21/07/2023
🤯🤯STRESS 🤯🤯
It is so commonly looked at as a NEGATIVE.
A lot of the time stress is associated with feelings of:
😣Overwhelm - Too much stimulation, feelings, thoughts with minimal action
😣Anxiety - Social, Past Trauma, OCD,
😣Pressures - work, family, major life changes
However the body experiences stress also when;
🏋🏻♀️ Exercising
🤒 Sickness
🙇🏼♀️ Negative thinking patterns
🫁 Insufficient breathing behaviours
(The above are a broad range of examples of stress factors and not inclusive of all forms)
In the past, I would relate my emotions, circumstances and experiences that weren’t so positive to “being stressed”; living in the uneducated mind I would say - things like “omg Ive had so much stress lately” and join the societal bandwagon with how stress is communicated.
Now I’ve learnt sooo much! Stress is JUST A STIMULATION experienced in the body.
And when we experience or consume too much or too little of something; our body begins to send signals that imbalances are arising.
These balances are things we refer to as symptoms of XYZ - headaches, body aches, pain, and in chronic circumstances illness and long term disease can occur.
While, I Coach my clients to bring life into a holistic balance of all things (particularly stress management), I can say that it something that I don’t always hold 100% integrity to.
You see we all handle STRESS differently, and we also handle different kinds of stress in many different ways.
In the last year or 2, I haven’t held integrity in my own Stress management processes.
I’ve dipped and dabbed in all the things with inconsistent habits.
My reflections were that I wasn’t focusing on myself - the weekly demands and responsibilities had become the focus points and in no time at all - I was feeling all the affects of not caring for ME.
Well yes and no - you see, self accountability takes consistent practice, devotion and focus.
In rough times - it is the pinnacle habits that fall away.
It is here our integrity can be challenged.
So ask - where are you out of integrity?
