Want to feel free, happy, full of life and stress free?
Many of us put on a brave face, but If you’re honest, you’ll recognise that at some point you have felt upset or frustrated at work.
If you’re feeling overly stressed or worried and can’t turn off that constant chatter in your head, you have found the key that forces you to make a choice.
Do I continue feeding these never-ending thoughts and feelings of fear, hate, sadness, despair, anger, jealousy or resentment that gnaw away at me or do I make the choice to actively change my pattern and let it go?
Constantly thinking and talking about what’s going wrong in your life can wear you down and drain your energy. If you’re not able to successfully cut it off at the socks, it will often lead to feelings of victimhood, helplessness and depression or outbursts of anger and rage.
It’s important to acknowledge what is going on but you also need to get off the merry go round of “woe is me” and give yourself a break; from yourself.
When you’ve hit the pause button, taken a break and created some distance between yourself and the triggers stressing you, only then you can come back with clarity and powerfully tackle solving the problem from the level of logic and reason.
Some things I find useful to do when taking a break from myself are:-
· Seeing a movie
· Reading a book
· Going to the footy
· Doing some colouring in, or
· Playing sport.
The key is to do something that stops your thoughts and takes you away from you worries.
Make sure to do this with the commitment and knowing that you are going to come back refreshed and ready to find a solution for whatever has been bothering you.
At this point it might be helpful to enlist the services of a professional coach or counsellor to guide you and challenge your thinking. Getting another perspective can help you reframe what’s going on and get you on track to creating a plan of action.
So what is it?
Do you want to continue to blame others for the situation you find yourself in and revel in the juice and attention you get from feeling victimised? Or, do you want to take the action required to change the situation?
Own your power, the choice is yours and you are free to make it.
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