Overcoming Overwhelm

I'm beginning to realize why so many people die before they actually need to. "Overwhelm". It is when problems arise faster than you feel you can make any sense at all of a useful solution. Some people get scared at this point and panic ensues and then their lives are over. Or sometimes people aren't aware of procedures that could save their lives. Or there isn't insurance or monies to pay for those procedures etc. However, at some point almost everyone faces this in some form.

I watched my own father who was one of the most proactive health people I have ever known not treat his prostate cancer properly and die within 4 years of the time when he first urinated pink urine (blood in the urine). Though he got it diagnosed he thought he could go macrobiotic (which he did) and cure it (he did not). Eventually, he as a last resort went to a doctor who took out by then in 1984 (3 years later) his bladder, his right kidney and his prostate. This allowed him to live one more year only to die of bone cancer caused by not treating his prostate cancer when it first was diagnosed.

I understood why he made the decisions he made but it likely shortened his wife's life and drastically shortened his own. But the conditioning of not trusting medical doctors (not that he should have) killed him by waiting too long. So, my Dad went from the healthiest 65 year old who was 6 foot 2 1/2 inches tall and who could always outwalk me and out work me even at that age to someone 98 pounds who died. It was very difficult for him because I think in some ways he died of shame because he was a very intelligent man and valedictorian of his High School Class to die like this. But his anti-medical doctor conditioning he could not overcome because his father was even more anti-MD than he was and also refused to go to the hospital after his van went off a cliff into a river in Idaho and because he wouldn't go to the hospital he died about 4 days later when he other living son came and got him from Seattle and took him to the Hospital where he died within a day.

So, it behooves all of us to learn enough about medicine while we are young enough so that we can stay alive when we are older if we want to. Medicine isn't just MD's and western medicine. It is accupuncture, Aryuvedic medicine, Chiropractors, Osteopaths and all sorts of other things including good diets and organic foods and anything else about health you can become knowledgeable about. If you want to be alive and healthy a long time you need to study about what will create that result. Otherwise, the likelihood is you could be gone tomorrow or even tonight. It's all our choice. It's a choice we make every moment of every day in everything we think, say or do.

Overcoming overwhelm is understanding that you must find a way to stay calm and focused in the same way you would to survive an attack from a wild animal or an intruder. Only this time the intruder is you own death caused internally by your actions throughout your lifetime.

Overcoming overwhelm is knowing that you can stay calm and take proactive steps to meet ANY challenge or emergency.