eclectic_muses December Topic: How do you handle stress?
I don't.
I don't get the whole 'handling stress' concept. What the hell are you supposed to do about it? Either you have stress or you don't. No amount of stupid looking office stress toys, Pilates or newly acquired Tantric chants is going to deal with it for you. All it does is drag it out.
If I'm facing a deadline and I don't feel like I'm going to meet it that means I need to get off my ass and work harder and next time not leave it until the last minute. If I'm stressed about dealing with my family - they just don't make a Xanax strong enough for that so I can either suck it up and accept that they make me crazy or I can give it up and just avoid them all together but no amount of meditation is going to make it any less stressful.
Life is stressful. Work is stressful. Relationships are stressful. Friends are stressful. Parking is stressful....you get the idea. The only way you 'handle' it is to deal with shit as it comes up before it gets too stressful.
That's it. That's the Vicki Vale patent pending Method of Handling Stress: Get over it.
I don't get the whole 'handling stress' concept. What the hell are you supposed to do about it? Either you have stress or you don't. No amount of stupid looking office stress toys, Pilates or newly acquired Tantric chants is going to deal with it for you. All it does is drag it out.
If I'm facing a deadline and I don't feel like I'm going to meet it that means I need to get off my ass and work harder and next time not leave it until the last minute. If I'm stressed about dealing with my family - they just don't make a Xanax strong enough for that so I can either suck it up and accept that they make me crazy or I can give it up and just avoid them all together but no amount of meditation is going to make it any less stressful.
Life is stressful. Work is stressful. Relationships are stressful. Friends are stressful. Parking is stressful....you get the idea. The only way you 'handle' it is to deal with shit as it comes up before it gets too stressful.
That's it. That's the Vicki Vale patent pending Method of Handling Stress: Get over it.