Unexpected Events

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In humanity there are stumbling blocks (problems) that consistently occur. They are nothing more than negative unexpected events. They vary in intensity and can create emotional stress that can lead to serious health issues. When they consume the thoughts and actions of people to the point of irrational decisions they can escalate and affect the lives of millions.

There are innumerable issues in the circle of life that become the obstacles we call problems.

Messages

The issue could be a message containing bills, about someone sick, someone cheating, or you could be sick. A message of pain, suffering, or aggression can trigger emotion.

When the problem is a national event the group emotion can create appalling results. Problems require human emotional reaction to make them significant. 9/11 is an example of an emotional event that deeply stirred the reactivity of the USA as it combined all human emotions:

  • Apprehension
  • Worry
  • Anxiety
  • Concern
  • Fear
  • Revenge

Responsibility

How to receive and handle problems can make a big difference in life. Humans are hard wired to take on responsibility for the problems of everyone and everything about planet earth. We feel empathy, understanding, sympathy, and compassion and process problems personally, even those that are none of our business. We welcome the chance to help everyone else, and lend our problem solving expertise to anyone who asks. We even offer to help those who do not ask, (like I am doing here).

Emotional Response

There should be some way to diffuse the influence, authority, and control problems have over us. Why does our emotional body react when we are not directly involved? We apparently join in the feelings of those suffering the results of those issues:

  • Failure
  • Loss
  • Suffering
  • Distress

Here is how to diffuse problems.

  • Relax
  • Cancel the emotion
  • Be in the present
  • Review the facts
  • Make sensible, balanced and coherent decisions

The gravity of a problem decreases as the emotion is shed and the issue enters the common sense stage. Many problems are solved with time.