Motivational Thoughts for the Stress of New Year's Resolutions
Posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010
by Richard Kuhns
Stress Management Institute
Motivational thoughts for the New Year--Stress Management for the new decade.
Every year seems to end with the same disappointment with hope for the next year. The disappointment for the past year seems to be directly proportional to the amount of uncertainties experienced in the previous year.
Strangely enough personal and financial losses suffered during the last year are proportional to the uncertainties of that year.
It's like the study psychologists did with two ten year old boys. One boy came from a background of poverty and the other was from a well-to-do family. The psychologist put the boy from a well-to-do background in a room full of the most advanced toys and the boy from a poverty background in a room full of broken toys. They left the boys alone for a half hour after which they found the boy from a well-to-do background sitting in a chair kind of disappointed. Asked why he was sad, he replied, "I thought you'd have some new and neat toys--I already have all these toys."
However, they were surprised to find the boy from the background of poverty very excited. When asked why he was so excited he replied, "With all this crap around here, there has to be something good someplace and I'm going to find it."
No stress management training exercise can have a better model. You add this to the basic stress management techniques such as deep breathing, muscle awareness, exercise, and so on.
I often wish that I could be more effective myself in remembering that story to experience that attitude on a day-to-day basis. It truly is the challenge and if each of us could do it, we'd be much healthier and happier. Unfortunately many think it's impracticable to think that way, but if your really think about it, you'll find it's one's limiting beliefs creating that attitude.
Every year starts off with promise and hope only to be lost several months later because we lack motivational thoughts.
Ultimately the answer is in creating a shift in our attitudes so that in the midst of "crap" or disappointment, we can be excited about finding something good.
There are two basic things that keep us from doing this from a stress management training basis:
1. Our self limiting beliefs such as not deserving or our inability to do something.
2. Lack of using affirmations or tools to develop prosperity consciousness. It's not to say that when you are in prosperity that disappointments won't happen, it's that instead of being drowned by disappointment that instead we capitalize on them.
How do you deal with the stress of uncertainty? Answer: As you acknowledge it and choose to embrace it you use your affirmations to navigate through uncertainty. What this means in the end is that instead of being happy that last year is over, you'll be happy and pleased with last year. Your view of the next new year is the same as of each of the last 52 weeks.
To empower your motivational thoughts there are two tapes/cd for self help programs--Affirmations and Prosperity that can make a huge difference in your life.
Of course famous resolutions for the new year are to lose weight and stop smoking or some other hurtful habit. Instead of doing it with the hope of something like medications or shakes/gum doing it for you, look to affirmations--not that you won't also use the shakes or gum.
The best New Years' resolution you can employ is affirmations--motivational thoughts--every day--they vibrate with source to provide health and prosperity and reprogram your intelligence--the best sort of stress management training so each new year brings you the best of the year possible.
Resource box: Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E., NGH certified is a prominent figure in the field of personal change and stress management with his best selling hypnosis and stress management cds at http://www.PanicBusters.com and http://www.DStressDoc.com His desire is to to raise awareness as to how using motivational thoughts promotes health. To learn more more please visit http://www.dstressdoc.com/Affirmations.htm
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