“Your health is the sum total of all the impulses, positive and negative, emanating from your consciousness. You are what you think.” ~ Deepak Chopra

You are what you think. How and what you think has a direct impact on your physical body, as well as the body of your affairs. For example, negative thoughts generate chemical reactions that bring more stress into your system and decrease your immunity. However, positive thoughts release neuro-peptides that help fight stress. Therefore, developing conscious awareness of your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes is beneficial as you seek to release stress and create more serenity in your life.

• Do you feel overwhelmed by the pace or intensity of change occurring in your life?
• Are you caring for others at the expense of your own well-being?
• Do worries about your family or work keep you awake at night? 

If you’re grappling with these or similar issues that have you stressed, overwhelmed or frustrated, you can choose a different response that will lead to a different result. Simply put, master your mindset to manage stress. 

Before I share 4 Mindset Tips, I want to establish a key principle of Mindset Mastery. And that is: Self-Care is not selfish. In fact, it’s a requirement. Self-Care is the mindset of, ‘I love myself enough to take care of myself first.’ With that as our basic understanding, let me share 4 Mindset Tips to help you release stress and create serenity:                                   

1. Release worry about what you can’t control, such as technology, the traffic or your boss.

For example: Instead of tripping about your bosses behavior or a partner’s shortcomings, focus on how you can be and do your best, the ways that you can excel and advance. In others words, be a model or example of what you want through your words and actions.

 “I choose to be the good and do the best in all my interactions.”

When you shift your response, you shift your energy and can handle the situation from an empowered, positive place.

Remember, stress is not what happens, but our response to what happens. 

2. Accept change as a positive opportunity, not as a threat. Look for the good in it.

For example: Rather than resist or fret over a new directive from your supervisor, or a prospective client that has changed their mind about working with you, create a mindset that opens you to new possibilities by using an affirmation such as:

“I embrace the opportunity to grow through each change in my life, so that I’m empowered and enriched.”

When you adopt this mindset, it frees you up to explore other options and create viable solutions.                       

In other words, think of what Howard Martin says about stress. “Stress is an untransformed opportunity for empowerment.” 

For now, begin to embrace and incorporate these two mindset tips and observe how your energy, outlook, behavior and results change.

I’ll share the next two Mindset Tips in the next blog.