Permission To Think

Few things so entirely represent the power of our own minds than Stress.

While stress can refer to physical strain or auditory emphasis, the most common use of the word relates to the following definition: Importance or significance attached to a thing.

What is implied with that, and the point I’d like to stress (ha), is that the importance or significance attached to this “thing” is man made, and thus man controlled. Being that Stress is a mental occurrence with physical consequences, it stands to reason that being able to control that occurrence would be tremendously beneficial.

The good news? Controlling its occurrence is as simple as choosing not to let it happen.

Think about it. Most of the time that we experience stress, it is because we are worried. More specifically, we are worried about things that we feel like we can not control.

While we might be upset about not being in control of something in our own lives, we must also understand that allowing stress to make us sick about this fact is only adding to the problem. My favorite example regarding this has to do with being in an airport. When a flight is significantly delayed, the most common reaction to this news is stress. We worry about what time we will be home. Perhaps there were plans that relied on us being back by a certain time. All of this compounds together to “stress us out”. But my question is this: why?

We can not control that the flight is delayed. We can not control that this has caused what ever problems that it has. This is also not something we could have prevented. It is simply a fact, not open to opinion.

The trick is to accept this situation as an unfortunate fact as quickly as possible, and then carry on with your life. The only thing being stressed about it will achieve is to make you uncomfortable, unfocused, sick, and ruin your centered state of mind. It will improve nothing.

Quite simply: Stress is useless. Remove it from your life.