5 Tips to eliminate stress forever

At different stages, you may think you feel stressed and share stories about it. Listen to words and tenses you use to describe observations.   You may fear history will repeat or worry about what has not yet happened.  How do you keep your head above water?

Perhaps you also allow the mind to linger on missed opportunities because you felt something was too risky or you feared what would happen and got stressed.  Be attentive to how often you write and speak in the present tense.  Rest assured, life  exists beyond stress, and it is accessible to all.  Ponder these 5 tips to eiminate stress forever;

1) Let go of the past.  You cannot change the past so why spend your time thinking about it and talking about it? Watch what happens when people around you do this.  The pulse races, adrenalin kicks in and an emotional roller coaster can take over.  Know that a silent observer beyond brain and mental noise can shift your focus of attention. 

2) Stop worrying about the future.  Consider what happens as you allow thoughts to dwell on the future.  Fear encroaches.  Stay in the present moment and do what is necessary to prepare your mind for any challenges you may face around the corner.

3) Be a rubbish bin with a hole in the bottom.  Notice people dump their stories of frustration, imbalance, anger and pressure on you.  You can dwell onthem or allow them to pass through you.  Similarly, you can dwell on your thoughts and perceptions or focus attention beyond them.  Thinking about things reveals itself as the hard part. 

4) Explore meditation.  Allowing the mind to recell the feeling of emptying helps you trust that letting go of thoughts.  Notice the longer you hold onto a full glass of water (or something else), the heavier it gets.  Similarly, the longer you cling to memories of experiences and discuss them, the more they weigh you down.

5) Focus on the present moment.  Listen to the signs of the body.  Notice that you only get sick if you grow desensitized about what the body is telling you.  Notice the basic energy level of the brain and other body parts. Notice how often you ignore your body.  Notice how when you are kind and rest appropriately, you can perform to a very high standard.  Without rest, you are inefficient.

 “Be gentle first with yourself if you wish to be gentle with others.” -Lama Yeshe

Comments

[Jannie Funster]

All wonderful, of course, Dear Liara.

I think of number four as it relates to me emptying out my poem blog drafts. Sometimes I have a few in states of non-finish, thinking I'll come back and improve upon them. It is very freeing to read them once again, then delete, opening up the heart for new poems. Hanging onto what does not serve well is that glass of water getting heavier and heavier.

xo

[Liara Covert]

Jannie, everything is weighless unless the mind decides otherwise. Everything flows freely unless the mind prompts you to cling or attach to it. Everything has your equal attention unless the mind convinces you that something is more important than another. Everything is what it is unless the mind defines it, puts time constraints on it or otherwise exerts effort to pin it down in perceived space.

[Bernie]

Another meditation is to hold a glass of water and imagine that more water is being filled into the container. Suddenly, the container begins overflowing into the environment and into one's surroundings until the water fills into everything. One's mind then is no longer on the weight of the container. It is however on everything. Since one then is everything, then there is nothing to hold onto anymore. This can also be done with any physical task. If one is walking, people fixate on the body and their contractions and pain. However, if they switch the channel and become the entire scene they are taking in as they walk, the mind and the thoughts are no longer putting its negative instructions creating the weightiness and negative outlook of one's body. Instead they become the beauty and the wholeness and acceptance of everything that fills their senses and inner scene.

Another idea about the body is that it has been ignored. One can then pay attention to the body and then prescribe a vision or dream for the body to follow. Having provided a common vision for each cell component to follow, one can release and trust the body to follow the dreamers vision and goal. In this way, the body has moved into a conscious collective state and can be let go of knowing that every component is on the same page. The dreamer then can go into other dimensional landscapes by letting go of the body and other layers of the energy body by creating new intentions of explorations that are beyond the body.

[Hilary]

Hi Liara .. I was talking to a friend .. she is worrying and after a chat - she said she wished she could have my philosophy and approach to life .. thank goodness I've thrown off anxiety and worry - in the main ... as someone said they can't shoot you - I needed to recall that at times.

Cheers Hilary

[Liara Covert]

Bernie, the container itself only seems to be growing indefinitely and never overflows. On one level, no container exists, only everything and nothing in every form and formless state. Meditate on that whihc cannot be seen, described or felt.

[Liara Covert]

Hilary, you always invite precisely what you require and allow into your scope of awareness. I love these 4 Agreements highlighted by Don Miguel Ruiz:
Be impeccable with your word.
Don't take anything personally.
Don't make assumptions.
Always do your best.