If We Were To Stop Multitasking, Would We Stop Being Sick?
Many people feel that if they aren’t multitasking, they aren’t being productive. Many of those same people are overweight or constantly ill. Multitasking as become a way of life and if we continue doing it for long periods of time, we’ll break down.
Recently, I read an article about a person who’d been under self-imposed deadlines and felt it necessary to be doing many things at once. The person was chronically tired, always had a cold or other illness, was cranky, had relationship problems with family and friends and fell asleep one night driving home after a long day at work. The result was a long period of rehabilitation that necessitated bed rest and recuperation, much of it in a wheel chair. During that time, the person felt a sense of relief, of not having deadlines and felt back in charge of where life was taking her. Unfortunately, it took a major life threatening accident before things became apparent.
When our body needs a break, it may take one whether we consciously want it or not. Going to sleep at the wheel while driving is only one example. Research tells us our subconscious mind makes 1000 times more decisions than our conscious mind. When we push too hard for too long, many times the result is a disease. The disease may be the result of not listening to information from our body. If we wake up in the morning as tired as we were when we went to bed the night before, we need to look at the reason as opposed to taking some form of stimulant to get us back on track again. If our body needs a rest, and the only way the subconscious sees that to be possible is through disease, we become ill. Remember when you were a child and you got special treatment when sick? You can bet your subconscious mind filed that away for future reference.
Pulling from our reserves is like an overdraft at the bank. The difference is we don’t get a statement with the charges, and many of us just keep writing bad checks on our overdrawn health account. Eventually though, we will have to pay for our excessive withdrawals.
Too often, when we’re young, we believe we’re immortal or indestructible and perpetuate that belief until it becomes a life pattern ingrained in habit . Researchers say that anything done three times or more will become habit. If we push our limits for days, weeks or months, they can become lifetime patterns. As is the case with most addicts, we turn to denial as our defense.
By denying that we are workaholics, we can justify our high percentages of colds, flu and other illnesses. Other habits will enter our lives to help perpetuate the ones we deny. When we’re tired and we temporarily boost our energy levels with some form of stimulation, our subconscious sees that as something we want to continue doing because it has allowed us to achieve our short-term goal(s). Most long-term benefits suffer from short-term goal seeking.
Consumerism is almost always rooted in short-term goals. Having more money and stuff doesn’t mean we’ll have more time to enjoy it. Generally, it proves to be the other way around as was the case with the person who went to sleep while driving home. She found that by doing more home things, and less rushing from place to place, she actually had more money at the end of the month.
It’s better to take a break, than imposing one upon ourselves through an accident or illness.
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