Stress

I recently came across this to share with you:

"So often I ask someone how they are doing and the answer is: "I'm stressed out". Here's some thoughts on stress. Scientists tell us that one of the best ways to relieve stress is to get down on your knees and dig in the soil. I think being down on your knees with your hands in the dirt of the garden is a great way to pray and then stress automatically dissipates.

A lecturer, when explaining stress management, raised a glass of water and asked: "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers ranged from 20g to 500g.

The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.

In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes and that's the way it is with stress management. If we carry all our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on. Like the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we are refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.

So, before you return home, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can and don't pick it up until you've rested a while."

Here's some other solutions:

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

Always wear stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Drive carefully, it's not only cars that can be "recalled" by their maker.

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

Never put both feet in your mouth because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.

If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

Give a blessing, they always come back a hundred fold."