Stress Reducing Techniques
I have fortunately happened upon a effective self help anxiety technique. Its easy and best of all successful! Life is full of stress for this parent of a teen – actually if you look up stress in the dictionary I am sure you will see a picture of a teenager. So any healthy ways of relieving stress are hugely beneficial.
So what works for me? Getting centered! No not walking down a straightline or straigtening out my clothes, at least not for me, but as you read on maybe this will work for you. In fact, everyone has their own personal way to get centered. Once you are able to identify your best ways to reduce stress or get centered, you will be on the road.
Where does stress come from?
I believe that anxiety or stress comes from lives or parts of our lives that are out-of-control. It could be anything, money, children, lack of time freedom, and sickness are a few of the main areas that can become out of whack. Our world is complicated and we are required to run at breakneck speed to keep up. And as far as I can see it there is no way to get past that. Even living alone on a desert island, knowing what we know now, would be stressful.
Any best ways to reduce stress?
Reducing stress is an indepth process. But handling it, is not so much. Getting centered is just such a way.
What does it mean to get centered?
Deciding what you can do to have a sense of control over something in your life is getting centered. It usually is not a huge thing, like paying off all your bills, but more like something you can control right now that may not in itself need controlling. The size is irrelevant, it is the sense you gain of having control that does the trick.
Where do I start?
Okay, what can you do that is calming or quieting and where you can feel you have completion when you are done? I do a couple of things to get centered – one is to mow the grass. Much to my kids chagrin, NOT!, I will never pass this chore down to them. Only to train them a time or two, but its mine, baby all mine! I feel so right after I am done mowing, just looking at that perfectly manicured lawn. I am centered.
I also feel immensely centered when I make the bed. That’s right – nice tight corners and smooth sheets and blankets tucked in snugly. It brings me right into center. My wife loves this one especially.
Speaking of my wife, she too has a centering tool – cleaning the glass on our sliding door. When life is whacko, she sprints down the hall and grabs the cleaner and towels and goes to town. She gets it so clean our kids have been known to try to walk right through it! But boy is she centered.
Paper Clips Piles!
I know of a corporate bigwig who got centered by going through his paper clips and sorting the small ones from the large ones. When his secretary offered to do this mundane job for him, he politely declined. He knew this little secret kept him centered and at the top of his game!
That’s it! Told you it was simple. So the next time you can’t get a handle on things, figure out what you can do to get centered. And before you know it, you have your own ways of reducing stress.
