Reduce Stress Analyzing Your Life

"Reduce Stress" are the keywords of different newsletters I received this week. It was a surprise for me since I thought that this theme is more appropriate for "cold" seasons. Now, when all the persons go on the beach and pass all the free time swimming and spoiling themselves with sunbathes, stress is really the last thing to think about. These were the arguments I had. But those who send me all those newsletters think differently, as it's possible to deduce.

Well, I decided to try benefits from this stream of "stress-reducing" information and write a kind of summary to have these remedies always available in my blog.

First of all, we have to find real sources that provoke stress and it means that we have to analyze our behaviour when we feel we are stressed.

Example.
I began to cry when my ... did something wrong.
Was it the real source of my anger? No, I was just nervous.
Why was I so nervous? Because I was offended.
Why was I offended? Because the neighbour said I look terribly this morning.
Why said she so to me? Because she is always happy to make me suffer.
Why so? Because she has terrible husband who treats her very bad. She suffers and wants to make suffer others to balance the energies.

It's very sad that we can't stand these persons and continue the chain of malice shifting the negative energies we received from others to those who is weaker than we are. In this case making suffer our children, husbands, friends.

What is interesting in this situation: we do not understand often that we continue the behaviour of those persons that try to offence us.

And, believe me, I've just used this method with food allergies and stress, such analyze can solve the problem.

:-))) My husband learned it immediately and does not worry if he knows that the source of my stressed behaviour is not he. In case I am not tolerable, he says me something like this: Do you think still about that person? My mind turns back from the abyss of the resentment and I can have normal reactions.

As Buddhism teaches, it's important to become aware about our state. It's the first step on the way to convalescence.


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What Actually Works if We Want to Reduce Stress?

Do you have your favorite remedy to reduce stress? I'll try to guess... Ice-cream or a bag of potato chips? And, since we feel or are stressed every day, we abuse them so that it's possible to define this excessive use sugar and fat addiction and put them in the same row with drug and alcohol addictions (I wrote about it in my previous post sugar addiction).

 

Unfortunately, it's not the best way to treat the stress.

Here is the approximate list of the more healthy solutions:

It's difficult to sleep when we are stressed but if you sleep 7-8 hours per night you become more happy person. At place of the classic sheeps, create a mala for you and count your breath or mantras concentrating your attention on the beads of your mala. This behaviour can become "addiction" but it really works perfectly to calm your mind and to have more calm sleep.



Next is clearly a healthy diet. It's not so bad to eat only salads every day in summer, you know...

 

And, finally, cultivate your favorite active hobbies. Something you do with great pleasure.

 

Negative Energies in Your Life -Clean Them!

Do you believe in evil eye and other ways to hurt you with negative energies? As a modern person, I do not believe in all this things. But... Sometimes the events of the life are so that you begin to think something is really true in all it. And... maybe go to the "specialists" who are simple charlatans. Often. Very often. In Italy, there were different great scandals in the last period when false magicians were discovered. Unfortunately, they had enough time to damage persons who looked for help. They asked always bigger and bigger sums to continue their "treatments" and threatened their clients when they wanted to close with that "help".

But the negative energies are real and they can damage us.

Once I had a very hard period in my life. It seemed, all the forces of the world are against me. I had an impression that I FEEL the air of negativity around me...


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I asked my grandy what can I do to cleanse all this negativity? She answered: wash all your flatware in salted water.

I remembered this story when I read an article about negative energies cleansing that I received in a mail today. There was an advice to clean them with salt, too. The method, described there, is to wash yourself in a bath with sea salt dissolved in the water and think all the negativities go away with the water when you open the plug.

An other advice is to use medical herbs basil, lavender, peppermint, rosemary, sage and/or cinnamon in anny way you like: infusion, incense or bath.

Burn juniper, sage, lavender or thyme.

But the most simple way is, maybe, always the way of salt. Put it in a cup or in a plate and leave it in the room you want to purify at least one our before you have to stay in it.