LIFE IS NOT ABOUT WAITING FOR THE STORMS TO PASSIt’s about learning how to dance in the rain.In this article you will find solutions to stress and if you do everything this article contains you will be successful.
Most of us have to face stressful times if not infrequently then very frequently in our lives.
Some of us are fortunate to have happy, relaxed cool personalities while others of us seem to find life difficult to handle being uptight, hurrying and stressed out a lot of the time. Everyone is different. It’s easy for the cool man cool person who chills around the place most of the time but unfortunately life doesn’t happen like that for the majority of people. The rest of us get stuck into life, work, family, commuting, situations, relationships etc and can if not careful end up on the sick list under the pressure. Most of us are not born with the natural ability to chill.
It’s a recognized fact to day by health practitioners of all kinds and also by the medical fraternity that heart problems can be attributed to stress. I know, this is where I found myself after a lifetime of taking care of and honoring my body. I could not believe that I was the one who had such a result after all that I had done over my entire adult lifetime.
I know from my own personal experiences that stress can get at you even when you are totally unaware that it even exists in your life. It’s a sneaky furtive enemy that creeps up on you and can strike unaware showing up in a variety of illnesses and diseases even though you can be quite health conscious by not abusing your body in the variety of ways most people do.
Stress can get you if you do not smoke, drink at all, have plenty of sleep, eat good quality foods, even when you do great things like taking good supplements and minerals, eating only whole grain breads, plenty of veges and fruits as I always have. Stress doesn’t care, it will override your best efforts.
So what do we do about it?
If you are like me you will want an answer, a solution.
It took me a few months but I finally found my answers and these are what I am sharing in this article.
The secrets I uncovered are in the lines at the beginning of this article.
We need to learn how to dance in the rain.
How do we learn to dance and sing when out whole world is apparently tumbling down, and falling apart?
For me my world tumbling down was financial pressure, the end of a dream, the closing up of my life.
I am a farmer, have been all my life. Drought had devastated my families farming future, had taken away our ability to earn an income, our dream, our vision, the excitement of being alive. Almost all our cows and heifers were gone, sold before we saw them starve.
I learned to detach from being able to grow the things that I loved the most, green grass, crops for livestock, beautiful fat calves and lambs. I lost control of our animals feed and therefore lost control of our future. It was taken away from me and over the 6-7 years my health slowly deteriorated until I was rushed to hospital one night frightened for my life with a heart that was doing crazy and weird things.
I had nowhere to turn as I already was health conscious; I was already doing the right thing by my body. I am also a Christian and had already turned toward Gods ways many many years before all of this. Even my faith in his healing power did not help me prevent this happening.
What I did know was that there was an answer. That was one thing I was sure of. It’s simply the way things were created, there’s an answer for every challenge.
I found mine.
"Without a Vision the People Perish".
"A Merry Heart does good like a Medicine".When the stresses of life get you down you need to get happy. It’s as simple as that. You need to get excited about your future, enjoy your present and radiate peace and happiness out from you.
Is that easy to do when your world has crashed around your ears? NO not easy, but it is possible.
Here are some things to do and to set into your subconscious to help you get started on your new and exciting journey into happiness.
1.DECIDE: Happiness is not a feeling; it’s a choice of your will. Decide to be happy. Make your decision stand. Do not allow unhappy thoughts more than 1 minute then replace them with a happy thought.
A quote from the Good Book.
“Whatsoever things are lovely, think on these things”
It’s up to you. Your success depends upon you and no one else.
2. SING, at the top of your voice, and often. The more the better. Be sensible with your choice of song and the words. Only happy uplifting or beautiful songs should be chosen. Remember you are what you eat (or sing/speak). A great song I find uplifting is “Joy is a Flag flown High from the Castle of my Heart”
3. DANCE DAILY; even people in wheelchairs can dance. If the legs won’t work the body, head and arms maybe can. Just dance.
4. LAUGH. “Laughter is the best medicine” Everyone today must have heard how beneficial and healing laughter is. The good news is that according to Dr Linda Mintle (USA) even if your laughter is fake it still works. Just laugh anyway.
5. GOALS: Get your vision back or if you do not have a vision get one. Without goals to strive toward we perish. It’s that simple. Goals are to be written down, in a safe place, and reviewed from time to time to keep them up to date. Do short term goals, medium term goals and long term goals. 1 week, 1month, 1 year, 5 years. Write them down.
As you achieve your goals tick them off and celebrate, reward yourself.
If you do not achieve a goal in the allotted time span then just move your goal posts out a little further until you do achieve your goal. Give yourself some space and give yourself a treat when you do achieve that goal.
Be sensible and wise with your goals. Do not set unachievable goals, this will only disappoint you and self destruct your good work.
6. SLEEP; Without sufficient sleep it’s well recognized by all kinds of health and medical practitioners that our brains and bodies do not function correctly.
Being tired and in a low function mode it’s reasonable to assume that our joy and our ability to be happy suffer.
Tired is stress. Unhappy is stress. Negative thinking is stress.
Restful sleep can be one of the things we can do to help ourselves.
Dr Lorraine Day MD says that the healing hormones are activated between approx 10.00 pm and 2.00 am so we need to be asleep for these hormones to do their work.
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My e-mail is riverbend@activ8.net.au
