How Stressed Are You? Check Your Unconscious Barometer
4/01/2016
What if you had a way to measure your stress levels, with a tool so
accurate that you could forecast stormy conditions ahead, and be able to
change the course of your life to drift in calmer conditions? That
would be empowering, would it not?
Well, this tool exists in all
of us. It's your unconscious mind. The essence of who you are. It is
your barometer, constantly sending out messages to let you know what you
will have to weather in your life.
Most people nowadays say they
are stressed. How do they know that? It's all relative really. Stress is
the problem presented and how well you are able to deal with it.
Therefore the more tools you have at your disposal, the more you are
able to tolerate.
Having a flexible body and flexible mind allows
you to bend further in strong winds instead of breaking. Knowing how to
read your barometer can forecast the weather ahead.
This awareness allows you to be
• Empowered
• Assertive
• Confident
• Calm
• Flexible in mind and body
• More value to yourself and others
• Live in optimal health
HOW TO READ YOUR BAROMETER
The
basic signs and symptoms of stress are aches and pains in the body,
overweight or underweight, headaches, sciatic pain, digestive,
respiratory problems, anxiety.
Just as the weather barometer
hanging on your wall gives you accurate readings of what to expect, so
you know what to wear, or if you would be wise to take an umbrella with
you, the severity of your stress signs allows you to forecast ahead, and
control the direction.
We have a range that is acceptable, and
outside this range, we need to pay attention. So, let's use weight as an
example. Our health can tolerate say plus or minus a few kilograms but
any more than this and problems start to show. If you have put on a few
kilograms, and know it's time to do something, you can steer yourself
back to health easily.
Should you choose to ignore these signs,
your unconscious mind increases the symptoms with more weight to alert
you. The more you journey into the storm the greater the increase in
alarms. Maybe blood pressure, joint pain, diabetes, etc. The point here
is, the earlier you can read the signs, the more empowered you are to
change course and avoid further complications.
You may think aches
and pains in the body are normal due to age, genetics. As we know, they
are not normal, they are common, and due more to poor lifestyle choices
like sedentary lives and inflexibility. Those aches and pains are
messages from your unconscious mind, your barometer telling you that if
you do the things to make me more flexible, I'll go away and stop
hurting you.
You also have your emotional barometer. We have
emotions that we should be experiencing most of the time, being
happiness, joy, love, gratitude etc. The more time we spend with these
emotions, is our forecast for smooth sailing. When the opposite feelings
like anger, hate, jealousy surface, it's time to sit up and take
notice. Nobody would put themselves into these states by choice, so know
your unconscious barometer is alerting you that what you're doing isn't
working, to change course, to avoid worse things.
The common
approach in dealing with signs of stress is to run, hoping they will
just go away. That's because we don't like them, they make us feel
uncomfortable, scared even. When you run toward them and be thankful
that you are being given early warning, then they soon become you best
friends.
Check in with your barometer regularly, empower yourself,
and see if you don't notice smoother sailing. I already know what
you'll find.
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