Hang on until tomorrow because it can’t be the same bad as it
was today, even if you don’t achieve a decent day. Why?
Your life is not over yet. Life is change, and even if all events were random ones, 50% of them
would be for the better. But in actuality, the odds are in your favor. For
your body seeks homeostasis, a return to its normative state of decent health. Homeostasis
seeks a steady state, such as in your blood pressure and respiration. Even when
you are ill, not only the intervention of a physician, but also your natural
defenses, seek to return you to the normative.
Notwithstanding the truth of that last sentence, there are a
number of auto-immune diseases, likely including in many people depression
itself, in which your body attacks itself. But these are the exceptions that
prove the norm. And your immune system and feedback loops in your central
nervous system that underlie homeostasis are always ready to respond in your
favor, given appropriate treatment. (Of course, many treatments—certain
neuromodulation techniques and all genomics—are still in development.)
Indeed, your brain’s twenty neurotransmitters that are small
molecules (as well as the more than one hundred neuropeptides) are directed
according to the needs posed by your environment and your choices, through the
activity of your messenger RNA, to compute what you need this very instant to
increase your health.
You “habituate.” You get used to a situation and its impact
upon you lessens. This isn’t only a human response—even flatworms alert to
novel stimuli after showing faded or no response at all to familiar aspects of
their environments. Due to habituation, you naturally will notice the source of
your initial pain to a lesser degree as time passes by—and this effect usually
occurs in terms of minutes—even seconds—not in terms of hours.
Nothing is sustainable without a reprieve. Eventually, you
fall into a microsleep even if you are wired into manic insomnia.
Eventually, even an extremely depressed you will find yourself able to
get out of bed for a couple of minutes if you need to use the bathroom.
Your attention will probably have deflected from the present
despair. A new terror or pain at least has the benefit of novelty. While having
something new as your concern may give you the sense of being beset by many
troubles, you will find if you meditate or pray over this problem, now at hand,
that you have been successful in actuality. You will find that you have modified
for the better your initial concern, even though you probably have a new one.
Life presents us at every moment with challenges. You are stronger than you often think you are. Every hour you solve
myriad cognitive and emotional dilemmas. Every minute, you rectify many
thousands of physiological challenges. You
are an overcomer.
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