The ‘Stressed Out’ Mindset!
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
She relayed to me how this lady had talked about the fact that she did not know what stress was until she came to the UK!
My wife probed her a little more and she explained that where she comes from, they don’t have or understand the word ‘stress’. She explained it was only when she came to the UK that she started to hear the word used.
Her friend told her that she was ‘stressed out’ and she did not understand what this meant.
Her friend replied,
“You’ll find out!”
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After a few months of working and living in London, she soon started to feel ‘stressed out’.
Why Aren’t They Stressed Out?
She explained, that when she was a kid growing up in Africa, they would spend a lot of time walking. In fact they would walk for a couple of hours to get to school everyday. They would then walk back home for lunch and then back to school again. As kids they loved it and they knew no different.
She also explained that people don’t experience stress, they are just accustomed to working hard and getting on with the challeges that life throws them.
So when she came to the UK, she was surprised at how everyone seemed to be stressed.
There is a lot I learnt from this but one of the key things was that stress and other similar feelings don’t have to exist in your life, if you choose for them not to.
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I recognise the way we live our lives in the West often lends itself to being ‘stressed out‘ but I definitely believe we spend a lot of time nurturing negative thoughts and beliefs about ourselves.
We allow things like stress to have a comfortable seat in our lives rather than giving it the eviction notice!
I’m no expert on the subject I just think we have daily mindset choices to make and I for one, choose to walk in victory and success regardless of what challenges life throws at me!
What about you?
Blessings
Jimmy
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