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Exposed... How To Remain Positive In Stressful Life Situations
Introduction
You must have noticed…
At times, you work so hard.
Yet things fail to work out the way you planned.
Never mind the cause of the stress.
What you need is to be armed with resources
that can help you overcome the stress while remaining positive.
A positive mental outlook can lessen your stress.
It can help you achieve your goals.
Do you feel like you’re at a dead-end?
Are you beginning to sense that negativing is increasing?
Hold it right there!
And consider the following tips.
They can help you stay positive in tough situations.
1. Count Your Blessings
So, things have been rough?
Okay, but you have a job… a source of income?
Do you have a supportive and loving family?
Do you have great, helpful friends?
You have remained healthy?
These, and a lot more, are things you can be thankful for.
Think of the happy times you’ve had.
Relive your joyous experiences.
Recall the jolly moments spent with your family or friends.
And you will let go of unhappy past events.
You will become poised.
You will feel proud.
You will remain positive.
2. Give Yourself Some Reward
Have you achieved some of your goals?
Whether it’s little or great,
appreciate yourself for a job well done.
Take a nap; take a walk and enjoy nature;
watch a movie; learn something new;
take your friends out for a healthy drink…
You can reward yourself in
an endless number of fun ways.
Explore them.
And feel great about yourself.
3. Do Regular Exercise
Exercise regularly.
This is one sure way you can
remain positive regardless of stress.
You can bike or go for a walk.
You can play golf or swim.
You can play tennis.
You can do controlled breathing exercises.
These have been proven to help
lessen stress in numerous cases.
You can do something else you enjoy.
4. Make Out Time To Relax
Do you always think of work only?
Stress can easily overwhelm you, then.
Take some time off.
Take a break.
Take your family out.
Read an inspiring book.
Do something that makes you feel relaxed.
This will keep you positive and
focused when you get back to work.
Conclusion
That’s it!
You can always remain
positive no matter the situation.
Apply these simple tips often.
They will help you sustain a delightful,
positive attitude in life.
Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Revelation 22:17
Jesus says, "take freely." He wants no payment or preparation. He seeks no recommendation from our virtuous emotions. If you have no good feelings, if you be but willing, you are invited; therefore come! You have no belief and no repentance,--come to him, and he will give them to you. Come just as you are, and take "Freely," without money and without price. He gives himself to needy ones. The drinking fountains at the corners of our streets are valuable institutions; and we can hardly imagine any one so foolish as to feel for his purse, when he stands before one of them, and to cry, "I cannot drink because I have not five pounds in my pocket." However poor the man is, there is the fountain, and just as he is he may drink of it. Thirsty passengers, as they go by, whether they are dressed in fustian or in broadcloth, do not look for any warrant for drinking; its being there is their warrant for taking its water freely. The liberality of some good friends has put the refreshing crystal there and we take it, and ask no questions. Perhaps the only persons who need go thirsty through the street where there is a drinking fountain, are the fine ladies and gentlemen who are in their carriages. They are very thirsty, but cannot think of being so vulgar as to get out to drink. It would demean them, they think, to drink at a common drinking fountain: so they ride by with parched lips. Oh, how many there are who are rich in their own good works and cannot therefore come to Christ! "I will not be saved," they say, "in the same way as the harlot or the swearer." What! go to heaven in the same way as a chimney sweep. Is there no pathway to glory but the path which led the thief there? I will not be saved that way. Such proud boasters must remain without the living water; but, "Whosoever will, let him TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY."
Evening
"Remove far from me vanity and lies." Proverbs 30:8
"O my God, be not far from me."
--Psalm 38:21
Here we have two great lessons--what to deprecate and what to supplicate. The happiest state of a Christian is the holiest state. As there is the most heat nearest to the sun, so there is the most happiness nearest to Christ. No Christian enjoys comfort when his eyes are fixed on vanity--he finds no satisfaction unless his soul is quickened in the ways of God. The world may win happiness elsewhere, but he cannot. I do not blame ungodly men for rushing to their pleasures. Why should I? Let them have their fill. That is all they have to enjoy. A converted wife who despaired of her husband was always very kind to him, for she said, "I fear that this is the only world in which he will be happy, and therefore I have made up my mind to make him as happy as I can in it." Christians must seek their delights in a higher sphere than the insipid frivolities or sinful enjoyments of the world. Vain pursuits are dangerous to renewed souls. We have heard of a philosopher who, while he looked up to the stars, fell into a pit; but how deeply do they fall who look down. Their fall is fatal. No Christian is safe when his soul is slothful, and his God is far from him. Every Christian is always safe as to the great matter of his standing in Christ, but he is not safe as regards his experience in holiness, and communion with Jesus in this life. Satan does not often attack a Christian who is living near to God. It is when the Christian departs from his God, becomes spiritually starved, and endeavours to feed on vanities, that the devil discovers his vantage hour. He may sometimes stand foot to foot with the child of God who is active in his Master's service, but the battle is generally short: he who slips as he goes down into the Valley of Humiliation, every time he takes a false step invites Apollyon to assail him. O for grace to walk humbly with our God!