Manage your stress like this! You won't go back. 🙌
Google search ‘how to manage stress’ and you get the typical answers...
Get plenty of sleep
Eat energy-producing foods
Yoga and meditation
Be active and get outside
Limit alcohol, tobacco, and other ‘numbing’ habits
Duh.
We all know this stuff is good for managing stress.
There are plenty of people who have a great handle on these stress management and well-being tools and there are people who don’t.
What can they still have in common?
Stress.
Having stress management tools are great. I’m all for it. But what happens after you leave the yoga class? When you digest your healthy vegan sandwich? Or the high you got from your 3,000 feet elevation gain hike has worn off?
Or hell, what can happen in the middle of actually doing these things?
Stress.
Stressful thinking to be exact. You know…
Thinking about everything you have to do and how you’re going to get it done.
Thinking about everything you're tolerating, like the difficult conversation you’ve put off having with your co-worker for months.
Thinking about how you suck at Yoga compared to everyone else in class.
Thinking about what people are thinking about you, if you’re doing a good enough job, or why you’re not further ahead like everyone else.
Why? Because stress starts in your mind with your thoughts.
Stressful thoughts lead to you feeling stressed and this leads to you experiencing physiological ‘stress’ responses in your body. You, me, and every one operates this way. It’s universal.
And where’s this lead? To more stress and more trying hard to practice stress management and well-being tools.
Ahhhhh! Isn’t this the definition of insanity?
So what really works? Learning how to manage your mind, not stress.
Managing your mind guarantees you live life with:
More joy.
More inner-peace and confidence.
More productivity.
Thinking on purpose and learning how to have more useful, productive, and action-oriented thoughts (which is very different than just 'positive' thinking) keeps you moving forward and grounded in any situation.
And if the typical stress management tools have eluded you, you may even find that you choose to start doing these activities on purpose and just for the fun of it :)
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