A Book for the Seriously Stressed: How to Stop Stress from Killing You
Geoff Thompson
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: B004INHC0G
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Stress is something that affects everyone, usually by making them snappy and ill, and even causing death. For the rare few that properly 'use' stress, the world becomes an Aladdin's cave of potential. This book teaches you the secrets of controlling and using stress to your advantage. . What causes stress . Who is prone to stress . Understanding the enemy . Understanding others . Why we always hurt the ones we love . Our immediate reactions to stress . Symptoms of short term and long term stress . Learning coping mechanisms to deal with stress . How to use stress as an energy force . Relief from stress This book will transform your life.
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feel ashamed afterwards because ‘men don’t do that!’ My shame became another stressor that demanded more energy. When I went to bed at night the feelings of depression loomed over me vulture-like, foreboding hung in my chest like a lead weight. It haunted my sleep, and when I awoke from a fitful night it was there waiting for me. My biggest mistake was allowing depression to bully me. My depression became a stressor itself, which triggered more stress hormones, used more energy creating more debt
I could (and frequently did) use in my quest for success. So to all of those people that made it their job to criticise me (you know who you are) I say thank you – and keep it coming. It’s as good as money in the bank. As far as I’m concerned energy is currency, it’s what allows me to make my living so it is almost as though these people were 74 WHAT CAUSES STRESS? sending me cash in the post (the fools). Try to remember this when others get you angry or stressed; it’s not personal, it’s a
wasn’t bad enough, when the moods did take hold I had no coping strategy to stop them from growing out of control. So a greater portion of my early life was spent either in a mood, in a temper or trying to make amends for the hurt I had inadvertently caused after my emotional outbursts. Because (I felt) I had no control, coupled with my constant overtraining, over-thinking and an unhealthy diet I also experienced a lot of depression. I often felt as though these negative emotions could, and
latter case the man I ejected claimed the youth he attacked was ‘screwing him out’ and that’s why he attacked him. I also remember another occasion when a doorman from a neighbouring county backed down to a group of local heavies in his nightclub. At the end of the night he was so stressed and embarrassed by the incident, that in a classic display of cash displacement he vented his anger by savagely attacking an innocent passer-by with a baseball bat, leaving him mentally disabled for the rest of
of my aggression, and that cannot be changed. But by channelling that energy in another direction my aggression could be spent on something other than John. I remember when a particular fellow, many years ago now, wrote a very disparaging letter about me into a magazine’s letter page. At the time it made me very angry but rather than vent my aggression directly towards my antagonist I channelled it into a book I was writing. Because I displaced the negative energy in a positive manner, and not at
