The functions of the body to survive can be broken down to two basic functions for any organism to survive:
You have to be able to grow, maintain yourself, take care of your biology, but you also must be able to protect yourself.
So that, if you’re just growing but you can’t protect yourself you become food for something else.
So, survival involves a balance between growth and protection.
You can’t be in growth and in protection at the same time.
So the significance is… when we see a need of protection the stress hormones in the body shut off the blood vessels in our viscera or gut which is the part of the body for growth.
Well the issue is, if you took the blood from the viscera and moved it out to the arms, then you left no blood in the viscera, that means, no growth. But you’re ready to fight.
And when your fighting is finished your blood returns back to the viscera and you grow again.
But in the world that we live in today it’s 24/7 fear.
So we have a continuous dripping of that stress hormone into the body.
It’s just dripping all the time, getting us ready to run or fight or flight at any moment…
We’re ready to go… because we’re on guard.
Well the problem is, what does that mean about your allocation of energy?
And it says we’re spending most of our energy on protection.
You cannot survive if you’re in protection all the time.
:: Bruce Lipton
