In their efforts to create a working and living environment for the masses, the authorities over the years have create a “Comfort Zone Society”. This is much the same as the “Comfort Zone Church”. This was all put into place after the Industrial Revolution.
One of the reason’s for trauma, mental illness and struggles these days is that like anyone brought up in a Comfort Zone he or she struggles to cope in the adult world, and this leads to drug, sex and alcohol abuses/addictions and many others, also coping and mental issues.
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In days of old, a few hundred years back and further back, there was no ambulance service, no hospitals as we know them today, and when disaster took place the whole townsfolk were active in helping out. Today that only really happens in floods etc.
In a fire situation everyone manned buckets and the towns people got together the next day and all helped out the stricken family and would feed, clothe and look after them and even build them new living quarters for no cost. None of this required any money at all, it was for the love of a friend that they helped each other out.
If there was an accident in the bush just out of town all the townsfolk would take part in the rescue, and they all got to see the gory details from a young age.
I saw my first funeral at around 21years old, my parents didn’t think it wise that I experience it earlier (Although they didn’t seem to worry about us seeing their drug abuse, parties and other things which mentally troubled us for many years).
A Comfort Zone Society wraps us all in cotton wood and protects us from the “unpleasant facts of life”. But the harsh results are the horror when tragedy comes into our lives and we deeply struggle to cope.
Because we are kept away from these things when they come into our life abruptly, like a car accident. we tend to struggle to cope with the horror of the events and the after affects for many years to come. In days of old we would have seen many accidents etc and were able not only to cope with the situation when it happened but we would have got on with life not long after the accident because it was a fact of life that we were used to.
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The first funeral I went to at 21 hit me very hard. Years later I read that the original Christians didn’t fear death, and the accepted death and celebrated the dead persons life, the memories, and the lessons learned, and they celebrated this person going on from this life to be with God etc. It was a happy occasion, not something to stress over as we do these days, this is the total opposite of how we react today. Sure they would miss the dead person, but they would go on comfortable in their years with the memories of the dead person, and in knowing that one day we would all be together anyway.
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The same is for mental health issues. Back in days of old the wife and husband were very close, no TV, radio, parties, and interfering friends and family (It was accepted that the parents of the married couple and friends back off when they married and honoured them by letting them get on with their marriage their own way), and they shared all their innermost thoughts and feelings, they also healed each other from past trauma and baggage. In doing this they created between them a sincere loving lifetime bond.
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Today the mental health system does this for people or they are put on chemicals etc.
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This Comfort Zone Society protects us from what is real most of our lives and then when we are forced to come up to hard times we struggle to cope.
We are isolated to real life in many ways, encouraged to work, get loans, buy buy buy, and be an active member in the Comfort Zone Society, and we pay dearly for this false living environment that we work to live in.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
Originally posted on the 9th of August 2017.