Are you managing your emotional stress or is your emotional stress managing you? Noori Siddiqui looks at a pandemic problem.
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hen faced with challenging situations, do you find yourself quick to blame others, make excuses for yourself or become easily upset,
angry, irritable, frustrated, resentful, jealous, defensive? Do you complain frequently? Is your focus more on what you don't want, than what you do want? Would you agree that a large percentage of your thoughts are focused on negative emotions from the past? Do you find yourself frequently disappointed by your unrealistic expectations of others? Do you spend much of your time fussing and worrying? If you can say 'yes' to more that three of the above, then your emotional stress is definitely managing you. And if you are in that situation it's best you do something about taking control of circumstances before they negatively affect you in very profound ways.
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Acceptance. We often find ourselves instinctively in resistance, instead of flow. Our inability to simply accept life as it happens, people as they are,
unexpected events as they occur – leaves us with a sense of anguish, feeling overwhelmed, anxiety, frustration and often anger. When we are able to be in flow with what is in this moment and come to the quick realisation that to resist would simply give us more of what we don't want, we then have the opportunity to step into the magic and gratitude of 'what is' and begin to count our blessings. Once we do that, we can watch with wonderment as life begins to unravel itself with all the endless possibilities of what we
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