Send that Blasted Monkey Home!
The Holidays are over, the stress of the perfect gift, 10 Holiday parties to attend in a single weekend, decorating, putting decorations away, and just general over stressing is over. It is time to take a deep breath and begin working on easing the stress from within ourselves.
We've covered that stress is a complex response in our body, that it causes many hormonal changes, and can slow the metabolism & cause fat content to increase.
Stress won't go away... until ya die... so ya might as well embrace it and begin compensating for it.
If we remain in this state for a prolonged period of time due to chronic stress our health becomes at risk. Aside from a host of other dangers, chronic health stress also causes weight gain.
How do we send that Monkey Home???
Begin looking for ways to eliminate stress. Will it matter a year, 5 years, 10 years from now?
My mother used to drive us out to a rural area, roll down the windows and we would scream as loud as we could to release the stress.
My father would wait until there was a sheet of ice or a snow fall and we would go do donuts in the large, EMPTY, church parking lot.
Research shows that even 30 seconds a day of meditation, quiet reflection, can have a significant impact on our health! Lock your self in the bathroom and choose a mantra to repeat to yourself.
If you look for nothing but the bad things in life, that is all you will ever find and you will continue to be stressed OUT! Look for one tiny good thing...then another...and another. If you hate your job, and they are paying you... isn't the fact that you are being paid a positive? :)
Laugh it off! Look for silly things to laugh at, NOT people...(unless they are clowns) things.
This week, choose one of your main stress causing events, decide if it is really worth all the pain and suffering you are allowing it to cause, add some B Complex to your diet, and breathe. Count to 10 as you breathe in, then count to 10 as you breathe out for 5-10 times. Close your eyes and imagine paradise - even if it's doing donuts in the church parking lot!
If you've got the Drive,
we've got the Vehicle!
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