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Monday, February 27, 2012
Keys to Successful Living and Stress Management – Part 1
Thursday, August 6, 2009
5 tips to stop stressful eating
Getting my body back - Day 105
Whether workplace, family or financial, we may face many different stressful situations. Learning how to handle these situations effectively keeps us from falling into the trap of stressful eating.
How to stop stressful eating
1) Decision
Making a conscious decision beforehand to see situations and react to them differently short-circuits the impact of stress when confronted with it. For example, if someone said something to you that would normally cause you to 'fly off the handle', choose to respond differently. "You know what? I'm not going there with you. I'm staying in my place of peace." Choose the best way to divert the effect of stress on you, whether you choose to say it out loud or to yourself is your decision.
2) Visualization
Visualizing the outcome of a situation shifts your emotions from negative feelings to positive ones in order to attract the manifestation of the desired outcome. For example, if you're in a financial situation, see your issue as resolved and feel the feelings you would feel when the desired results manifest itself.
3) Shift your perspective on the situation
Changing your perspective on a situation changes your entire emotional state - from frustration to joy depending on how you decided to see the situation.
4) Avoid the impact of stress
Monitor your inner feelings and consciously connect with a place of peace. When you feel like you are irritated, angered, frustrated, look within for the place of peace and allow it to fill your mind relieving you of tension.
5) Deal with it from a heart of love
React from a heart of love. Many times we see the offender as an enemy but if we see him/her as part of us our reactions are different.
When we change our own hearts and enhance our personal growth, we begin to move away from reacting to stressful situations in the old manner and take on a different viewpoint of life which helps us to stop eating out of stress. Instead of reaching for food to pacify the stress, we avoid the negative emotion which leads us into the stress in the first place.
Fuelling words: I choose to see situations from a different perspective and quickly make a mental shift to react to stressful issues out of the heart of love.
Workout: walking, endurance exercise, weight lifting
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
4 tips to overcoming psychological effects of guilt
Have you ever felt guilty when you made a decision to achieve a goal and you fell off track? Perhaps you decided to quit smoking, was doing well for some time, then you became stressed out and lit up again. Or you loved the way you felt and looked at 120 lbs and decided to set that as your ideal weight goal but you got depressed and began to eat foods that did not contribute to your success.
As a result of falling off track you felt guilty which led to more stress, more depression which increased the urge to smoke or eat the wrong type of foods that set you back from gaining the results you initially set out to achieve.
Here are some tips to avoid the psychological effects of guilt:
1) Prevention is better than cure.
By identifying situations that contribute to stress or depression, you could prepare yourself mentally to handle these situations differently. When you see these patterns occurring prepare to change your perspective on the situation or physically move from the event. When you have prepared yourself for any encounter you are better capable of handling it more effectively.
2) Quickly bounce back
If you are overcome by stress or depression, recognize the feeling and quickly shift your mental thinking to invite peace of mind to eliminate stress and joy to replace depression. Whenever I feel feelings of depression trying to descend on me like a heavy weight on my shoulders, instead of waiting for it to flood my emotions, I immediately look within to the joy that lies in my inner being. Other times I ask the Spirit to lift me up if I feel I am becoming overwhelmed and unable to bounce back quickly. Know that you have help every step of the way.
3) Encourage yourself
Okay, you know what? I have fallen off track here, but as long as I have life and breath I can get back on track and keep going. I can do this. Being your own cheer leader gives you the extra boost necessary to keep moving forward. I messed up here, but I can learn from this and use it to my advantage. Shifting from guilt to encouragement empowers you to rise up again with renewed strength and vigour.
4) Set new strategies for yourself
Use the feelings of guilt to your advantage. Okay, you fell off track. Use the opportunity to learn about you. Face the guilt, be honest with yourself about the deeper issues you are facing, analyze yourself (What was it that made me do what I did? What other feelings contributed to this?) and rethink your strategy to getting you through to achieving your goal.
These 4 steps are some strategies you can use to help you overcome the psychological effects of guilt.
Fuelling words: I prepare my mind to keep me on track and if I mess up, I quickly bounce back knowing that I can accomplish whatever I set my mind and heart to achieve.
Workout: walking, weight lifting
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Feeling stressed?
During your daily activities, you may face many stressful situations. You may never be able to control what comes your way or how people may react to you, but you do have full control over how you respond to a stressful event which could make a difference in the outcome.
Feeling stressed? Here are a few things you could do to counteract this feeling.
1) Stop – instead of continuing on with the activity that’s causing you to become frustrated and stressed out, stop and walk away. Get your attention off of it.
2) Take a deep breath – taking a deep breath relaxes the body sending oxygen to different parts of your body, including your mind, and releases tension.
3) Refocus your mind – get your mind off the negative aspect of the event. Look at the situation from a positive view point.
4) Gratitude – think of something you’re grateful for, e.g. I’m thankful that I’m healthy or I’m thankful that I’m able to go for a walk today. Expressing thankfulness for what you already have allows you to return to a place of peace.
5) Think clearly – if the situation warrants your immediate attention, think of ways to simple, peaceful resolution.
Stress is unhealthy for our bodies and it could shut out the free flow of creativity.
Strive to handle stressful situations differently, today!