Your Stress Bucket

Stress is anything that tends to disturb your state of balance, and requires some action for you to regain balance.  We all develop by facing stresses and challenges, and overcoming them. By doing so we strengthen our belief in ourselves, and our ability to cope.  However, if we do not fully overcome the stress or fully meet the challenge, that experience may produce imbalance in any part of our system: physiologically, emotionally, and at a profound energy level.

Think of having a bucket. From even before you were born, all the stresses of life are being poured into the top of that bucket. As you deal with the stressful events, the stress drains away through holes in the bottom of the bucket, so the level should remain low, leaving lots of space in the bucket. However, if you encounter some particularly sticky stuff, which you don’t deal with, it stays in the bucket, raising the level, but also clogging up the holes in the bucket. Not only can it not escape, but the normal stresses can’t be properly processed either, so the level in the bucket rises further.

If the bucket overflows you are completely overwhelmed and can take no more. Even as the level approaches the brim you may fell that the slightest problem takes on huge proportions, whereas if the level were low you would deal with it easily.

Up the side of the bucket are marks. As the level reaches each mark, something will go wrong, and you may experience symptoms: illness, allergies, anxiety, inability to cope and so on and on and on. Notice that although it is the current day-to-day stress that causes the level to rise, the real problem lies in the murky bottom of the bucket.

The level in the bucket can be kept down by minimising the stress in your life; maintaining a good life balance of work, rest and play; eating healthily and so on. It can be lowered by therapies that help to bail out the bucket. The real answer is to clean out the holes in the bottom of the bucket and shift that sticky stuff.  My aim as a practitioner is to help you do just that, and Kinesiology is the main tool I use to do it.