Dealing with Stress

being on earth is stressful let's just get that out of the way being on earth is stressful because it is not organic most of the time our body is stressed when we're not being organic or things are not natural to us when you give your self your life unnecessary and unusual amounts of work you can become stressed other people could do twice the work that you're doing and not be stressed it's a matter of whether it's congruent with them whether it seems natural or easy for them naturally easy for them so stress is

really often caused by slipping out of our zone you're stressed when you eat foods that are not right for you they call them allergies but really it's not allergies it's really a reaction we call it an allergic reaction but it's really a reaction to my not being in the zone these foods are not somehow not congruent to me whether that's food or drink whether it's you know whatever else i mean it could be meats or veg vegetables whatever it happens to be that your body a certain vegetable a

certain fruit a certain meat substance you know when you when you say something is good or bad without even checking in to see what's natural to you then you're going by someone else's rules they say this is causes allergies they say this is bad for you not necessarily but people don't know how to be in the zone anymore people don't know kind of how to how to be in that zen-like place or in the dao in the nature of things the net my natural state and that all happens because people have forgotten who they are if i don't know

who i am i don't know what works for me i don't how do i know what works for me if i don't even know the who who it is that i'm talking about the i am presence so we learned to say well who am i and what am i oh okay i'm a child of god remembering my true self so as soon as if that's true which it is that i'm really a child of god now see if i don't know who i am then i'm going to be reacting to everything because i don't know what works for me i don't know who i am so oh my god oh my

god who am i i don't know where i'm going i don't know what to do tell me what to do why do i need to because i don't know who i am see and that's constant stress and then your body is constantly bathed with acidity and then when it's bathed in acidity when that acid flows through your blood it's going to start accumulating in one spot or another it's going to accumulate where you have tension or a a place of movement like a joint then you get arthritic and you say oh well my my father had arthritis i got it

from him my mother had this so i got that from her you're inheriting more consciousness than you are actual things what kind of consciousness they didn't know who they are i don't know who i am so we have the same illnesses that's what really happens so they say stress is the greatest cause of disease but where does stress come from and so this world came up with an answer you have to combat stress by doing a b and c and then they make a regimen out of it but if you think about it most of the things we came up with are

almost uh self-spoiling as long as i don't have to put up with you i don't have stress you know as long as i don't have to work then i'm not stressed but that's that's sort of a band-aid the the world's version of no stress is really just still a band-aid if you don't know who you are and you counter stress with calming you know passion flower chamomile tea you know breathing exercises you're helping it for now but if you don't know who you are and you're not living congruent with that

it's going to manifest in some other form then you're going to say i can't understand it i take this and i do this to stay unstressed but i'm still stressed and that's because what you're dealing with or what you're doing to deal with it is still a surface approach so we want to deepen this whole experience the understanding of the cause the solutions the cure and so on so we realize forgetting who i am is the cause of stress much like buddha has said it's ignorance is the cause of all our problems

he means ignorance he means the amnesia the forgetting that we are so solution would be remembering obviously so that's where we're going so in forgetting who i am i'm instantly stressed all right it doesn't mean the combatants like chamomile tea and all that are bad it's just i'm saying that only helps so much chamomile tea isn't going to fix your soul it's just going to relax your body a bit more so we start to realize so stress comes from the lack of identity my lack of identity

makes me not know who i am not know knowing who i am makes me not know what i'm doing and why and what i should do and shouldn't do now i'm out of the zone i'm not organic i'm not truly connected with my heart my soul to know what's right for me so then i say okay now i end up doing things i shouldn't have done then i feel stressed because i'm judging myself over it or stressing over worrying over it you know stress happens it's past oriented really it's rooted in the past because it's in the past

that i forgot who i am but stress we can stress over the future that isn't even here yet but if you knew who you were you couldn't stress over what might happen because if you truly know who you are only good could happen that's what real trust is the opposite of stress trust peace happiness opposite of stress so we realize okay i want to get back in the zone i want to find my center and it'll help first to remind myself who i am by calling upon spirit to remind me but also guys you have to be faithful to

yourself you can't say oh i'm all about knowing who i am and then betray yourself and you we do it every day if you say i believe in absolute love and oneness for all beings and all creatures but then let's say you eat meats you just said you believe in peace for all creatures but you're eating meats i'm not saying eating meats is good nor bad i'm saying that if you believe it's incongruent with you it's going to stress you out any time you're acting incongruent out of alignment

with something you believe or know to be contrary to what you're doing then that's going to cause stress in congruence it's going to cause friction which is a stressor they call it stress in tectonic plates when we're talking about you know geology you know the planets the tectonic plates there's stress between them because there's a friction a conflict so in us when we do that i really want to do this but i'm doing that gee i probably should that's stress it's stressful it's

conflicting and then it's going to result in stress so we start to say okay that's not how i want to be so i shouldn't bargain myself guys come on man let's look at our lives look at how many times you've dated people that were not congruent with what you claim to be your higher self i mean come on how many times you've you know made financial decisions that didn't resonate with prosperity consciousness you know foods you've eaten things you've had you know that you drank that

were not congruent with wholeness and love treating animals a certain way treating people a certain way oh i believe in peace and love and joy and then you know enraged on the road or whatever and it's not always the uh aggressive like the enraged or the aggressor it's even being a victim you know shuddering driving your car shuddering i'm afraid of other drivers you know come up to a stop sign and there's nobody within miles but you're not going to go because you see a car three miles down the road they could

possibly accelerate at light speed and hit you if you move through that stop sign that's still stressful no it's not i'm calm and i'm taking my time and i'm not going to get into a dangerous situation i'm going to make sure there's no cars the fact that you're sitting there all clenched afraid of cars coming you see this all the time you can see rage boom people just mowing through cars and down lanes but you also see really timid people they accelerate break accelerate break because

they're just so afraid your body's not at peace when you're doing that so the idea is again peace trust and such is the opposite of stress so the more i start to learn to live mastery consciousness it changes all this there are so many different talks that we do we've talked about ascension on these friday nights we've talked about ascension multidimensionality and so on and today we're talking about something just right grounded down to earth stuff that we all have to deal with so number one killer they say cause of

illness is stress so why shouldn't we talk about that and then if so how does it apply to you you're stressed about the past present and future which means time is an enemy whether it's past time future time president it's an enemy because stress is telling you you know there's always going to be something bad there was something bad there will be something bad there is something bad but there's negative something to be worried about that doesn't sound good and so what's michael saying then when

i'm out of the zone is where i get stressed if i get in the zone i won't have as much stretch which means i won't have as much illness know who you are know what works for you okay who am i how do i decide that i don't mean just philosophical oh i'm a child of god i'm a fifth dimensional being i'm an ascended light being a light worker that's all true and cool and wonderful for you that's great but you and god can determine your new identity are you i'm a i'm a 40 year old female married

twice a couple of relationships and they just didn't work and so i'm confused that means that's your mantra that is your this is my identity excuse me ma'am you know reporter on the street right excuse me ma'am tell us what you're about and they interview your soul married a couple times deserted a couple times really not working out very well with relationships so now i become uncertain and kind of confused i don't know what i'm going to do and now i'm 40. gosh i probably won't be able to

have children so i'm barren i have all these labels and the universe just says and so it is and gives you that kind of a life but that's not true none of that's true but it's it's made up it's contrived so i'm saying who am i there's two who am i's you can answer that in two different ways who am i as god created me and then there's who i am based on where i've been and what i've done and what's been done to me the sum total uh well usually the sum total is some totaled

you know like this car's totaled you know oh i beat my body up and i used to do so many thrill seeking sports now my body is all beat up none of my joints work i'm arthritic everywhere i you know my body's just is in pain constantly or whatever then there's emotional versions of that god i trusted a few people i was betrayed and now i can't trust anymore i don't know who to trust that's it's sadness you know so i have pain or sadness or even if i have prideful versions of who i am

successful you know great mom great dad whatever those are still small labels compared to who i really am so even when i try to be just those nicer labels but still false labels like successful and so on it's not who i really am and part of me knows that so part of me inside's going there's more i just know there's more but i don't know what it is or how to find it well there's a simple simple solution you name it what are you about what would you like name you guys several of you know that i've done this

before with you but name like a word or two of what you're most looking for name a feeling word peace and happiness that's a good one love and abundance oh that's a nice one love and self-worth are the two most common ones i give to people when they ask because love and self-worth man if you got that and you practice it what do you what do you need if i have love and self-worth i have prosperity i have happiness i won't be dating the wrong people unhealthy people i won't be doing addictive things

i'm good to go love and self-worth is the same it's synonymous with god joy is synonymous with god bliss oneness you know peace happiness these are all synonymous with god so if i decide on an identity i get to help choose that it's not like a guru has to tell me my identity i get to decide and it's my version of god my version of god as i would want me to be what would i like to experience how about peace and happiness love and self-worth great now let's say that all of you i snapped my finger and all of you got

that you're now all filled with peace and happiness joy oneness etc whatever your words are now you just sit with that for a moment and think to yourself okay as long as i not only affirm and call in that presence i am calling in peace and happiness joy oneness whatever now i got that now as long as i live as best i can congruent to that i will less often have stress because i first fixed my identity in place got locked and loaded but then then my behaviors have to be congruent my thoughts words and deeds have to be congruent

even my thoughts now i'm not saying you're going to be perfect at it we're not you know as much as we try you're going to slip now and again but even when you slip breathe bounce back now now i slipped but what would peace and happiness do if it slips it would forgive itself and bounce back become the embodiment of your words then there's no stress there's no friction because i'm not saying peace and happiness and then you know acting anxious and hateful you know how do i call it in and become

it that's the whole god that's the whole uh message or meaning to life it's the whole purpose it's the whole goal to to find something god in some way but then not just to find it and worship it somewhere to become it that's the greatest compliment you can you know that they say you know imitation or something along those lines imitation in one form or another is the greatest compliment so there you go then become god become like god so god to me is peace and happiness great then call it in and then act like it through thoughts

words and deeds how you treat people how you treat yourself only date people that resonate with peace and happiness and you'll try it and you'll try it for a day or a month or a year and you go well i'm not finding anybody i'm just gonna have to settle excellent good choice stress will be the result but i'm already stressed by not having you're stressed by being upset that you're not having but if not having was what happened because you were being faithful to yourself faithful to peace

happiness joy then you did the right thing so when that ego rears up and says well i'm going to make you get stressed about following the path of god you know because you don't have anybody you know whining and nagging and teasing you for it you have to step up and say be still and know that i am god you have to say hey get behind me satan even if it's a figurative speech there but even if satan takes the form of your mother you know you should have dated him i liked him he was a nice guy then say go

date him then you want his number you go date him if your friends say you really got to meet somebody then you know like where oh just pick somebody online then tell them i'll pick somebody and you date him learn to be confident instead of stressed conflicted is also the difference the opposite rather of of confidence conflicted and confidence i feel all right i know who i am now if you say i really feel confident i'm just not ready for dating and 54 years later you're still not dating you might be in denial you might be

fasting no you might be starving there's a difference fasting from relationship means i'm taking a break and it could take a year could take seven years however long you could honestly authentically say i'm really i'm taking a break and i see progress i'm healing i don't see myself shut down to dating i'm open but i see it's not there nothing's really fitting that's when you know you're open when it's like you know oh my god no i can't possibly and you know 54 years goes by it's

possible you've entered somewhere from fasting you've entered it's starvation and then we know there's those are issues there's still a reaction and that's not your highest good so there's no way to completely and and you know on a constant level say you'll never have any conflict or resulting in stress but what you can do is see it sooner and then counter it you can prevent it there's no doubt about it but prevent it every minute of every day probably not because there's two beings creating

every day i and we so i could be working on myself today and we might not be in other words we being my anybody in my life i could be creating abundance the world could go into a depression financially it's a little harder not impossible for me to create prosperity when the world says oh economy is just terrible i could be um i could be a hundred pounds overweight and love my body love it just feel beautiful like a work of art other people around me could say you're overweight and that would be their trip but it's i

still have to hear it because there's a we that believes that and of course in another era that would be the perfect body type so the world is a place of conflict and so jesus explains this i'm paraphrasing slightly he's telling you you know you would like to be stress-free there's magazines and books how to live a stress-free life it's total it's a total proc you can't be in a stress-free free life really you know certainly and not the way they're selling it to you so jesus says let me just i'm going to

paraphrase but he's saying you know let me share something with you guys you are living in a world of conflict it's a world of duality there's an up and a down a yin and yang which means duality when you have duality the word duality comes from the word dual which means war battle conflict so you live in a dualistic battle istic conflicted world you might as well accept it he says and you might as well accept that there will be conflict there'll be war rumors of wars there's going to be starvation there's going to

be stuff in this world because this is not your home as yogananda puts it this is not your home this isn't the real world yet this is the world that was created by dualistic minds to look dualistic and then act dualistic and give you the reactions of dualism conflict stress okay so in this world if i do chamomile tea then it's gone no because chamomile tea still comes from the dualistic world it'll work and then you'll become immune to it now it didn't work anymore that's dualism the only thing that can really

work is god in your center so you realize i'm calling in peace and happiness now that i've called in peace and happiness nobody will cut me off on the road they might but i'm going to return to my center and does it mean you'll never die you might you probably will and you'll still be at peace because i'm calling in peace and happiness so i'm at peace about living i'm at peace about dying and then there'll be a moment where somebody pushes my buttons and stresses me but i will return to peace and happiness as

soon as possible it doesn't mean you won't have it but the way jesus words it it's gonna happen and he says because that's this world and then you go just when you go ah okay fine i guess he's saying we just have to deal with it then he counters with one more word one more phrase but be out of good cheer because i've overcome the world okay wait there's gonna be stress and stuff because it's of this world got that then he says but be happy how can i be happy with that he says because i've overcome the world what did

that mean it means i the consciousness i have attained called christ consciousness has overcome the world oh wait a minute so my ego created the conflicting world of stress as a result the christ self has overcome the world through what jesus did and the christ in me is capable of overcoming this world so he's telling me there's a remedy and it's the christ self not chamomile christ not chamomile christ so as i awaken christ consciousness which is my true identity it is the remedy i start getting an

infusion of peace or whatever your words are i'm going to call in peace and happiness gee i feel so much better now be careful because just like some people think they buy a cross and say i have jesus in my life now i'm i'm good to go i'm going to go to heaven and then act like you know a mean person [Music] you think you're set to go you're not set to go it's a lie you have to be this thing so if you say i get it i'm just i call on christ or as i awaken christ then the stress won't be there and i won't be

conflicted that's true but you have to feel it breathe it in live it you know become it you have to become it and live it when i live it it anchors the final vestiges of it into my being when i call it in like i'm calling in peace and joy you know every day and breathing it in is very cool good exercise you can you know you can get this on my website it's free under the teachings tab under teachings it's michaelmeardad.

com and under the teachings tab there's a link called downloads in downloads there's a free one called refilling refilling like filling up refilling exercise that's the exercise that you know it's it's like to have a god day to have a connected communion with god and so i fill up with god but it doesn't end where you just go oh you know and kind of get into this nice vibe the communion the the real living the life it's calling it in and then it's visualizing it so in your few minutes of meditation a day and then

giving thanks there's three steps to that part but there's two more parts still one your actions have to be congruent so that's four out of these five steps and the fifth step you bring it to others you bring that change to others not just in my actions but literally be an example to other people bring it to others give to others tithe to others donate to others you know give give smiles give hope to people that are struggling that's bringing it to others so to really not live the conflicted dualistic stressful life it means living

the god life the christ life the the life of love and peace by calling it in visualizing it into your life that puts it into the matrix of of the universe and then giving thanks which anchors it on that level excellent we're locked we're locked in now it's still to a degree it's still a theory until it's actually brought forward you know it's like a planting a flower watering it and putting it in my yard i get to see it but there's just something different about picking it cutting it giving it to somebody and well oh wow

you know i feel loved i feel appreciated i feel you know seen or whatever it happens to be that's what we do with these gifts bring them into the world so beautiful if you think about it it's just so beautiful so as i start to wrap up stress you know i'm not going to get into the biologies of it per se i'm saying that i agree stress causes more than anything else causes illness but stress isn't what people think it's just not it's not just not getting your way god i'm so stressed

i have to work so many hours god i'm so stressed that my partner argues with me those things are stressful but why do you have that job and that partner why are you working so many hours why why do you think it's too many hours other people do it with no problem it's it's because it's incongruent to you something in you says this is not me you know so who's the me that's talking i don't even know and so how was i going to get a right job and a right partner technically it was all very aligned it

was very congruent when you were messed up you got a messed up job and you were messed up you got a messed up partnership so sounds like it's all pretty fair to me you know but but it's not it's not the world i want who's the i speaking there's a part of me that's waking up saying that's no longer good enough that's the the chooser my soul it's not yet my divine self but it's part of me that's choosing to wake up from the sleeping self to the divine self the chooser and it's

saying wait like the old fable the emperor is naked there's something wrong here there's something that's not right this job this situation and just it's just that what most people do at that point is either oh but i don't know of any other i'm a victim i just have to have this there's no other way or we blame other people you made me have to work two jobs you made me have to the world makes me this and that and the other my mother made me have this illness genetically you know so we do these various forms

expressions of the victim none of them are healthy none of them are good for us and none of them are true or accurate they're all us lying to ourselves so take responsibility not just for the stuff that's gone wrong take responsibility for when you're ready to have things go right meaning the right direction the only real direction towards god so we say okay got it and you start to feel a greater sense of peace and stress starts to fall away with or without the job i start to feel an identity i i'm i'm

i'm identifying with peace and happiness and then all of a sudden well you know this this relationship just doesn't resonate maybe i'm going to stay in the relationship but i'm going to get a counselor that helps us bring peace and happiness to each other partner says absolutely no way and they want to kick me around a little longer doesn't resonate but what am i going to do financially i better stay wrong that's stressful because it's not true it's incongruent it's conflicted because

you're conflicted so you have to breathe and say god i'm ready to forgive myself for all you know forgiveness oh my god forgiveness is like such a such an antidote to all the effects that stress once had washes me bathes me clean cellularly and in consciousness it washes me pure washes me clean and i realize god this is this is okay stress i can do physical things take a warm bubble bath man it's so cool you know nice colored candle scented calendars candles rather lavender oh isn't lavender nice

lavender scent chamomile tea having a nice you know bath you know it's nice don't go in there with an espresso that's incongruent with you know the concept of peace unless for some reason that resonates with peace and tranquility for you if you don't call stimulation tranquility i'm talking about real tranquility like a call me so you know have something that feels congruent don't watch a horror movie if you're trying to manifest peace and happiness in your life that's uh conflicted to say the

least but you know who you date how long you stay with someone to see a counselor to not see a counselor even foods that create conflict in your system i eat this and it starts creating more inflammation it then it's not right for you something like gout you know eating eating excessive you know amounts of rich foods and then you get gout well fast change your diet no more fatty foods no more deep fried foods you know no more stagnating foods no more red meats and so on certain foods are going to be a no-no you need to cleanse if you've

got something like that clear the old that's just a metaphor the example it's clear clear things when you see stagnation if you can't open a drawer because there's so much crap in it man have a bonfire not in the drawer but get stuff out of there burn it shred it throw it away or whatever recycle the paper if it's recyclable you know just clear the old anything i do that is not the true i am is going to be conflicted in my heart i'm going to know that it's not right for me and that's going to create a result in

stress remember though that doesn't mean you can say well i just realized what he said is anything that's incongruent i've decided all of you are incongruent and i don't want to work anymore you know uh being lazy doesn't mean you don't have stress you know so catering to your ego and just trying to escape three-dimensional things that you have to do show up on time and do something oh this stresses me out i hate being called on showing up late to work i need a job that won't pick on me for that or

you could just show up on time i mean you know come on so you got to watch not just where the world is incongruent but where you're in congruent showing up late all the time is incongruent with peace because you're also making other people's lives not peaceful which then your conscience knows is not peaceful to your soul you might think in your head that it's peaceful i love showing up whenever i want i don't care about other people that's not real peace that's egotistic and therefore it's not true peace

so don't try to brush that under the rug and get away with it watch for where you not only look for peace in your own life but how you manifest it for others you know the greater good it's called i'm not saying sacrifice yourself for their opinions but the greater good in the long run means how can i bring peace and love to other people if i am that i am if i am made as god has made me i am the living christ i am as god created me so i i'm i'm the presence as much as i can be today peace and happiness then are you

bringing peace and happiness i've known one popular speaker on the tour circuit that i've you know met and spoke with in conferences now and again real popular a lot of you guys would know who it is but i won't name them but this person they they talk oh i'm all about peace you know i'm all about peace speak peace the world bring peace to the world and i've never known a speaker on tour circuits and i met hundreds never known any speakers that have created more conflict at the conferences oh my god

they're all about peace but they want to talk longer than anybody else and cut their time off and not care about other people having to lose time because they went too long they wanted this they want that they want you know demands they cause the coordinators uh facilitators and coordinators of the events you know to pull their hair out you know that's that's a lie it's selfish narcissism when you claim i'm so much about peace and happiness you know and then you do all these things to harm people

just another form of hypocrisy um and that's life we have to work on that we have to deal with that we have to cure that in ourselves okay so hopefully this has made sense again stress the topic biologically yes inflammation it's inflammatory it harms us but it comes from friction or conflict conflict coming from us being out of alignment or incongruent with what we know to be right but it's not just what i want in my spoiled life it's also what's right for the people around me and everything around me

be in harmony you know you can say well i'm all at peace with um eating meats but it may not be very peaceful to the animals you're eating you know so consider them i'm not saying don't be a meat eater i'm saying just consider it so sometimes you know eating eggs but range free you know or whatever they call it you know foods that are more organic is it's less incongruent to your system and again i'm not telling you have to eat like only organic and veggies and all you know we all have what works for us

but go with what works for you know what works for you some of us can eat you know cookies for for dinner and be totally at peace with it it's in through and through it's just fine i do that you know but uh other people oh my god looking at a cookie and their body rashes and they get all freaked out you know so you got to find what seems to work for you but i will say the more your consciousness gets cleared the less things affect you not because you shut off a conscious consciousness or conscientiousness but

it's because you know what works and you just sort of live in the dao and and you're also more immune to things because you're so clear you're not reactive you don't have things that push your buttons and jerk you left and right and inflame in your system and so on so you know that does happen over time you know as you as you purify and clear the mind so i again i i pray this has made good sense i'm talking spiritual as well as human about stress but giving it a spiritual perspective and i hope that

it can fill in some blanks there if you want to just read or hear or learn or study on more the physiological versions go and knock yourself out they just won't usually approach it and give you the spiritual real causation but if that's what you need if you need to get to the physical biological post you know post trauma causes stress work on the wounds of post trauma so that it's not infiltrating the cells of your body because post trauma i could be eating something organic a post traumatic event could be in the

cells of my being and when i ingest this the cells of my being are going to beat the hell out of the most calming loving sweet organic material because my body's just screaming with post-trauma uproot the post trauma heal it and we have talks just on that somewhere along the line in the library of all the videos here so maybe i'll do some more work on that sometime with you guys but you've got to work on the post trauma the past has to be cleared to make room for the future in the present thank you guys thanks for

letting me share and thanks for watching and listening i pray these things make good sense to you and hope to connect with you again thank you