ALL stress is imagined. Stress is the result of an imagination run amok.
People, things and situations have no power to stress me out. It’s what I think and believe about them that stresses me out.
Sometimes I get distracted by something fun or interesting and my stress will leave me for a while. Then I’ll remember: “Oh yeah! I’m dealing with a stressful situation” and the stress will rush back in.
No stressful thought, no stress.
And if a distracted mind is enough to take away my stress, that must be where my stress lives: In my mind.
So if that’s where it lives, how do I alleviate it?
I work with my mind: I recognize the cause of my stress, then I get still and question what I’m thinking and believing for the love of Truth.