How often do you find yourself at the edge of your ability to cope with daily stress? Do you find that irritability is cyclical? Or do you just reach a point of fatigue where the tiniest little thing that goes wrong sets you off?
How often do you find yourself at the edge of your ability to cope with daily stress? Do you find that irritability is cyclical? Or do you just reach a point of fatigue where the tiniest little thing that goes wrong sets you off?
It seems obvious that if you feel a great amount of stress you’re likely to feel cranky. But have you ever stopped to wonder why it is that you can’t keep the bad mood at bay and deal with the thing that is stressing you out? Life would be easier if the stress response worked to motivate you to confront a stressful issue and leave it behind rather than stew in the resulting bad mood. Byron mentions the correlations between stress, energy and mood in his article.
Byron describes stress as a kind of friction. This is such an effective idea for the way stress feels when you’re experiencing it. Like Velcro or two pieces of sand paper rubbing together. Stress feels corrosive and wears you down unless your defenses are stronger than the stress.
Have you ever had a day where things felt easy? Like tasks that are tedious and mundane have a certain flow to them that makes them seem almost fun? This is the opposite of stress. Are you doing anything so different days you experience stress? Or are you just not capable of finding that flow? Your body had the nutrients it needed to support your mood and all the necessary processes at first.
Your body takes care of the basics: keep the heart pumping, the lungs breathing…mood gets the leftovers. If you ensure there are leftovers leftover even after your mood is fed you’re in good preventative shape.
It’s possible to set up the framework for having that sense of ease in the midst of stressful moments. Here are some suggestions that Byron also recommends in his article: Daily Energy Multi, Stress Helper, Thyroid Helper, RelaxaMag.
