How To Manage Stress With Topics From Your Life's Purpose To Zen

Manage stress and look younger by taking note of the way you relate to others and to yourself. Yes that's right, how you see yourself is extremely important and can be a huge factor in causing stress in your life.

Questions that you ask yourself

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

We ask ourselves so many questions. Why am I here? What is my purpose in life? Really these are things that you are not going to know until the time is right and you have done all the learning and growing that you need to do. So sit back and relax,manage stress, and enjoy the ride!

Relationships

Now “relationship” is defined in the dictionary as “what one person or thing has to do with another, way in which one stands or is related to another, kind of connection or correspondence or contrast or feelings that prevail between persons or things”.

So this is saying that both people are responsible for the relationship and that people will only treat us in a manner that we allow them to. If you are unhappy with the way that you are being treated there are two things that you can do;

•You need to figure out what you are doing that allows the person to treat you in an unacceptable manner.

•Then you need to change what you are doing and let the person know that the relationship needs to be renegotiated.

If you handle the situation correctly the person will either change the way that they treat you, or they will leave allowing you to manage stress in peace.



I have found this site with great relationship advice and ideas on how to use different meditation techniques to develop your mindfulness muscle. This site will open in a new window behind this page, so do return to me once you are done.

You can also click on this site that has some great relationship advice for women. This site will open in a new window behind this page, so do return to me once you are done.

Sigh

There's music in the sighing of a reed;There's music in the gushing of a rill;There's music in all things, if men had ears:Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.~Lord Byron

Like yawning, sighing is also a natural bodily reflex and is a way of relaxing and good if you want to manage stress. Try and sigh as often as possible because you can only sigh if you have taken a deep breathe before you exhale and, as most people don’t breathe deeply enough, this can only be a good thing.

Think positively

The trick here is not to think too much! Thinking too much and being in your head all the time can cause you to lose focus on the present and to live in the future. So manage stress by coming down to earth, tackling your problems one at a time and knowing that every problem solved is a growth opportunity on your way to a great life.

Unique

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"

You are unique so be the best “yourself” that you can and manage stress in the best way that you can.

Visualize

Daydreaming or visioning is a way of creating the life that you want. Take time to design the life of your dreams by meditating on what it is that you desire, and then making a collage with pictures from magazines etc. Hang this up where you can look at it each day and remind your subconscious of your goals but don’t dwell on the outcome. This will work even if you pack the collage away in a box and carry on with you dreams and take care to manage your stress.

Walls-Break them down

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~Jim Rohn

When your body, your heart and your mind are working as one you will find that you will be joyful and you will be able to manage stress. Open your heart to the world around you and let the joy in.

X marks the spot

On this day put a big X in your journal or diary. Tell yourself that to manage stress is important and that this is the day that you are going to take control of your life. This is the day that you will stop being the victim. You are in control, you teach people how to treat you, and whatever you believe will become your reality! Work at being happy instead of knocking yourself out trying to be unhappy. If you are always up for a challenge and you show people that you respect and love yourself, they will begin to treat you with the admiration that you deserve and life will be a lot less stressful.

Yawn-I bet you did!

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You.

Yawning is considered to be a rather rude thing to do especially in public, but it is actually a very good for you and helps you to manage stress.

Have you ever noticed that when you see someone yawn you want to do the same? This is because yawning is a natural reflex action and should not be suppressed. Yawning is used in Yoga to achieve certain postures, and is a way of lowering your defenses and relaxing body and mind.

Zen-Not a philosophy and not a religion

Also go to stress busters for the full ABC of stress management.