12/02/2024
Being stressed is very easy and almost in fashion in our life time. There are so many stressors all around, and for me specifically, it's the feeling of being overwhelmed with the daily responsibilities, and if I'm not well organised, with no -care time at all...Enough to turn and twist my thoughts and slip into a stress producing, self-damaging mental machine.
Here are 3 ways which help me quickly get out of stress, before it becomes changing how I see my life, the world and myself:
☘1. I remind myself that it's not the situation/experience that is causing stress but my perception of it. SHIFTING PERCEPTION is what I do next.
☘2. I ensure nonreactivy but rather I respond from a deeper inner perspective. To STOP the reaction before it happens, I litreally need to stop! I take 2 min to do a short breathwork and while it calms me down, it helps me to catch an emotional objectivism of the situation. This strenghtens my ability to shift how I perceive what's happening.
☘3. I drop judgment and I reach for gratitude, to elevate my energy to a higher level (stress drags it down). I say to myself: "I appreciate this suffering experience as this is an opportunity to practice my inner strength."
When my 4 year old son is screeming in the morning that he doesn't want to get dressed and go to preschool because he wants to play at home, while we have 10 min to leave the house, I can get really stressed and angry, shouting that he must dress now (happened before and things get worse) or I can STOP, breathe, and instead overreacting, I can see this as an opportunity to connect with him. I turn my understanding on, look through his eyes. We play together while I find a way to incorporate getting dressed and leaving the house into the play. Instead of tears and anger, we have joy, love and a desited result.
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