The previous article, Bridging the Gap (Parts
1,
2) was all about making a real and sustainable connection between your dreams and your reality. This article is all about dealing with the stress of doing so.
Now, this may come as a shock to you, but mental stress can be much harder on the body than physical stress, especially if it's sustained. It's true, and for a large part of the time we do it to ourselves, unconsciously.
There's already a lot of evidence out there proving the mind-body link is real and very important, it's just that in our hurry to Get Somewhere, to Make Things Happen and Get Things Done, we tend to forget that link. What happens then is we split our selves in two, Mind and Body, paying much more attention to the Mind (and what happens inside it) and treating the Body as just another object to take care of and control.
Don't just take my word for it, look at the statistics and news. Check around at your workplace and your own health and see for yourself how stress manifests itself, physically as well as mentally. Insomnia, weakened immune systems, back pain, the list goes on and on.