Not Living your Truth Creates Stress
Posted on October 27, 2009 12:00:00am, by Gerrianne Clare
Stress for many people is caused by their living life out of integrity with what they hold near and dear to their heart – their truth.
For example, if you value honesty but fear that speaking up and telling the truth in your workplace will result in losing your job, you may consciously or subconsciously make a decision that you will not say anything about the situation. Another example may be that you were educated and trained to deliver care or service in a particular way, yet the realities of the workplace make it impossible for you to do that. You try and stuff the thoughts to the back of your mind and ignore the situation. If you are like most people, trying to ignore the situation, not say anything and “letting it go”, creates an internal turmoil that often shows up in different ways.
Withholding your truth creates stress
How does this stress show up? For most of us, it shows up in a variety of ways – physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, and in our relationship with ourselves.
The first step in helping us decrease or manage our stress is by recognizing what is causing us stress beneath the obvious. Many of us can identify things like “poor management”, excessive workload, poor working conditions, teenage children, aging parents and a multitude of other situations as the cause of our stress. These are obvious places that we can point to.
M challenge to you is to go deeper, beneath the obvious sources of stress to ask what is true for you. What is it about the poor management that is causing me stress, where is it that I am not able to live my truth, what is it that is keeping me from being true to myself and living consistent with what is near and dear to my heart? By moving to a deeper relationship with yourself and uncovering what is true for you in the situation, you can then start to take a look at what you CAN do to help yourself decrease your stress and feel better in your whole life.
For today: Start to notice what you notice about how you feel in your day to day life; physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and in your relationship with yourself. I challenge you to write these observations down. This is another way to help you on the path of “Living the Life you Want”.
Blog with you later,
Gerrianne