When you feel like strangling the guy in front of you at Target, read these 7 Quick Ways to Calm Down, I laughed at the art that went with it because, well, I sort of looked like that the other day.
I needed a reminder of them, and I thought maybe you could use one too.
1. Walk Away
Know your triggers. If a conversation about global warming, consumerism, or the trash crisis in the U.S. is overwhelming you, simply excuse yourself. If you’re noise-sensitive and the scene at Toys-R-Us makes you want to throw whistling Elmo and his buddies across the store, tell your kids you need a time-out. (Bring along your husband or a friend so you can leave them safely, if need be.) My great-aunt Gigi knew her trigger points, and if a conversation or setting was getting close to them, she simply put one foot in front of another, and departed.
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“Even if I’m not walking or running or biking or swimming, being outside calms me in a way that hardly anything else can. With an hour of nature, I go from being a bossy, opinionated, angry, cynical, uptight person into a bossy, opinionated, cynical, relaxed person.”
Yes I can relate to that
We are having lunch with the in laws today to discuss Christmas and your blog is most timely.
Yeah, I become a beast over the holidays. It’s not the stress that surrounds them..it’s the crowds.
I’ve learned that it is better for me and for the general public, if I do my Christmas shopping online.
Quick and Easy! Activate your own right Brain by shiftng your attention to some body part, big toe, thumb, neck, heart, stomach. Doesn’t matter which part. This body awareness is a quick route to tapping into your own Right Brain and peace waits there for you. You may have to hold the attention for as long as 90 seconds, but after that, it’s smooth sailing to joy, bliss, whatever. These are Right Brain attributes and available anytime you wish in your very own Right Brain.