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The Real Cause of Our Reactions<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Any of us who drives in traffic, takes the bus, or takes the train to and from work knows about rush hour. It’s painfully slow, sometimes it feels like a parking lot, and there are tons of people scurrying to get to work all at the same time, doing it in a way we don’t always approve of. It’s challenging on the best of days. Involved in such situations, we tend to feel the stress of the moment and stressed at the people involved, which unlocks, or triggers, reactions and overreactions in us. Road rage is an obvious overreaction, but so is rolling down your window shouting obscenities at other drivers or cutting someone off to “teach them a lesson”. <\/span><\/p>\n

If someone asked us why we’re reacting, we would probably blame the traffic and the people, as if it is these things outside of us causing our reactions and the resulting stress. Sounds logical and most people would agree. But we are going to go a level deeper on this to get to the truth about our reactions. When we do, we could say we are reacting to the limitation of time and space, the lack of movement (no one likes being stuck), or the actions of others, which is a lack of control on our part. We are getting closer to the real reasons we react. Let’s keep going.<\/span><\/p>\n

It has been suggested to me by one of my consciousness colleagues that sitting in traffic isn’t normal. We weren’t meant to live this way, and so it is unnatural to us. Based on this, we rightly react to this misalignment. It is the reaction that leads us to change. <\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, it is true. Sitting in rush hour traffic, going to work from 9-5, basically being sedentary all day isn’t normal to us. Various scientific studies certainly confirm this. But let’s go to the deepest level to see what our reactions to rush hour is really saying to us. <\/span><\/p>\n

Reacting to rush hour traffic-the stuck feeling, the stress, the unhappiness, the lack of control-are really the same reactions we have when we live by our mind’s ideas of us. These are the trained, or programmed, beliefs that we are not good enough, not capable, not worthy, or not valuable enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this version of our lives, we are unhappy and reactive because we aren’t meant to be sequestered, limited, or held as a prisoner of our beliefs and thoughts any more than we are in traffic. We can look at rush hour and our reactions to it as a metaphor for how we experience life when we believe what our minds tell us. Those reactions become the impetus for us to start questioning why we are doing what we are doing and why do we believe what we believe? <\/span><\/p>\n

Uncovering the real problem, that we have been lied to about ourselves, we can ask if we want to continue or make changes. We can determine if we want to correct our poor, inaccurate training. Do we want to come back to into alignment with what is normal and natural to us? The questioning allows the authentic self to arise. This is the one we have always been. We have just trained away from this beautiful, powerful, healthy being. <\/span><\/p>\n

So, what is normal and natural to us? Connection, peace, knowing we are good enough.\u00c6knowing there is another way to live and sitting in rush hour traffic, or held back by our mind’s lies, isn’t it. We don’t have to live as unhappy and unhealthy beings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Adrenal Fatigue<\/strong><\/h2>\n

80%. That’s the number of us that are estimated to have adrenal fatigue<\/span>. What is adrenal fatigue? Well, besides being one of the most underdiagnosed preventable illnesses and one that is not recognized by conventional medicine, adrenal fatigue means the adrenal glands, the hypothalamus, and the pituitary gland don’t work the way they are supposed to any more. When your adrenals don’t work correctly, neither do most of your other organs. What is the most common cause of adrenal fatigue? Chronic stress. And a major cause of our chronic stress is reacting to life when we just don’t need to. Let’s look at adrenal fatigue to gain a deeper understanding of this highly preventable illness, known as a syndrome.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your adrenal glands are small triangle-shaped organs that sit on top of your kidneys. They are part of your endocrine system, secreting more than 50 essential-for-life hormones. Their main function? Regulating your stress. Ironically, it’s too much stress that causes them to break down and no longer function properly. So, every time your blood boils, your heart rate rises from anger, your blood pressure and heart rate rise, your digestion slows, and the adrenal glands secret adrenaline in preparation for fight or flight. But most of the time, there is not battle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, go back to rush hour traffic. Just in this time to and from work, how often are you reacting to, or stressing about, the people and the traffic? Imagine how much reacting and overreacting we are putting ourselves through on a daily basis as we carry on at work due to deadlines and expectations, with friends through gossip and back-stabbing, with family members and even daily news stories. It doesn’t have to be this way, though.<\/span><\/p>\n

How do you know if you have adrenal fatigue? With adrenal fatigue, you may look and act fairly normal with no obvious symptoms of physical illness. But, the telltale signs of adrenal fatigue are that you feel tired, you feel generally unwell and listless. You may also have some of the following symptoms:<\/span><\/p>\n