One Quick Mental Trick To Combat Stress
Tags: Anxiety, Self, Self Love, Self Improvement, Stress

Stressors are all around us and at each stage of our lives, we worry roughly the same amount just with different things.

As a child, you might have to worry about making friends, having high grades and getting accepted into your dream college.

As a young adult, you have to worry about which career route to take, finding a job, and finding a suitable romantic partner.

As a middle-aged person, you have to worry about paying for your mortgage, making sure your children are safe and well, and keeping your job.

As an elderly person, you have to worry about your failing health, whether you saved up enough for retirement, and how your family is doing.

We are stressed about different things at different stages of our lives. We can’t outrun stress, they are a part of human existence.

Inevitably we may fall victim to stress and we start to lose sleep and become anxious over little things. Anything can trigger us into a downward spiral of depression.

What if I told you there is a simple way to combat stress? Whenever you feel overwhelmed with stress think this,

“It’s going to be alright in the end”

I know it sounds simple but you really have to believe it.

Stress comes from thinking of the worst-case scenario and we strive to do as much as we could as best as we could now without concern over our mental state.

Breathe. Take it slow. It’s going to be alright in the end.

Some of you need the constant reminder of the ultimate resolution and that’s is, it’s going to be okay.

Sometimes it can be hard to believe that everything will be alright. We have good reasons to not believe that sometimes. However, it’s really not about the probability of things turning out the way we want to but knowing that whatever happens, we’ll be able to deal with it.

Bad times just like good times are temporary. When it is good, we should cherish it and experience it as much as we could. When there’s bad, we should trust that it’ll pass. Sometimes its impact can persist long after the main event has ended. However, there’s always light at the end of the tunnel.

While you’re in the dark, it’s hard to trust that it’ll get any better and it does. You just have to believe that.

We often stress because we imagine the worst, we also stress because we think it won’t get easier, or we stress because we think it makes us look busy, as though we had tried.

A busy person doesn’t have to look busy. An efficient person doesn’t have to stress to get things done.

Remember that whenever you are stressed you should remind yourself that you’ll be able to take on whatever comes your way. You can only control so much so you should leave the rest to the hands of god or fate.

What you are able to control as I guess you’ve already realized is how you respond to the stimuli. You can choose to stress out over it and let it take over your life. Or, you could take one small step at a time. Any small step is the progress made. Don’t worry about the long-term outcome, just focus on the now. Just focus on what you can control right at that moment. Tell yourself “it’s going to be okay in the end”. I hope we can all practice telling ourselves this whenever we feel stressed. Cheers!