The Role Of Thought In Stress Management

clipped from stress-control.blogspot.com Your thoughts direct your emotional Energy. In other words what you think about will create how you feel . Much of the stress in our everyday lives can come from our thought processes. How we perceive a situation can be off and so we can feel that we are off. We can jump to wrong conclusions about people's motives and so be seen as unreasonable. All of this can send us spinning downward into a spiral of negative thinking and so stress is born. Here are some effective and simple tools that help to change this negative thinking. Affirmations are a very powerful tool, especially when used with some proper mental imagery and good breathing patterns. If you want to feel relaxed, your affirmation should be about relaxation. NOT "I don't want to feel uneasy", because the image you are creating in your mind is of being uneasy, not relaxed. 2. Phrase your affirmations in the present tense. Example; don't say "I want to feel relaxed", instead say "I am feeling more and more relaxed".