Stress Principles

Stress is the same as anxiety.  The only feeling involved is fear.  Therefore, whenever you are feeling stress, you are anxious and when you are anxious you are afraid.  The definition of anxiety is a response to a perceived danger.  It does not have to be real, it can be imaginary.

"Where your focus goes, your energy flows."  What this means is that whatever you focus on, and the longer you focus on it, the more you will get of it.  For example, if you focus on something very negative, your mood will become sad, even depressed, and your energy will decrease.  Whereas if you focus on positive things, your mood will be positive and you will increase your energy level.

Most people typically only have so much psychological energy each day and if you waste it worrying about things, your energy will be drained to the point all you will want to do is lay on the couch and watch television.  Thus, it is very important to focus on that which is constructive and meaningful and not focusing on destructive and angry things that cannot help you.

Try to think of your brain as a computer and your mind as the software.  If you  tell yourself you are a bad person, your brain will register that as the truth; therefore, you will feel you really are a bad person.  On the other hand, if you tell yourself you are a good person, your brain will register that and you will see yourself as a good person.  Whatever you tell yourself, your brain will take it as the absolute truth and you will act the part.  Try never to call yourself negative names.  

We create our own reality by how we think.  We are the source of our own feelings.  Our feelings come from us.  What that means is we have the choice to feel either happy, sad, angry, or scared.  We create our own feelings and choose how we will react to any situation.  

We have to learn to get outside of our ego for we can never satisfy our ego.  We can never get enough money, power, or material things.  People who are depressed are generally people who cannot get outside of themselves and are constantly thinking of what they are going to do all the time.  

People who are very depressed have very little energy.  Their IQ can temporarily decrease as much as 25 IQ points, which means this person is functioning at a much lower level than he or she should be.  They find making decisions to be very hard and their judgement is poor.  Everything seems doom and gloom.  On the other hand, if you have a great deal of psychological energy you can actually increase, temporarily, your IQ.  Then everything seems so much easier and happier.

When we are too stressed, little things become big things.  When we are happy, we can disregard little things.  Fear is the architect of stress and is always the enemy.  

Remember always, "Where you focus goes, your energy flows."