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3 Crucial First Steps To Beating Stress
Christopher Green
If you're enduring a harrowing episode of stress, depression
or anxiety, then seeing light at the end of the tunnel can
be difficult. You just want the torment to stop. Here are
three steps you can take to start walking towards the light
today:
1. With many changes in life, the first step is the hardest
and taking the first step towards beating stress, depression
and anxiety is no different. It's accepting that where you
are now is solely down to you. This took me so long to realize
and for years, I believed circumstances caused my anxiety,
such as the timing of events, the number of events and the
people involved. I also thought that because these circumstances
were beyond my control, I couldn't do anything to change.
This thinking deepened my anxiety. But accepting that where
you're at right now is solely down to you is so important.
Initially, accepting it can seem overwhelming but in fact,
it's liberating. Why? Because when you accept that you are
responsible for where you are now, you also accept that logically,
you are the one who can get you out of it. There are always
events outside ourselves that we can point to as being the
reason for our plight. But doing this won't help. Instead,
say: "No matter what happened, no matter what others did or
didn't do. I and I alone am responsible for where I am now
and therefore, I will get myself out of it." Doing this will
remove the power external events and other people have over
you and will empower you instead. And please don't confuse
this with blame. This is accepting responsibility and developing
the power to change and is vastly different from blaming yourself.
One is destructive, the other is constructive and the difference
between them is crucial.
2. Make a firm decision to get rid of these problems. Say:
"I want to conquer stress/depression/anxiety. These things
are no longer acceptable and I'm going to take action to beat
them. I want them out of my life and I deserve to be free
of them." This is another great step to take. From now on
you will control these problems they won't control you. There
are many actions you can take and there are many skills you
can have in your power that will effectively diminish the
torment stress, depression and anxiety inflict upon you. And
when you have them in your power, the quality of your life
will improve dramatically. In taking this step, you acknowledge
that stress, depression and anxiety aren't problems that you
have to put up with and instead, you have the power to conquer
them. You also realize that you deserve to live a happy and
enjoyable life and that stress, depression and anxiety WILL
NOT take that away from you. Indeed, you have a right to be
happy and you will no longer allow anything or anyone to take
that away from you.
3. The self-improvement gurus have been sharing a secret with
their clients for years. It is a powerful secret that has
helped millions of people around the world to change their
lives. As my clients will testify, I don't believe in magic
bullets to conquer stress, depression and anxiety as they
rarely work. But this is a magic bullet that really does work
and it will yield big results for you.
Their secret?
If you change your thoughts you will change your life.
It's a simple sentence but my word does it hold power! Because
the way you think about your life - and I mean everything
in your life from your looks, your abilities, relationships,
work, to events and circumstances you are faced with - affects
how you feel. When you're suffering a stressful, depressive
or anxious episode, assigning negative meanings and outcomes
to your situation is performed habitually. Continually brooding
upon negative and even catastrophic outcomes is performed
by all sufferers and these flawed modes of thinking are the
fuel that maintains these problems. The more you think in
negative ways the deeper your suffering becomes. But if you
apply the secret of the self-improvement gurus, you can change
your life too. Because if you carry on doing the same things
- thinking in the same way - your life will carry on in the
same way. But if you change your thoughts, you will change
your life and you will emerge from the tunnel into a brighter,
happier future. It's true - change your thoughts, change your
life!
Former anxiety sufferer Chris Green is the author
of "Conquering Stress", the internationally acclaimed program
that will help you conquer stress, depression and anxiety
without taking powerful drugs in just 90 days. For more information
please click here => www.conqueringstress.com
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