During past six months I have become more aware of how much stress I have been unnecessarily been tolerating but also gaining more knowledge on how it has been affecting me during these past years and also were the limits goes and with what.

I have had always good tolerance for stress mentally, I can adjust myself on different situations easily and as needed. Nowadays however I have been noticing that even thought my mind would be like ”ok ok, lets adjust”, my body is hitting the breaks. Some might take that as a negative things, but as we all are different, I think its just positive thing to be able to notice when Im hitting my limits as then I’m also able to remove either myself from the situation or do the changes needed to moderate the outcome to be more suitable.

Also this past self reflection has shown me that in diid you shouldn’t shrink yourself just to fit to places you have already outgrown. That goes also to people around you. If something brings mored stress than clarity, even after trying to make that certain to fit in, it needs to go. 

One week with wrong environment, job or people can already make you looking 10years older, just from causing you unnecessary stress.
I personally witnessed this a while ago, when being in a environment, that was stressing me out and leaving me feeling really drained in a way, that I after one week, I was feeling like I’m having a huge hangover – without even being even close to any  products that would be related to alcohol. 

For me, that was like a small wake up call – I don’t want this from my life. I don’t want to wake up to having your heart already racing, having anxiety and feeling like a zombie, being in a survival mode. 

The overall feeling body wise was a alarm for me, that whatever was going on, needed to come into a end, as if after short period of a time already my body is showing red flags and giving me obvious signs that my health would be on the line next if continuing with the things that were going on at the time. And as Im grateful for being able to handle stressful situations, I’m appreciating the fact that even  when my mind could take more, my body will tell clearly that its time to start cut off some dead ends.

With the time, the signs have become more obvious among my growing knowledge  regarding of them, so now a days Im able to put my finger on what and why, which helps when its time to eliminate what doesn’t work for long term plans on what comes to upgrading my life while heading towards my goals to becoming reality.

And sure, time to time life will bring along some downs, but as long as you can effect to the situations, its better to have your life build up so, that you fail asleep on evenings with grateful heart and peaceful mind and waking up with excitement of the new day and new opportunities that new dawn brings with it. 

Being in stressed mindset shuts down your sight and all of your energy is being used to just survive, to spot possible threats. And as we know how it goes with red cars (when some one points out that have you seen lately red cars, you start to pay more attention to red cars) the same happens with stressful mind and problem seeking. However, this works also other way around, meaning that when having relaxed mindset and mind in ease, the more you are able to spot opportunities and others positive aspects. And when relaxed, you also make better choices – on every aspect on your life.

That means, that slowing down and cutting off unnecessary stress doesn’t only make you feeling more relaxed but also it will make your life quality better in a long run, and who wouldn’t want that?