Why You Struggle With Recovery
The Three Most Common Reasons, And How Understanding These Makes Recovery Significantly Easier
Why You Struggle With Recovery
The Three Most Common Reasons, And How Understanding These Makes Recovery Significantly Easier
Written by a human, for humans, always.
So many people today are sick and stuck.
In multiple ways.
They have physical sicknesses.
Mental sicknesses.
Emotionally, they are stuck.
Stuck in burnout that they never seem able to escape.
There are many challenges that people are facing.
And...
Most people are really trying to recover.
They are doing different things to the best of their abilities...
But...
They are just not getting results.
It can be extremely frustrating.
I know because I have been there myself.
I have also worked with many people experiencing this.
Here is what most people do not realize...
Recovery is usually closer than they understand...
But there are real reasons that it is not happening as they hoped.
Most often...
The reason that recovery is not happening comes down to three reasons.
The first...
Is that they do not have enough energy (Mg-ATP).
For recovery, you need a dedicated amount of physical energy that is dedicated to the process.
The problem for many people...
Is that they either are not generating enough energy (Mg-ATP) in their body...
The energy is spread too thinly to allow for real recovery...
Or both.
What this means...
Is that either you need to figure out how to generate more energy (Mg-ATP) that the body can use...
You need to remove leaks where you are able to...
Or both.
I have found that for most people...
If you do both, you have the best chances for quicker recovery.
This brings us to the next reason...
Stress chains.
Most of the stressors we encounter...
Are caused by other stressors.
One stress causes another, which causes another...
Until you reach the end of the chain.
Here is where most people go wrong...
They chase the stressors at the end of a chain...
While earlier stressors in the chain are left to continue.
The problem of doing this...
Is that if you only focus on the end of the chain...
You never really solve the problems.
You can think of it like another real-world problem we see today...
Plastic in our oceans.
If you try to only solve plastic problems in the ocean...
You will end up discovering that it takes so much time, energy, money, and resources...
While barely putting a dent in the problem.
The result...
Is that the oceans are filling with more plastic than we are able to remove from them efficiently.
That is what happens when you try to solve at the end of the stress chain.
Instead...
You need to go closer to the beginning of the stress chain...
In the plastic example...
Most of the plastic that ends up in the oceans originates from a handful of rivers.
What companies have started discovering...
Including companies that I support...
Is that if you capture plastic in the rivers...
It never reaches the oceans...
Meaning that less plastic ever ends up in the oceans, and real progress can be made with ocean efforts as well.
The same happens with our stressors.
If we can identify the stressors we have...
And we can discover which stressors occur earlier in the stress chain...
You can quickly and more effectively remove stressors in your life...
Allowing more energy (Mg-ATP) to be dedicated to recovery processes.
The final reason that I see...
Is that many clients have stressors that they are unaware exist.
Let me give you an example.
There was a client who was experiencing emotional challenges from experienced trauma in their past.
They were doing talk therapies, but were not getting results.
Simultaneously, they were experiencing physical pain in their body.
They were taking medication, but were not getting any relief.
So the question becomes...
Which of the stressors was the problem...
And why were the solutions not getting results?
The answer...
Is because the trauma and pain were linked together...
But both solutions failed to understand where the real problem was in the body...
Which was the nervous system.
See...
Talk therapy focuses on the brain to try to talk through our emotions to get to a better perspective on what is causing those emotions.
It is a great modality...
If the problem is in the brain.
Pain medications are really effective...
When we are experiencing pain that is caused by physical damage in the body.
But neither of these was the problem for the client.
Instead...
What happened psychophysiologically...
Is that when the individual experienced their trauma in the past...
That emotion was stored within the nervous system.
The nervous system is connected to the brain...
But it operates with a different set of goals and through different mechanisms.
Talk therapy does not really work on the nervous system.
But it became worse for the client...
Because of how the nervous system operates and develops over time.
See...
When we experience something that the nervous system perceives as potentially dangerous...
The nervous system creates sets of instructions on how to react in the future if we ever encounter something “similar” to that problem.
Even if the situation is not exactly the same...
If the conditions are “close enough”...
As determined by the nervous system and “not” by the brain (they operate with different types of logic)...
Then the nervous system will trigger our survival mechanisms.
The more this happens...
The more these sets of instructions are built in the nervous system.
But...
If these experiences are frequent enough...
Or extremely emotionally impactful...
Or both...
Then the nervous system will turn a memory capsule into a trauma capsule.
What can happen with a trauma capsule?
It can become overstimulated...
Which creates a supercharged response in the nervous system...
Which the surrounding areas of the nervous system cannot handle...
And then becomes “experienced” as pain.
It is not a physical pain...
It is a physiological response to a sensation overload of the nerve endings.
This is why pain medication does not work...
These are not directed to the stimulation of the nerve endings being overstimulated.
So the client had a nervous system problem that they were unaware of...
And that became the solution.
When we worked on the nervous system through nervous system modalities...
What I call ANS-Serenity work with my clients...
The nervous system trauma capsule was resolved...
The pain disappeared...
And talk therapy was no longer needed for that particular challenge.
Now...
This does not mean that ANS-Serenity is the solution for every pain or trauma we experience...
You still need a doctor for real physical harm to your body...
You still need a therapist or psychologist for the brain aspects of experienced traumas.
But the key to all of this...
Is that you need to understand where the real problems are in the body...
And sometimes they are not as clear as we imagined.
But...
If you discover where the challenges actually exist...
Recovery often is significantly faster.
When you understand all three of these challenges...
Suddenly, recovery becomes vastly more manageable...
And successful.
This also means...
That with proper recovery...
We gain the ability to design a different future for ourselves...
And that is where the fun begins for most people.
To Your Sageship,
Cody
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