We might say that we will eventually do those things we should be doing when the pressure is less, but it seems that we never really reach a very calm time at all.......probably because those things we are avoiding stress the heck out of us!
On one hand, I have several very imaginative ways of handling how stress affects me. I push it out of mind, stop thinking about it, diary write, throw up a counter program against it, release it, become a fatalist, play it into fantasy, and so forth.
But on the other hand, for all those methods above, they are something like a drug for after they do what they do, some component that is causing the stress is still there.
Maybe..........................because it could be that a lot of the stress we feel we cause ourselves. In a training program I was once in, we described the stress on the level of a train wreck. It was so high that it was possible for us in drills to jump to the wrong conclusion, do the wrong action. Driving to the course one morning (after a previous day's drill that I really screwed up), I decided that I wasn't going to worry about passing any more. I was going to learn what I could and if I had to repeat it, so be it. I released the stress and in an instant, it all dropped.
Now doing that isn't the perfect way because at that point, one is at the mercy of the fates. In that particular case, I turned my performance around, impressed my teachers, and passed. But there are other cases where no longer working about the point means surrendering all possibility of success.
Or I have a major op coming up. I've prepped as best I can for it, know it isn't perfect, but as that I can't do anymore, I am not going to get all wound up worrying about it. I'll handle it in stride the best I can if and when things start happening the wrong way.
But maybe, that's what it is all about. Stress is always there.......just like the atmosphere of the planet. It's how we allow it to interact with us and we cause our own high BP and grittery teeth.
OF COURSE, there is always carrying the neutralization of stress a bit too far as Kryten pointed out in "Rimmerworld":
" Are you of the school that, when faced with bad news, prefers to hear that news naked and unvarnished, or are you of the ilk that prefers to live in happy and blissful ignorance of the nightmare you're facing?"
On one hand, I have several very imaginative ways of handling how stress affects me. I push it out of mind, stop thinking about it, diary write, throw up a counter program against it, release it, become a fatalist, play it into fantasy, and so forth.
But on the other hand, for all those methods above, they are something like a drug for after they do what they do, some component that is causing the stress is still there.
Maybe..........................because it could be that a lot of the stress we feel we cause ourselves. In a training program I was once in, we described the stress on the level of a train wreck. It was so high that it was possible for us in drills to jump to the wrong conclusion, do the wrong action. Driving to the course one morning (after a previous day's drill that I really screwed up), I decided that I wasn't going to worry about passing any more. I was going to learn what I could and if I had to repeat it, so be it. I released the stress and in an instant, it all dropped.
Now doing that isn't the perfect way because at that point, one is at the mercy of the fates. In that particular case, I turned my performance around, impressed my teachers, and passed. But there are other cases where no longer working about the point means surrendering all possibility of success.
Or I have a major op coming up. I've prepped as best I can for it, know it isn't perfect, but as that I can't do anymore, I am not going to get all wound up worrying about it. I'll handle it in stride the best I can if and when things start happening the wrong way.
But maybe, that's what it is all about. Stress is always there.......just like the atmosphere of the planet. It's how we allow it to interact with us and we cause our own high BP and grittery teeth.
OF COURSE, there is always carrying the neutralization of stress a bit too far as Kryten pointed out in "Rimmerworld":
" Are you of the school that, when faced with bad news, prefers to hear that news naked and unvarnished, or are you of the ilk that prefers to live in happy and blissful ignorance of the nightmare you're facing?"
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