These situations afford us great opportunities to learn to let go and learn. As Liara says, to raise awareness and make choices.

Like checking our alarm clocks!! :)

Actually my cell phone is a tried and true alarm, awaking me to the joy of peaceful harp music. Now that is the WAY to ease into a beautiful day!! :)

xoxo

Small moves in the right direction can lead to the big goal………….:)

I am so glad you found Evolving Beings.

I like how you put it too – that is so powerful “STRESS IS NOT ACCEPTING THE LOVE THAT IS”

There is indeed always a larger reason for everything and when we resist, then we are actually working against ourselves, which causes stunting of the spirit, instead of growth.

Great addition Richard!

Stress “is” not accepting the love that “is”. It is also when we do not recognize and surrender to the knowing that the design of “all that we are” is “larger” than we can fathom.

So, let us then deepen into our joy; our lives, now, and the limited beliefs and dreams of yesterday and tomorrow will fade, as will the stress born of them.

namaste

Thank you so much for your kind compliments as always.

I have to tell you, I will be the first to say I lead a very, and I mean very low stress life. In fact most of the time, I really feel I have zero stress. And yet sometimes I will catch myself in this tensed up feeling and think “wait a minute, what’s going on here?”

So you are right, many of us who have “mastered” not letting stress rule our life don’t feel it directly, but it is that indirect stress that creeps up on us from time to time and we realize there is always room for improvement.

The sure way to know that your body is experiencing mild stress is to check your breathing and realize how shallow it is most of the time and this is usually due to how caught up we get with some things in our days. Shallow breathing is actually another sign of stress to our body, it is usually the internal, indirect milder stress effect (the full blown fight or flight would be of course heavy breathing).

Another way to tell is if we ever experience any neck or shoulder muscle tension – residual stress has an amazing way of hiding out there.

Bottom line, I like how Anya above also said “many of us do not even realize when our bodies are under stress” — mainly because we ignore the first line of defence symptoms. Some of course don’t go past that, but some do and get worse symptoms that are hard to ignore.

Anyway, based on your positive and up lifting posts on your site, I have no doubt that you do live a relatively low stress life and that is wonderful, but being conscious and more aware of what might be lurking and causing us inner stress is always good to know what one’s body is up against.

Hi Julie,

As always you are so very welcome! And yes, yes, yes – we know so many concepts and so many facts and yet I find that from time to time life puts things a different way and we realize “wait a minute, I have always know that, so why am I falling prey to a negative situation, etc.”

I laugh as I think to myself, sometimes the easiest most logical things are the ones we consider last.

I personally love the Tolle quote as it opened my eyes to look at stress and actually understand what is it about it that makes people act out in so many various ways – and I totally agree with him. We want things a different way (which there doesn’t have to be anything wrong with that) BUT we either don’t move in the direction to change them or go about it completely the wrong way.

When we however bring in awareness and accept the moment of what is currently the situation before us, many times even before we think any new strategy, we already realize it is not as bad as we thought.

When we contemplate on what we are resisting, we also have to remember that resistance runs parallel to FEAR and it is that fear of the unknown that most often gets us all bent out of shape. But again if we take consciously and actively one moment at a time, we realize there really isn’t anything that I cannot handle!

Wishing you lots of pleasant, relaxed, calm and beautiful states :)

And now here’s your terrific Tolle quote, with all its beautiful simplicity.

I will sink into my feelings (to acknowledge them) while pondering exactly what it is I’m resisting.

Perfect timing. THANK you!

PS: Isn’t it funny how we can know the concepts, even know how to apply and practice them, and yet still find ourselves caught unaware, sometimes… ;)