Ask 1 Question for Less Anxiety
1 Question for Less Anxiety:
Simplicity: the quality or condition of being easy to understand or do.
What if as your next week rolls in you sift your thoughts through the filter of simplicity?
Explore 1 question as you jump into your week:
- How can I be a more relaxed version of me?
What if you took this 1 question along with you every day, how would you imagine this practice might open up opportunities to “do life” with less stress in the New Year?
This is a question that came to me when I was in fetal position, lying exhausted in bed, after a half a year of chemo treatments and 9 surgeries as I was made my way through advanced cancer back to complete restoration.
This question followed a proclamation I made during the same time period: “WOW I never realized how much energy it takes to be me.” In fact it took so much energy to be me that it almost killed me.
Don’t wait to give yourself permission to slow down and smell the roses until your body is screaming so loudly you are literally taken out of the game of life.
Take Action:
Explore a few of the questions below and pull out 1 or 2 that POP out to you.
Take 15 minutes and journal your response and pin it up by your work space as a reminder to slow down and practice being a more relaxed version of you:
- What can I shift in my intonation that would reflect a more relaxed version of me in conversions I have with my loved ones? Colleagues?
- How can I shift my body language to reflect a more relaxed version of me?
- How can I be more relaxed preparing for a work project?
- How can I give this presentation more relaxed?
- What if I brought a more relaxed version of me to the table as I explored solutions to my perceived conflict? What would that look like? Feel like? Sound like?
- What if I woke up tomorrow and I was a more relaxed version of me? What would I notice to be different? What value would I bring into the world as a result of a more relaxed version of me? How would this affect the relationships I care about?
- Would being a more relaxed version of me boost my confidence?
This week have high noticing around your inner voice: the words and phrases you choose to dwell on. Whatever you focus on grows BIGGER. Don’t let your words be the BOSS of you.
Be the boss of the words you use to describe your life experience as well as what you believe about your ability to overcome verses being overcome by circumstance.
Speak LIFE into your inner thoughts. Give more authority to the strength of God within you than to your circumstance.
Observe and delete any of the following negative choice points and replace them with life giving words: kind, loving and supportive speech to yourself and others…invite the Holy Spirit to help you clean out your mind trash.
Negative word choices that shut down and restrict your life:
Universal Quantifiers: Always, Never, No one, Nothing, Nobody, Everybody, Everything…these words create All or Nothing thinking and will prevent the brain from tuning into a variety of available options needing for solution based thinking.
Modal Operators of Necessity: Have to, I Need to, I Should, I must, I Can’t…it’s necessary: this type of thinking and speaking indicates a Lack of Choice and keep you stuck in mental muck.
As you expand your ability to explore and tune Into several different options you will ignite solution based thinking.
Words to Use that Benefit You: expand, explore, consider, trust, look into, ignite, curious, fascinating…
I invite you for the next week to take a negative thought FAST. Negative interior scripts lead to exterior drama, heaviness and stress:
Blaming:
Any time you blame yourself or another person take a step back from the situation and ask yourself what are you refusing to take responsibility for…it may come down to taking responsibility for your own sense of inner peace, joy and happiness.
Complaining:
Complaining of any kind creates an exchange of negative energy between you and yourself OR between you and another person which actually has the ability to shrink your brain size.
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