Taking Care of You #5
Working and living with other people generates stress. However, the degree of anxious intensity escalates in your own mind. From the outside in and from the inside out, you grapple with managing tension.
And so you long for calm, peace, and tranquility.
The paths and techniques are many, so choose your best ways to position yourself for peace. Whether mindfulness, exercise, labyrinth walks or pet therapy, the point has much less to do with the method and much more to do with your decisive, consistent habit of placing yourself in situations that promote mental calm. Most of these methods at least help to alleviate the pressure and sometimes they can eradicate it.
Besides the ideas in the past four blog posts, you might consider experimenting with these tactics:
- Walking
- Taking a drive
- Massage
- Yoga
- Boxing
- Hiking
- Qi Gong
- Biking
- Tai Chi
- Kayaking
- Guided Imagery
- and hundreds more.
You can regain perspective on the pressures in your life. You can deal with them. You can position yourself for peace.
Worth Repeating
Our painful experiences aren’t a liability—they’re a gift. They give us perspective and meaning, an opportunity to find our unique purpose and our strength.
-Dr. Edith Eger
