STRESS - The EFFECTIVE CURE

Relax at the beach!

Yes, that's an obvious stress reducer, but we can't be at the beach all of the time.

A lot of mental stress is trivia - mental trivia: people get themselves into a roundabout state of mental focusing upon problems, worries and then engaging in a mental groove turning the issues around inside their minds, this can be stressful mentally and even physically debilitating. Many people can be at the beach relaxing; apparently, but with their minds running away with the inner dialogue of internal discussions about their worries, repeating lists of things to do, regurgitating their problems, all going around in their head: it all ads to the anxiety matrix in the mind.

When you do activities both physical and mental that have some value, then; the trivial mental regurgitations and recapitulations of the mind when it has been allowed to set its own agenda in free fall, can overridden and the negative stress is dispelled. Now much of this negative stress can be put down to the internal dialogue that happens within our minds. This is a concept that may be new to you. Its hardly ever mentioned in psychology or in therapy techniques; maybe because its so obvious and always there that it gets no attention from external observation.

Its interesting to note that much of our minds chattering is trivia. When we stretch ourselves through active effort, like when we have a hard task to do, work, new objectives, new responsibilities, emergencies and so on, then we become far less involved with trivial matters; this can be observed in yourself and with others. When such trivia disappears, even temporarily we can often get things done that prior to shaking ourselves out of our former state we might have thought it unachievable. And as a result our stress disappears also!

Most stress is generated by an almost unconscious worry state of the mind; because we are 'in it' we do not observe it.

There is no quick cure - some methods work for some people, whilst others gain no benefit from similar practices, but this is no reason to give up; it takes time and needs patience but the eventual pay off will be worth it. There is no single formula that works the same way for everyone, try a few approaches and techniques, there are even machines that can assist: these are listed below. So find a comfortable option that feels good, one that works and brings about a calmer mind: every problem begins in the mind!