4 Reminders to Help Reduce Stress in Challenging Times

Here are four reminders to remember when you’re feeling stressed and to utilize for your next meditation or journal practice.

1) Everything is Temporary. ~ Universal Truth. The only consistent in life is change.  Think of an ice cube having the ability to become water, and egg hatching, wounds healing.  This too shall pass.

2) Life happens for you, not to you. ~ Tony Robbins. If you ever remember a challenging time in the past, you will likely see there was a reason, a lesson.  Humility and strength do not come when things are easy.

3) Muddy water is best cleared when left alone. ~ Alan Watts.  Sometimes the best thing we can do is nothing.  We can see challenging times as an opportunity to get silent, allow space and time to naturally evolve.  Nature always knows what to do.

4) “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” ~ Cynthia Ocello.  In order for a muscle to become stronger, stress and muscle damage must occur.  Just like chronic stress, too much complacency can be a bad thing as well.  Stress in small doses teaches us to evolve.