Quick & Easy Ways to Reduce Stress

11 Dec 2023 2 Comments

by unlimitedpotentialhealingcenter in attitude, Hypnosis, Reiki, Dowsing and Self-Help, mind-control, self help, stress management

In an earlier blog post entitled “Regaining Your Sanity When You Start Freaking Out“, I outlined many things that are simple, do-able and fast to harness runaway fears, center, put things into perspective, etc. Here is a short summary of that article with a couple of additional things that you can do to head emotional upheaval off when you feel it coming or do once it happens.

  • PUTTING THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE 

Is this a life & death situation? 

How serious is it really? 

What’s the worst thing that can happen?

  • BREATHE DEEPLY – EXERCISE OR DO SOMETHING PHYSICAL – Any physical activity will get oxygen to your brain so you think clearer at the same time that you discharge stress out of your muscles. Some activities such as singing, dancing, lovemaking, gardening, cleaning out the garage, have additional benefits such as fun, satisfaction, connection to Nature, enhance your relationship, or provide satisfaction and relief to get a needed project done.
  • CHANGE THE FOCUS OF YOUR ATTENTION – turn your head, look out at the horizon, nature, photos of loved ones, happy times, kids, animals, etc.
  • CONNECT WITH & HUG SOMEONE YOU LOVE – even your pets! Call a friend, get together.
  • COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS 

What do you have to be grateful for today – a roof over your head, running water, food, hot shower, a car that runs, eyesight, the ability to walk? Regardless of what is missing, what remains? 

What do you have to work with?

  • INVENTORY YOUR STRENGTHS, YOUR ABILITY TO LEARN, SURVIVE & ACHIEVE 

What things you have already learned to do and problems you already have overcome? 

  • USE AFFIRMATIONS – Note that affirmations only work if you can believe what you are saying. If you don’t, they will backfire! My favorite is 

“I AM THAT I AM A POWERFUL, SPIRITUAL BEING. I HAVE SOMETHING OF VALUE TO OFFER.”  

Others I use are: 

“On some level, I’m always okay.”

“I can do this. I can do anything I make up my mind to do.”

  • SWITCH FROM FOCUSING ON THE PROBLEM TO THE SOLUTION

“If it could work, how would it work”

“Who do I know that could help me resolve this and create ___  instead?” 

“Who has experience successfully dealing with this before?”

“Who is able to create ____ easily?  What do they know or what do they do to be successful?” 

  • TURN THE  PROBLEM INTO A GAME, CHALLENGE, OR A POSITIVE GROWTH EXPERIENCE

“What can I learn from this?” 

“How can this experience help me to grow, to be better in some way?” 

“Who do I need to be, and what do I need to think or do to experience ___ instead?”

  • MAKE A DECISION, A FIRM DECLARATION THAT YOU ARE GOING TO TURN YOUR PROBLEM INTO A BLESSING.
    • Question: “How can I turn this into a blessing?” 
    • Affirmation: “I turn this into a blessing!” 
    • Demand from the Universe: “Turn this into a blessing!”
  • DISTRACT YOURSELF, TAKE A BREAK, GET YOUR MIND ON SOMETHING OTHER THAN YOUR WORRY

“What can you do to take your mind off your problems so you can get off the gerbil wheel?” 

  • GO TO WHERE THE PROBLEM ISN’T

If the problem is in your house, go outside. If it is in the city, get out to nature. If it is with work, go to lunch with friends, or do something nice after work. Take a vacation. After you regroup, then go back and tackle whatever you need to do. 

  • LAUGH

Yes, listen to comics, watch funny things online, and laugh at yourself for getting so stressed out. 

  • ASK QUESTIONS 
  • ASK FOR HELP Extra hands don’t just add to your productivity, they multiply it many times over.  They build energy.
  • PRAY & GIVE THANKS – Note that it is important to only pray for what you want, not what you don’t. Pray for guidance, understanding, clarification, insight, strength, personal character traits, skills, ideas, wisdom, healing, the right kind of assistance for anything. See the problem either moving towards resolution or being already resolved. Give thanks for it already being completed. 

MORE QUICK & EASY STRESS REDUCERS

  • WALKING MANTRAS – This is my personal shortcut using regular movement and sound to create self-hypnosis and reprogram the mind that I have been teaching for over 30 years. My self-hypnosis book, Your Unlimited Potential has many more listed. Take any short, affirmation that can be spoken in a sing-song rhythm and match it to steady movement like walking, cycling, or using a treadmill. Repeat the phrase over and over for a few minutes to shift your thinking in a positive direction. Some affirmations that work are below. The dots represent switching what you say to the next foot.

“Sooner …. or later… I figure it ….out.”
“I learn …and …move on..…”

“I do what I can. I let go of the rest.”

“I find…a way…that works…for me.”

“Every…day….in every….way….I get….better…and better…Yes!!!”

  • ACCESS ADDITIONAL INNER RESOURCES

You have infinite resources of wisdom, creative problem solving ability, and knowledge that you can tap into. It starts with a recognition that you do. My book ACCESSING MORE – Tapping into the Eternal, Unlimited Self with the Infinite Intelligence Process explains the whole thing. 

Repeat: “There is a part of me that knows ____, and that part is helping me now to ____ in a way in which I am really pleased.”

Or say “I access, download and activate whatever I need to _____(resolve this problem, be able to ___, heal from) ____.” Hold that thought without needing to know the answer right away.

Copyright by Roxanne Louise, 2023. However, this article may be shared in free online sources only if this copyright notice and link to http://www.roxannelouise.com and http://unlimitedpotentialhealingcenter.com  are included with the content.