Recently a colleague made the remark that she was hard-lined because she does not allow her emotions to run her life. She feels that that is why her life is so focused. She does not allow family, friends or others to negatively affect her. Goal-oriented and focused, right? Maybe, Survive The End Days but, sadly, she also suffers from high blood pressure and other feelings of lethargy because she does not allow herself to really feel her emotions. When we do not allow ourselves to feel our natural emotions it festers within our bodies and then our bodies turn against us.

Real living requires us to feel all our emotions. Anger, pain, hurt, disappointments, sadness and empathy are all emotions that are okay to feel. Denying our feelings is part of our need to survive. We may have had previous experiences where giving in to our feelings have resulted in immense pain. Or we may have lived a life where we had to do what we had to do to survive. To survive we have to be void of emotions. Think of a hunter striving for survival in a jungle or a soldier doing battle. Feeling fear of any kind will get them killed so they suppress it and are able to survive in the jungle and on the battlefield. That kind of survival mode is not necessary in real life. However, due to the many disappointments or expectations that we possess our lives become a battlefield and we go into survival mode. For every let down we have experienced from our parents, for every broken-heart that we experience and for every betrayal that we go through we feel that to depend on others is a sure way to be disappointed. What do we do? We develop an impenetrable armour and we arm ourselves with a sword, helmet and protective body gear and we prepare ourselves for battle. But, in all honestly, who are we really battling? Who is the enemy?

Going into survival mode is not often a conscious choice. Individuals who live their life in survival mode are oftentimes filled with bitterness, resentment and anger. It's not just that they haven't healed themselves of past hurts. Rather individuals tend to automatically go into survival mode subconsciously after experiencing childhood pain that was inflicted on them. They bring it over into their adult lives as a way of protecting themselves. However, while a person may have automatically been thrown into http://nomorefakereviews.ning.com/articles/nathan-shepard-s-survive-the-end-days-book-review survival mode there are variables that will trigger their survival mode. It is the kill or be killed mode. While it may be literal for some it is the figurative mode that is being referred to here. For example an individual can live in a dormant survival mode for a long time until provoked or they experience a trauma or other life-threatening situation. An individual in survival mode will attack violently either through manipulative techniques, extreme boiling anger that will spill out on either the nearest person or on the person who inflicted the pain.