Stress is our Shadow

Stress is our Shadow

Author: Dean Danielson

Avoid stress? Easy to say, impossible to do. Stress is always with us. Stress is our shadow. Life is stressful. If we are looking for the ways to escape, we are wasting our time, our inventiveness, our energy. Instead, it would be much better for us to learn how to live with stress.

First of all, we should stop experience stressful situations as a catastrophe, as a reason for panic or despair. We should accept them as challenge, as opportunity. It’s the best way to cope, to overcome. More active we are, less we are afraid, worried, anxious.
The most important is to surpass our helplessness, our frustration.

Stressful events and situations are not a punishment. That’s why we should cease to grumble that we haven’t deserved it. Self pity is the great temptation but it isn’t solution, not at all. Stress is part of our lives. We must stop to blame ourselves for it or to search culprits among others.

Blaming ourselves we are on the road to heavy depression. Blaming others we are on the best way to spoil our relations. Stress is not a question of guilt. It’s the part of human condition. It’s our shadow.

And there is not shadow without light, or light without shadow. The only way to live without shadow is to live in complete darkness. Trying to avoid stress, we are trying to avoid life.

We can’t solve everything by pressing some button. We can change disturbing or inadequate circumstances with remote controller as we change some boring TV channel.
We must cope, we must fight, we must invent. Acting and only acting we develop our forces and our personality.

We must accept our shadow. Than we will see stress is not as horrible as we thought.

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