“The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.”
―Andrew Bernstein
How often are we surrounded by stress and anxiety, especially in the modern era where a few minutes spent away from stress is a blessing? We wake up stressed. We work under stress and pressure. We eat stressfully. We even work out stressfully. We sleep and dream stressfully.
What is stress?
How do we identify various types of stress we are surrounded by?
Is there a way to deal with it?
Firstly, we have to reconnect with ourselves and make efforts to know our likes and dislikes just like we act when we start dating a new person. The ultimate aim is to know ourselves, our daily rituals, and activities in a more reflective manner where we would be able to make amends rather than being judgemental about the situations changing and us falling.
Once we have an overview of what we are, how we are, and how we want ourselves to be; we have to start taking little steps toward change. On the path of learning and becoming better, we will have to identify our cues and listen to our hearts, mind, and intuition to make our dream a reality.
Stress is like an octopus with eight limbs relative to different dimensions of our life i.e physical, intellectual, environmental, vocational, social, emotional, spiritual, and imaginary. Sometimes, something that happens in the external environment creates stress in our minds, and sometimes, it is self-generated.
For example, we argued with a family member and it ended but it stayed in our head for days even while we are doing other kinds of stuff in repeat mode playing every harsh word spoken with extra effects. As we are frozen with that person in a cell.
What we learn here is stress is never external. Circumstances and instances happening around may be external. But ultimately, our reactions physically, mentally, and emotionally decide our experience with it. It can be positive or stressful depending upon what state of mind we perceive it in. That is why positivity quotes make the headlines these days.
There are around 10,000 dominant thoughts that cross our minds. Now, if we learn to make most of them positive then, positive things start happening in our lives. We have to learn to identify the negative ones and change them immediately into positive ones.
As per the Law of Attraction, from The Secret Book by Rhonda Byrne, “Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency.”
So, if we are constantly engaged with negative thoughts then, we are calling for negativity in our lives. In other words, stress. Then, being under stress instead of shifting our frequency, we indulge in meddling with it and multiply its effects and attract more stressful situations.
The best way to deal with stress is to shake it off by doing physical activities like yoga, playing outdoor games, gym, and dancing to let the positive energy freely flow inside the body and then, focus on creating a healthy mind by practicing meditation.
The minute we create a positive body and mind, positivity will start flowing in our lives in abundance. This is one of the reasons we humans for centuries have a tradition of keeping things and animals that are considered lucky. They may or may not be beholding magical powers. But once associated with good luck, we feel lucky to have it and good things start happening.
Ultimately, it is not the golden fish, bamboo tree, or laughing buddha that brings good luck but our powerful thoughts
Stay with
Prerna 🙂
