Please…, Stop These Voices! Reduce Stress Through Self Discovery

Just when you thought you had everything under control, you still feel an underlying stress and you don’t know why. Could it be that you haven’t learned to quiet the loud voices that have sabotaged the discovery of your true self? For many people, stressful situations are quite obvious….

…if it’s not one thing, it’s another — the bills, the phone, the yelling kids, the crazy job, terrorism, natural disasters! You name it, we’re probably stressing over it. We’re all affected by stress in one form or another. It’s a natural part of life. Stress by itself is not damaging, in fact it can be a very helpful condition – and helps keep us alive through our “fight or flight” response – both today and in our collective past. Where stress does cause problems is when our bodies remain in that stressed-out state, without release, for long periods of time. Some, it seems, are in a perpetual state of stress and worry. Fighting Stress Requires a Radical Change in Thinking Our best defense against stress is a change in our way of thinking – and in turn, a likely change of lifestyle. For example, if you’re constantly in a state of stress and anxiety over money matters, stop and consider your relationship with money. What do you really need to live? For many people with this type of worry, enough is never enough. No matter what you have, you feel that happiness will only come when you have more. This type of thinking will doom you to a constant state of anxiety over money and you will miss your life while chasing your mind’s version of a future happiness.

Of course, this doesn’t mean you should have no financial goals, but rather that you learn to enjoy the adventure of building your business, saving your money, or whatever your money goals may be. The same goes for relationships and your job too. So much of what we do and think is automatic. In other words, we tend to base our thoughts and decisions on our programming – either through past experience, culture, upbringing, etc. So instead of making decisions by carefully considering the facts, or even through intuition – we just tap into our handy “life-decision” program – an viola – there’s your answer. You might be saying…., “so what’s this have to do with stress?” Well, in my view, a lot. You see, when we rely on our programmed responses to determine every choice we make in life, we completely neglect and ignore our true selves. That type of long term neglect of self will cause a serious underlying stress in your life. You may not even know that’s what it is – but your life will likely feel dull, with no direction and little that makes you feel “good”. You’ll have a kind of baseline stress of a life unfulfilled. In my view, that’s the feeling of someone not being true to one’s self. There inside of each one of us is our natural self. The essence of our being. The pure energy that was us before the years of “education”, cultural learning and our family upbringing. That voice way down inside there will tell you exactly who you are and what will bring you a sense of peace and happiness. Now, remember, that voice is not talking to you in English, or whatever language you happen to have rolling around in your brain. It’s communicating with you on an entirely different level that is way beyond language. The challenge is to find and decipher what that “small” voice is trying to communicate.