Jerry Graham asked:

Symptoms are a diversion

What will it take to break the cycle of failure in your life? Many of us spend years, and substantial amounts of money, attempting to cure one of the five major areas in which problems occur.

Whether we focus on our beliefs, behaviors, physical ailments, emotional problems or negative thoughts, though, we’re really just dealing with symptoms, rather than identifying the root cause. Sometimes that struggle to change symptomatic behavior becomes a substitute for finding, and dealing with, the real reason we continue to fail.

Stress is the real culprit

It should encourage you to know that research now shows us there is an actual physical cause for this cycle of struggle and defeat. We now know, thanks to scientific research, that the bottom line cause for failure in our lives is stress. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, in fact, reported that even disease, ninety percent of it, is brought about by stress.

Dr. Bruce Lipton, a groundbreaking cell biologist, goes farther and proposes that ninety-five percent of disease is caused by stress, and that the other five percent that is ‘genetic’ is the result of an ancestor experiencing enough stress to unmask a disease at the cellular level and introduce it into the family’s genetics.

Stop and think about that for a minute. What if we could literally break the cycle of genetically inherited disease by addressing the response to stress in the current generation? Think of the impact that would have on our future.

Stress – How it works

Let’s explore, then, how stress actually brings about disease and failure in our lives. It’s important to know that stress actually does five things-it makes us physically ill, drains our energy, gives us to a negative outlook, reduces our problem solving ability and, because of these other results, predicts our failure.

What is the most common response to this impact? We try to “will” our way back into health. Imagine being asked to constantly push a heavy object up an incline. That’s what it’s like when we confront the effects of stress with our own will. We chase the latest self-help book, we pray, we take more and more medication to relieve our symptoms. Failure, however, is inevitable until we find the root cause of all that stress!

I know what to do, but I don’t know why I don’t do it

Dr. Alex Loyd, founder of The Healing Codes, learned in his private counseling practice that ninety-nine-percent of the time, his patients could answer accurately when asked what they should do differently. They couldn’t however, answer the question, “Why, then, aren’t you doing what you need to be doing?” They either didn’t know why, or they didn’t believe they were capable of doing what needed to be done.

Here’s the lesson: it is almost impossible to heal deeply held deficiencies by our own willpower. So, how is it possible to be released from the cycle of sickness and failure?

What was meant to save us is now killing us

For the answer, we have to look to our own brains. When we experience stress, the hypothalamus signals the pituitary to redirect blood flow from our internal organs toward the large muscle groups. This is the original “fight or flight” response that kept our ancestors alive. In modern life, however, this response is triggered when we experience a perceived threat. Think of how your body responds to a verbal confrontation. Muscles tense, breathing gets shallow, body is ready for action.

That physical reaction is caused by the cortisol that’s being sent through the body by the pituitary. What’s more important is what happens to the cells that are being deprived of blood and oxygen. They are moving toward critical cellular stress. We are actually experiencing a momentary malfunction of the immune system. The cellular stress brought about by this reaction “unmasks” the possibility of disease in individual cells. We literally introduce disease into our bodies by reacting to stress over and over throughout the day.

Because we know, then, that the actual physical cause of relational, physical and emotional problems is stress, we can also know how to heal ourselves. We must begin by identifying the root cause of our stress and learn how to lessen its impact on our lives.

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