I'm Stressed Out And Loving It

Stress comes from negative energy that you either can't control or you choose not to control. The body sucks the stress in. As more goes in the body sucks even more stress in. this buildup of stress can lead to both mental and physical problems.

Stressed people have a hard time concentrating. Stressed people have a hard time making decisions because they fear that if they should make a bad decision more stress will get sucked in. Stress can put you in a bad mood where even the slightest push on one of your buttons by family or friends will set you off. Stress will cloud your head to a point where you are only capable of focusing on negative energy and not positive energy.

Stress could get you to do something premature (like taking a risk you might normally not want to take) because your body aches so much for relief that it's willing to do something you know you shouldn't do. Stress can get you to shut down your life to a point that you don't have much life left in your body. Stress is a major contributor to depression.

Stress can make you physically ill. It can create an eating disorder. It can give you a heart attack. It can raise your blood pressure to a critical stage. it can get some people to want to commit suicide because they just can't take in any more stress and they don't believe they can get rid of the stress they have. There are a whole host of diseases where stress plays a role.

OK, so now that I have you stressed out, depressed and unhappy, what the hell can you do about it? I'll give you my three things to consider. My favorite one is number three:

1. Get a lobotomy. That's right: most of the stress you suck in goes to the frontal cortex. Either by electric shock or by partial removal of the cortex can reduce or even eliminate stress. However, there are major downsides and I don't recommend it unless you have one foot off the 54th floor of a building.
2. Do everything possible to get to the source of the stress and change it.  Easy to say, hard to do. Your job makes you very stressed so quit and find one that is less stressful (even if it pays less money). Again easy to say hard to implement. Your ego might get into the way. The money may make the whole family lower their standards.
   
   Your spouse is making you all stressed out. So, get a divorce. Again easy to say, hard to implement. There are kids, dogs, family, friends involved. Initially, the divorce will create more stress, but if you just can't take it anymore, the divorce will reduce the stress in the future.
   
   You're stressed out because you fear your book, painting, business plan, etc. will not be accepted and you will be a failure. Controlling this fear is hard. The only way you can relieve this stress is if you love yourself and truly believe you are a good person. Rejection by the outside world is less stressful if you believe you have the power to fix the problem and your next project will be even better.
3. Love your stress. Embrace your stress. Feel good that by having stress you are get a lot out of life. Turn the situation around and let the stress fuel your happiness. Your job makes you stressed out because you don't have control of everything. Love that stress because by not having control of everything is a big relief. Focus on the little tasks that you do a great job doing and put a smile on your face. Let someone else stress over the other more stressful tasks.
   
   Your spouse makes you stressed out so why not embrace that stress. Take a step back and let the waves of stress flow through your hair rather than getting sucked into your body. Your spouse is not going to change, so you change. If she is pushing your buttons, get rid of those buttons. When the stress starts to come at you, pull a Matrix movie move and lean in the opposite direction of where the stress is coming from.
   
   "The more you resist the more they will insist" Kenny Felderstein. Stop resisting. Enjoy the stress because it's not about you it's about the person throwing the stress at you.
   
   Stress from the fear of failing is fabulous stress. See the stress a exciting. See the stress as exhilarating. You created a book, picture or business plan. That's exciting. You love what you created. That's happiness. The fact that some might not like what you've done should not be stressful it should be rewarding knowing that you will do better next time.

I love choice three because you are making something good out of something bad. You are all stressed out and loving it. Happiness is not being stress free. Happiness is laughing through the stress. You will be shocked as to how the outside world will react to your stress love fest.

I promise you (because I've lived it) the more you embrace stress, the more you laugh in the face of stress, the happier you will become and the less stressful the people who are creating the stress will become..