Get a grip
When you are doing nothing, feeling nothing, finding yourself at your wit’s end, and snapping at anyone or anything that comes your way, it is time to get a grip on yourself.Be aware
Stress can come from pressure (internal and external), fear, guilt, anxiety, etc. Most people believe they are operating normally, acting out their life as though stress is an ordinary part of it.
But living on stress regularly, if unmanaged, can sooner or later take its heavy toll on your health and eventually compromise your lifestyle. So, if you want to know where you are, take this simple test.
Your self-discovery must take into account the stress level under which you operate. Look inside yourself. Consider the following stress-inducing situations to assess your stress levels.
1. Are you feeling inadequate at work?2. Are you feeling inadequate in your love life?3. Do you compare yourself unfavorably with your peers?4. Are you dissatisfied with your marriage?5. Are you having cash flow problems?6. Are you in danger of losing your job?7. Are you feeling bored?8. Are you desperately afraid of something?9. Have you made a promise you cannot fulfill?10. Do you feel stuck in a stress cycle?
Dissect the causes of stress in your life and you will come to recognize your level of stress tolerance. Different people have different levels of tolerance.
The causes of all stress can be grouped into three:
1. People in your work, or none.2. External life-changing events.3. Lifestyle-related issues that cause you to be psychologically pressured.
Take charge
Coping with pressure may not be easy but it can be done.
Here are six sure ways:
1. Try to slow down. Whatever your pace, slow things down a notch or two. If you operate on fifth gear, then take it down to third gear. This you can do by promising yourself—not your doctor, husband/wife or children, but yourself.2. Try to calm your mind. Practice slow breathing.3. List down all the positives in your life. Do not dwell on the negatives.4. Stop telling yourself you are superman or superwoman. Everyone has a limit. In short, do not make yourself the dumping ground of everyone’s problem. You cannot solve it for them. At least, not all the time.5. Take a class in yoga.6. Create powerful affirmations in your life.
Affirm
To affirm means to say “yes” to life. So grant yourself permission now. Do not hold yourself back.
Instead, say to yourself the following:
“I am loved, respected, wealthy, successful, happy, joyful, fulfilled, centered, sexy, healthy…”
Relax now
1. Close your eyes. Squint them tightly. Release. Open your eyes. Inhale.2. Open your mouth wide. Then form an O. Say, “oh.” Say “ah.” Exhale.3. Place your palms flat against the wall. As hard as you can, push. Release your inner pain/pressure. Then take your arms off the wall.4. Lie on your back. Hug a pillow.5. Form a fetal position. Visualize yourself in your mother’s womb. Remember how loved you were then.6. Stretch your arms as wide as you can as though hugging a giant tree. Then say: “I am ready to embrace life now.”
Love and light!
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