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Understand your personal feelings and Stimulation requires resting afterward. You
thoughts, and express your thoughts through need equal time for being active, and being
actions. This is key to finding your personal restful. Make sure you have a restful time!
balance. The mind is incredible, isn’t it? It gives Walk away from overstimulation and let this
personalized guidance that you can use in passive time help you REFLECT on the things
order to better understand yourself. It helps you’ve just experienced, or what you see in
you monitor your actions, and process and your head. When you rest, you can identify
control your feelings. your hunches, your personal feelings, and most
importantly, you can recreate your "Inner
However, let go of Controlling all the time! It Calm".
cuts off the part of yourself that
communicates with your inner Knowing. You It’s your job to find a balance of energy within
may have a strong feeling or impression, so see yourself, the Calm. You are becoming smarter
what that impression is. Your intuitions can now and it’s your job to keep a balance of
help you become wiser about yourself and Calm and Peace within yourself. You deserve
your surroundings. it!! Don’t let others take it from you!! It’s your
Calm. Keep seeking it and coming back to it.
One more thing, that's a very big deal! And a Don’t let circumstances or others steal your
very big problem right now. It’s Over joy or peace of mind. Remind yourself that
Stimulation. There are so many things in this things are OK because, honestly, these things
world competing for your attention! Our really are getting better!
society has created many distractions to keep
us away from the real world. Multiple activities, The average adversities in your life are not new
electronics, advertisements. Others that you to you. Many of us have a personal walk with
live with are also distractions. God and turn to Him for peace and
enlightenment. I find that when I don’t know
Are you bouncing around in your mind? Trying what to do about a difficulty, I thank the Lord
to do too many things at once makes you for taking on the problem and solution, and
stressed out?! Control the chatter in your then I trust in Him for the best outcome, and
mind! Learn to recognize how you feel and also for peace within myself, about the
behave when you’re Over Stimulated. difficulty.
Too much stimulation can make you behave Difficulties set a pattern and you choose what
erratically, irrationally, and overly emotional. to do with each occurrence individually. So to
You may feel confused and you may find begin with, look for a pattern. Try to see the
yourself drawn in several different directions. cycle of stress and tension building. That is
This is not uncommon but it’s frustrating, so often followed by a Crisis. A blow-up or Crisis
learn to recognize over-stimulation quickly, is what you don’t want!
and protect yourself!
Maintain the "Honeymoon" part of the cycle by
Draw back for a while. Take time out and set keeping your goal of being calm. The
your priorities. Begin to reduce the activities relaxation exercises will help you maintain
and distractions! Walk away or shut things off!
By Hannah Kesler peace and defuse the crisis! Then others can’t
Stop! Your body will obey you! If too many mess with you, and your even, balanced level
distractions are making you feel overwhelmed, of “Intentional Calm Within”.
remember that your health is a high priority!
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