#EQAFEDISCOVERY
I have been working at a job for over 2 months now, and I had been
becoming anxious about my performance as I was receiving no feedback,
yet I knew I was in a probationary period where they could let me go at a
moment's notice.
Finally my boss reached out to me to give me a
review. According to her, I was the fastest and most accurate reviewer
on the moderating team, and they wanted to give me more hours because I
rarely made mistakes and moved quickly through the work. I hadn't
received feedback because I was "the least of her concerns", was "the
best one on the team" and so on like this to the point where I began to
feel embarrassed by the flattery.
These were of course, the words
I had always wanted to hear from a boss, or any authority for that
matter, and I could hardly believe my eyes as I read them. "The best",
"fastest", "most accurate". As I breathed them in and placed myself
neatly onto a little pedestal in my mind, I didn't realize that I was
setting myself up for a fall.
Now I had something to lose, a
reputation to keep, couldn't afford to look like I didn't know what I
was doing. Before that, I had been humble, trying my best, asking
questions not afraid to show I did not know the answers. Now I was 'the
best one' that 'never made mistakes'... I suddenly felt as though
I
couldn't live up to my own reputation!
Then things in my life
moved around a bit, with money and big decisions to be directed, and all
together it triggered a serious 'stress' response in me. I could no
longer focus on the work, would forget each piece of information as I
moved on to the next, became fidgety and irritable, looking for
distractions as I worked, and began displaying all the symptoms that had
in my past labelled me as having 'adult ADD' by a psychiatrist.
When I looked back on my life, I noticed this very same pattern: I was
the best runner at my level, until I made it to the provincial level and
experienced the stress of real competition, and I choked. I was the
best soccer player on my team, until I got old enough where soccer all
of a sudden become a serious 'school pride' thing, now with pressure to
perform, and I became the worst player. I started at my last job with a
splash, and got a promotion before my colleagues that had been there for
years before me, and ended up by having a breakdown from the stress.
I even developed a fear of survival point, where I hold the belief that
I cannot provide for myself in this world with the system the way it
is, because as soon as there is stress: I break.
And so begins
my journey of finally taking on the point of stress creation in my mind,
because I see that if I don't take on this point, this pattern of great
falls will continue. I also see that despite my past falls and breaks, I
did display a potential to be effective, and that is something worth
fighting for.
My journey begins with the Atlanteans "Stress: The
History, Origin and Nature". In this recording, the system, design and
emotional experience of stress is broken down and explained.
Interestingly, it begins in childhood, when our beingnesses, which are
comfortable and content, react to the initial seed of unexpected and
unexplained fear, for which we are completely unprepared! That
'unpreparedness' and 'unexpectedness' creates a stress response within
the beingness, and then of course our physical bodies react as well. We
live with this unquestioningly until it develops into an entire
personality later in life - one with its own thought patterns,
reactions, behaviours and so on, like an entity that takes over! This
would explain how I go from a 'super-achiever' to a 'frazzled mess' as
soon as my stress response is triggered and takes hold!
I have
begun this journey by doing self-forgiveness on the first fears I can
remember, and also on my response to those fears. I will listen to the
series and apply the practical applications in each recording, and I
will dig into this point until I uproot it and find living solutions
that I can apply in my life to find that point of long-term consistency
and stability that I had been lacking.
Thanks very much, and if you can relate, then enjoy this recording and join me in taking on The Stress System: