An autoimmune
disease is due to many factors, and one of which is stress.
Stress is your
body’s response to increased tension. Stress is normal. You need stress to do
many things, such as accepting challenges, concentrating on doing a difficult
task, and making important daily and life decisions, among others. Indeed,
stress can be even conducive to your health, such as stress from having sex,
which increases both your pulse rate and heartbeat, as well as stimulates your
brain cells to keep your brain younger and healthier for longer. In many ways,
stress can be enjoyable, such as the mental and physical challenge in
competitive sports and games.
After the initial stress-induced stimuli, your body should be able
to relax, slow down, and return to its original state of balance and
equilibrium. If that does not happen, you may become distressed or over-stressed.
Too much stress can also increase your production of hormone epinephrine, and
thus wearing out your hormonal glands. Dysfunctional hormone production may
lead to many health issues: your blood sugar elevation to produce more energy;
your breathing rate acceleration to get more oxygen for your lungs; your muscle
tension; your pulse rate and blood pressure increase; and your excess sweating
to cool down your body, among many other health issues. In that respect, stress
can be damaging to your overall health and wellness.
Stress may be one of the underlying causes of autoimmune diseases,
including myasthenia gravis.
One of the sources of stress is the human refusal to let go of
attachments to the material world. Attachments may come in many different
forms, such as careers, relationships, the past, success and failure, as well
as happiness and unhappiness, among others.
Attachment
is human refusal to let go of anything that seems indispensable. It is no more
than a safety blanket to overcome fear—fear of change and of the unknown from
that change. To cope with that fear, all attachments become distractions.
Given
that stress may adversely affect the symptoms of an autoimmune disease,
overcome stress by letting go of all attachments.
The Wisdom of Letting Go
The ancient Tao wisdom from China provides a blueprint for
nourishing human wisdom: an empty mind with reverse thinking, mindfulness for
clarity thinking, living in the present with no expectations of the future, no
picking and choosing, accepting and embracing everything that comes in the
natural cycle of change—what goes up must always come down. True human wisdom
is the ability to understand that attachments are no more than distractions of
the mind from letting go of anything that is impermanent.
You are a two-in-one person: your ego-self and your spirit. They
always co-exist and are in constant struggle with each other. The more
attachments you have, the more assertive and dominant your ego-self is over
your spirit, which provides spiritual wisdom to help you live in the material
world.
The human flaw comes from attachments of the ego-self. To overcome
this flaw, human wisdom alone may be inadequate; it requires the complement of
spiritual wisdom, which is turning to the Creator with trust and obedience—that
is, letting go to let God control the uncontrollable in life.
This 111-page book provides inspiration from ancient Tao wisdom to
enhance human wisdom to believe in spiritual wisdom of letting go to live as ifeverything is a miracle.
Stephen
Lau
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
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