Manage Stress, Harness Stress Energy

Stress is not something that happens to you; stress is the result of what you do with what happens to you!

When stress is not balanced with relaxation, it accumulates in your system and often leads to physical, mental, emotional and behavioral symptoms, and the spirit weakens. When stress is balanced with relaxation, it is the source of our wellness, joy, inspiration and greatest success.

The four steps to managing stress and harnessing its energy;

• Step 1. Realize that stress is a reaction, a behavior of your subconscious.
• Step 2. Understand that physical tension, anxiety, and the “fight or flight” reaction are of little value in confronting challenges in the modern world, and they cause illness and disease.
• Step 3. Learn to bring your perceptions and responses under your voluntary control through relaxation, imagery, and autosuggestion.
• Step 4. Let go of negative stress and harness stress energy for peak performance.

Here’s how. Dr. Miller, who first introduced stress reduction to prevent and speed healing of physical and emotional illnesses in 1970, has produced very effective self-training programs like Letting Go of Stress, Ten-Minute Stress Manager and Abolish Anxiety which guide your mind and body to a profound state of peace and calm. This will begin to dissolve cortisol and other stress chemicals. Next, you train yourself to relax when stress appears, and focus your energy on making wise choices. Optimal Performance and StressFitness will show you how to do this. 

Deep Dive

As you harness the power of these Mind-Tools and gain control over your symptoms, remember that this is just the beginning. After dealing with the symptoms and primary source, you may wish to deal with deeper issues and related problems using these new approaches. When you are ready (for some people, that may be right now), check out some of these additional programs hand-picked by Dr. Miller for their relevance.