Living Environment and Fear
Health is a natural state of being. It is an equilibrium between the inside of the living organism and its outside environment. The inside of an organism is that part of the energy field that is ‘trapped’ in matter. The physical body, the compressed energy into matter, fixes a small part of the energy field of the species, thereby limiting the range in which the energy can move, can alter. This manifests as ‘an individual’, a selected small part of the energy field that can now be observed as being ‘separate’ from the field. You can visualise this as the water droplet that springs out of the ocean and moves through the air. Just as with living organisms, there is a contraction force that keeps these molecules together, allows them to change shape (an expansion force that works outwardly), but only so far before the water droplet will burst open and disintegrates. The part that becomes separate from the field is only separate in our observation. The energy that is being separated for a short period of time, is still fully connected to the field. It is just that it seems to us a separate entity. Just as the air inside a building or inside a cave is still fully connected to the air on the outside, even though it may have characteristics that we observe to be different from the outside air. It may be cooler or more humid. It may be more difficult for us to breathe, a ‘heavier’ air. We may notice a different smell.
So we can’t separate ourselves from the natural world. We, human beings, form an integral part of that natural world and we remain at all times fully connected to it. That also means that we function according to the way nature functions.
Each individual is a separate fix of human energy. No two people are the same. They may be ‘alike’ in some aspects, but they are different water droplets from the same ocean. Each individual has a limited, and a different, scope and range of energy it can move about in. Each individual has its own energy spectrum it can use in an adjustment to ever changing outer circumstances. The individual will function with most ease when there is minimal tension on the fixed energy spectrum within that individual. In other words, the less pressure there is on the surface of the water droplet to force an adaptation, the easier it will travel through the air and the longer it will last. This tension is minimal when the individual manages to keep its function well within the limits of its construction, of its fixed energy spectrum. When the individual is able to adjust its inner balance in such a way that the tension on the structure is carried by the entire structure rather than being stuck on a specific part of the structure. As an example, when we feel tension building in the muscles of our lower back because we have been standing in a fixed position for a long time, we can alleviate this tension by moving into a different position. In doing so we have distributed the force we were holding in a particular muscle group over a larger and over different groups of muscles. When we can keep doing this we ensure that the ever changing pressure on the system is not breaking down the structure, which is only built to withstand some pressure, not all pressure, and not all the time.
So we need the freedom to make such adjustments. Each time the individual becomes aware of increasing pressure on the system, he or she needs to have the time and the space to adjust in the way that that individual senses it should happen. That means that the balance in life, health, is an individual matter, not a community problem.
Human beings differ from the rest of the living creatures mainly in their capacity to reason. A consciousness of our observations, coupled to the capacity to store what is being consciously observed and the ability to link new and old observations randomly together, allows human beings to comprehend their experiences. We call it ‘making sense of it all’. This individual consciousness, as all other aspects of human life, is part of the human energy field, and can therefore be shared between individuals. We can share our understanding of our observations, our understanding of life, with others. In the first place, this means that we can learn about potential dangers, even though we have never encountered that specific danger. In terms of survival this is a great asset. When this information concerns potential dangers that lurk in the dark recesses of the forest that surround us, it is very useful, and it pays to be alert to it, to know the early signs, to train an early warning system. Our natural survival system will always respond in an alert state. Even when we become afraid of dangers that are not directly affecting our community or dangers we can’t defend ourselves against, such as a meteorite falling on our heads or the sun burning the earth, we constantly remain alert to the possibility. Now our capacity to reason, to understand, is increasing the pressure on the structure of the individual, not diminishing it. Now our survival is being threatened by our ‘danger-alert’, not safeguarded. We are now filling our consciousness not with our own observational information, but with ‘thinking’. We reason ourselves into a state of permanent fear, which no longer allows the system the time and space to relax.
So, just like all other creatures, human beings only live in their specific environment. And even though the water droplets on the American coast are intrinsically connected to those on the British coast, they each live distinctly different lives. What will affect the life of the droplets in America is what is happening in the area they exist in, and what will affect the droplets in Britain is what is happening in the area they live in. Two distinctly different environments, requiring totally different responses from a living system.
Moving people to go and live in different environments, away from their natural environment, the environment they are energetically connected to, will increase the tension on the structure of that individual and it will introduce the need for new survival strategies in their new communities as they communicate what they ‘know’ about life and the potential dangers humans are exposed to. As our state of permanent fear is mainly based on reason rather than on own personal observation, these migrated individuals will bring their ‘understanding’ of life to an environment that doesn’t contain the same dangers. Now there will be an exchange of survival requirements between the two. Both the uprooted individual and the receiving community will be put out of their natural balance by this event. This is different from one individual who cannot find his/her balance within the community they live in and decides to go and find a more suitable environment. In this case, the move, driven by a need to survive, will add to the stability of life, both to the individual and to the new community.
And a last important aspect is the fact that, as human beings, we can decide what we concentrate on, what we open ourselves up to, what we learn. Keeping our main focus on survival, constantly collecting information about potential dangers, both via personal observation and via cognitive exchanges with other human beings, will ensure a persistently high tension status of the organism. In nature, we observe that animals live, that they are relaxed, feed, play and rest, outside of the directly threatening situations. They are in survival modus when they are being confronted by danger, and they are in living modus when they are not picking up any signs of danger in their immediate surroundings. Being in constant survival modus, having to be alert all the time, means that human beings do not live, do not have a lot of capacity for adjustment left.
We only live when we are not afraid. And as our society is not helping us in this respect, it is up to the individual to intervene, as his or her health is directly being threatened by our society, by the constant stream of information about potential dangers our society brings to our daily lives. It is up to the individual to make a decision about feeling threatened. Here is a suggestion how one can take control over one’s fear.
- Stop worrying about things you can’t do anything about, whether that be politics, finances, economics, weather, wars, terrorism, other people’s behaviour (words and deeds), individual and group beliefs, surveillance, and so on.
- Be present in your own community and only focus on life within that community.
- Take responsibility for your own life, that of your family and of members of your community, and this involves looking for internal solutions to real, internal, problems.
