Stress and what to do about it.
So what can you do about your stress?
Get clear that you are stressed. Be aware of your mood and the internal and external stressors around you. Choose to do it differently. If work is a huge stressor for you try meditating on your lunch or break time. When you recognize that you are stressed stop. Breathe and be conscious of what you think and say. While driving remember that the other drivers on the road are not out to get you. They likely don’t even know you and that being said they are not driving with you in mind. So anything they do is not a direct reflection on you are or about you. Take you mind off the drag of driving in traffic and listen to a book on cd or you favorite music. Don’t listen to the news or the drama of the state of the world this will add to your overload. The choice to be stressed and at what level you operate from the stress is yours once you become conscious of it. You can’t blame your stress on others as they really have no control over you unless you give it to them. List the thing in your life that are good and loving. This will lower stress almost at once. Say the word YES aloud until you can’t help but smile.Let’s talk about your sleep for a sec.
The three stages of your sleep cycle are as follows. The first third of the sleep cycle is wishful thinking. Even though you are not conscious, the critical core is going through the sorting phase and in that stage the mind looks at all the information that has accumulated throughout your day. During this stage the mind does a random bit of organization of your info. Therefore, call wishful thinking. (I did not name this stage.) The second stage is the precognitive stage. It happens in second third of your sleep cycle. This is when the critical core’s filing is done and a projection of possibilities is ascertained in the mind. Part of the job of the subconscious is to keep you in the known. The unknown no matter how painful or destructive is not safe to the unconscious mind. So during this stage the information that has similarities to the beliefs in the sub-conscious mind are grouped a prediction is made as to possible outcomes. This is totally a safety mechanism but a very cool one. If you analyze your dreams these are the dreams you want to stick with they will yield the most information and you will be able to learn what you are holding on to and why. During the last phase of your sleep cycle the scrapes that are left in the critical core and the information that was not able to be matched to already existing beliefs are vented out. Usually you will recognize these dreams as being weird and full of scraps of information or things you saw or heard they feel disjointed and they do not flow like in the precognitive stage. These dreams occur just before waking in the morning. There is no real information to get from these dreams. So you can ignore them. So let me leave you with this thought. Stress can be like a comfortable friend that talks about you behind your back, but because you have grown accustomed to that type of friendship it is more comfortable then changing things. Stress can make you feel alone disconnected, misunderstood, self-righteous, and angry, sometime volatile. Meditation and trance, hypnosis and gratitude can change the effects of stress and bring you to a calm place of knowing. So what is stopping you?Here is a link to our sleep and dream center you may find the info very interesting. Your comments and questions are always welcome. And if you have a blog subject you think would be interesting send me a note at info@lifefirst.com.
May We All Be As One! Rhonda R. CarpenterPosted: August 18th, 2008 under Weekly Blog.
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