Ways to Relieve Stress
No Matter Where You Are or What You Are Doing
Today you are going to learn quick and easy ways to relieve stress.
First, know that your body gives you tools you can use to overcome stress.
Second, your mind can be used to modify stress.
Third and most important, you don’t have to let stress become distressful. Stress is a normal part of living.
Stress is one of the places you can most see the mind-body relationship active. Because of that you can learn to both control and gain mastery over stress. To conquer your stress, it helps to understand how your mind and your body can best work together.
When thinking about stress you can see that stress has always been a part of life. From the earliest evolution of life, stress has been a reality of life. The stress that is created by the needs of human life for survival has existed since the dawn of time. The fulfillment of those needs fuels most of the stress today.
Educational Psychologist Abraham Maslow created a hierarchy of human needs that explains this relationship brilliantly.
The most basic of human needs are food, water, sleep and breathing. Fulfilling those needs for yourself and your family remain the primary causes of stress. Likewise the need for safety and shelter from the elements is a universal need. The failure to manifest those needs threatens survival and can cause stress.
Yet, once those steps of food and water, safety and shelter have been satisfied you can move onto needs over which you have more control. Those first two steps on the pyramid as identified by Maslow are so basically physiological that unless they are achieved they remain the primary needs.
However, even within these very basic needs are decisions and choices that can certainly affect how much you stress. In truth, it is the way you choose to fulfill those needs that create lots of stress. Therefore, discriminating between need and want becomes an important aspect of learning to manage your stress.
I do not wish to be naive or cavalier in considering this factor. Indeed, as the old folk saying reveals, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
So much stress is created by the failure to determine whether something is a need or want.
– Genevieve Gerard
Ponder on this statement.
Being proactive in your choices about the commitments you make is an important way to limit your stress, however; although that is about avoiding future stress. It is more important to find ways to relieve the stress that is challenging you today.
10 Ways To Relieve Stress
Here are some quick ways you can learn to use your mind-body relationship to release stress and be more relaxed and centered, that you can do anytime and anywhere when you start to feel stressed.
1. Learn From Your Lessons. Whatever choices you have made, mistakes or errors of judgment, evaluate them and then let them go. They are as of this moment, now in the past. Let them be in the past. You now have new decisions and choices that require your attention.
2. Let Go of The Past by taking a deep lung expanding bottomless breath as you exhale. This works as a subtle physiological factor that uses the important mind-body relationship to release and relieve your stress.
3. Forgive Yourself and open yourself to receive what the unlimited potential of life is bringing to you.
4. Forgive Anyone Else from whom you are estranged.
5. Say A Positive Affirmation with your whole heart, mind, and Soul. (You may wish to have some favorite pre-chosen for just this purpose.)
6. Consider Your Perspective, is there a shift you need to consider that will shift what you are thinking or feeling.
7. Ask yourself “Are My Expectations Realistic.” You are not perfect and you do not need to be perfect.
8. Monitor Your Thoughts, reframe, and re-write any “Stinking Thinking.” There is a positive side and a negative, side so it is up to you to decide.
9. Look Around You and find something for which you are grateful. Then express that gratitude deep into your heart and mind.
10. Free Your Emotions to find your centered calm. Let go of your hurts and your anger to let yourself clear away any negativity. Open yourself to what life is opening up before you that has never been before.
Highly Recommended For Stress Reduction:
Once a day give yourself the Gift of Relaxation. If you take the time each day to do a 10-15 minute meditation or visualization to let your body and your mind deeply relax you can move through your day more easily before the little things can accumulate and become a primary focus of your time and attention. This once a day helps to reset and re-establish a calm baseline.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.
That’s why they call it the present.”
– Eleanore Roosevelt
Open your heart and your mind to the incredible opportunity of life and celebrate the possibilities that are emerging, right here, right NOW. Life is an amazing adventure. Enjoy!
Namaste,
Genevieve
The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!
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Last updated 1-9-2018
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