Word for the Day: Monday, June 14, 2010

The Word for Today (Monday) is Comfort.

Seth (Jane Roberts = Author) has a concept he brought up in, I believe, "The Nature of the Psyche". It is "Primary Experience verses Secondary Experience".

Let me give you a common example in the Suburbs of well known cities in the United States. A family is sitting in their Living Room in their house, watching TV. They might even be eating Popcorn. They have Air Conditioning, set to a comfortable 70-75 degrees. This is Primary Experience, where today's word fits ("They are Comfortable").

Now, they also have a Secondary Experience, where they are reacting to a TV News story about something halfway across the United States (example, inner city area of Los Angeles, Detroit, or East St. Louis), where there might be gang activity and some people might be murdered. In some cases, some of these people experiencing this "Secondary Reality", might be at risk for a Heart Attack or a Stroke, due to not being able to handle overdoses of Adrenaline, created by the body itself.

The problem? The body uses Adrenaline to help out with Fight or Flight, which could be proper if, say, they need to dodge a car, running a Stop Sign while they are crossing at a crosswalk.

But what is a poor body to do, if it can't apply this Adrenaline to constructive use? Unfortunately, sometimes it "has no choice" but to attack parts of the body itself, perhaps the heart or brain.

Antidote? Honor your Primary Experience, especially when it gives you Comfort.