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10 Tips to Relieve Stress and Release Tension

Relieve Stress, Release Tension

By Remez Sasson

Stress and tension seem to be an integral part of life. Wherever you go, they go after you. There is stress and tension at work, at home and in relationships. There is stress and tension due to health problems, and stress and tension brought about by one’s financial situation.

Sometimes, you can eliminate or change the external cause, and sometimes you cannot. Often, when you cannot change the external cause, you become more stressed. If you can deal with the external cause that’s okay, but what if you cannot?

Dealing with stress and tension should begin from within you. External causes might be the trigger for them, but in most cases, your attitude and thoughts are the real causes.

You might not always be able to deal with external condition, but you can certainly teach yourself to change your attitude. With a change of attitude, stress and tension would disappear, irrespective of your external conditions.

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Too Much Empathy Does Not Help Anyone

By Remez Sasson

Look at the people around you, and you will discover that almost everyone seems to get emotionally involved, and go through the ups and downs of the people close to them. Sometimes, they also get emotionally involved with the problems of strangers too.

Look, for example, at how parents feel in relation to their children. They get anxious and stressed by whatever happens to them at school and with friends. Sometimes, this goes too far, making the parents nervous, restless and tense. This is an unhealthy situation, draining their strength and energy, and preventing them from having a sound sleep at night.

Is this necessary? You might say that you need to sympathize and empathize. Yes, you are right, but only up to a certain point.

A certain amount of empathy is okay, but when it becomes exaggerated it causes unnecessary emotional pain and suffering.

You need to realize that everyone has his or her own life, with its ups and downs, and things he or she has to deal with in order to grow and get stronger. You don’t need to solve everyone’s problem. What makes you think that you can do it better for them?

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Filed Under: Inner Peace Tagged With: detachment, emotional involvement, empathy

How to Stop Taking Things Too Personally and Seriously

By Remez Sasson

Do you take too personally what people say to you?

Do you feel offended by remarks, actions or behavior of other people?

Do you take every minor event too seriously, letting it limit or frighten you?

Did you know that quite often the offence is not real, and the so-called offender never intended to offend you at all?

Sometimes, you might have a wrong interpretation of someone’s words or behavior, due to lack of sufficient information or missing facts. Does this justify feeling offended? In such cases, the so-called offender might not know what’s the matter with you.

On other occasions, even if the other person did try to offend you intentionally, why accept, think, or dwell on what he or she said? It is absolutely foolish to participate in the game of hurt feelings.

I know, you might say it is easier said than done. When you feel hurt, insulted and angry, you cannot sweep these feelings under the carpet, but good and worthwhile things require some effort. Learning how to stop taking things too personally and too personally require that you invest effort and time.

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Filed Under: Inner Peace Tagged With: detachment, taking things personally

A Few Questions To Ask Yourself

By Remez Sasson

Tress and Waterfalls How do you feel when your plans do not work out?

How do you feel, and how do you react, when an electrical appliance stops working?

How do you react when a driver suddenly enters into the lane in front of you on the highway?

What happens when you are not treated well by friends, neighbors colleagus or strangers?

How do you react, when you feel that you have not been given a good service at a shop?

How do you react, when your boss requires too much of you, or yells at you?

How do you react, when someone behaves impolitely toward you?

How do you feel, when someone keeps talking about his or her fears or problems?

Do you get angry easily? Do your moods go up and down often?

Do you spend a lot of time brooding over problems, fears, or things said to you?

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Filed Under: Inner Peace Tagged With: behavior, emotional detachment, reactions

Confusion About the Meaning of Emotional Detachment

By Remez Sasson

Emotional detachment is often associated with the inability to connect with others on an emotional level. It is also regarded as means to cope with fears and anxiety, by avoiding the situations that trigger them. It is a way to stay away from feelings one does not want to experience. Sometimes, this state arises in cases of trauma, when one wants to disconnect for the traumatic situation. In this case, one is physically present, but being elsewhere in his or her mind, as if not being present.

However, emotional detachment has a positive side too, and this is what I am talking about in my book, emotional detachment for a better life. Developing this ability consciously and intentionally is something quite different. It is not a morbid state, but a state of inner peace and inner power.

Reading these words might lead confusion about the meaning of emotional detachment, especially for people, who regard it as an unhealthy situation, but as I said, it has its positive side. It is quite different when you develop emotional detachment intently, and in a conscious way. By doing so, you develop the positive aspects that can be very useful in many areas of your life.

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