Financial Stress
Hey there Healthy Self-ers
Hope this post finds you well.
Just a quick post on financial stress and what looks to be a promising ‘remedy’ – we are a health site.
As you know I’ve been developing an alternative stress management program called Living Calm. The other big things that have been happening in our world are financial. To cut a long story short, we have had a string of financial dramas, including being made redundant. The redundancy was a real shock – but I am not sure why because so many colleagues and friends have lived with it – it’s kind of ‘normal’ – except when it happens to you…
Living Calm
Hullo Healthy Self Subscribers
Long time! I hope this well note finds you and yours well.
Firstly, I need to apologise for disappearing from the blog. Let me explain. I’ve been working intensively creating the program “Living Calm” which is, at its simplest, a ‘stress management’ program, and it is SO much more than that. Living calm takes a totally different approach to stress and living calm than any other program I’ve seen – and I’ve seen a few.
You know I NEVER intended to write Living Calm. What happened was, I was working on a whole other program when I was asked to give a talk at an expo. The talk was on stress and natural medicine. I decided to go back to the literature to check for any changes in stress theory since I learned about it some 25 years ago. Well, that decision turned my life upside down – it literally changed EVERYTHING. Long story short, not only did I see my own health story described in a theory I didn’t know existed I also LEARNED that what I’d been ‘taught’ about stress is just one part of a MUCH larger picture, a picture that has huge ramifications for us all. On the basis of this ‘new’ knowledge I concluded that to really make a difference in our lives i.e. to live better/calmer, we need to understand stress differently to how we currently do. I was shocked to learn that no one is really talking about stress the way the Doctor who discovered it 80+ years ago did, which I believe, is a huge disservice to us all. I decided I had to step up. And so 12+ months later here I am with a lot of information (about an issue I never intended to research) and a new program (I never intended to write)…huh?…you think you’re confused…
Stress – a normal part of living?
We all know that Stress is a normal part of living. In fact Hans Selye, the ‘father of stress theory’ went so far as to say “if you have no stress in your life you are dead”. But only few of us really understand just how destructive the effects of prolonged stress can be on our overall health. Many of us just accept long term stress as the cost of living in the 21st century. But as you will see prolonged stress comes with a steep price. How much are you prepared to pay? And what if I told you there is another real option?
As natural health practitioner I am 100% committed to working with clients to manage stress and reduce its harmful effects. I understand the impact not dealing appropriately with stress has on our bodies and psyches. I see it every day in clinic it is a major catalyst for illness and dis-ease. In this article I discuss my understanding of stress and how it affects you and your health long term. Stay tuned for part two because I discuss some techniques from a stress relief system I have developed; ‘living calm’. Mix and match these techniques to suit your lifestyle and reap the rewards in your health and quality of life.
Focus On What You Want
This post is written specifically for anyone not living the life they have dreamed of. If you are living the perfect life then surf on and see you next week. If not, then maybe we can help. Let us share with you something we are working with – again… the principle of the Law of Attraction or focusing on what you want. OK – busted… I have been re-watching The Secret and it’s something I should have done ages ago. You know when you kinda half remember something and then when you are reminded of it you are like – ‘oh yeah – why did we ever stop doing that? Well that was how I was with the Law of Attraction/ The Secret.
I was half applying the principles of The Secret for years and then wondering why it seemed to work sporadically. Then as I was watching it, again, I remembered some things; snippets from my past which were reminders that I had always at one level or another, believed and lived by the ideas of the secret. For example, I remember when I was as young as about seven I was playing ping pong with my older brother and one of his friends – they were about 19 yrs old at the time. Anyway my brothers friend broke my bat. Our family did not have much (any) money. The ping pong set was a gift and so very precious; I was heartbroken. The boy promised to replace it. He didn’t have money either. After they left, my Mother, in an attempt to save me from being disappointed said “don’t be upset – he will not replace the bat” which on the face of the situation seemed pretty reasonable.
I knew better – I had (as Lisa Nichols puts it in the film) unwavering faith – I knew, like I knew, like I knew he would replace it. Anyway he visited three or four times after and each time he visited I would be quietly expectant and he’d said “I’ll bring it next time“. After each visit my Mother would repeat her ‘comforting mantra’ and I would repeat mine. It became a piece of theater. By the time the boy left after his fourth visit Mum got cranky with me because I “did not learn”. True, at this you could understand why she thought I was bring “silly” and I held my belief. Anyway on the fifth visit he brought the bat – just as I knew he would. My mother was surprised to say the least – though I don’t remember her saying anything afterwards. I didn’t care – I just knew… and sometimes things just take a little longer than you think they should 
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