This document discusses how stress affects our emotional balance and provides tips to manage stress. It defines stress as anything interfering with our smooth relationship with life. When faced with uncomfortable situations we doubt we can handle, we create stress. Our reaction, not the situation, creates the stress. Emotions are also explained as energy in motion that drive feelings like love, hate, and sorrow. The document lists common stressors like family, jobs, relationships and life changes. It describes physical signs of stress like tight muscles and discusses how stress impacts our thinking and spirituality. Simple ways to reduce stress mentioned are breathing, pampering oneself, spending time in nature, and listening to our heart over mental chatter. The key is becoming aware of our stress

1. Stress and Emotions
(How to Balance?)

2. An inspiration from Spiritual
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3. Take control of your consistent emotions and begin
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to consciously and
deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
deliberately reshape your daily experience of life
Anthony Robbins

4. Before we can see how stress affects
our emotional balance, we have to
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understand what stress is.

5. Simply put, it is anything that
interferes with the smooth
interrelationship we have with life.
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6. When we are faced with situations
we are uncomfortable with and have
we are uncomfortable with and have
doubt we can handle, we create
stress in our lives.

7. Is not the situation we are faced
with, but our reaction to it that
creates the stress.
creates the stress

8. Emotions must also be understood.
E‐motion, simply put, is energy in motion. It is
E motion, simply put, is energy in motion. It is
the feelings that drive us. Love. Hate. Joy.
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Sorrow. Reverence. These are all things we
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feel without conscious thought. It is how we
handle them that matters. Emotion has the
power to create physiological change and it is
extremely important that we master our own
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emotions to create the changes we choose.

9. There are many events that we create stress
about, and most of them are with us in
about and most of them are with us in
everyday life. Family relationships can set the
stage for tremendous stress. By family, I not
stage for tremendous stress By family I not
only speak of the biological family, but the
work family and the world family that we
work family and the world family that we
relate to every day.

10. Other common stressors may include school,
jobs, personal relationships and changes in
our lives, such as marriage, divorce, and the
loss of a loved one.

11. Some of the causes are inherent in everyday
life while others, such as acts of terrorism, are
seen less often, but are no less a challenge to
our health and emotional balance.

12. The first thing we notice about stress is what
it does to our physical bodies.
it does to our physical bodies

13. We create many obvious signs that show us
when we need to relax and quot;de‐stress.quot; Most
often, the first thing we do is hold our breath
and tighten our muscles.

14. By doing this, we block the energy in the
By doing this we block the energy in the
body and to the brain. This, over time,
creates physical ailments and distortions in
creates physical ailments and distortions in
our thought processes that will need medical/
holistic intervention.
holistic intervention

15. What do you do when you get stressed?
Do you find your neck aching and stiff?
Do you have headaches?
Are you unable to function?

16. There are many ways you will respond to
stressful situations and each of you has your
stressful situations and each of you has your
own unique ways of doing so.

17. What about the mind?
What about the mind?
Stress interferes with the natural use of the mind
and its thought processes. What you could
and its thought processes What you could
ordinarily do in ten minutes may take an hour. You
may lose focus on what you're doing and be
quot;somewhere else.quot; You may become depressed or
anxious about things you would normally love to do.
Your sleep patterns may be altered. You may find
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yourself in a circle of emotions that keeps going
around and around with no apparent way out.
around and around with no apparent way out

18. Stress also affects the spiritual perspective. What
was once taken for granted now becomes
was once taken for granted now becomes
paramount. quot;Why is this happening?quot; is a very
common question to those under stress. If there is a
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belief in a higher power, quot;Why is He/She doing this
to me?quot; will be the question. Everyone wants to
either blame something, or connect with that
magical power that will save us and fix it for us.

19. What does this do to our emotional balance?
It is very easy in the presence of stress to get
It is very easy in the presence of stress to get
caught in a quot;loopquot; of emotions that keep us
re‐acting. We need to recognize when we are
re‐acting We need to recognize when we are
caught up in this circle and act consciously to
create a more desirable situation.
create a more desirable situation

20. For this we need to quot;Defusequot; the stress we
are creating.
are creating

21. Simple list of ways to do this.

22. 1. Breathe and relax the body. Lack of air and blocked energy
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will affect both your physical and mental/emotional being.
2. Pamper your emotional self. This may well be the most
2 Pamper your emotional self This may well be the most
important thing you will ever do for yourself!
Spend time with nature. Walk on a beach, in the forest, by a lake.
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Take a bubble bath.
Sit in a field and watch the birds. Listen to them; feel their presence.
Listen to soothing music.
Listen to soothing music
Have a massage.
Meditate.
Spend time with friends.
Spend time with friends
Meet with a spiritual advisor.

23. The list of ways to pamper yourself is endless,
so find what it takes for you to relax and
nourish your inner self. What makes you
joyful and feel less stressed? Experiment.
Follow your heart; it will always, always lead
you to what you need most at the time.

24. The emotional battle that stress creates is
between the heart and the head.
between the heart and the head

25. Listen to the heart and avoid the quot;chatterquot;
you hear from the mind.
you hear from the mind

26. When you hear the thoughts that tell you
that you quot;shouldquot; be doing anything other
than what your heart tells you, evaluate the
situation and choose to listen to your heart. It
may be the most important choice you have
ever made.

27. We need to become aware of our reactions to
stress and make new choices that will benefit
stress and make new choices that will benefit
us in all ways.

28. Without this awareness the cycle of stress
and unconscious reaction will continue to
and unconscious reaction will continue to
rule our lives.

29. With awareness we can make new choices,
and act instead of re‐act in patterns of old,
destructive behavior.

30. Take the time.

31. Make the time to become familiar with your
reaction to uncomfortable situations and
reaction to uncomfortable situations and
become the master of them.

32. You have a choice.

33. You can let them continue to rule you or you
can take back your power and live in harmony
can take back your power and live in harmony
with life.

34. Thank you,
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