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Stress Control:
Willpower
Stress control is a matter of a do or die attitude of hope and willpower. Hope is Key Hope doesn’t expect that things will succeed. Instead, it sees all the obstacles, all the threats, all the chances of failure. And through all that doubt, it sees a road to survival. Without hope you’re nowhere. You can’t go on. With hope, you have a chance.
Stress Can Scare You To Death
Even a healthy heart can be overwhelmed by adrenaline and simply stop beating, but only if you believe there’s no hope for survival, say Dr. Robert Eliot of Toronto’s Canadian Stress Institute and Dr. Ichiro Kawachi of Harvard.The spirit of hope can make or break you. Extreme danger releases maximal adrenaline which needs to burn off its tremendous energy through fight or flight. Hope – the belief that you have a fighting chance – focuses your adrenaline’s superhuman strength on saving your life. A crisis is hopeless only if you give up hope. Hope gives you a fighting chance.
SHEER WILLPOWER
An ordinary human can conquer a crisis and be superhuman through sheer willpower, as was Tracy Deel, a 32-year-old X-ray technician abducted late one night outside her Texas apartment by two armed robbers and taken to a field. They ordered her to her knees. She refused to bow to them.That's when he pulled the trigger. The first one hit her in the eye and the lights went out. The second one hit her in the mouth and she swallowed gushing blood. 15 bullets pierced her body. She passed out, but soon came to, alone, saw a light and began stumbling toward it. Rather than giving up and bleeding to death, she forced herself to stagger 950 feet to the light, refusing to die without giving her all. Each time she fell, she cursed herself to get up and live.
What to Expect
Not all severe injuries are overwhelmingly debilitating or inevitably fatal. Oftentimes, your hope, belief, and willpower make the difference between life and death. Expect to be afraid, expect to be hurt, but expect to survive nevertheless.If you're a victim of a violent crime, obviously, you'll probably get hurt. But don't let that freeze you up – adrenaline lessens your pain a bit, and you're distracted anyway when you're fighting back. Ignoring your injuries is necessary to survive.
Her Will To Live Was Stronger Than His
Gerald A. Lee came to her Atlanta-area house with a shotgun and wearing a ski mask. He beat and raped her. But when he threatened to rape her 6-year-old daughter, she grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed him. He stabbed her. They fought a back-and-forth, do-or-die battle. When it was over, the rapist lay dead in the yard. The heroic woman was stabbed 25 times. Her daughter, though, was safe. "It's amazing," police said. "Her will to live was stronger than his."
Fear Control & Crime Prevention Tips
Stress Control gives you insight into your mind – and the stark realities of fighting for your life:
• Stress Control - Overview seizing courage for surviving a crisis.
• Fear Itself: the fine lines between fear, panic, and courage.
• Willpower and hope (YOU’RE NOW ON THIS PAGE): a crisis is hopeless only if you give up hope and the will to survive.
• Punched: absorbing and overcoming pain.
• Wounded: rising above injury.
• Courage: choosing to prevail.
• Acting: role-playing for real.
• Optimal Mindset: psyching yourself to fight for your life.
• Recap of Stress Control.
• Fighting Options - Overview
Enhancing Your Options
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