The Pressure stress love motion that you go through everyday to take care of yourself and your love ones.
How many people feel like they are on a treadmill in life?
Daily we wake up to perform a certain function at your place of work. Depending on the way we look at it, we may like it love it or loathe it. It pays the bills and puts food on the table but does it fulfill you and align with your purpose?
God designed us with a certain purpose in mind. We tend to move so far out of alignment and never truly find our purpose. For a long time I was out of alignment in my life. I was chasing money and not focused on my divine purpose.
Other people can see your purpose
I learned this lesson the hard way. I was working on my trade as a machinist and the master machinists that I worked under noticed my purpose. I didn't receive what he was trying to tell me at that time. Why because he was telling me that my purpose wasn't in machining it was with people. It wasn't what I wanted to hear at all. He later broke it down to me. He said that he noticed what I did on my lunch breaks like helping people learn how to read and encouraging people to go back to school. Helping others study for their GED exam.
Young unfocused energy.
God wants us early in our youth so that he can shape and mold us for greatness.
But we tend to get involved in what we call Peer Pressure when we're young.
We can call these distractions and rabbit trails. Moving through life with little idea as to what we are designed to do. We do what we think is right by how it makes us feel. Everything that feels good isn't good. Falling in line with trends that maybe happening in your environment, age range, race or culture.
Stress can sometimes leave you feeling like throwing in the towel and giving up on life. I've learned that stress can build you up to make you stronger or tear you down to nothing.
Let's talk about those two stress.
The first being the stress we all know and loathe
•Stress this is the feeling and emotion that can cause damage to your mind soul and body. Anxiety, depression, frustration pain, and sadness.
One big ball of stress.
The second being a less commonly known stress called
• Eustress this is the stress that makes you rise to the occasion when necessary and overcome obstacles and challenges. This stress helps you grow.
Motivation inspiration and enthusiasm and fulfillment.
Learning to find stress relievers are key to your survival.
Prayer and meditation are good ways to relieve stress. Now I'm not going to tell you how to pray but I can give some advice about meditation.
Meditate
I was taught by a gentleman that I call my fellow brother in Christ. What he told me was nothing esoteric in theory. He shared with me how believers should meditate.
He gave me an instance where King David stated in the bible that he meditated on God's precepts (commands). Psalm 119:15-16 "I want to reflect on your guiding principles and study your ways.Your laws make me happy. I never forget your word."
My brother in Christ shared that I should read God's word and think about the passage through out the day and focus on Gods ways. This will bring enlightenment and relationship.
When I hear the word Relationship I think of LOVE!
To be in relationship requires a bit of intimacy, a closeness that will give you a sense of knowing.
We know what we love and that is connection and family. We do a lot for the ones we love and this motivates us to move forward.
LOVE helps us to do when we feel like there is nothing left inside to give.
God is LOVE!
1John 4:8 "But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love."
Love is a sustainable emotion.
Love truly is the only sustainable emotion. If you are angry can you stay angry forever? No you can't sustain that emotion forever. Since God is love all these other emotions really lack sustainability.
The Feelings Wheel is a wonderful tool
To use but I'm using it here as a visual at this moment. I will demonstrate how to use this wheel in another post very soon.
Love motivates us to move
Love causes us to get up every day and do what we have to do for ourselves our family and friends. Love is not only an emotion it's an action.
Love causes motion!
We move because Gods love is an action a force that can be felt. When we feel like giving up and stopping his love picks us up and carries us through our tough times.
There have been plenty of times when I felt like quitting everything my job, this life times get hard. God gives us enough momentum to carry us through.
It might be that one thing that changes it all.
God is truly amazing!
My nephew when he was a baby sang this little song to me that he made up. It saved my life when I was in a deep depressed moment. He sang "Don't give up you'll see why!" That one little line was enough to bring me back to shore. Out of the mouths of babes right! It caused a ripple effect that moved me to a greater place in God.
Manage the stress through Prayer and meditation. God is love the force that motivates us into motion actions beyond expectations!
His plans are great for you!
God bless you!
Photos used for educational purposes only.
Excellent post! I appreciate the "breakdown" (no pun intended) of the types of stress and what they lead to. Looking forward to post that analyzes the wheel!
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