27-02-2023
Question: I feel like I am in a perpetual state of PTSD, especially the last three years because of the pandemic. Do you have any advice as to how to be free from chronic stress or at least how to alleviate it?
Answer: Please do not blame the external circumstances or conditions for your chronic stress.
“Like attracts like.” The state of consciousness in which you were born and raised has attracted all the like conditions that composed and constituted your life. That state of consciousness is the cause of all that happened in your life.
In that state of consciousness you see yourself as the effect or the victim of the external conditions over which you see yourself having no control and therefore for which you have no responsibility.
Viewing yourself as the effect of your lifeworld and its conditions is the primary cause of your chronic stress. For, the sense of stress arises with the perception that one has no control over one’s own life and life conditions.
Therefore, you must enter a new state of consciousness in which you see yourself as the cause of your life and therefore in which you are entirely responsible for your life. You must rearrange your mind accordingly to imagine your life and to create your lifeworld as the cause and the creator thereof.
The truth is that you have always been the cause of your life. Because of your nescience and unawareness, you created your life as a life of a victim, and you caused yourself to be an effect, according to the assumptions held in the state of consciousness which you have occupied.
Thus, you are now going to live your life in accordance with the truth of your being and in integrity with what you are (the cause) and who you are (the creator).
Since you will be the cause and the creator of your life, that is, you will be responsible and thus free, you will not suffer from PTSD-like chronic stress but only evolutionary stress—that is, creative tension between what is and what can be.
There is much more to your life than what you now allow yourself to imagine such as a mere stress-free life. The Imagination as such is much vaster more primary than what is conceived to be you that is literally a figment of imagination of the Imagination that is limitless, eternal, and infinite.