Maga Woman Magazine - issue #5

Stress
Coping
Toolkit
Written by:
Angela Counsel
Over the past few
months I have been
writing articles on stress
management and the
sub-conscious mind.
The subconscious mind
controls the way we feel
and the way we live our
lives. Often in times of
stress and overwhelm,
we revert to learned
behaviour.
Remember we talked about Subconscious
stress triggers in the last issue?
It’s like having a computer program running in
the background of our lives. A file error pops
up, it slows everything down and the file error
is repeated until we make some changes to the program,
make some space on our hard drive, or just reboot.
The way we react to situations is learned behaviour, so
it can be changed. You can change the way you react to
things. You absolutely can.
One of the ways you can do this is to have a Coping
Toolkit on hand. Have some strategies and methods in your
back pocket that can make you aware of your reactions and
manage them. Here are three simple tools you can pop into
your toolkit.
1. INFINITE LOVE AND GRATITUDE
You see this phrase a lot on my blog, my Facebook page,
my book, my emails. It’s because I use it. I use it because it
works.
In times of irritability, stress and frustration, tune into
how you are feeling. Notice any images that come up in
your mind’s eye, notice where you are feeling the emotion
in your body and then notice the words that you can hear in
your head about this situation. Ask yourself - “do I choose to
feel this way”. The answer will generally be No.
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