STRESS

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, 'How heavy is this glass of water?'

Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.The lecturer replied, 'The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it's not a problem.. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.'
He continued, 'And that's the way it is with stress management. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, the burden will become increasingly heavy: and we won't be able to carry on. '

'As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again... When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down: don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can.' So, my friend, Put down anything that may be a burden to you right now. Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while.

Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
* Just accept that, some days, you're the pigeon: and, some days, you're the statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet - just in case you have to eat them.
* Always wear stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be "recalled" by their maker.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, It was probably worth it.
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to be kind to others.
* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
* The second mouse gets the cheese.
* When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
* You may be only one person in the world, But you may also be the world to one person.
* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
* We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp; some are pretty; and some are dull. Some have weird names; and all are different colors; but they all have to live in the same box.
*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.


My wife. Carole, sent me this article about stress and then added this memory

[Guess I must be happy because I love detours and new scenery I have never seen. Guess maybe, it's because I don't get out much anymore and when one is from Linwood, MI. whose parents entertained their kids by taking them to the corner to watch the traffic go by on US 23 or to count the deer passing by during deer season ... or your mother took you on the tour of Tower Road and Elevater Road to watch the pickles and sugar beets growing ... detours are AMAZING!] (but somehow, wherever Mother took us, she made it seem like a wonderful adventure ... though we had been on the same ride a hundred times ... and we never tired of her historical tour. We could imagine everything through her eyes ... and glory in it. Oh gosh, would I give most anything to take another tour on those ole gravel roads with my mother and sisters.) -Carole Beighey
Have a wonderful day and know that someone has thought about you today.
I did ...