Slowing Down: Why "BUSYNESS" Leads to Increased Stress, Anxiety & Compulsive/Addictive Behavior

from SYNERGIS COUNSELING by Cosmin Gheorghe

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“Busyness” seems to have blinded and effectively incarcerated us all, becoming a virtue validated and glorified by the surrounding culture.

Glorifying busyness and making it a way of living deepens the negative effects of these symptoms, leading to: social loneliness, broken relationships, addiction, bio-chemical imbalances and physical illness.

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Busyness creates a vicious circle, for it allows us to avoid seeing and confronting precisely the sources that feed the Shadow. The issue is, many of our choices and behaviors are dictated or influenced by our Shadow.

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from SYNERGIS COUNSELING, released December 7, 2016
Here are four major signs of a life that is unnecessarily busy:
(1) Stress/Mental Strain
(2) Anger/Iritability
(3) Anxiety/Fear
(4) Compulsive Behavior

We become unable to recognize and integrate that part of ourselves that Carl Gustav Jung calls Shadow: the “dark” side of our personality:
Guilt
Shame
Fears
Doubt
Impulsivity
Sadness and Depression
Emotional Wounds

Busyness creates a vicious circle, for it allows us to avoid seeing and confronting precisely the sources that feed the Shadow. The issue is, many of our choices and behaviors are dictated or influenced by our Shadow.

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COSMIN GHEORGHE San Francisco, California

Cosmin Gheorghe, MD is a San Francisco Bay Area consultant, professor, author and licensed psychotherapist. His work focuses on the ways culture, globalization and technology influence human development and social relationships.

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