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Why is it so hard to follow the advice you give to others?
My husband and I are in a financial nightmare and I know I need to relax and keep as calm and unstressed as possible. So far, the best way for me to deal with minimizing stress is ignoring the problem. This has made the situation worse, and denial and avoidance is no longer an option. Trying to forge our way out of this mess is going to take a lot of effort and perseverance. I can only do so much before I start to freak out and go down the path towards an anxiety attack, so I stop as soon as I feel myself go there. But I have to keep going back.
I know that relaxation techniques (I know a million of them) should be my friend as well as meditation and other pampering, relaxing, take-care-of-yourself things. But it seems like such an effort to do them. I feel like I'm so rusty on these skills and that they won't be effective. Of course, this line of thinking only sabotages your efforts. I wish I could break the cycle and just DO the stuff and make myself feel better.
My husband and I are in a financial nightmare and I know I need to relax and keep as calm and unstressed as possible. So far, the best way for me to deal with minimizing stress is ignoring the problem. This has made the situation worse, and denial and avoidance is no longer an option. Trying to forge our way out of this mess is going to take a lot of effort and perseverance. I can only do so much before I start to freak out and go down the path towards an anxiety attack, so I stop as soon as I feel myself go there. But I have to keep going back.
I know that relaxation techniques (I know a million of them) should be my friend as well as meditation and other pampering, relaxing, take-care-of-yourself things. But it seems like such an effort to do them. I feel like I'm so rusty on these skills and that they won't be effective. Of course, this line of thinking only sabotages your efforts. I wish I could break the cycle and just DO the stuff and make myself feel better.
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