Stress and Stress Management I

How we visualize what is going on in our world can affect how we deal with the stress that we have, or whether or not we have stress. If we don't think of something as stressful, it isn't. That is one reason why different people experience the same issue differently.

One of my clients was having tremendous difficulty coping with all of the things that she needed to get done. She thought about them as too many balls in the air that she had to keep juggling.

She decided to imagine putting the balls in the air on the ground. She just let them drop, and imagined her looking at them one by one, and thinking about which ones she was going to deal with and when. Some of them she imagined putting in the garbage.

Her stress level dropped enormously.