How To Reduce Stress: A Proactive Way To Manage Stress

By Christine Thompson-Wells

How to Reduce Stress takes evidence-based psychology to the maximum. The research for the books: How To Reduce Stress and How To Reduce Anxiety (soon to be released) spans over forty years of dedication to the topics covered. Christine Thompson-Wells has been an active writer for many years and went to the University of Canberra, Australia, whil

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books For Reading On Line.Com
• Release date: May 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9780645161236

Christine Thompson-Wells

As a London-trained florist, I have owned and run busy flower shops, taught commercial floristry in accredited colleges and have been the florist to Prime Minister Fraser and his wife at the Prime Minister's Lodge, Canberra, Australia.

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Chapter One

Mind Altering Substances, Co-dependency, and Learned Helplessness

Many people camouflage their stress through smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and taking drugs. Because many people start using substances, which help to develop bad habits when they are young, they are not fine-tuned to what their body is telling them. They may not realise they are in stress and may have been living with severe stress for most of their adult life. When habit forming substances are combined with anger and frustration, it can become a toxic, and evil combination within any human system.

It is not always easy to stop or slow down once a body’s system has become anesthetized to ingested or used chemicals. Your body has not got used to it, your brain has accepted it because the chemical or substance is constantly in your system. Your body simply learns to work with the condition it is forced to work with until one day, the substance or chemical has done so much damage, the body gives up under the strain and this is shown through the behaviour a person exhibits when they become unwell. While taking different chemical substances, a person may feel relieved at the intake of the substance but once the substance or chemical is in the body, the person will develop a form of stress to manage the ingredients.³

The aim of the words written in this book are to alert, and to give you the mental tools that will provide a deeper, more meaningful, quality-filled, and prosperous life.

Prosperity is not always measured in the form of money or wealth but life prosperity may come in the quality and richness of the life which you live; on the other hand, it’s nice to know that the power of your mind can help you to create your wealth. Creating what you want or want to achieve is part of your distinctiveness. It is the distinctiveness and originality of each, and every person’s mind that this book is about.

As I have often said, ‘each, and every one of us is unique; some of us are born, similar, but no one is identical!’ At the time of your birth, you brought with you something that had not existed before nor shall exist again; you brought your distinctiveness, your uniqueness and originality. These differences are what makes you, you. Sadly, many people suffer through uncontrolled stress which interferes with their distinctiveness.

Throughout life, you may have many opportunities to work with your distinctiveness, to make an impression, to leave your footprint of accumulated knowledge, or you have the choice to do nothing. Stress may lead you on to do nothing when an opportunity presents itself. Doing nothing is not an option, the only option is to become a winner and to go for the opportunity if it feels right for you.

Sadly, many people die without taking up opportunities. Stress can be a killer of challenge. Challenge is part of the great human potential that we all possess Many people die not having fulfilled their greatest human potential. They have not developed or made the most of their marvellous mind, the availability of their talents or developed their skills, or used their distinctiveness to its maximum advantage – they may have indeed, wasted their