A Book For The Seriously Stressed - How To Stop Stress From Killing You by Geoff Thompson

Author:Geoff Thompson [Thompson, Geoff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Self-Improvement
ISBN: 1840241829
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 2007-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Post-fight Anticipation

After confrontation, whether successful or not, the body often secretes slow releases of adrenalin. This is brought on when confrontation is so difficult that it forces the body and mind into overload leaving the recipient mentally and physically drained. This overload often becomes its own stressor triggering the release of stress hormones. Like the lobster that labours to shed its shell so that it might grow. When the shell is finally shed he is so weak that he cannot defend himself against prey. Be aware that when confrontation (or growth) is over you will be temporarily impaired, a little weaker than normal. This is only until you grow a new shell, but until then you are vulnerable so be on your guard, tighten your helmet straps.

It can also be brought on by post-fight anticipation, when we over anticipate the consequences of our actions.

I remember as a young man being selected to fight in the national Gung-Fu squad for the system that I represented. I had fought well in the association championships to get my place and after the fight when I was offered a place on the squad, I was delighted. That is until my post-fight fear of consequence set in. I knew I was physically capable of fighting at that level but the thought of fighting at that level permanently scared the hell out of me. With my promotion to squad member I would have to take on the added pressure of being a squad member, part of which was upping my training and travelling to all of the competitions where I would have to face some of the best fighters in the country. I had achieved what I had set out to do but after the fight I doubted my ability to handle it now I was there. And so, of course, due to my limiting belief in myself I didn’t handle it. I told friends I wasn’t scared, I just didn’t want to do it, I told them that I had ‘gone off competition.’ I (like my friend in the earlier story) even blamed them for placing too much emphasis on competition. The bottom line was: I bottled it. But really, I suppose, looking at it objectively with the information I have in front of me now, I didn’t bottle it, I just got tricked by my survival instinct to run away from what it perceived as a life-threatening event. In fact, I would go as far as to say that no one really bottles it; we are all just tricked. At that time in my life my survival instincts were a lot stronger than my will or my knowledge.

For the record I came to terms with this syndrome later in my life when I learned to understand myself and my reactions to confrontation. I eventually fought in many competitions, even on an international level, when I travelled to America to fight against the USA national squad.

I had another friend who was a very talented writer and had always wanted his own column in the magazine of which I am sub-editor.

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