Calming Down The Noise

Calming Down The Noise

With tons and tons of stressors in life, it's NEVER a surprise [OR a shock] if we live in the midst of these stressful times.  Calming Down The Noise is our best way to handle things BUT to set expectations, CALMING DOWN THE NOISE does NOT mean achieving an eerie silence, as calm as the environs of the church sacristy.  The most and the farthest we can aim for is to contain and limit the NOISE, at the very least its negatively impacting implications to us, to our life.  True, life throws chaos at us on a regular basis, whether it's our finances, our relationships, OR our health.  In the work world, studies show that approximately fifty [50%] percent of people are BURNED OUT especially in industries like health care, banking and even amongst non-profit organizations📗📙📘

HOW do we handle all those chaos?  We just tend to keep pushing through, surviving but heavily dependent on our own adrenaline.  We end up overschedule ourselves in our calendars.  Browsing a personal calendar with multiple overlaps across each day. Sounds familiar?  Then, we down another cup of 'strong' coffee, then respond to another email, another escalation, another brewing headache knocking on the doors of your mail inbox.  If we stay amped all the time, we [WRONGLY] think that we'll eventually be able to get things done, get over the hump.  NO sirrrrrrrrrs❌❌❌

BUT all those things will do is burn us out, even drain our productivity and lead us to exhaustion till we hit the rock solid floor.  BUT psychologists claim, this is NO time to call it quits as there's another way, a much CALMER way.  Cultivating a more restful, relaxed state of mind DOESN'T mean we'll drown under all our responsibilities.  Instead, researches suggest that it will bring us greater attention, energy and creativity to tackle them.  And science also points to simple ways we can tap into that CALM state of mind to be more resilient in our chaotic lives💥💥💥

Supposedly, stress was NEVER meant to be a harrowing 24/7 experience.  Even psychologists claim that supposedly, we are expected to feel stressed in the five minutes right before we die.  And WHEN you are being chased in the savanna by a wild animal, your stress response is supposed to save your life as it mobilizes your attention, your muscles and immune system to get you quickly out of danger.  WHEN animals escape, they come right out of FIGHT or FLIGHT mode and into the REST and DIGEST' mode WHERE our own nervous system is working to replenish our own finite resources😊😊😊

Our takeaway:  I've been through stress a zillion times and I learnt that WHEN we're tightly wound up, we are more likely to react to situations than to respond with reason.  We even tend to perceive the world differently as stress makes us narrowly focused, preventing us from seeing the bigger picture.  BUT WHEN we're calmer, our attention becomes broader.  In fact, I did realize that during those times, I literally see more things [instead of getting blinded].  And WHEN we're CALM, we also tend to manage our energy with a better handle because we're NOT burning ourself constantly, spending days with our [sympathetic[ nervous system in overdrive mode.  And CALM helps us to focus on WHAT we need to do and get it done much more quickly.  HOW many times in the past did you go through a state of panic and ended up with a better handle of the situation?  At best we would barely survive such a situation.  Dude, CALMING DOWN THE NOISE is NO patsy.  You got to roll up your sleeves, deep your hands in the cookie jar and even jump into the fire❗❗❗