Stressed Out?
March 2, 2010 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under emotional health, health and wellness
This came at a really good time.
Migraine headache.
Trying to play superwoman playing handyman. On my way to play superwoman moonlighting as a worldwide entrepreneur (in my own mind!)
That’s when I’m taking a break from the grind of the 9 to (much later than) 5 and family commitments.
This works most days, but contents are always under pressure.
Perhaps I’m afraid to “let go” as I’m afraid no one will have a handle on it. If I don’t, who will?
John Morton, writing at the Huffington Post, encourages me to simplify and let go of the stress:
In terms of the materiality in the world and the way that technology is functioning today, there’s so much available to us that was never available before. What I once could count on the fingers of my hand are now thousands of things of which I could get involved. So much so, the choices are overwhelming. Since we can’t choose it all, how do we choose?
We just choose according to the values that govern our life. That’s the best way. Those values are on track with our loving, our caring, our compassion, our grace, and our ease. You might say, “How could anybody be graceful and at ease with the phone ringing and the beeper going off , and then there’s ten messages I haven’t answered, and I’ve got a hundred e-mails to return? How do I do all those things? I can’t keep up with it all, and it’s getting more and more all the time!”
Keep the principles that govern your life steady, and those principles will take care of you. They’ll govern it all for you. Let go and let God and do what’s in front of you. And do the best you can with it. That’s all you can really do. And if you find something gets beyond you, then good riddance! Realize it’s okay if you couldn’t handle something. Whatever that was, just move on to what’s next for you.
Keep reading John Morton’s article at The Huffington Post. And wish me luck!
