Repeated Stress Syndrome

Silly

As I explored in [From Emotional Chaos to Clarity: My Journey with Sweeping Breath Meditation](/problems-i-hadn-t-noticed-right-before-my-eyes-2), the concept of Repeated Stress Syndrome is a personal experience that has helped me gain emotional clarity and control over my thoughts. I've been doing my sweeping breath meditation, and I've been looking over past sections of my life. When I go back I can sense the emotional tensions of those events. Some of them are happy, some of them are sad, some of them are angry etc. One thing I've noticed is that I can clean up one event.

Its Like EMDR

As I discussed in From Stress to Success: Transform Your Response to Mistakes, there are various techniques that can help with stress management. The sweeping breath seems to have similarities with EMDR, which has been proven effective for post-traumatic stress syndrome. They say that EMDR is really good for post-traumatic stress syndrome. So I think it's probably really good for many stresses like those everyday events. But all those many events pile up. Just like tennis elbow, after many many repetitions you can develop an injury even though each individual motion is not that big.

You Can Screw Up

I remember reading about parenting. One expert said you can really screw up big time with your kids, but only once. If you do the big screw up again and again you're going to have problem kids. I think the same is for ourselves: we can give ourselves negative self-talk, but if we give ourselves negative self-talk again and again and again it piles up and we become mixed up. So then we have to go back again and again and again with the sweeping breath to unpile all that negative self-talk.

This relates to the concept of clearing emotional baggage, which I wrote about in [Surprise Bonus](/surprise-bonus). Although my results may not be transferable, the technique has helped me increase productivity and personal growth. But I don't have access to a lot of people and a test that I can run, so all I have is my anecdotal experiences. This process reminds me of the idea of transforming one's response to mistakes, which I discussed in [From Stress to Success: Transform Your Response to Mistakes](/lost-hours-zero-regrets-how-scanning-breath-helped-me-recover-from-a-major-mistake). The sweeping breath has helped me clear emotional charges and improve my overall well-being.

Even the Good Stuff

Even the good emotional charges have to be cleared in my case. The reason is because I look at those good emotionally charged events and it makes me feel sad. I just turn it into another negative because of my greed and wanting to hold on to those good moments and then feeling like I can't. Not being able to hold on to the good moments that I want makes me feel sad. After doing the sweeping breath, I can still remember those good moments but I no longer have the sadness or pain of letting them go, because I've already let them go after the sweeping breath, and now I can feel good and clean about those memories. The only problem with this technique is that it takes a lot of time.