What is beyond stress

WHAT IS BEYOND STRESS?

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JULY 30, 2007.

When you talk about stress, you talk about emotion.

Particularly, emotion that doesn’t seem to fit into your plans. It’s sitting there, waiting to come to the fore and become a negative fact.

We all have these emotions sitting in the bullpen.

Stressful emotion is like the slowing traffic and the heat and the humidity you can encounter as you’re driving down the highway toward whatever goal you’re pursuing. It’s also the preconception of it before it even happens or surfaces. (It’s also what obliterates a clear view of what you want your goal to be.)

“Things are going well. I’m moving in the right direction. I hope the traffic doesn’t start piling up, because then I won’t like it…”

Stress.

Usually, the imagining of it before it happens is worse than what actually happens when you’re in the thick of things.

And the imagining of it…..imagination….that’s where I step into the scene. I’ve written and lectured and taught about imagination for some years now. It’s not just an academic pursuit. I’m a painter and a writer, and I’ve doing these things for 45 years. Longer, in the case of writing.

Imagination has been the core of what I’ve been doing, ever since I was 17 and had no idea what I would do with my life.

Imagination, as I’ve found, is the key. The door opener. The undiscovered land.

It’s what a person can do when there seems to be nothing happening, a blank, a dead end, a lack of desire.

It proves that life can be a dream made real. And what else would a person want?

So imagination has everything to do with how you handle stress.

In fact, you could say that stress is those moments when there is no imagination at work. That’s a true definition. That’s one you won’t find in the textbooks.

That’s the biggest deal there is, and that’s at the heart of this upcoming seminar.

My imagination talking to your imagination.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com