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The internal world of imprinted sensations, physiological adaptations, memories, emotions and thoughts (or just imprints) is not always easy.
A few of the more common reasons this might be the case include :
Generally speaking your body-mind will package unprocessed imprints away and hide them in the vast vaults of the subconscious. The adaptive capacity invested in the imprint would add to your total adaptive capacity if it were released so as to freely available to perform its usual duties. And just keeping it locked away places a load on the rest of your system in several ways. For instance, encapsulations and many forms of adaptation usually require tissue to be less mobile, locally or stsyemically (across the whole body) - and this increased stiffness/reduced mobility automatically increases the energy required to make even the simplest movements, such as breathing, adding to total 24/7 energy demand.
There comes a point at which there is are so many imprints held by the non-conscious body-mind that some of them can no longer be contained. At which point it becomes impossible to avoid triggers. And sometimes the total resource demand of adaptive imprints is so high that there is not enough energy to get on with normal everyday life. In addition to the many ways in which Plan A+ (hyperarousals) and Plan B+ (dissociations) can arise, dominate waking experience, and magnify everyday small stuff into a perception of threatened survival.
If you hit a particuarly comfortable time in Life, then almost inevitably at some point your body-mind will decide that its has enough spare resources to do a little spring cleaning. So it begins to open up old unresolved encapsulations in the attic and present them for your attention, hoping that they will then be resolved, their adaptive load removed, and then you will have more resource/resilience for future eventualities. “Teacher's flu” is a typical everyday example - the stress of term-time keeping the adaptations and any extra adaptive load (such as infections) at bay, and these all come out at the first hint of relaxation.
I don't know if it's Astrology or we just hit a certain age (an inner clock points to spring time), but there are definitely also times when our body-mind decides to spring-clean itself regardless of whatever else is happening in your life.
... I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
I don't know who I am
But you know life is for learning ...
Joni Mitchell © October 22, 1969 Siquomb Publishing Corp
Some people have the double-edged gift of environmental sensitivity, and are permanently plugged into the ether and the collective pond. I'm sure this was a normal and useful state when we were hunter-gatherers, allowing us to be "intuitively"aware of the movement of animals or the effect of a medicinal herb. But it's not so good in the modern world. So definitely some people suffer a lot because - whilst they are still able to feel the good stuff more than most, they are also unable to turn off the tap and adequately regulate the degree to which their aerials are plugged into all the psychic sewage that is out there in the modern world. Some people with this have literally tried moving to a little hut in the middle of the Amazon to deal with this hypersensitivity. Most cannot do this (and the Amazon is not so secluded anymore). So the sensible answer is to learn to adjust the aerials and to finds ways to become more resilient - both of which solutions I provide a few directions for on this website.