There have been many articles of late, speaking to how one might go about maintaining one’s sanity and peace of mind – and not be swept away by worry and internal angst. I find myself in a precarious state of being based on what is happening.

In this article, I want to posit that we all have a built in mechanism for coping with stress and resulting internal tension. I write from the U.S., a source from which chaos and confusion currently flow…

So, here it is:

We are wired for survival and in order to survive, we must have the ability to cope. Easily said, but less easily done. But we have a built-in, high priority interrupt. As computer scientists know, an interrupt is an action that pokes a central process, to say, “Hey, this process requires attention/servicing,” central processing unit (CPU) cycles. 

The “interrupt” to which refer, results in a “shifting” of our state. I am referring to what I will call psycho-physiology, which we can think of as an infinite mobius, mind affecting body, and body affecting mind.

The high priority interrupt to which I refer is “placing one’s attention on one’s own body“. This is certainly no news, as it is laced through thousands of years of Eastern esoterica. However, I wish to promote its use as an antidote to the stress of the present. To my knowledge, it works the same way for all sapiens and I will go out on a limb to say, for all vertebrate life. Maybe all lifeforms…who knows?

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