How can we reduce our anxiety and stress, it may be more simple than you might think, have a read of this to see if it resinates with you.
These magical words have profoundly transformed my life and today I want to share my story with you.
Like many others I have always been searching for a way to reduce stress and pain in my life, whether it be mental, physical or emotional.
Often I have felt overwhelmed and have a deep sense that I can not handle what life is throwing at me.
In those times of challenge over the past 25 years I have visited a very wise man who is also my dear friend.
He always said to me ‘Sandra the pain is in the story’ which to be honest has taken me many years to unpick and fully understand.
What it actually means is when I am in ‘my story’ of what has happened in the past and what might possibly happen in the future THAT is the place where most of my pain is.
When I worry about what life might throw at me in the future ,with all its uncertainties and if I fret about the past which I cannot change I start to feel PAIN.
Of course there is what I call ‘clean real pain’ which is in the now, perhaps a loss of a dear one, an incident, an event that brings pain in the moment . These are all pains that are real life ‘NOW’ pains which we need to feel and express, but the rest, as my dear wise friend says, are part of the ‘story’.
So now must be the time for the solution I hear you ask?
It may be a little simple to grasp but it is only in the NOW, this present moment ,that we will experience real peace.Staying focused on the ‘here and now ' really is a profound solution.
I am at present working with this as I have some pressures of the future coming that might be really difficult, but the truth is worrying about them now only brings me PAIN, anxiety and stress. The answer is to trust and deal with these situations as they arise.
I hope these 6 words transform your life as much as they have mine and bring you more peace.