How To Reduce Stress Caused By Your Thoughts
I think a lot of us have stress in our lives. By work what we have to do, by things happening in our lives (caused by situations we were in or issues that happened). And many other things that can cause stress.
But also stress is caused by all the thoughts we have. That is for certain. Most people (over)think too much. That means we are thinking too much about our issues and problems, things we have to do at work, things we have to do at home and so on. When the list is too long, we can only think about that and nothing else anymore. Things and issues taking over our mind might be: “I am really good at this? Are these freckles nice enough? I don’t like my work and do I belong here?”
These questions can cause time when you think about it all the time. The way you think about these issues can cause you a lot of stress. I mean, when you think about it, about what really matters, can you really think? I believe you don’t think about when to visit your mother Or when to make those notes from the last meeting and so on.
Then you think about whether there is a cure to solve your thinking problem. I don’t think there is any cure, but I believe there are some tools to reduce the stress you have caused by your thoughts.
I can imagine that you’re sick of all the (negative) thought you’ve got. That you want to stop all these thoughts that cause you a lot of stress. Most of the time you want to get rid of these thoughts and you want not to think whether you’re good enough or when you have to finish that bathroom, or when you have to go grocery shopping as you need the last items for your Easter dinner with your parents and sisters.
Stress factor by thoughts
You want to live a life with less stressful life. But there are things that your thoughts do with your brain. First of all, you train your brain to worry about the issues you have on your mind. When you think about whether you’re fat or not, you train your brain that you’re thinking about whether you’re fat- or not. You’re doing this automatically and unconsciousness. Sometimes it could feel somehow addicted that you’re thinking about these issues a lot. I don’t know if all this is scientifically proven, but I can imagine it, as it feels to me like being addicted to those thoughts.
What to do about reducing stress by your thoughts
I think there are different ways to reduce stress and that’ll be different for each one of us. But reducing this kind of stress makes room in your head for the most important things and the things that really matter to us. Then, you can say, thinking about what really matters is that another stress caused by your thoughts? I don’t believe that is the case, because you think only about what makes you happy. That gives you a positive thought and a positive attitude.
I believe you can reduce these stress thoughts somehow. You have to see what helps you to reduce that.
Habits to reduce your stress caused by your thoughts
There are habits to reduce your stress caused by your thoughts. For each person it’ll be different, but not impossible.
What helps me is journaling all my thoughts, or writing them down in a notebook or whatever helps me, like all the places I’ve been, I write it down in my places-where-I-have-been-notebook. There is a notebook for all the recipes I tried, I have a notebook for stories I want to write here on Medium, on Substack or whatever is on my mind. I also use a diary to park all the thoughts I have.
Another thing that helps is trusting someone to talk about your thoughts. Someone who just listens and sometimes says he or she understands you or just ask more questions to understand what you’re saying.
Journaling all your thoughts
By journaling your thoughts, you will understand yourself a little bit better, or you just map your thoughts and you understand yourself much better, you mean yourself a little bit better to know.
When you read your thoughts again, you realize how to mess you were, or how happy you were and what happens between those moments and between all the thoughts you have in a certain timeline.
Tell someone you trust about the issues you have
When you trust someone, then you can ask him or her if you may park your thoughts with that person, as she or he has some kind of distance towards you. Maybe he or she understands you better if he or she has been through the same kind of issue.
Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives in Bunnik, The Netherlands, with her husband and three daughters. Writing is — aside from playing the violin — one of her passions since childhood. She is on Twitter and Instagram.
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