Hierarchy is a killer

[Observer1964]

Stress, Portrait of a Killer - Full Documentary (2008)

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[Lifebringer]

Thank you for the video. I was that stressed out single parent divorcee, and I lost hair, and built up plaque. Now I find myself feeling guilty when I just sit, meditate and relax, because others don't have it, they are in full swing, but I, have to be more careful. Just like this guy, I'm in my early 50's facing heart attack or stroke, if I don't.

I'm working on my bucket list now. Some things I've always wanted to do. I'm an artist, and writer in my own world, but in the work world, I was a historical renovation contractor in construction, carpenter, finisher, and painter as well as a Green education in soil rejuvenation and runoff. Also a phlebotomist, lab tech, exec personnel asst, and councilor or other's problems in the hood.

I long to be on one of the Grand Canyon cliffs with my telescope just before sunset, and see all there is to see. I've dabbled at a cave life with all the little things necessary to survive and travel with a Winnebago RV.

On the bucket list, and if I have to rent one for two weeks, I will be doing so, hopefully to one of the seminars/lectures/events, I see here. Bill has me interested in Equador, but it's one of Jeb Bush's drug stomping grounds.

[RunningDeer]

Thank you, Observer1964. I watched this when it first came out. Good to see it again. I concluded that to ‘turn the other cheek’ sent the wrong message to those addicted to 3D power. And for others, it's not worth my time, energy or space.

For people with time constraints, here’s a link to the same vid only it’s divided into 6 parts each under 10 minutes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efbJ5w803cg&list=PLB8CB64BBD779C742).

This “Stress Quiz (http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/stress-quiz.html)” was provided in the article below. I don’t agree with a couple of them:

People with the least amount of social interaction are likely to die sooner.
Your place in society or rank in hierarch to your overall health ranks high.


Killer Stress: National Geographic Special (http://www.pbs.org/programs/killer-stress/)

The stress response: in the beginning it saved our lives, making us run from predators and enabling us to take down prey. Today, human beings are turning on the same life-saving physical reaction to cope with 30-year mortgages, $4 a gallon gasoline, final exams, difficult bosses and even traffic jams — we can't seem to turn it off. So, we're constantly marinating in corrosive hormones triggered by the stress response.


Now, scientists are showing just how measurable — and dangerous — prolonged exposure to stress can be. Stanford University neurobiologist, MacArthur "genius" grant recipient, and renowned author Robert Sapolsky reveals new answers to why and how chronic stress is threatening our lives in Killer Stress, a National Geographic Special. The hour-long co-production of National Geographic Television and Stanford University was produced exclusively for public television.


In this revelatory film, discoveries occur in an extraordinary range of places, from baboon troops on the plains of East Africa to the office cubes of government bureaucrats in London to neuroscience labs at the nation's leading research universities. Groundbreaking research reveals surprising facts about the impact of stress on our bodies: how it can shrink our brains, add fat to our bellies and even unravel our chromosomes. Understanding how stress works can help us figure out ways to combat it and mitigate negative impacts on our health.

For over three decades, Robert Sapolsky has been working to advance our understanding of stress — in particular how our social standing (our place in various hierarchies) can make us more or less susceptible to the damaging effects of stress. Throughout the film, he weaves the grim realities of the impact of chronic stress with his wry observations about 21st century life. "The reality is I am unbelievably stressed and Type A and poorly coping," says Sapolsky. "Why else would I study this stuff 80 hours a week? No doubt everything I advise is going to lose all its credibility if I keel over dead from a heart attack in my early 50s. I'm not good at dealing with stress. But one thing that works to my advantage is I love my work. I love every aspect of it."


The film is based partly on Sapolsky's best-selling book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress, Disease and Coping. In addition to his professorship at Stanford, Sapolsky is a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research at the National Museum of Kenya. He is also the author of Monkeyluv, A Primate's Memoir and The Trouble with Testosterone, a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist.
Scientists from the University of North Carolina, the University of London, Rockefeller University and the University of California, San Francisco share their compelling insights into how stress impacts the body, giving stress a new relevance and urgency to our increasingly complex lives.

[Sophocles]

I guess this video belongs here:

Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)
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Great thread. Thanks!

[seah]

No intention to derail thread, but I understand hierarchical systems to be the foundation of lower frequency realms, this is why the concept of our fragmented selves through dimensions doesn't suit me. The Monad splintering off so as to further it's own evolution on the back of the afflictions of an amnesiac 3d self seems like a carbon copy of the dog eat dog world we are so familiar with.

Great videos. Thank you, all.