MAKE STRESS WORK FOR YOU

How did you get on?

?Don’t worry if you couldn’t get into the 6 out 4 in breathing pattern straight away. Like everything regular practise will help and before long, if you keep it going, you’ll start to notice benefits.?

A bit like going down the gym increases the muscles in your arms, this kind of mental gym work strengthens the muscles of the mind. Practising for just 5-10 minutes a day will help you establish the ability to relax whenever and wherever you choose, gaining control over your emotions when you need to and buying you time to step back from a situation to see the bigger picture.

The technique works well when practised first thing in the morning to get the day off to a great start and/or at night to enjoy deeper and more restful sleep. As it embeds, you’ll notice that it works more quickly and more efficiently to lower your stress levels, becoming a really useful tool to keep in your mind management toolbox.?

Eventually, and with enough practise, it will also become a subconscious process and, like a thermostat, will cut in automatically whenever the emotional temperature starts to rise. This will reduce your base stress level little by little every day giving you the spare capacity that builds emotional resilience.?

Making stress work for you?

Stress is a natural part of life and cannot be avoided completely of course. We all have a things-to-do list. It’s what gets us out of bed in the morning and that’s no bad thing.?

But when our background stress level starts to rise, at first we may not notice because it produces no symptoms but if it continues unchecked, symptoms will appear according to your physiology. It might be headaches, stomach problems or back ache. For some, the first symptom may be a full on panic attack.?

Truth is, once your base stress level has risen high enough, it is so close to screaming pitch, you are a bit like a faulty car alarm, ready to go off at any minute! For the harassed young mum who drops half a dozen eggs in the supermarket and bursts into tears, it’s not really about the eggs. They were just the final straw that tipped her over the edge.

So, to make stress work for you, you have to keep your background stress levels low, so that when stressful situations arise during the day, as they will, you have built up enough space between your base stress level and screaming pitch that you will not move into the danger zone where panic attacks, anger outbursts or other stress related symptoms appear.

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