Dealing with stress

Dealing with stress

Everyone has their own way of dealing with stress, some people eat their stress, some worry, some cry but for me I do something productive, something to keep my mind and my body busy.

When I am feeling overwhelmed, I work out, I clean and I cook. Strange right? Working out has always been a stress reliever for me, if I am really overwhelmed like yesterday, I need to be outside doing it. A bike ride around the lake, a run on the beach, yoga on the grass, somewhere that connects me to the universe and grounds me.

I need to feel the wind in my face, to see all of God's glory and to realize how truly blessed I am just to be alive. It gives me perspective on my life, it makes me grateful that I am alive and healthy enough to be able to do this.

It makes me see that if God could make all of this, he can definitely fix my little problems, whatever they might be.

I clean because that makes me feel in control of my surroundings, I am doing something positive, making something better and it calms me down to be surrounded by that feeling of calm and order.

And I cook because to me that is home, that reminds me of what's really  important...family, dinner at the table, bringing people together, love and joy.

Yesterday I did all three and even threw some yoga and meditation in there for good measure.

But even with all that is coming at me right now, lack of work, issues with my daughter, ghosts of the past showing up, I am still not worried, I still won't stress, I will do something to keep my mind focused until that feeling passes and until I can figure out what to do next.

I've learned the hard way that stress is useless, I stressed so bad at one point of my life, my hair fell out, I lost 20 pounds, I couldn't sleep or eat and I thought I was having a heart attack. That episode sent me to the hospital where for the cheap price of 2,500, they told me I was stressing! Duh!! Which made me stress more over how was I going to pay this money?

Yes, it didn't change a frigging thing in my life, nope nothing changed by my stressing, the outcome was still the same.
So why bother? Why kill yourself doing something that won't change anything?
So I have learned to give it to God and in the moment I am feeling this, to do something else to keep busy.

Life is always going to stress you out, there will always be things coming at you, that's life, it's up to you on how you deal with them.

I use to use drugs and alcohol to deal with stress, which made things worst but I have choose a different way now. Here's that word again choose, choice...it's all yours...you get to pick.

Yes, I could have made myself sick with worry yesterday, oh Hell, for the past few months with what I've been going through but why? What would it have changed? Nothing, so instead I changed me and my way of looking at it.

I woke up this morning a new person, recharged, refreshed and renewed, knowing anything is possible. My life can change in a instant, but whatever happens I will be present in the moment, I will be grateful for what I do have and I will have faith it will turn out the way God intended it to.

I will just go along for the ride, hold on when it gets bumpy and enjoy every moment until I come screeching into my grave,  screaming "What a frigging ride!"

So today my friends, remember the choice is yours, stress will always be in your life, that we cannot change but we can change   how you deal with your stress. Make that choice, change your life today.

"Be the change you want to see"
 
"And just when the caterpillar thought his life over...he turned into a beautiful butterfly"

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