Stress and Anxiety

Todays world is one of intense pressure.  Work responsibilities, financial concerns, extended social commitments, community obligations,  family needs, household responsibilities.  Easily we can feel like we are caught in a hamster wheel where there are never enough hours in a day. The first thing that tends to be sacrificed, is self care.  Relaxation feels indulgent, or doing things one loves feels selfish-when there are so many things to be done ‘immediately’ . Sometimes one feels too exhausted to do anything relaxing besides crash on the couch, and then feels guilty for having spent this time. Maybe the nagging voice in your head, just doesn’t leave you long enough to really enjoy your relaxing anyway.

The more we live like this the more our mood gets more irritable.  Our worrying builds. Our patience declines.  The more we live feeling enslaved in the lives we’ve built- both to commitments we love and cherish and commitments that maybe we don’t - the more anxious, angry, unhappy or obsessive we can become.    It can easily feel impossible to break out of this head.

But there is a solution.  

You can increase your focus.   Increase your ability to meet your commitments.  Improve your ability to prioritize.  But most importantly, you can remember what is really important, and learn to live and love in the moment without worrying about what’s next.