STRESS (LIFE IS PROGRESSIVE SERIES)

Blessings to you and yours this beautiful Wednesday morning.

We left off last week on the issue of ensuring you have the LIFE which must be in place if progress is your desire. I honestly wonder how many dead and buried men/women are making progress in the grave? So if you must make progress, you must make sure that you take care of your life intensively.

Then we asked a question, HOW DO WE TAKE CARE OF OUR LIVES? The 1st answer we gave was the need to STOP STRESSING.

Stress:
Your emotional condition determines a lot when it comes to the kind of life you want to live. There are hormones in our system that transmit healthier conditions or the opposite, determining on the emotional platform from which the hormones are released.

Negative emotions (which results to a lot of things including STRESS) release hormones that become harmful to our health while positive emotions do the opposite. Amazingly, adrenaline which is a major hormone being released is not bad in and of itself. It's like two edged sword, and this is why it's called a fight or flight hormone. For instance it helps you to fight(work) when work is needed but you are expected to run, fly(flight) when work is done if not the same adrenaline that is helpful becomes harmful by producing STRESS and other negative emotions.
 

Finally, like I said last week, if you want to deal with stress, live within your means. Don't borrow to impress anybody. Contentment, which is an extremely important virtue, has been ignored by many in their quest to prove a point but what they don't know is that subtly, THEY ARE SERIOUSLY STRESSING! People are not looking at you the way you think they are. Be yourself!

Let me end it today by adding that happiness is another way to deal with stress. You have to have JOY like a river in your soul. Joy is a positive emotion that releases hormones for healthier living.
> Go everyday smiling and not frowning.
> Go everyday excited and not exasperated.
> Go everyday loving and not hating.
> Stop the stress! Live long! We need you!
Blessings!!

...@A'000Thoughts, @superioriyke @PstIyke