storage • All Hands on Deck!!!-Survival ? 118

Energy Mobilization : to transport nutrients and Oxygen rapidly Cortisol (steroid) Glucagon> Glucose 10 to -8 th molecules SNS > Epinephrine / Adrenaline >>> ^ Heart rate, ^ Blood Pressure, ^Breathing Rate 119

Stress Response (cont.) > Endorphins - To increase pain tolerance  Hypercoagulability > to decrease blood  by making blood clot more easily if injured 120

Stress Response (cont.) Decreased Immune Function Decreased Growth , Maintenance and Repair Decreased Sex Hormones None of the above needed if there is death 121

Sympathetic system Mediates: • Vigilance • Arousal • Activation • Mobilization 122

Parasympathetic System promotes: • Growth • Energy Storage • Digestion of Food • And other ‘optimistic processes’ 123

The Sympathetic system (E and NE) and Glucocorticoid (Glucose and Cortisol) Are activated in response to all “stressors” (life seen as ‘challenge’) -Speed, Magnitude and Pattern VARY!! 124

Stress Related Disease : With sufficient chronic activation, “the stress response can become more damaging than the stressor itself” 125

“ If you experience Every day as an emergency, You will pay the price” Sapolsky WZDGU page 13 126

Musings of An Old Man WHAT IF: The devil was an allegorical metaphor for ego based/ insecure thought - Is it easier to say “The devil made me do it” 127

Musings of An Old Man WHAT IF The word SIN was an English translation of an Aramaic word Hacca meaning --To miss the point or to miss the mark 128

Musings of An Old Man WHAT IF :Universal Mind, Universal Thought, Universal Consciousness = “Pure Love and Understanding” (and no wrath to fear) 129

“There is Always Hope Because There is Always Health ” W.Pettit - NOW 130

“How can you think yourself out of a self – contaminated thought system?” “ You can’t.” Second Chance page 98 131

If you do, you will set off multiple alarms which • are meant to wake you up • bring helpful information • are from Love • are encouraging you to look within 132

MOOD -- Dysthymia >> -- Angry/Irritable >> -- Feeling Isolated and disconnected >> risk of violence to self and others 133

TENSION -- Anxiety >panic attacks -- Obsessive thoughts/compulsive impulses -- Dissociation Risk of fugue states 134

THOUGHT – Clear -- Muddled -- Decreased attention/distractible -- Thoughts with special effects Need to go to another world internally 135

BODY/Soma -- Discomfort, decrease in pain tolerance -- Sleep disturbance -- unique alarms via genetic sensitivity Can lead to multiple chronic diseases, Without understanding-experienced as an increasing burden 137

Adverse Childhood Event Study (ACEs) (With Limited Understanding) >4 ACEs -- Past year Depression 460 % -- Ever attempting suicide 1,220 % -- Current smoker 220 % -- Ever Illegal Drug use 470 % -- Alcoholism 740 % 138

Adverse Childhood Event Study (ACEs) (With Limited Understanding) >6 ACEs Decreased Life expectancy by nearly 20 years. Born for Love p165 139

Cause? Could it be Thought? 140

Cure? Could it be Understanding? 141

“Only with a peaceful mind will your thoughts see the beauty around you” “ True philosophy has no rules, regulations or rituals holding it prisoner. It is as free as the trade winds” Second Chance pages 101,102 142

“Only with a peaceful mind will your thoughts see the beauty around you” “ True philosophy has no rules, regulations or rituals holding it prisoner. It is as free as the trade winds” Second Chance pages 101,102 143

If you stop your petty way of thinking you will Hear “what the trade winds are trying to tell you” “Seeing is a mind with no contaminated personal thoughts blocking the evolutionary progress ” 144

”Now is not a thing that is tangible. Now is neither yesterday or tomorrow. Now is a fleeting moment in time and is completely neutral. Now is all there really is or ever will be.” EGR p 27 145

“It is the now that takes you from living in the darkness of yesterday’s memories. And turns the darkness into light. Remember my friend, Darkness cannot survive in the midst of light And living in the now is that light.” EGR p27 146

“Thought… is your bridge to the cosmic wisdom that will assist you to See the hidden powers that lie within your own consciousness” Second Chance p112 147

“The knowledge… was a gradual process. It took me years to find out what he was trying to get me to SEE.” Second Chance p114 148

The Lesson: What works is • Being Gentle with yourself • Being Grateful for what you have and what you have seen • Being in the Now ‘as best you can’ W Pettit Jr, somewhere 149

“True love is pure spirit power being manifest. The manifestation can take many forms ” Second Chance p115 -- a mother -- a father -- a doctor -- a teacher -- a friend -- a stranger 150

“Love is a positive feeling, and if people cultivate this feeling in their lives, they will surely free themselves from any unbalanced conditions that surround them” Second Chance p115 151

“Love is not just an idea. Love is a living breathing essence that the wise can pluck from the air at will and then like a master artist mold it into something beautiful.” Second Chance p115 152

Corey Keyes, Research Psychologist has through his survey classified people into three categories of mental well being: Flourishing : generally happy, resilient OK but Stressed: coping well Languishing : Persistently overwhelmed 153

Flourishing Languishing 12-14 y/o 48.8% >> 6% 15-18 y/o 39.9% Adults 18 % >> 32% 154