What Is Your Toxic Stress Score?

Delve into your subconscious inner-life to see how you can easily cause levels of toxic stress equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes per day, 105 per week, 420 per month, 5,040 cigarettes per year

According to WHO and CDC, basically, 100% of people now suffer toxic stress...
Toxic stress cause SAADS: Shame - Anxiety - Addiction - Depression - Sickness...
75% of deaths are painfully premature (from chronic disease and suicide), toxic stress caused

Are you aware that your fingernails and toenails are growing right now? Are you aware that your hair is growing right now? How about your oxytocin, nervous and oxygen systems all functioning at lightning speeds inside you; are you aware of them? Are you aware 330 billion cells are being wonderfully and precisely replaced inside you right now today?

The truth is; the vast majority of what makes or breaks us on a moment-by-moment basis, we have no awareness of.

RICHARD LEE, PUUR FOUNDER

The 1st step to self-awareness is knowing how incredibly self-unaware we all are.

What are your toxic stress levels right now? What are the levels of the other brain-body toxins caused by toxic stress right now inside you? You have no idea. Yet, toxic stress...make or break your life more than any other neurobiological factor, as modern studies show.

So how can you monitor your levels of toxic stress moment-by-moment like how a seasoned airplane pilot monitors the diagnostics of the plane they're flying for the safety and pleasure of their passengers?

A: Become aware of the major and minor toxic stress...symptoms.

At PUUR, leveraging on modern social science, social neuroscience, relational clinical psychology, neurobiology and our 25 years as practitioners of both clinical and contemplative practices; we have identified Top 10 Major Relational/Behavioral Symptoms of Toxic Stress and Top 24 Minor Relational/Behavioral Symptoms of Toxic Stress.

Top 10 Major Toxic Stress Symptoms:

1. Disconnectedness/Numbness/Loneliness — the cause of toxic stress. As darkness is the lack of light; so disconnectedness...is the lack of connectedness. Connectedness is the feeling of being one with everyone, one with the world, psychological safety, wholeness...

It's the extraordinary energy we feel between one another which turns ON our wonderfully made, miraculous cleansing and care systems; like our oxytocin and mammalian systems. And the lack of connectedness/connection turns OFF these crucial life systems and raises our levels of toxic stress...dropping our resilience, energy and immunity.

Disconnectedness happens when we choose to not have daily, honest, open conversations about what we're feeling, our harsh inner shame-talk and our daily stressors — but instead, we choose the toxic behaviors of Hiding(s) in a futile effort to "cope" with daily stressors. Here are the Top 5 ways we hide from daily stressors and cut off crucial daily connection.

These five hidings are within the Top 10 Major Toxic Stress Symptoms as well:

2. Perfectionism: Pretending (Toxic positivity), people-pleasing, perfecting, proving

3. Numbing: The_____aholisms; work, food, pills, etc. Vulnerability/Truth Avoidant

4. Masking: Critical, cynical, intellectualizing emotions/feelings, chasing "cool"

5. Joykill: Suppressing feeling love, joy... Not taking healthy risks, always worrying

6. Shoving: Blaming, procrastinating, lying, self-isolating, pushing off accountability...

Again, as darkness is the lack of light; when we choose to hide from our stressors, we are also choosing disconnection; which causes feelings of disconnectedness/numbness/loneliness; which then raises toxic stress levels equivalent to smoking at least 15 cigarettes per day, 105 per week, 420 per month, 5,040 cigarettes per year, etc.

The above toxic cycles cause true trauma; which is ultimately at the neurobiological level.

Modern sociology shows everyone has suffered trauma; whether directly and/or passed through transgenerationally. Suffering trauma is a Common Humanity; the only question is to what degree is our true trauma (vs. perceived trauma).

So how can you uncover true trauma in yourself (and those you love and lead), and see to what degree? Discover the Top 4 major toxic relational behaviors true trauma causes. These 4 are also within the Top 10 Major Toxic Stress Symptoms:

7. Entitlement: the false belief that one is inherently deserving of special treatment, more than others. Believing "I deserve the best!!," just because.

8. Self-sufficiency Delusion: the fantasy that one has "unlimited power" and can do everything and anything.

9. Covetous: an eager, regular or excessive desire for wealth, possessions and worldly things. This, triggers envy.

10. Transgression: a desire and act going against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offense, especially morally.

To the degree we choose these top 4 toxic behaviors, is to the degree of our true neurobiological trauma.

Note: Toxic stress brain's large holes and lack of active orange neurons

A damaged brain causes relational...damage. What about you? How many of the Top 10 Major Toxic Stress Symptoms do you show? __________.

As well, choose a true friend who truly knows you and loves you enough to tell you the truth; ask them to count how many of these Top 10 toxic behaviors they see you do. And if you have not cultivated true friendships — that is the #1 warning sign ("Disconnectedness") that you have incurred true trauma and suffer toxic stress.

The 1st step to cleansing toxic stress...is embracing and speaking the truth.

LADY GAGA

I'm done with toxic positivity. You can't solve problems when you're lying to yourself.

By now we hope you have realized, the easiest way to diagnose toxic stress and true trauma in ourselves and others is to see how well we relate to The Truth, The Self and Others. This is called our, Relational Health.

Conclusive evidence from thousands of studies, including our world's top studies on happiness, health, wellbeing, longevity, and even financial success shows, our relational health (which causes connection/disconnection) is the best predictor (by far) of our life trajectory — in all categories of life.

Let's get even more granular to improve your ability to diagnose toxic stress and true trauma; which brings us to the Top 24 Minor Relational/Behavioral Toxic Stress...Symptoms. These are minor symptoms, but they cause catastrophic damages to every part of your daily life. Take the quiz here.

In closing, modern science and our own common sense now show, the most enlightened are not those who have the most information, but they are those with the right information leading to the right action of daily real conversations, which leads to the extraordinary energy of daily connection — the cleansing agent of toxic stress...

C.G. JUNG

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

So what is THE virus of our times? It's not Covid, it's toxic stress.

So here's to you for every PUUR you do, because nothing is better for our world than when we take the time to honor our wonderfully made selves by having honest, open conversations with one another.

What Is Your Toxic Stress Score?

Delve into your subconscious inner-life to see how you can easily cause levels of toxic stress equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes per day, 105 per week, 420 per month, 5,040 cigarettes per year

According to WHO and CDC, basically, 100% of people now suffer toxic stress...

Toxic stress cause SAADS: Shame - Anxiety - Addiction - Depression - Sickness...

75% of deaths are painfully premature (from chronic disease and suicide), toxic stress caused​

RICHARD LEE, PUUR FOUNDER

The 1st step to self-awareness is knowing how incredibly self-unaware we all are.

Top 10 Major Toxic Stress Symptoms:

Note: Toxic stress brain's large holes and lack of active orange neurons

LADY GAGA

I'm done with toxic positivity. You can't solve problems when you're lying to yourself.

By now we hope you have realized, the easiest way to diagnose toxic stress and true trauma in ourselves and others is to see how well we relate to The Truth, The Self and Others. This is called our, Relational Health.

C.G. JUNG

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

So what is THE virus of our times? It's not Covid, it's toxic stress. So here's to you for every PUUR you do, because nothing is better for our world than when we take the time to honor our wonderfully made selves by having honest, open conversations with one another.

PUUR

75% of deaths are painfully premature (from chronic disease and suicide), toxic stress caused

So what is THE virus of our times? It's not Covid, it's toxic stress.

So here's to you for every PUUR you do, because nothing is better for our world than when we take the time to honor our wonderfully made selves by having honest, open conversations with one another.