There are many things we can do that fall under the
category of Basic Stress Management. We
know that we can eat right, exercise, get plenty of rest, and eliminate
addictive habits like caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, and drugs. But what do we know about Advanced Stress
Management?
What is Advanced Stress Management? Advanced Stress Management is evolving the
mind. In order to evolve our mind we
must take responsibility for our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Frequently we live our lives while our
thoughts are on autopilot. When our
mind is on autopilot we are not necessarily thinking but reacting out of our
habits. We get up in the morning,
without intention, get ready for the day, go to work or school, get home, watch
TV, go to bed, and then we do it all over again.
In order to evolve our mind we must remove ourselves, our
thoughts from autopilot and take responsibility for our thoughts, feelings, and
actions by living with intention. We
can start our day with intention, live our day with intention, and end our day
with intention. How do we live with
intention? One way is we can take our
worries and turn them into the opposite and into goals.
For example, we may be worried about not having enough money. When we worry about not having enough money
we may feel doubt and fear about our situation. When we feel doubt and fear we start to make decisions based on
this doubt and fear. Some decisions may
be to cut back on our expenses and luxuries.
When we evolve our mind we take responsibility of our
thoughts and become aware of our worry and make a goal out of it's
opposite. For example, we are worried
about not having enough money and the opposite would be having more than enough
money. This goal of having more than
enough money is our intention. We wake
up in the morning with intention, asking ourselves, "how can I make more
money?" We go through our day thinking,
"What can I do today, right now to make more money?" And then we go to sleep with intention by thinking about what we
would like to do to make more money.
When we think like this we feel desire and make decisions based on the
feelings of desire. Some decisions may
be to start a business or look for a better job or career.
This behavior is taking responsibility for our thoughts,
feelings, and actions. We take
responsibility for our thoughts by taking them off the autopilot and habit of
worry and focus them on goals. We take
responsibility for our feelings by removing the doubt and fear and replacing it
with intention, expectation, and hope.
And finally, we take responsibility for our actions because we take
action towards our goals versus taking action in the direction of our troubles.
Advanced Stress Management is truly evolving the mind by
taking responsibility for our thoughts, feelings, and actions and creating
desire, faith, and confidence by becoming aware of and eliminating thoughts of
doubt, fear, and worry. If you are a
worrier evolving the mind might take some serious dedication. But, when we become accountable for our
thoughts, feelings, and actions we truly become experts on managing our stress.
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
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