Stress-Busting Tip #
Stress…during the “most wonderful times of the year”? If you are one of the “medicated ones,” I salute you! (haha). For the rest of you, here are 3 helpful tips that will help you survive and, maybe, look cool all the way until the day after New Year’s!
Resolve right now to release every thought from yesterday and be only mindful of the now…. this thought only…this breath…this moment. Take in three very deep breaths and slowly release each one. This is a form of self-therapy of the Cognitive Behavioral kind 😉
At the same time feel each and every concern, each and every problem, and each and every unresolved moment, begin to dissolve. You can deal with them at a later time. For now, you are only to be in this very moment.
Practice this quiet and calm each day and you will see that you will accomplish so much more. At the first sign of being stressed, go back to this mindful, quiet place and start all over again until you have reached your inner place of calm.
Now go to your inner quiet place. Go deep inside YOURSELF to a place where you feel that you are at peace and then just relax and breathe in deeply and enjoy the feeling of being at one and at peace within yourself.
Step-Busting Tip # 2
YOUR INNER PEACE DOES NOT DEPEND ON EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES!!!!!
Next, think of one particular act you enjoy and quiet your mind until a sense of calm envelops you…your own SECRET PLACE within! A GREAT practice is reading the Scriptures!!! Read and allow PICTURES of God’s goodness to flood your mind!! The book of Psalms is this author’s recommendation! Psalms 121, 91, & 23 are amazing!!
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:4-6.
Stress-Busting Tip #3
Don’t set yourself up for additional stress!
Limit the amount of salt, sugar, caffeine, and alcohol in your diet. With Halloween goodies still lurking in the house…we have a headstart on sugar overload!
This is the REAL trick of “trick or treat” and we fall for it! On to Thanksgiving – we are more stuffed than that turkey! Christmas brings more of the same, and MANY FAMILIES I know, go and eat that huge meal at 5 or more gatherings!!!!!!
It is not over…New Year’s Day is built around food tradition too!!! This feasting season lasts from October 31st until January 1st!!! That amounts to roughly 2 whole months of feasting out of the 12! And if we do not manage to get that unending cycle of sugar-laden foods broken, Valentine’s Day is just ahead! Watch that FOOD intake! Get SLEEP!
HOW TO USE OUR KNOWLEDGE!!!!
In order to get through this STRESS-free and maybe LOSE weight 😁, GO BACK TO Step-Busting Tip # 2 !!! That SECRET PLACE!!! We have been practicing this at home –
😁 NOW – let’s TAKE IT TO THE STREETS!! That PEACE and discipline we have developed in the Secret Place just might (it will!!!) get us through this, and we will be locked and loaded to deal with Valentine’s Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EMBRACING OUR MOMENTS 