The hustle-bustle culture we live in is destroying our health on every level.
One of the most toxic things a person can do is rush everyday. And guess what? That's exactly what most of us are doing from the second we wake up.
Why is it so dangerous? Because whenever we rush, our nervous system perceives that we're in danger running away from something that wants to eat us. We are infused with epinephrine and cortisol 24/7.
To constantly be in a state that's not designed to be sustained for longer periods of time, but in short spurts that are meant to help us survive is both terrifyingly toxic to our bodies and to our mental and emotional health.
And we're wondering why we are riddled with anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue and other such monsters.
It's not like this is your fault either. Everything around us is promoting speed and implicitly chronic stress that comes as an inevitable result of it: fast cars, fast food, deadlines, loud noises and all sorta of sensory overload etc.
So there is no surprise that you're not even conscious of doing it, it's embedded in our culture to embrace speed and urgency.
You learn to be this way from the first years of your life, when you attune to a highly unpredictable and dysregulated mother and/or father that is a chronic worrier and whose behavior teaches your mind that the only way to stay safe in an unsafe world is to live in fear and to anticipate potential dangers. And a hustle bustle lifestyle is being translated by the mind and body as being surrounded by potentia
If you want to stay away from stress, then I have a suggestion for you that I'm doing my best to stick to myself at all times:
When you want to rush, that's a sign you need to slow down. Slowing down shows the body there is no threat and no reason to enter the survival response.
Slowing down is a form of self love that is so underrated. Slowing down is about honoring your body's limits, your boundaries and needs.
Slowing down is you living your truth and giving yourself permission to embody that truth. In a perceived (hence not actual) & continuous survival state, there is nothing true, nothing ingenuous about how you show up. Because it's not designed that way. Your survival mechanisms that you live in everyday as part of your normal 9-5 life that you can't even acknowledge as harmful anymore because you became so numb to it and you normalized so much, that you'll probably defend it, these survival tactics that are deeply unconscious are intended *it's literally their job!* to keep you far away from your authentic self, from your actual truth because survival is incompatible with and opposes authenticity. You either have one or the other. I am not talking about real scenarios of survival where your life is at stake, I'm talking about the perceived survival response that is a psychological strategy to guaranteeing your belonging in the society as a valued member, survival responses that you learned as a child growing up in a community that wasn't capable of holding the totality of you and helping you soothe, but it condemned traits, emotions and behaviors you had that you were forced to cast off into your unconscious to be able to have the connection to this community.
As a result to having to belong, you took on embodying this urgency of being as an adult that is not only utterly bad for you, it is also blocking you from accessing your truth, if what you want is to live a life in this space of authenticity.
So in a world where everything had to be done yesterday, it's revolutionary to do things at your own pace. There is truly nothing that is worth you sacrificing your health.
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