A Choice In Relieving Stress

We all have one thing in common and it doesn’t make any difference who you are, where you reside, what your job, or what your gender. This commonality goes with us in the car, at work, on vacation or attending a family picnic.

The one thing we all have in common is our emotions that go with us everywhere. These emotions never take a holiday and are expressed throughout each day either in a negative way or in positive ways. Some of these negative emotions rise with us in the morning and are able to make our day miserable full of additional aniexty, frustration or worry. And, even if we think that our negative emotions are well hidden, they can rise to the surface in the blink of an eye.

If you have been the recipient of bad news, for example, sorrow can fill your face, affect how you view even the most normal of circumstances, or be reflected outward towards your friends, co-workers, boss, or customers. Or, maybe you started off the day in a fantastic mood only to experience an inattentive driver cut you off in traffic. Although you avoided a accident, your blood boils, your heart beat increases, your stress levels raise, and your anger starts to take on a life of it’s own. Your anger that started out directed toward this inattentive driver remains with you all day. No matter what you do, or to whom you speak, this anger spills into every situation.

So, what have you let happen? Yes, I did mean you. You let a random event (the driver who cut you off in traffic) take control of your emotions, and drive up your anxietylstress levels. This incident went from an isolated event to become dominant in your emotional actions and reactions for the rest of the day. You allowed what may have been a total accident, an event unbeknownst to the other driver, take control of your emotions. You, in fact, passed control of yourself to someone else who probably wasn’t even aware of you, who you don’t even know, and probably will never see again. So, who’s to blame, you or the other driver?

You are. That’s right, you are. You have a choice to make in every circumstance you encounter. You had the opportunity to disregard this event as a normal day in rush hour traffic. After all, there was no collision, you weren’t hurt, and you arrived safely at work. You have the choice each day while encountering many events to choose how to react or not to react. You have the choice to be offended by a smart remark made by a co-worker, or the choice to simply ignore the remark and chalk it up to their lack of politeness. You can choose to pursue the comment by speaking calmly to your co-worker and inform them that you didn’t appreciate the remark and let it go, or you can choose to find ways to get back at them. If you choose to get back at them, you have given them power over your thought processes that they don’t deserve.

We can all have less than stellar days but we don’t have to let challenging events assume power over our thoughts and reactions. That irate customer you had to deal with was only venting their frustration because they didn’t know a better way to get their problem resolved. Are you going to let their outburst negatively affect the rest of your calls, or are you able to simply recognize that this particular customer lacks the necessary negotiating techniques to resolve issues intelligently and calmly? You have a choice, which can result in stress relief rather than creating stress. Make the right choice to take control, and keep control of your emotions and you’ll be much better off, have less stress, and finish each day on a positive note enabling you to return home to enjoy what you want. And, just as important, you are taking care of your health by reducing your stress levels.


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