Stress Mgt - pg 10

Steven L. Burns, M.D. —

How to Survive Unbearable Stress

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A brief quote from Dr. Burn's book that directly relates to "CHANGE":

"WHAT IS STRESS?

We are all familiar with the word "stress". Stress is when you are worried about getting laid off your job, or worried about having enough money to pay your bills, or worried about your mother when the doctor says she may need an operation.

In fact, to most of us, stress is synonymous with worry.

If it is something that makes you worry, then it is stress.

Your body, however, has a much broader definition of stress.

TO YOUR BODY, STRESS IS SYNONYMOUS WITH CHANGE.

Anything that causes a CHANGE in your life causes stress.

It doesn't matter if it is a "good" change, or a "bad" change, they are both stress.....

..... Good or bad, if it is a CHANGE in your life, it is stress as far as your body is concerned."

Now, do you see why handling CHANGE is so important?

With the relentless and ever increasing rate-of-change all are experiencing, it makes our very survival dependent on intelligently living with change.

Folks, this is no idle chat. The future belongs to those who have enough common sense to look around and OBSERVE.

You must learn to think beyond your own experience.

As this is written in late October, 2008 (and updated February 2010), the WORLD is in the midst of an ECONOMIC MELTDOWN.

[It's a gross understatement to say we're in for "Change" Writ Large.]

Why did so few see it coming? Why are so many struck dumb with FEAR?

Freeze-dried where they sit with brains on fire.

Well, the few with enough sense observed the real world and researched pertinent information.

They poked about the forest beyond the flickering light of "experience" campfires.

Consequently, many in this small group predicted an economic depression several years ago.

They had the intelligence to courageously THINK beyond their experiences and ask hard questions so they would be prepared to make difficult decisions.

They had the imagination to over the horizon thereby gaining useful knowledge.

All that in the face of mindless ridicule by The Great Unwashed Multitudes.

"You're just a fear monger; a Doom & Gloomer."

"There ain't gonna be no Recession. Depression? What's that?"

"The guvermint done have a whole lot of whup-ass to fix everything."

"We're from the Government and we're here to help you."

"What do you mean my house value in Southern California has dropped from $750,000 to $250,000? They told me my house would NEVER go down in price."

"My pension is safe. The Government has it insured."

"What's a girl to do? AIG (formerly, the largest insurance company in the world) is BROKE! The government had to bail them out with YOUR money." [How's that Hopey Changey Thing working for you now?]

"Ad infinitum."

"How Bad Will It Get?"

This bad.

Here's the REAL STORY (stage play) behind this Great Economic Meltdown of 2008-201?.

The title of the play is:

NIGYYSOB

[Now I've Got You, You S.O.B.]

From "Games People Play" by Dr. Eric Berne

The CAST

Congress (laws, rules & regulations),

FED, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (pseudo government entities),

Wall Street, et al (packagers of super-dangerous "DERIVATIVES"),

Banks, Mortgage Lenders, and millions of "extras".

NIGYYSOB's greatest line of dialog:

From The Lips Of YOUR Uncle Sam:

All The Evil Bastards Stole YOUR Money!

The Cheeky Twitters want even MORE.

They want YOU to bail them out.

So, gimmie all YOUR money.

Every damn bit of it.

NOW!

[ After all, it's been the Progressive way for over a century.]

LISTEN UP!

Anyone NOT seeing dramatic change well underway is trying to rearrange evolution theory and the philosophical Law of Identity. [It won't work.]

Man is Man.

An Ostrich is an Ostrich.