The key to balancing your desire to be at peace with your need to achieve, perform, and earn a living is in recognizing that there's no such thing as stress; there are only people thinking stressful thoughts. It's really simple as that. When you change the way you process the world, the world you're processing changes.
Stress is an inside job. You can't fill a container with it because tension isn't a physical item or object. There isn't some 'thing' that you can point to and say. There it is, that's stress! It simply doesn't exist in that form.
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Being out of balance on this stress measure results in being on of the millions of people requiring medication to manage the symptoms listed above. It means that you often feel exasperated because you never really enjoy the life you work so hard to achieve. You may frequently feel as if you're running on an endless treadmill. All of the pressure of working and striving for many wordly rewards, yet at the same time there's a feeling of going absolutely nowhere.
If this sounds familiar. it's a signal to begin reconsidering ways of processing thoughts about your life and work, and start pursuing freedom from the symptoms of stress by becoming more balanced. Getting into balanced isn't necessarily about changing your behavior. Certainly you can pursue stress-reducing activities such as meditation, excercise, walks along a beach, or whatever works for you. But if you continue to align yourself with achieving more, defeating the other guy, winning at all costs, and going faster because you believe that's how to keep up, then you're guaranteed to attract the vibrational equivalent of this thinking into your life - even if you do yogas and stand on your head chanting mantras everyday!
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Those are excerpts from Dr. Wayne W. Dyer book's 'Being in Balance'. I keep it on my office table and grab it whenever I have a few minutes break. Sometimes we need to be reminded ..... to live ourselves a normal life in this hectic world 
Happy Friday!
Love - Larra
I agree could use a normal life about now :)
ReplyDeleteYes, after you've defined what 'normal' means to you :)
ReplyDeleteI used to be in the fast lane of my career life. But the last 3 years I have slowed down. I decided to be less 'serious' in my career and enjoy my life more. I spent more time talking to the flowers, the grass, the birds ..... Afterall, life is too short to be too serious .... ;)
How's your work getting on?
You both are so work stressed and I'm stressed because of not enough work. Balance is key....so true.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that I am more relax when I am with nature, especially the mountains. But then, my nature of work has nothing to do with the nature. :) . So, while I have this job, I will have to plan as such that my holiday will always be me and the nature. I have this dream that when I retire, I'll live somewhere near the mountains.
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