Stress Management Lesson

We finally got to hear the lecture on stress management at the cardiac rehab program I go to.

I was happy to know that I had already been doing quite a few of the measures that the instructor recommended.

We come back to the breathing techniques, yoga for relaxation, visualization, Diet, exercise, change of attitude, massage and also what is called self-talk.

 This list seems long to most people but let me assure you that when you get busy and begin to incorporate these techniques into your daily life they will become automatic to you and if you miss doing them your mind will tell you that something in your day is missing.

 Yes we are allowed to be imperfect and skip a day or forget but these things can become habits too and work at sabotaging our efforts to eliminate stress.

Our minds can trick us and the old patterns are strongly ingrained so there may be a feeling of resistance.

As with any knew thing we introduce into our lives it is different from our normal routine and just learn to recognize the feelings of resistance and keep forging ahead with whatever technique or program you are working on.

As the story goes, it is true that practice makes perfect and the daily repetitive actions we do will become as familiar to us as the old negative patterns we are leaving behind.

Commitment to change, making a decision and taking action will produce results.

Believe this and keep talking to yourself about how great everything is going. This type of positive affirmation is very important in the retraining of your thought process.Here are some of the ways we sabotage ourselves and keep stress in our lives.