For about a month now it has felt like my body has been progressively deteriorating. I couldn’t tell you exactly why, but I have a theory. I’m experiencing chronic pain that has moved from my obliques, into my shoulders, down my back and into my ankles. I can’t sleep because of the pain, and it has also impacted my mood and how I interact with everyone around me.
Each time I treat a spot, the pain lessens in that area and moves to another part of my body. Have you experienced that before?
Finally, it occurred to me that the problem wasn’t from what was happening inside my body, but what was creeping into my body from the outside.
In the world of social engineering, there is a war going on for your attention. Topics you disagree with enrage you and topics you agree with ALSO enrage you because of its opposing viewpoint. (Maybe not you, but definitely me). I saw this quote earlier this week,
“Ships don’t sink because of the water outside of them,
but because of the water that gets inside of them.”
Stress is the #1 killer of everything. Your mind, your body, your environment, your dreams/goals, everything. There are a few things you need to reckon with in order to escape this trap.
1)Notice that you are being manipulated by your environment. Accept it because our environment always shapes us.
2)Know that you can either be a creator of content or a consumer of content, but you can’t be both.
If you don’t think your environment shapes you, have a look at your successful friends. Odds are their parents are successful too (slide in whatever definition of success you want, and you’ll still see a correlation). The key here isn’t about resisting the environments control over you, it’s about accepting the environment is controlling you and find an environment that you want to be controlled by.
My current environment is toxic. Not necessarily the people that I’m around but the environment that is created by the content that I consume. My social media feed is so toxic that the screen on my cell phone stinks. Everyone is at each other’s throats. I have my opinions and I see the opposing opinions and it makes me crazy. I’m being controlled by an environment that is conducive to conflict. This is NOT where I want to be.
The expression of this conflict in my environment is now an expression of chronic pain within.
There needs to be an environmental shift. The content I consume or the content I generate needs to place me in an environment that is going in the direction I want otherwise I will be stuck in the environment of conflict.
It’s probably easier to create the content and build the environment than finding one. The end game of the content has to be that of how I want the environment to shape me. What can I work on or build that is not ridden in conflict? What positive aspects can I immures myself in that will create a new environment?
Time will tell.
