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UpBeat Living supports you in being happy, healthy, and on-the-go, cocreating the life you want. That said, sometimes even the UpBeat Living office has challenging days. In a couple of project areas, things are stuck on personality issues. We had to fire a major vendor, and today they got the word; we also need to replace them, which is a process. Wanting never to hurt anyone, if possible, made the vendor firing thing very intense. The bank made an error, I drove over to get them to fix it, a secondary effect popped up, and I drove back to get them to fix that. Plus, the Moon has been full, which intensifies everything. For several days, it has seemed the opposite of peaceful. It has seemed like crisis time.
So what does UpBeat Living do when it’s crisis time? We use the crisis-level stress management tools, the “Crisis Quickies”. Try some of these, and let us know how they work for you!
- Run in place for 2 minutes, if you can.
- Divide the crisis or crises into pieces, and start on one piece.
- If you feel like vomiting from stress, go ahead. You’ll release a lot of tension and feel better fast. Then seriously brush your breath, and everything will seem less serious.
- If you have to be in meetings with those who are disrupting your peace, try to look calm. This helps directly, signaling your body-mind system to calm down.
- In those meetings, place the tips of the 3 center fingers of your right hand in the center of your left palm. This looks calm and signals your central nervous system to go quiet. Now you can deal with those people and issues more easily.
- When you get home, take an extra shower. Yes, you’re clean, but this one is for therapy. Picture all the stress energy of the day flowing out of you, out of your head, off your scalp, and down the drain. Sing loudly, any song that comes to mind; make up something that suits the issues of the day. Blow your hair dry, which will also blow stress energy off your head.
- Practice exhaling. Forget all that advice about “taking a big breath”. You need to empty your lungs before you can take that big breath. Exhaling is especially powerful, because you can do it quietly without anyone realizing you are managing a crisis.
- If you are a person of faith, pray! If you don’t know what to pray for, just pray, “Help!” You may be surprised at how crises ease up when you pray for help.
And all the best to you! May you be back on your happy path, in your UpBeat Living, soon!
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Kebba,
That extra shower tip is one I’ve used for a very long time. I’m not sure when or where I learned it, unless it was from the movie, South Pacific, “Wash that Man Out of My Hair,” perhaps? Anway, my now adult children, especially my son, remembers me telling him to go wash his anger down the drain and take a shower to cool off. I even did it myself the other day.
I also recently went through a brief hypomanic episode where nothing was actually in crisis, but my brain was uncontrollably engaged and firing the better part of a four day period non-stop, which felt like crisis to my body. Several of your tips were used to help me manage to get through with out escalating (too much) or going off the deeper end or driving others in the same direction.
Good stuff.
Blessings,
Kina
These are excellent tips and I think I will use a couple of them today. It has been a crazy couple of days here, more with family stuff than business but I love your tips for tough meetings. Firing anyone is never fun but it sounds like you made it through with great aplomb!
Minette, thanks so much for visiting and sharing. Thank you so much for your positivity!