#gratitude against STRESS

What I should do is get up fifteen minutes earlier every morning to meditate. Or fix up a little corner in the office where I can hum away all those unkind contractors (we really don’t have any), those fine cut deadlines I delivered on, just in time and those pushy saleswomen from the bridal shop my bride to be friend is shopping at.

I really believe it works it just that my bed is so nice and soft and warm in the morning and my sleep to deep to require a meditation corner. I probably wouldn’t give myself the time and the splutters of laughter by my colleagues would just be a diversion, therefore impossible to get into a Zen pose.

Thank god there’s hope for restless people like me. According to the Huffingtonpost.com it’s called: the physical effects of gratitude. Thankfulness has a positive effect on you hormone balance, says Mark Sission. Who states that every thought influences how we feel physically. Negative thoughts enhance our stress levels and, not that hard to figure out, positive thoughts lower your stress levels because we make “ happy hormones” , at the same time lowering cortisol and adrenaline levels.

My grandfather says it all the time; men suffer from the fear of suffering the most. That’s it. The idea your employer isn’t satisfied about your work causes unnecessary freezing of the shoulders (ambitious people like myself suffer from this as we always assume the worst). If he isn’t satisfied with you (which probably isn’t the case) he would tell you. Why beat yourself up about it beforehand.

Try assuming he is very happy, okay I can do better, make that ecstatic about your assignment. You’ll be prancing about all day and you can even take in that point of criticism without wincing.

Presupposing the positive and being grateful is free, keeps your shoulders flexible and, not in the least, you can carry on working without the need for meditation and stay in bed for that extra 15 minutes.

So what am I grateful for? This article in the Huffington Post, thank you Mark Sisson. I hadn’t heard of you before today, but now I’m glad I did.