Does the economy have you stressed out?

A few years ago, I got divorced, I quit my job, both my parents died, my daughter was fifteen going on thirty and I had to clean up a house full of the junk my parents had accumulated by living in a house for 50 years. I couldn’t sleep, my head constantly hurt, my cholesterol was 230 and I was 25 pounds overweight. My subconscious was running away with my mind and making me nearly crazy and to say the least, I was a real mess.

Now I should have known better because for the last thirty years I’d been studying how to improve my life and how to think positively but it didn’t change my reactions to the stress I was experiencing. I was not only stressed I was beginning to spin out of control.

Instead of sitting around feeling sorry for myself I began looking for information that could help me. That study led me to develop an e-course. The following is a small part of that course.

Developing Simple Stress Reducing Strategies

Since you can’t escape life’s stressors it’s important to develop some simple strategies that can help you to cope with it. Here are a few strategies that have worked for me. They should, with a little adaptation, work for you too. The first is…

Avoid stress infected individuals

Overly stressed people are infected with stress germs and they spread them around indiscriminately. Before you realize it, you’re infected!
If you know that Bob is stressed out because he’s getting a divorce stay away! If the economy is making Pete bite his fingernails and talk to himself, don’t get involved! If Susie’s boyfriend is going out on her, avoid her! Learn to protect yourself by recognizing stress signals from others and limit your contact. Or if you've got the inclination you can play stress doctor and teach them how to better manage themselves. But even when you try to avoid stressors you’ll still run into them. So you need to…

Adjust to the circumstances

We all run into problems that can’t be avoided. The trick is learning how to handle them in a way that doesn’t completely stress you out. When a situation stresses you out sit down and figure out what you could do differently the next time and then choose to respond that way. When you choose your response you are in charge of your circumstances instead of them being in charge of you. With careful examination you will probably find that this will mean changing the way you communicate with yourself and others. While you are adapting to life’s stressors remember…

It’s all feedback

Warren Buffet says he looks for opportunities in a down market. We can learn a lot from his example when we look for opportunities in our challenges. Like I mentioned above, a few years ago I was really challenged and I needed to do something about my stress and my life. So I decided to go back to my roots. I refocused my energy on training in Tai Chi and Chi Kung at least twice a day. These are two Chinese martial arts that help develop internal energy. I also began recording and listening to powerful hypnosis sessions I had developed over the last 30 years of study. Soon my stress level was coming back into control and so was my life.

Fast forward to today. A month ago I had a physical. My total cholesterol was 172 and my HDL’s (good cholesterol) was 42. My weight is now 171 pounds and I usually sleep soundly throughout the night except when my daughter is fighting with her mom.

The reason I tell you this is because the reason you’re reading this is because you are probably just like I was. With our economy many people are stressed out, not to mention relationships, traffic, having to stay in a job you don’t like, you name it we all have real reasons to be stressed out.

If you’re interested I have a free stress relief e-course that over 20 strategies you can put to use right away,