Joyce Lee Life Coaching Moment

Anyone who has it knows that stress does not feel good and it is not a great platform to create your experience from.  When you are stressed, your day to day living is affected…

• your children are affected                       
• your partner/spouse is affected
• your work is affected
• your health is affected
• your ability to make empowered choices is affected
• your sense of well-being is less that it is supposed to be.

Want a quick assessment of how much stress you have?  Take this simplified assessment.  Please note that this is not a clinical test… if you happen to score high, you need to do something about it.

1-never  2-rarely  3-sometimes  4-often  5-always

1. I worry a lot
2. I have a lot of problems
   
3. Work interferes with my home/family life
4. I have a hard time laughing at my humaness
5. I think there is one right way to do things
6. I feel I often get the short end of the stick
   
7. I am easily irritated or upset
8. I have problems in my personal life
9. I keep things inside I have difficulty making decisions
10. I tend to neglect my diet (eat irregularly, eat unhealthy foods etc.)
11. I try to do everything myself
12. I rush through the day and have little time left to relax
13. I tend to make a big deal about everything
14. I spend a lot of time complaining & being negative
15. I have trouble sleeping or sleeping too much
16. I suffer from headaches/migraines or digestive issues
17. I feel fatigued/tired for no real reason

Scoring:

0 - 30 Low Stress

31- 50 Fairly Low

51 - 70 Moderate

71 - 90 High

How much stress do you have in your life?  Where do you feel it?  What do you do to feel better?  What works for you?

Please leave your comments and share your insights with us.

In peace and serenity,

Joyce

PS… I hope you have a copy of Louise Hay’s book “You Can Heal Your Life“ Louise can help you understand the roots of stress of all kinds and give you a bounty of powerful affirmations and insights for relief.
And… if you have trouble settling into a peaceful state and drifting off into a relaxed sleep, I highly recommend Deepak Chopra’s audio meditation CD “The Soul of Healing Meditations”.  I have listened to this cd night after night, and have gifted it to my friends as well.  Deepak’s voice is soft and the journey he takes us on is gentle… sleep follows easily.

Good Morning,

Do you assume the worst about others or situations? Do you have a tape playing just under the surface of your awareness that is negative in nature…

~ Is everyone “stupid” or an “idiot”, out to get you, not fast enough, smart enough, respectful enough…

~Do you resent waiting in line for you coffee, your groceries…

~Do you criticize, blame and frown a lot…

Well…

For goodness sake…. Lighten Up! You are wasting precious time!

Every moment you waste being negative-natured is a moment that is not available to you to be happy and create your beautiful reality…

You CANNOT have both at the same time… Negative thinking will NOT produce positive vibrations… (hate to be the one to break it to you…lol)

think > feel > vibrate > attract

The easiest and most pleasant ways to rebalance your energy is to practice gratitude.  Be mindfully grateful of your blessings…
Take your focus off  ‘those idiots out there’… and put it on the abundance in your heart…

Your reality will change… all of a sudden the ‘idiots’ will disappear and you will start to notice all the kindnesses people do instead… it works… you’ll see… your heart will soften and you will start to appreciate that others are human, and just doing the best they can too…( maybe your new enlightened attitude will spread to all the idiots… I’m just teasing.)

Let me know what you think… there is much more to be said about this…

Brightest blessings

Joyce