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Instant Stress Management Principle #3: What You Expect Tends To Be Realized |
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Many of us will make up in the morning not wanting
to wake up. Breakfast may
not be good or we find ourselves in the middle of morning traffic. This is enough to make us feel like it is going to be a bad
day. So it is.
Everything that can be seen in a negative light IS seen that way. If you start the day genuinely saying, “I feel
wonder, relaxed and refreshed,” and maintain this attitude then the
minor inconveniences of the day will bounce off your skin as if they are
trivial, which, from a perspective, they are. “As you sow, so shall you reap,” says the
famous bible verse. So to
keep yourself in a state of mind where most stressful events will bounce
off your skin all you have to do is maintain a positive attitude and
positive expectations. Of course don’t overdo the positive expectations.
Just say and feel like,’ no matter what happens it is a part of
your day and you can deal with it easily’.
This will keep you relaxed and poised. There is an old story that might be appropriate
here. There was a farmer whose horse ran away. All his neighbors came by to say how sorry they were at his misfortune. All he said was, “We will see.” Next, his horse returns fallen by a group of wild horses. His neighbors congratulate on his good fortune and the farmer once again says, “We Shall see.” Then his son falls off the same horse and breaks his leg. The neighbors once again exclaim at his misfortune and once again he says, “We shall see.”
In a few days the army comes by collecting young men for a war.
The farmer’s son was ignored as his leg was broken.
His neighbors congratulate him and all he says is, “We shall
see.” Notice that in this story every event of the day or
week did not make the farmer giddy with happiness or depressed at having
a bad day. He maintained an
open positive attitude and didn’t let the events of the day get to
him. Of course this may
seem a little extreme to some but you get the idea. In conclusion, if you expect yourself to handle a given situation with ease then your stress will decrease. If you expect yourself to handle a situation with difficulty but still able to come out fine then your stress levels will also stay down. If you take every event of the day or week as something extremely important, bad or good, that too will increase your stress. What you expect will create your day around you.
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