Stress Management

How do you manage stress? Are you even aware that you are stressed out?

Few years back, I was a stressful person and I always look stressed out like the world has put all its burden in me. I would cry at night because I couldn't understand anymore the things around me. It was perhaps because I had so many questions in mind that I would like to get answered. Not necessarily by me, by any body else as well.

As years went by, I saw friends and people who were so relax as if they have no worries at all. Absolutely, they were worried, too, of many things just as I am. What differs them from me is our ways of perceiving life. Indeed, I realized a lot out of my own reflections. So, I changed.

I convinced myself that I am what I see, what I feel, what I think, what I speak, and what I act. I shifted paradigm and controlled my head to think only of good and better things. There maybe naughty events and aweful situations, I convinced myself to profit from all these things and find the better side of events and live happily. It's so funny that I even practiced some facial expressions and moods and made them my habits. Oftentimes, I was tempted to think absurdly, deeply, madly, but then, I moved fast to remind myself to switch off and think beautifully well; although there had been several circumstances that I couldn't really fake my mood that I cried and looked really mad.

Through it all, I realized that stress is a state of the mind. It moves voluntarily and therefore, is controllable. Hence, in order to manage stress, I must be aware of it and of the moment when i'm gearing to it. Statement to live by: I must never be enslaved by STRESS.