Monday morning seems like a great
time to talk about stress. The
weekend is over and we are back to work, laundry, traffic, and vegetables. The alarm goes off; we are alarmed. Sometimes in the midst of that alarm,
we find it difficult to remember that we have choices.
Advanced yogis and holy people
and dogs (these groups may overlap) may insist that really we can choose
whether or not to be stressed.
Speaking for myself, I’m not that cool yet. The choices I am talking about pertain to what we do about
our stress.
We can swear, drink, eat ice
cream, jump up and down, run around the block, turn up the music, invent creative
insults for our stress people, procrastinate, meditate, take a bath, rearrange
the furniture. Some of those options
are better than others. Let’s pick
the best ones, the ones that make us calmer, nicer, stronger, and more
resilient. Our bodies and minds
will appreciate us for it.
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