Do you want to relieve stress as you go about your day?
Whenever we receive bad news, come across a difficult person or experience disappointment we have a habitual way of reacting. Usually, our reaction doesn’t serve us very well. We tend to overreact, blow thing out of proportion and hone in on the negative stuff that we wind up dealing with one drama after another.
Often times, we simply lose sight of the bigger picture and we wind up sweating the small stuff.
Just as a small pebble tossed in a pond can cause an infinite ripple effect, so can the small little changes you make on how you respond to stress in your life.
Here are 3 very simple ways to relieve stress – to dial that stress notch down!
3 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress
1. Don’t Be an Advocate of Your Limitations!
You may not realize it but you are the biggest advocate of your limitations. You tell yourself “I can’t do that”, “I’ll never have enough money”, “I’ll never be thin again” or another hundreds of thousands of self defeating statements we make about yourself.
Let’s even take this one step further. Beyond the negative, self-defeating statements is your desire to be right! So, you organize around finding the proof that indeed you can’t do that. You can’t have enough money. You won’t ever be thin.
Let’s say you think you’ll never have a good relationship. You meet someone and he / she asks you out on a first date. Consciously, or unconsciously, you find a way to sabotage it. You’ll be late, you’ll judge him/her for even the tiniest infractions, you’ll start an argument … that was your first date and your last with that person.
Congrats! You’re right! You’ve proven that you can’t have a good relationship. And now you’re miserable because you’re lonely as hell!
When you advocate for your own limitations you will not be disappointed. You’ll be right almost every time. But, you’ll be miserable as a result.
So, stop needing to be right! Stop advocating your limitations!
2. Be Thankful for Something Everyday!
All emotions, thoughts and feelings are energy. They each have a specific vibrational frequency – shame vibrating at the lowest frequency, joy vibrating at one of the highest frequencies with gratitude right up there with it! So, in just a few split seconds you can be grateful for something and increase your vibrational frequency.
Don’t think you have anything to be grateful for? That’s hogwash! Everyone has something to be thankful for! How ’bout the fact that you’re breathing? Let’s start there. Then lets take a look at other things you can be grateful for. Family, friends, gurus in church, co-workers, neighbors …
Still a stretch?
How about the driver in front of you that let you merge into a long line of traffic or the person that let you go in front of them at the check out line? What about the someone that held the door open for you?
You can be grateful for so many things!
When you practice gratitude, you'll inevitably feel a sense of peace because they go hand in hand. Click To Tweet
So, when you wake up in the morning think of just 3 things you can be grateful for and start your day off with a boat load of positive energy!
3. Don’t be Neurotic!
I’ve had so many clients that blow things out of proportion and everything is a “life or death” situation. They believe they have to work 60 hours a week to get the job done, the house has to be spotless in order to have anyone over, the garage has to be organized … all of this is neurotic behavior! Perhaps you are doing this as well?
When you’re neurotic and treating everything as if it were “life or death” you are taking all of the fun out of life! I would even argue that you ” get off” on the pressure you put on yourself. It validates your existence and might make you feel important. In fact, where ever there is a lot of drama, there is usually a benefit – some negative pleasure – you get out of it. So where do you experience drama in your life?
So, drop the neurosis and chill out! Realize that work will be there in the morning. It’s not the end of the world if the dishes don’t get done or if the garage is a mess.
Relax. Breathe. Keep it all in perspective!
There you have it! 3 easy peasy ways to relieve stress, drop the drama and find some peace in your life! Simple strategies that are easy to implement. So, no excuses!
Big Hugs,
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