You may choose to treat your perceptual system as if it were an enemy, but remember, if you harm or destroy it, you are also destroying part of yourself. Your five senses and your whole nervous system comprise the messenger. The messenger conveys its message in the form of neural signals, sensations, and subjective feelings. Remember, the messenger loves you and is vitally interested in your survival.
Nevertheless, it may "sting" you with the noxious edge of its signals, but only to inform you of a high priority message. That noxious edge is trying to give you a priority notification, to make sure that certain signals (which represent an important message) secure an urgent place in your attention.
It is productive to develop a friendship with your perceptual system. Your perceptual system is beautiful; it is intricate; it is the highest accomplishment, the highest perfection in Nature. Your perceptual system is the neural pathways through your peripheral nerves and your brain. Its goal is to reach the neurons in your cerebral cortex. Our brains contain over 1,000,000,000,000 neurons, and each neuron has at least 1,000 to 100,000 interconnections. It can actually be called the billion billion network. It is a vast and beautiful universe at work within you.
If you invoke perceptus interruptus, you must ask yourself why you would want to treat such a devoted, dedicated, and efficient friend, who is only there to help you in a brutal and careless way. Moreover, The Percept Method warns of the utter futility and ultimate self-defeat you will undoubtedly suffer, if you succeed in suppressing information from reaching your neurons.
Any victory you celebrate would be paradoxical, because your victory would consist of subduing your most personal and dutiful ally. You should disarm the stressor rather than yourself through avoidant modalities, such as noninquisitive relaxation or sedating agents or various forms of psychological denial. Stress, like pain or noise, performs an important function - an essential perceptual function. Stress has something to tell you that you may need to know. A stress feeling is a process that wants only to transmit information.
So, in addition to sensing the presence of an external physical danger, so crucial in our evolutionary past, the stress feeling also senses the presence of another dimension of danger - a more modern aspect - concept crisis or concept danger. A concept crisis is a nonphysical danger, a nonphysical threat or uncertainty from within or without. It is an event that challenges our sense of wholeness, or balance, or the rightness of ourselves in our world. In this way, the experience of stress serves as a signal that something is not right, something is out of kilter - from either the physical or concept perspective.
Unfortunately for us humans, the sentinel stress response is the same whether it is responding to a physical danger or a concept danger. Therefore, instead of immediately responding with emergency physiology, you need first to learn to quiet down and "listen" to what the stress is trying to tell you. This is a vital interlude. It can change your direction from a mindless pursuit to a mindful experience. It can prevent the stress from becoming prolonged beyond its sentinel value and doing physical harm to your body.
You have already learned that the message of stress is transmitted as a code of sentience - the vocabulary of feelings - usually in the guise of unpleasant physical sensations or emotions. You also know this code of sentience can be decoded and made intelligible. The goal is to engage the power of your conscious intellect which can decode the feelings of stress.
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