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It seems that every year is met with the same disappointment for
the past year and then hope for the new year. The disappointment for the
past year seems to be directly proportional to the amount of uncertainties
experienced in the previous year.
And those uncertainties are generally proportional to the financial
and personal losses suffered during the previous year.
Yet, if we can live in the moment, the financial and personal
losses don't impact our attitudes.
It's like the study psychologists did with
two ten year old boys. One boy came from a well-to-do
background and the other ten year old was from a poverty background. The
psychologist put the boy from a well-to-do background in a room full of
the most advanced toys and the boy from a poverty background in a room
full of broken toys. They left the boys alone for a half hour after which
they found the boy from a well-to-do background sitting in a chair kind of
disappointed. They asked him why he was disappointed, and he replied, "I
already have all these toys, I thought you'd have something new and neat."
They found the boy from a poverty background excitedly going
through the broken toys and were surprised. They asked him why he was so
excited and he replied, "With all this crap around here, there has to be
something good someplace and I'm going to find it."
This is truly a model for any stress management training exercise.
You add this to the basic stress management techniques such as deep
breathing, muscle awareness, exercise, and so on.
I like to remember that story and often wish I could be more
effective myself in adopting that attitude on a day-to-day basis. It truly
is the challenge and if each of us could do it, we'd be much healthier and
happier. Of course you might think it's impracticable, but I suggest that
that is merely your limiting beliefs forming that attitude.
We start off each new year with hope and promise that somehow gets
side tracked a few months later because we are deficient in motivational
thoughts.
Ultimately the answer is in creating a shift in our attitudes so
that in the midst of "crap" or disappointment, we can we can be excited
about finding something good.
From a stress management training basis, there are two basic things
that stand in the way of our doing this:
1. Our self limiting beliefs such as not deserving or our inability
to do something.
2. Lack of using affirmations or tools to develop prosperity
consciousness. Being in prosperity doesn't mean that disappointments don't
happen, it's that instead of being drowned by disappointment that instead
we capitalize on them.
What about the stress of dealing with uncertainty? Answer: As you
acknowledge it and choose to embrace it you use your affirmations to
navigate through uncertainty. The end result is that instead of being glad
to get rid of last year, you're pleased and happy with last year. Sure you
look forward to the new year--but it's with the same excitement that you
looked forward to in each of the last 52 weeks.
To empower your motivational thoughts there are two tapes/cd for
self help programs--Affirmations and Prosperity that can make a huge
difference in your life.
Of course famous resolutions for the new year are to lose weight
and stop smoking or some other hurtful habit. Instead of doing it with
hope of something like medications or shakes/gum doing it for you, look to
affirmations--not that you won't also use the shakes or gum.
A New Years' resolution that can't lead you astray is to use
affirmations--motivational thoughts--every day--they reprogram your
intelligence and vibrate with source to provide prosperity and health--the
best sort of stress management training so each new year brings you the
best of the year possible.
Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E., NGH certified is
a prominent figure in the field of stress management and personal change
with his best selling hypnosis and stress management cds at
http://www.DStressDoc.com and http://www.PanicBusters.com. He aims to
raise awareness as to how using basic stress management skills promote
health. To find out more please visit
http://www.dstressdoc.com/Affirmations.htm
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