Stress, Strain and Disconnect

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2017/12/09/what-causes-heart-disease-part-xlii-forty-two/#comments

What I came here to do was to share a link to

https://heartlovesoul.me/the-heart-revolution/free-event/encore-day/

I have not watched many of these but the interview with Rollin McCraty had a lot of bio-electromagnetic observations and speculations that may inspire further attention to the full function of the heart (beyond the pump paradigm) as both psycho-physical.

https://heartlovesoul.me/the-heart-revolution/free-event/speakers/rollin-mccraty/

I had to give an email address to see this page - but no fees.

But I reread Harry de Boer and started responding below - which in a sense became a reflection upon the psycho-physical nature of our predicament.

Short answer:

Surely stress is the distorting force/reaction, and strain is the increased taxation burden or overhead of maintaining function, under persistence or re-triggering of such conditions?

Reflections:

The stress is usually accommodated for and balanced in act when it is an acute situation, (unless shock overwhelms to bring a collapse or breakdown of function). Our living body is functionally self-responsive to its needs as a whole. Attempts to observe or describe the functional body are limited and masked by linear conceptual mapping, but what is actually going on biologically is 'all-at-once' as WELL as containing sequential processes of triggered responses. I believe that applies to all levels of what life is being, and not only to observable, measurable processes.

The mapping/defining of our model of the world, and our survival-driven evolution of adaptations of self to fit such mapping, operate a self-reinforcing loop, in which we have drifted into an exclusive identity within the map and model at expense of our sense of heartfelt connection with a wholeness of being - that can be pointed to by the 'all-at-once' nature of alignment AS and within a wholeness of being.

Back to the original issue of persistent or recurrent stress/disease  :

When the stress operates a sense of lack, depletion of or disconnection to energy supply (sustenance. support and direction), backup systems are called upon and generated to operate as a disconnected sense of autonomous self under threat, instead of the experience of inspired guided, and supported action.

The development of our human mapping/model of the world and its adaptive self has been growing through millennia, fruiting in an extreme sense of isolation and alienation held in common.  This deeper sense of life in exile is driving the call upon and generation of 'backup systems' for a disconnected, frail, and inadequate sense of self and nature via externalised substitutions for what once we felt, knew and were one with, but have lost or forgot in our experience of deprivation and threat and our adaptations of survival in its terms.

Such a sense of self is 'connected, supported and guided' by its own calls for defence by a manual replacement of a feared and untrusted life, under external management or control.

However, the management and control of symptoms, has itself 'evolved' into a mind capture under global cartel with all the power fear gives it in exchange for 'protection'. But the 'backup' system of those in receipt of such power is to more deeply establish and protect it as their personal sense of defence against social 'consequences' associated with loss and exposure of naked personal fears and ambitions beneath the masks of respectability.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

    The best lack all conviction, while the worst

    Are full of passionate intensity. 

(~ WB Yeats)