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Dear Friend,
Stress has become so common in our modern lives that people are beginning to accept it as the norm. The raw truth is quite troubling.Stress has been linked to hundreds of physical diseases including heart disease, high blood pressure, chest pain and strokes.
Stress has been linked to contribute towards, alcoholism, obesity, suicide, drug addiction, cigarette addiction, and other harmful behaviors.
Stress has been linked to mental problems such as, inability to concentrate, loss of self-confidence, irrational fear and frequent anger.
Stress is destroying people’s lives, killing their mental peace and hurting their health. It is major issue, and unfortunately many people face stress on a day-to-day basis.
I learned from a great role model a long time ago that we create every so-called illness in our body. Louise Hay in her book You Can Heal Your Life explains that resentment, criticism, and guilt are the most damaging patterns. If we get rid of stress in these other damaging patterns we can heal our lives and move toward positive change.
Below are 4 strategies that will help you not just combat stress but eventually teaching you to destroy it.
Step 1: Take Life by the Reigns
Stop sitting on the sideline and take control of your life. Accountability is the first step to change.
Stress is the by product of things we should have done or should do. Therefore try take the “should” out of your life and replace it with did and done.
If you are able to manage your life and keep complete control over all that you do, you will reduce stress and eventually destroy it from your life.
"Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life." -Marilu Henner
Step 2: Reboot Your Perspective
Stress is a mental disease. You can try whatever physical remedies you want but you have to eventually have to tackle this problem “mentally”.
Recognize the power only you have. You must change your thinking!
- Only you have the power to control your thoughts.
- Only you decide whether you are worried or not.
- Only you can truly determine what you need or want next
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James
Step 3: Face Opposition with Positive Thinking
Opposition is a normal part of life and you can’t live without ever experiencing it.
Therefore snap out of the “feeling sorry for yourself” attitude and tackle your opposition head on. Rather than quitting when it gets tough give yourself positive motivation and keep trudging forward. A day will come when you will realize that you were so caught up in removing the problem that you lost all the stress attached with it.
Just remember it all starts with positive thinking. These are some affirmation you can say to remind yourself when you face problems
- You can do this
- This isn’t hard
- I am stronger
Step 4: Don’t Rush
Life is a process. You can never simply go from point A to point B. This type of perspective of I have to do such and such is the root cause for stress. Try to break your tasks and problems down and don’t pressure yourself to go from start to finish.
You will find that with this quick change in outlook you will greatly increase your mental peace and will remove a lot of unnecessary burden from your head.
"Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way." -Douglas Pagels
“Once you begin to learn to love yourself, everything else your life will work out.”
-Louise Hay
Until Next time my friend!!!
Love and Blessing
Your Friend,
LeToya
LeToya White is the founder of The Light of Day, INC. a research center that develops personal development and life tools that help people overcome the adversity of life. If you have moved to a new city…don't know many people, don’t have any friends, are stuck in a rut, feel trapped, performance is trending low, lost your drive for life, or have insecurities please feel free to contact me at lightofdayinc@yahoo.com for a free consultation.
Things to think about, Life will always have challenges just remember this too shall pass. Your ultimate goals and objectives you have set out for your life resolves around your fears, anxiety or low self-confidence. Do you have a sense for which one of these may be causing the hiccups you mention? If so you have the first step to getting out of your rut.
Many of my clients respond to their problem with this statement, “Every time I say to myself I need to make a change, it always backfires and I end up going one step forward, 500 steps back.”
Do you feel this way, if so you are not alone!
The truth is when you get the feelings that your goals are impossible to reach, do you believe it has to do with the goals you have selected or with uncertainties/fears/negative challenges that impact your belief that you will get there?
When this happens you need to try harder to put yourself in situations that will create opportunity of change. Not only will doing something for change and the enjoyment of it help get out of your mental rut; it will give you a new opportunity to form relationships and friends… breaking down your fear boosting self confidence are all supported by the willingness to change.
I look forward from hearing from you!!!
Love and Blessing LeToya
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