6.1.3.8. Adaptation - Stress, Acute and Chronic - Life Preservation

1. *Summary: The text discusses the body's response to stress, both acute and chronic, based on research by Garkavi. It explains how the body prioritizes survival during stress, leading to imbalances in various systems. The text also highlights the importance of recognizing these stress responses for effective healing, emphasizing the need to reduce chaos and tension in the central nervous system.*

what you see is acute and chronic stress. This is the classical interpretation of the body's response as you know according to Selier. So here, what we're dealing with is when the disturbance, the amplitude and the size of disturbance is very big. So what you see here is that the body now is engaged is pretty much in the life preservation mode. So what you see here is certain systems are highly overactivated, but only some of them, as you see here. So the adrenal gland mass goes way over the top. The central nervous system gets activated. And on the other hand, the activity of sexual glands is very low. It's over here. The thymus mass is very low over here and so on. So overall, what we have is that the body in this acute stress response start to work in a very non-coherent way. So some systems are way up, other systems are way down. And what it means is that the body engages in this response in order to preserve life, meaning it will start to use those systems that are so-called energetically expensive. So instead of trying to maintain the overall balance and to keep up with the rebuilding of the healing process is a very short-term response. But what happens is that you cannot maintain that level of activation for too long. Very soon, you will hit exhaustion stage. And here, your system start to shut down because simply cannot maintain that level of activity. And then gradually, if the disturbance is still there, you will shift into the chronic stress response. So in chronic stress response, the adrenal glands, you see, are large. CNS inhibition of central nervous system is way about excitation. And most importantly, is the level of lymphocytes. This is the point here. I'll touch on lymphocytes here. The next slide. But what happens is that in chronic stress response, the activity of the overall activity of the immune system would be very low. This is when you are most prone to infectious disease. This is when you can develop autoimmune conditions, and this is also when you can develop cancer. If people look at the sexual glands, you'll notice that they're below normal. And if you look at, let's say, today, a lot of common stuff, erectile dysfunction, low libido, all of these things that go with this -- they all go with this stressed state. And it is here on the polograph, Garkavi did a lot of research on it to show that. And also just this central nervous system inhibition, how that goes off the chart, so to speak, I really find that one fascinating. The central nervous system says, the shirt's on my back, the shirt's on my back, the shirt's on my back. And then when the inhibition goes up, you no longer register the shirt is on your back. And so in terms of pain, this would be turning down all the stuff on the body so that the things insulting it, the level that is experienced and it gets turned down, so person can actually just survive in the environment. So it's like the survival mechanism. So why is it so important to recognize is that Garkavi's research was done mostly by studying directly, she was doing the blood test, she was measuring the mass of the glands, she was measuring the level of hormones, the excitation versus inhibition of the nervous system. So she approached this research from, you can say, by a chemical point of view, but she looked at the totality of the body of all the responses. And this is what she came up with these three different types of responses. So she recognized that the type of response, how body is coping with the disturbance is really key to the healing process. So what you will need to do, actually, any therapy would be aiming at, first of all, you would like to reduce the chaos and so-called tension in the central nervous system. meaning if the body, if the person is all over the place emotional, if he's really struggling, then that struggle, that noise will actually pull away the energy in a very literal sense, meaning that the