STRESS OVERLOAD

I can remember before my "transformation" I would wake up with a stiff neck, I had headaches, stomach pain and my overall demeanor was troubled. My body bore the brunt of punishment for the weakness of my mind.

It has been years, and I mean upward of 4 years, that I have felt stressed. Until this past week that is.

I honestly didn't even know how it started. At first I shrugged it off as an imbalance of my hormones. But this imbalance is not unusual especially considering I am female and I am an older woman. So imbalances are "normal".

Nothing significant changed as far as every day life and the demands that each day brings. No catastrophic event, argument, no unforeseen or unexpected circumstance came my way.

I had a dream that revealed the answer.

There are two instances that led to the weight on my shoulders. I had two conversations with two separate people with two very different circumstances (that by the way, have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with me) and it left me feeling irritated, aggravated, upset, disgusted, fearful and sad.

I do believe that because I decided to bare their burden, that was the beginning. If you are privy to the Law of Correspondence, you will know that your current reality is a mirror of what is going on inside of you.

In others words, I started my week off feeling negative emotions and low and behold more and more situations came my way.

Every day brought chaos, frustration, doubt, impatience and regret. This invisible pressure that I had carrying affected every task I attempted. I even hosted a dinner party, which is one of my favorite things to do, and I was so stressed I almost had a full panic attack. It was by far one of the worst parties I've held.

Typically, I try really hard to stay out of ahead of these feelings. When they are introduced to me, I swiftly replace them with the opposite.

However, once the momentum gets fast enough, there is no stopping it.

Imagine this, you are standing at the top of a hill. You barely nudge a 50 pound ball and it starts rolling. If you jump ahead of it quickly, you will be able to stop it. But once it gains the gravity force and gets more and more driving power it is nearly impossible to stop it.

All you can do at that point is wait for the ball to get to the bottom of the hill.

Carrying the burden of another is a stress that we shouldn't pick up. We are faced with enough opportunities of stress on our own.

When we care about others it is easy for us to get involved emotionally with their circumstances but it is foolish to burden ourselves.

When we do this, it is the equivalent of playing "god." Carrying another's stress won't change their situation at all.

Praying for them, giving them a listening ear, advising them constructively will not only help them but it will release you from any obligation of stress.

If you find yourself overwhelmingly stressed, make a mental list of why. One by one, lay them at the foot of the Lord.

1 Peter 5:7 "...casting all your care upon Him; for he cares for you."

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