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We live in a fast pace society that provokes a racing mind and the inability to enjoy ourselves while doing things we love. We are worried about all the things we have to do, what happened yesterday, or what may happen in the future. Stress Management is as simple as ABC and sometimes it is as challenging as making a million dollars. Please allow me to explain. Stress is our habitual thoughts of doubt, fear, and worry. Therefore, if we want to manage our stress we must manage our thoughts. Sounds simple doesn't it? Well, the difficult part is the 20, 30, 40, or more years of habitual thoughts of doubt, fear, and worry. Sometimes changing our habits is as complicated as making a million dollars. It takes hard work and never ending commitment.
One of our most common stressful habits is what we visualize. Did you know that we all visualize? We may visualize how we are not going to be able to pay our bills. We may visualize on what is going to happen if we don't pay off our debt. We may visualize how our significant other/spouse is going to react if they were to find out what we have done. We may visualize how fat we are and how we will never loose weight. We may visualize our illnesses and how they are going to get worse. We may visualize how horrible our life is going to be if we don't do something different. We may visualize how unsuccessful our child may be if they do not do certain things or are a certain way. Perhaps we visualize the worst thing that can happen, will happen, in any given situation.
When we visualize the worst that can happen we have a stressful habit that creates fear and sometimes anxiety. This type of visualization is unintentional. Since we visualize anyway, why not make our visualizations intentional? In order to visualize intentionally we must create a list of goals and create a habit of thinking about our goals morning, noon, and night. When we intentionally visualize, seeing ourselves obtain what we want, we create a habit of faith in ourselves and we make decisions based on our faith. And when our faith is strong we can use our faith to create courage to do the things we dream of doing.
We can have the power of fear or we can create the power of faith. Which one do you choose?
I believe we have the ability, tools, and power to control our lives. We can be what we want to be. The only thing that holds us back is our stress and stress is just a thought. So our thoughts/visualizations are holding us back.
There is a wonderful world of power and possibility through intentional visualization. When we learn to work our minds in a productive manner we use our hidden powers.
A thought is an image in our mind and an image is a picture or visualization in our mind. Every person is his own creator of images and visualizations. Unfortunately, most of us do not intentionally take control as the creator because we most often let our thoughts run on autopilot.
In order to take control and be the pilot of our thoughts and images we ought to develop a habit of creating our own thoughts, feelings, and actions through intentional visualization. We have the power to make our thoughts, feelings, and actions positive by intentionally visualizing health, wealth, and success. If we unintentionally visualize poverty and disappointment by habit of doubt, fear, and worry, we will receive failure.
My suggestion is to picture our own miracles and our own heavens on earth. Let us cultivate and nurture a habit of faith in us by picturing health, wealth, and success. Let us change our thinking for the better and develop our mind by thoughts of desire for happiness and success through our intentional visualizations.
Elizabeth Stanfill, Managing Director of Destress Yourself, is an authority and expert in Critical Incident Stress Management, General Stress Management, and Overcoming Burnout. She specializes in teaching individuals to discover the stressful habits that are holding them back in life and changing these habits into successful practices that create explosive jumps in personal and professional performance. For more free information about Destressing Yourself please sign up for our free Destress Yourself Newsletter and receive free admission to our monthly Destress Yourself teleclass. Elizabeth Stanfill, Managing Director, elizabeth@destressyourself.com , destressyourself.com
this was a well written and interesting article. i know this philosophy, and try to remember to apply it to my life. too bad i use it while pulling it away from some really negative thoughts, that may leave my mind, but don't leave reality.
it still is healthier and less stressful to picture a goal coming true, and peace to ensue.
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