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Now, I don't know about you, but when we feel stress in life, sometimes we don't really know what to do with it.
Sometimes that's conscious, sometimes it's unconscious.
Sometimes we intentionally shut it away, shut it off, try to push it down and suppress it.
Other times it just sort of happens.
It's almost like we don't have the capacity to even think about how to process it or to be able to allow it to be processed.
So it just sort of happens, it's pushed away.
Now we may think that's a good way to deal with stress.
If we can just sort of push it away and keep it out of our mind, out of our life, then somehow we're going to be happier as a result.
Stress doesn't really work like that.
My guess is that you will have experienced that in some way in your life.
Maybe you've been able to keep it down for a certain period of time and then maybe you got ill in some way.
Maybe you're able to suppress that frustration or something for a certain period of time and then you just suddenly broke down one day.
Maybe it was tears or work.
Maybe it was a meltdown in the queue at the supermarket with your children.
There are so many different ways that we suddenly go from sort of at least appearing on the surface as very calm, sane individuals to completely losing it.
And that's a big jump and it's not something that happens in that moment.
It's something that has already been building up underneath.
And that at some point has to come to the surface.
And if it can't come to the surface in one way through our thoughts or our emotions or through, you know, it will find another way.
And I was really struck by this recently.
I was listening to an elderly man and he'd been living for decades since he had lost his child.
And it had understandably sort of almost defined his life in many ways.
And by all accounts, it had been a very private man, had never really talked about it.
It had occupied his mind clearly in such a strong way.
And yet, you know, it came from a time and a place and a tradition way.
It just wasn't the thing for necessarily a man especially.
I think to talk about their struggles mentally in that way.
And had gone for many, many years to say most of his lifetime without ever really discussing it.
And it was only in sort of his later years that every now and again, sort of the name of his son would come to his lips would come to the surface.
Not necessarily any context to it, not in the shape of any sort of story or conversation.
But it was almost like it had to come out.
It had to come to the surface.
All of that build up over so many years at some stage had to come up.
And it really reminded me how easy it is to tuck things away, to turn things off, to push them down, and to hope that somehow they will magically be sorted.
It doesn't mean we necessarily have to take everything on in a big way.
But it does I think remind us that we need to create a mind or an environment where the mind can naturally over time begin to let go.
Where we give the mind the space to process these difficult events and challenges that happen in life.
When we do, more often than not, the mind will naturally find a way of allowing those to come to the surface in a way that doesn't feel overwhelming.
Where we're able to process it in a way that it feels safe.
Of course, sometimes we might need to go and see someone.
We might need to go and talk things through.
But at the very least, we can create these conditions so the mind is able to let go.
So the next time you find yourself trying to push the stress away, to resist it, to push it down somehow, know that, sure, we can do that.
But it's a very temporary solution.
Much better to create the conditions where we feel even perhaps comfortable in feeling uncomfortable, knowing that in allowing our mind the space, we're actually creating the conditions for change, recreating the conditions for a happier and healthier mind in the future.
Thanks for listening today.
I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.
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