Clarence Oliver - The 5-Minute Stress Solutions: Relax and Feel Great In 5-Minutes Or Less

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Stress is the biggest problem most people face in their lives. Its the number one thing people say they want to have less of. Its connected to the continuation of bad habits, to the deterioration of good health, and to irrational or myopic thinking. Stress, also can cause people to more readily gain weight, lose hair, and have other negative physiological effects. Ive personally had issues with stress.

Who hasnt right?

But, I didnt want to be stressed all the time, I didnt want to be clenching my teeth, have an upset stomach, or a shortened fuse. Stress burns up ones willpower and tolerance, which creates snapping responses, and drastic mood swings. In fact, during highly stressed situations, people swing like on a pendulum access, from one extreme to another, our emotions swaying often from sadness to anger.

Often times however, the things that cause the most stress in our lives, are the things that we want most in our lives. Our jobs, unless were hoping to hit the lottery are very important to us, and a great source of achievement for us. Many people enjoy a feeling of accomplishment for a job well done. Our health, whether its the fact that we dont have the bodies we want, were worried about getting sick, if we dont have health at all were done and thus good health or bad health are still wanted compared to the alternative. Our families, if ever a beacon of stress existed, family life must be it, and yet, it will often be the point of our relaxation, our feeling of connectedness, and our focal point for much of the good we will attribute to our lives.

Stress is such a difficult thing to solve, because, often, the advice given is to avoid stress. Clearly, as Ive written this stuff out, its easy to realize that if one were to truly avoid stress, they would be avoiding life. So many self-help books seek to offer you ways to lighten your load, to remove the stresses from your life. Most works try to teach the avoidance of stress, rather than the dealing with it. They persist on the belief that if you can learn to organize your life, your time, your work, and your family, youll have less stress naturally. And though thats correct, its quite a tall order. Most people arent that fastidious and though they may try to start following such a program it usually leads them to find a new stress in their life. What should end your stress should not be causing you stress? If you spend your entire life trying to avoid getting sick, something that is almost impossible for any person, then, when you get sick, youll be thrown for a loop with something as simple as the common cold. New studies have found that people with clean houses and clean rooms (overly clean and sterile) face more challenges with sickness. Whats this have to do with stress? If you avoid getting stressed, then youre not going to know how to deal with stress.

The greatest way to alter your life, to change the problems into opportunities, is to embrace them, and accept them as part of your life. If you live a stressful life, dont get rid of the life, get over the stress when it comes. Just like youd get over a cold, or the flu, or any other stuffy nose, sore throat, ear ache problem, you can treat and get over your stress.

The truth is that in life, you are bound to have stress, youre bound even more to be stressed, and youre bound to want to feel less stressed. So when you accept that reality, when you believe that to be true, then, you know, the job isnt to avoid stress, its to get over it or to harness it.

I am writing this book the for the purpose of showing actual techniques that you can use to break stress when it arises. Techniques you can use to calm yourself down, focus, and get to work on what you need to do. These techniques have been proven time and time again to effectively alleviate stress in a person quickly, easily, and almost magically-if you would give me the honor of those words.

Stress is quite a funny thing. For all the griping people do, people dont really understand what causes their stress, and why, so often, they might feel stress and why its a good thing. Ill explain that to you as well. Give the techniques a chance, keep an open mind, and prepare to change your life.

Chapter 1: What is Stress?

Jarrod constantly complained about the stress at his job. Every time I hung out with him, hed gripe and moan, hed announce his annoyance with his boss, his coworkers, and the work. The work most of all, it was just so much work. Its a slave ship theyre running, they just want you to keep going and going and going. Now, weve all had jobs that we dont like, worked at places that wed have preferred not to. However, in the case of Jarrod, this was the job of his choice, and in truth, as much as the work stressed him out, it was also his passion. Then, in 2008, the economy collapsed, and he was out on his butt.

Married with a kid on the way, he was running around from company to company trying to get the same job that he thought was causing him so much stress. Hed pull up file after file, businesses after business, and was working harder than ever to find a job. He was more stressed than ever before and yet he was doing less than he had been doing. Suddenly, he realized that this stress that he had been having, it wasnt from the work, it was in spite of the work. He was stressed with work. He was stressed without work. Stress, he soon came to conclude, Is nothing more than untapped energy. Thats what he told me.

He suddenly realized that he was stressed at work, not because he had so much work, but, because he couldnt figure out where to start working. So, as his mind went from one document, one program, one form to the next, his head felt overwhelmed, his mind felt foggy, and he began to feel what we all know as stress. Now, without the work, he was still stressed, thinking about what companies would be best for him, thinking about what companies might hire him, and not knowing where to start.

Soon, he realized that if he didn't figure out how to focus, he was going to be a complete mess. Making that one simple change, putting his focus onto one task at a time, clearing his mind of any other things, began to change his stress. Suddenly, even with all the problems in his life, money, work, a crying baby, things were quickly becoming easier and less stressful. The stress was disappearing. When he got another job, he found himself able to do the work at an astonishing rate of speed, unlike before, and in under a year, he was promoted to a position higher than he had previously attained.

Stress is so often seen as a bad thing that no one has taken the time to understand what is stress. After much study, a lot of personal experience, I have come to believe that, as Jarrod came to believe, stress is the unharnessed and untapped energy that builds up in us that our bodies give us to complete a task. Our minds are wonderful, powerful, unique, and creative tools, theyre still greater than any computer, theyre still more powerful than anything else out there in the world, and they prepare us for anything that we must accomplish. Whether thats getting done a twelve page report the night before, or its lifting a car off a child, our minds, realizing what energy we need, gives us the energy to do it. Ive had the privilege of meeting War Veterans, one of whom explained to me that he had gotten shot in his vest, he got up, fired back, and got cover. After the fighting stopped, his body wouldnt stop shaking. It wasnt fear. It wasnt anxiety. It was the adrenalin pumping through his body having nothing else to do in him, causing a slight tremor until he was able to relax.