I learned that stress is a response to a circumstance or event that threatens and taxes one’s coping abilities. Regarding the issue of stress management, Ptolemy Tompkins would say, in The Book of Answers, those extreme forms of emotional behavior or responses create discomfort in one’s psyche. Steve Covey would state, in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, that one should be mentally self conscious in order to acknowledge that they can choose a response to a given stimulus. This is termed-emotional intelligence. An emotionally intelligent person recognizes a negative stimulant from an analytical rather than emotionally driven point of view. I love our comedians because as much as they bring out the lighter side of life, they do it with such wit that the stresses of life end up seemingly bearable. Perhaps, we dwell so much on outside forces that we have no control over to a point where our stress management is lowered to exhaustion.
Well, anything that deals with the problem is much better than having to stress about how one is actually going to deal with him or herself-alone-in silence-right?
I have even gone as far as drafting a personal constitution. This constitution sums up all the ethics that I value the most. This personal constitution is my source of self-regulation and meditation as I can assess myself according to whether I am aligned with my wants or not. Would you agree that without a form of spirituality, our sense of happiness and intrinsic balance is in a state of war?
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