With all of the stressful situations in the world today, one of the most needed things we can incorporate into our lives is stress reduction techniques.
Raise your hand if you've been feeling stressed. On today's episode, I get to talk to you about 11 stress relieving tactics I have used to feel more relaxed and less stress in my life. My life has been crazy lately, and I'm sure yours has been too.
Welcome to another episode of Tamara's Takeaways. Last week, I had the opportunity to interview Abel Keogh. And he lost his wife when he was very young in their marriage. But one of the things Abel commented on was one of the things that got him up and out of bed when he was stressed and grieving was this pull to get up and run. That was one of the things in his routine. And it was something that helped him, get up, get moving and process the stress one more day.
I had an interesting thing happen yesterday. I have an accountability call with a few fellow authors every Monday morning, and we report how we did last week with our goals and we talked about our goals for the next week. But I told my fellow authors, "I have been feeling an extraordinary amount of stress lately. Then I asked, "How many of you have been feeling stressed?" Almost every hand went up. And what surprised me about that was that so many people are under an extreme amount of stress, not only with the pandemic going on and the racial violence and rioting going on. Every time you turn around, there seems to be one more challenge one more complication. And this doesn't even include the challenges we're having in our own personal lives, with our families, and relationships. So there is a lot of stress prevalent right now.
And I found that in the last couple of weeks with this burden of stress, I've had to start consciously thinking of and working on ways that I can personally relieve stress--just like Abel found running as one of his go-to outs to relieve stress.
So today I'm going to give you 11 ways I have proven over the last many years of my life which have helped me relieve stress. Some of them you may have used before and some of them you may not have ever used before. So I hope that they will be helpful to you in the stresses that you are encountering on a daily basis. Please share them with friends who are stressed out as well.
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." ~ Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not new. It's been around since Adam and Eve. Praying can help us develop a relationship with God who will guide us and help us through any challenge or stress we may face in life. Prayer gives us the opportunity to express gratitude, but to also invite God's Spirit into our lives. And having the Spirit can help us maybe think of ways to manage stressful situations in our lives that we maybe hadn't thought of before. The great thing is because God is smart and all-knowing, He can help us with these things.
Max Lucado said, "Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty."
I have found solutions to problems just in the last couple weeks to challenges that I've been facing. Ideas will just pop into my brain, maybe not praying, but later in the day in a quiet moment. So pray.
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." ~ Jim Rohn
When I have stress, it seems I feel it like big ball in my stomach area. It's almost like this hard rock of energy that I need to get out of my body.
I woke up Monday morning feeling particularly stressful. And since I was up before everybody else, I thought, I have got to pray...
