Time can be seen as a friend when we have enough of it to do what we want. It can also be seen as a foe that keeps us nailed to tasks that we must do. Rather than looking at it from the point of view that we GET to, rather than HAVE to, we look at our daily tasks as though something outside ourselves is pulling the strings. That is the ultimate stress, to feel controlled by a force bigger than us, rather than seeing the force within us giving us all we need to do what we wish. Choosing to use small increments of time on things to our best advantage is a key to living stress free.

Listing out the things to do can be a stressful routine if we never actually DO the things that matter to us daily. Shifting the perception of our daily responsibilities from, I don’t HAVE to, I GET to, can make stress a stranger.

Worry is one of those nagging thought processes that affect us waking and sleeping.  It’s a toss and turn night when worry about the day’s mistakes keep me up longer than I want to be awake.  Worrisome feelings interrupt my sleep with a dream that’s way too realistic or a nudge from my partner saying [...]

When it comes to changing your mood, there’s just something about Music that soothes me, helps me forget why I am upset, if only for a moment.  That moment is all that’s needed for relief to have a crack at it in moving from desperation to hope, not all in one leap, but fewer steps [...]

When spring is really here, the first rose blooms. Then light stays out longer.  Darkness delays coming with dusk notifying the birds to go home and the bats to come out.  Dusk is a time I like to sit out on my porch in the silence of the change from light to dark.  It is [...]

Always moving forward on this ‘persistence path’, “Starting Again in 2010″ was a post I meant to publish the first of the year. What happened isn’t as important as developing the habits to be stressfree by doing it NOW. Each stressfree step you take NOW, in mindset as well as action, will lead to relief from feeling stress.

Stress is an inside job, and NOT doing what you feel is good for you can become overwhelmingly stressful. Writing about the challenge can be a solution.

stress, express, honor the muse

Moving out of your comfort zone sitting on Stressless Furniture, by relaxing into a routine of productivity and accomplishing what you say you will do is a step in the right direction, the direction of stressless productivity!

Find beauty in what you look at and your looking becomes relaxing. Stress melts away as you focus on things that relax.