Stress is a part of life. Wouldn't you love
to have a button you could push to turn
off stress and an equally useful button to
turn on relaxation? Well, you can, by
simply acknowledging the triggers that set
you off and imagining the button that calms
you down. You can retrain yourself to push
the right buttons that allow you to relax and
feel at ease.
“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. ”
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. ”
If a problem can be solved, there is nothing to worry about. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.
It matters not whether you win the race or not but that you cross the finish line with a smile and a bit of a laugh.
Stress does not come from having too much on your plate. Stress comes from labeling too many of those things as very important.
Discussing religion, no matter how in depth the discussion, should never be confused with actually practicing that religion.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
Stress is an unstranformed opportunity for empowerment.
I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do The something that I can do.
If you’re starting a small business with your spouse, then remember the increased stress from work can easily carry over into your romantic relationship.
A personal assistant can alleviate stress in your life.
The values of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression. A few moments of desultory conversation...may calm an inner storm. But the storm, painful as it is, might have had some truth in it. So sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands. The reasons for depression are not so interesting as the way one handles it, simply to stay alive.
Things get very clear when you're cornered.
"We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment."
-Aaron Antonovsky,
Unraveling The Mystery of Health: How People Manage Stress and Stay Well.
I knew my mother was under too much stress when I asked her what's for dinner and she pulled out a revolver.
If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive. It is only when you realize that peace and happiness are available here in the present moment that you will be able to relax. In daily life, there is so much to do and so little time. You may feel pressured to run all the time. Just stop! Touch the ground of the present moment deeply, and you will touch real peace and joy. ~ Thich Nhat Hahn ~
To get to the root of stress we must change the way we look at it first.
~ Darina Stoyanova ~
It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
