On this journey to live my best life, I have found a few things that have helped me. Now although I believe in the law of attraction, I’m not gonna sit here and tell you to visualize a better life. I believe there’s so much more to it than that. I’m not gonna blow smoke up your ass and then be like hey for $1500 I’ll give you my secret. I am by no means a trained life coach or a Guru.
I’m will share what I do that works. And incase you’re wondering, I do still visualize and make visions boards and all that. I’ll save that for another post though.
So step one is something I’ve not only practiced, but I’ve preached for years. I don’t think I could’ve done anything else before this. It had to be first, at least for me.
Going through life we all have good things, bad things, and just the normal everyday things. Each causes their own set of feelings. One that I felt lots was stress. I worried about everything and sometimes I still do, but I do my best to turn every stressful situation into something else.
Step one is don’t stress. Yeah easier said then done, right? Sit back, and think of stressful situations you’ve faced. Now ask yourself, did stressing about it help the situation? Not likely. Did it create other issues for you? Yeah probably.
It’s scientifically proven that stress affect our bodies in various ways. In stressful situations the body releases two hormones, adrenaline and cortisol. This causes physiological responses, increased heart rate, blood pressure, respirations. It can affect your body in ways from sleep, bowl movements, mental status, even heart disease and so much more. For me a huge reaction is an autoimmune flare and that’s not fun.
Now we talked about some of the things stress can do, let’s look at what stress cannot do. Stress cannot make you feel better, it can’t solve the problem, it can’t bring you peace or pay that bill you’re late on. Stress cannot fix anything, so why stress? Well it’s a part of life, right? Wrong!
Stressful situations don’t require a stress reaction. I personally always try to remind myself that it won’t help. I remember that things always work out and will get better. Even if you’re at rock bottom, well the only way to go is up. Try and learn from the situation so you can avoid it.
I like to take a few breathes, meditate or listen to a positivity pod cast. “Professional optimist” Mel Robbins has a rule of 5, check it out. Basically she says count backwards from 5 to give your mind a kind of reset. It’s pretty cool. She does short daily lives on social media that are great for a boost of encouragement. Try and find your go-to to stop stress it’s tracks and focus on how to actually work with the situation that is causing it.
So there you have it, my first rule to all this positive thinking, manifestation, law of attraction stuff. Eliminate stress so you can live your best life.
Please comment with things you do to help reduce or eliminate stress. You never know who you might help.
Xoxo Charlotte
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