What is the Real Cause of an Earthquake?
Eugeniia Gul • July 12, 2019
Hopefully, this blog post will inspire you, move you and make you motivated to contribute to this world in which we’re together!
Before fireworks, barbeque and celebration of 4th of July in southern California began, nature unleashed its vibrant blast of energy: an earthquake. Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault. This sudden release of energy causes the unstable waves that make the ground shake. If you believe that there’s no coincidence with God, you know that nothing happens suddenly.
Let’s come back for a moment to the holiday of the 4th of July, also known as Independence Day or July 4th. It has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1941, but the tradition of Independence Day celebrations go back to the American Revolution. According to historical records, on the 1st continental congress in 1774, before the opening weeks of the Congress, the delegates spoke to God - studying the Chapters of Bible and praying together. On July 2nd, 1776, the Continental Congress voted in favour of independence, and two days later, delegates from the 13 colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, a historic document drafted by Thomas Jefferson. From 1776 to the present day, July 4th has been celebrated as the birth of American Independence.
Don’t you find an earthquake as a symbolic gesture on the Independence Day of America? Don’t you think that it’s an evident sign that we’re doing something wrong on this Earth? Don’t you think that we take our Independence for granted along with the peaceful sky above?
The sceptics may say that Californians live in constant awareness of the possibility of an earthquake, but my blog is for broad-minded people, who’re able to think “outside the box”.
The latest earthquake was on Friday, the 5th of July and it was five times bigger and 11 times stronger than Thursday's (4th of July) 6.4 -magnitude earthquake. The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that rattled Southern California on Friday came one day after the strongest recorded quake there in 20 years had struck, which was on January 17, 1994 in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles. The earthquake killed more than 60 people, injuring more than 9,000, and causing widespread damage. Thousands of buildings were either destroyed outright, or declared unsafe to enter, and later demolished. (Source: The Atlantic, 'The Northridge Earthquake, 20 Years Ago Today', accessed on 07/07/2019).
Let’s analyze what happens to your body when you feel stressed
When your body is subjected to stress, it goes into fight-or-flight mode. Stress hormones flood your body and speed up your heart rate, blood pressure, and your breathing. When you’re having severe anxiety, it causes physical symptoms: like twitching, or shaking.
Believe me or not, but stress and an earthquake are interrelated between each other! Let me show you how: stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand or threat, the stress response is the body’s way of protecting you. When working properly, it helps you stay focused and energetic. In emergency situations, stress can save your life — giving you extra strength to protect yourself and makes you to rethink things in your life.
Earthquake considered as an emergency situation and there is no coincidence that it happened to us right now, in 2019 and in the USA. Working properly will help us to rethink life priorities, behaviour, the nation's relationship with other nations and relationship with God. If the US will do it, the rest of the world will follow (read about "Why America is Great Again and Again").
Did you catch the parallel of my thinking and my attitude to the earthquake? I hope so!
Let's Sum Up
Earthquake is not the best and not the most pleasant experience in the world, but this way Mother Nature and God speak to us. When a country stands back to God, God stands back from that country. When God drifts apart from the country, His blessings also disappear. God has spoken to us, humans through the earthquake (4th and 5th of July, 2019).
Isn’t it an amazing thing that the living God wants to speak to us? Doesn’t that absolutely blow your mind that God STILL wants to speak to us, humans who destroy almost everything in this world: the faith, the moral values, grace... Respond to the Holy Spirit. Go outside. Fellowship with others. God is ready and willing to speak to us after all we’ve done to the Mother Nature. We just need to be listening!
Now, let's just be the observers (catch your emotion and decide how to act next). Who do you see in the picture below?! I am assuming that you see a fast walking stylish woman who wears bright clothes (she is not afraid to be seen), holding a planner (you may think that she likes to plan and values her time. In the reality, it's her product, and she published it probably because she plans everything ahead). She SMILES, which makes you feel safe to say "Hi" and start the conversation. LOVEMARK RULE N1: Let your personality speak louder than the words about what you have to offer.
🌜I am a Ukrainian woman living in Los Angeles spreading my love, knowledge, and experience with others who are like me: want to be happy, and fulfilled… BUT it wasn’t always like this. 🌜I struggled for years with anxiety, suicidal thoughts, self-hate, and false belief of being unlovable, or lovable but CONDITIONALLY (my childhood was pretty f*cked up and I had to grow up fast). 🌜I established my 1st business at the age of 18 in Ukraine and made more money than I made in the USA in the first 2 years of immigration. I invested the money I made IN myself: I immigrated at the age of 21 to a foreign land where I knew nobody to obtain my Master's Degree. 🌜Before immigration, I'd been into emotional&physical abusive relationships with an alcohol addict (you attract what you think you deserve). 🌜For 23 years of my life, I was overcompensating my childish misery with labels, diplomas, money, and achievements. I had a dream to work in the UN just for the working title (it calls overcompensation).
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