Getting stressed while juggling your life?
“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.” -Natalie Goldberg
Stress.
Who needs it?
Anxiety (fearing fear) – even less helpful.
Beating yourself up, repeatedly telling yourself that you’re no good, feeling sorry for yourself and embracing a defeatist mentality are all things that are sure to take you nowhere, fast.
Time to get out of your head and into the world. It’s time to stop worrying about what other people think.
Sophocles had it right when he said “The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”
Life is too short to be wasting it!
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Mother of a friend of mine is over 95 years old. She is very bright and always reads books, watches TV, goes to theatre, analyzes her experiences etc. She even drives and always smiles.
She told me in her British accent: “Most of the bad things you think will happen to you will not.”
Indeed, depression and anxiety can be unrealistic yet they feel real. Lets think about our past anxieties and sadnesses. When we lose a loved one, we are sad and the feeling has an external real cause that has actually happened. On average, the intense sadness takes about two to three weeks (otherwise, it can be considered pathological). But, many times the sadness as well as anxiety are only in our heads.
When pathological, the mid section of anterior parts of our brains (called cingulate cortex) manifests abnormal activity in neuroimaging analysis.
So, always think of my over 95 year old friend and tell yourself, with British accent if you wish
, “most of the bad things I think are going to happen to me will not”, I have had this kind of feelings before!!
Cheers!
You raise some great points Shary!
I love your reference to your dear old friend. It seems that the older and more experienced members of our society have got it right. Many of our seniors approach life in an entirely different way…Perhaps somewhere along the line of life we all come to realize that life is too short to sweat the small stuff (hopefully sooner rather than later).
Thanks also for the tidbits on the functionality/mechanics of the brain. I know you are a photographer by profession, but I bet you’d make a fabulous doctor too
Best to you always! J
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