On-Going
2 years ago
i am too highstrung. i want to learn to be and remain more calm.
How to be more calm
It made me 
"I've finally found out how to calm down!"
How I did it: Here's a question to ask yourself when you're freaking out over something: "Will any of this really matter in a year?" My biggest problem with getting anxious is related to the cleanliness of my house. Everything has a place and I want everything in its place! However, after missing so much of my children's younger years because I was preparing for "House Beautiful" to drop by, I have joined reality. Nobody from a major magazine is going to come to this small town to see how perfect my single wide mobile home looks on the inside! I'm just enjoying my family now and we clean until the house is neat, clean, and orderly. No more perfection because it's such a waste of time!
Lessons & tips: Get a reality check if you have obsessive compulsive disorder about a clean house.
Resources: God, through prayer
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Not so good lately...
2 years ago
But if I look back, say, 2 years, I´m a calmer person me thinks.
Any advise in how to get even more calm?
Not sure
2 years ago
If I´m more calm or not. I would say I´m. Hey, I´ve been forced to live every single day for the last weeks with my mum again as she is off sick, and, amazigly, there has hardly been any fights!
I could still do with that anger management course though…
Being more calm
2 years ago
Being more calm is definitely the way to go for me. I find myself taking some deep breaths to find my calm during those times that I feel I might lose it!
sabryn okay...how about a calm December?
It's all about perspective
3 years ago
Oh, I have my days. Everyone does. But honestly, most of the stuff I see people get worked up over is absolutely not worth it.
Robert Fulghum wrote a great essay on this, which I will refrain from quoting excessively. (Bad habit of mine… ::grins::) But it boils down to this question: Is it a problem, or is it an inconvenience? Inconveniences just aren’t worth the energy. Let it go.
Not doing this!
3 years ago
Jeez the other day my dad was being patronising and I told him I would stab his eyes out if he continued! Breathe, Jen, just breathe…
It feels nice....
3 years ago
That is all….I still work at it though. Its a concious effort everyday until it becomes habit.
Spaz
3 years ago
Well it would be so much easier to be calm if I wasn’t in class with so many stupid people. I swear they ask the stupidest questions. I even told someone the answer and explained why to him and then he asks the teacher the same question and she gave him the exact SAME answer that I gave him.
It really pisses me off and it is hard to be calm in those situations. So I blew up for a few mins, then relaxed my shoulders and tried to breath.
Can’t really say it helped at that point….
It just started with a few minor headaches
3 years ago
This year I began having anxiety attacks and havign extreme migrains and tension headaches. I was overloading myself with little things and obsessing over them and it was really bad. My shoulders were so tense and I was getting easily agitated, it was really fusterating and the people around me were not enjoying my company.
I decided that this was getting to bad and looked for a few ways to ease all my tension. I began taking cleansing breaths and whenever I feel my shoulders tense up I try to relax. I got some medicine for the migrain headaches [which I learned that they run in my family] and now I just need to be more calm, and relaxed to lessen the tension headaches.
seeking nirvana...
3 years ago
okay mabey that’s extreme but i REALLY have got to become more of a calm person. I’m a high school student in a ton of clubs and extra curricular activites! I also, apparently, easily snap. I have constant stress headaches, and i’m constantly mean to my mother…. it’s just what i need to do and i’ll be sure to keep the world posted on wheter or not i achieve this… I KNOW I CAN DO IT.
