I am always amazed how much "damage" STRESS does in our lives. Came across a very "pregnant" website, "giving birth" to many areas for recovery....cut and pasted just one of them on stress below.
The link is
http://www.personal-recovery-tools.com/stress-management.html
peace,
prodigalreturned
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Stress-Management offers Stress Relief Tools for Your Personal Addictions Recovery.
Unresolved Stress Can Destroy Your Sobriety and in turn Alcohol Rehabilitation.
Stress-Management may mean eliminating SNUPs and Martians.
Stress-Management Tools are the very elements of feelings, thinking, and attitudes which you bring to each individual situation.
Often this is where our emotional baggage catches up with us especially from the SNUPs and Martians.
We’d be better off, as part of our self-help stress-management, if we would take the time to learn and develop our innate ability to relax and let go.
The deep relaxation and healing from meditation and prayer can provide relief and be miraculous. Our Personal Addictions Recovery wins immediately.
Our mind is composed of elements which are bits of memories, remembered sense perceptions, ingrained illusions, and hard-wired connections from nature.
And of course, our UFOs. Our Unrealistic Expectations, False Assumptions, and Obsolete relationships.
These UFOs are prompters of our response behaviors which set-off our stress arousal, including Artificial Stress and addictive behavior. This ignites our fight or flight response. Our stress-management efforts are severely tested.
Of course, we can’t avoid all stress producing events, but we can cultivate our ability and develop the skills and tools to relax during normal daily activities and to better handle the difficult threats to our abstinence and sobriety.
This Stress-Management material including the Stress Relief and Stress Reduction screens will help getting in touch with what can be called your Inner Self.
Your Inner Self is where you have built the Mind-scapes we mentioned in the material on knowledge.
These mind-scapes are where your controlling mindsets are stored and where you have built the self-concept which you maintain and polish. Your
Inner Self is where you process, consciously and non-consciously, your mental imagery, including your friend or foe responses.
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