Have you reached the breaking point of stress? Well, watch closely as you learn
how to calm down when you're stressed out.
Stress, oh my goodness. Are you a really good stressor?Could
you get a membership card to distress you know, facility downtown or could you
like maybe it's a name badge that you wear, "hi, my name is Kirk, I'm stressed." Do
you tell people that you're stressed? Is it part of your daily conversation is to
express how much you're overwhelmed and how things have stacked up and literally
started to smother you? If it's in your language and it's on your mind every day
and you are easily triggered because you are really, really stressed out, my friend
you need some help. And I've got 3 simple solutions for you here about how
to lower that stress level. So you can calm down. Because, yeah, we can all stress
out. But I could stress out. I mean I today, I do more today than I would do
like in 3 weeks of work just about two years ago. There are more things that I
do every single day but my stress level is way, way lower because I've
began to focus more on how to calm down. And I don't know what you're thinking
either. But there's a lot of people in this world. We've got a lot of activities
and a lot of things we're doing. But are we really focused on literally some
steps or techniques of how to calm down? Because if you don't calm down, it's
going to influence your health, it's going to influence your decision-making,
for sure is going to influence your relationships because if you're stressed,
you stress the kids, you stress your spouse, you stress the people at work and
who wants to hang around a stress person? I mean they're like get away from them.
Hey, they're scary when they're all stressed because they're unpredictable
and they just rip and shred people. So relationships are going to
suffer, health is going to suffer and really the big one is your ability to
literally think clearly, that's going to struggle. And
when you can't make good decisions, you're creating more problems. I think
today is a good time to learn how to call them down. Okay, so let's take a look
at this. What does it take? 3 simple steps. The first one is more water and
vegetables. More water and vegetables. You cannot manage the thinking and
the emotions inside of you unless you are hydrated and unless you got some
greenery inside you. And now what's in vegetable? Maybe you totally have
forgotten what a vegetable is. A vegetable is when you walk into a
grocery store and you know that whole section of the grocery store, that has
plants in it? Not the plastic ones. I'm talking about over here, we got fruits
and vegetables right? Fruits and vegetables, help you think better and
help you manage your inside world. You think stress comes from the outside but
stress happens on the inside because you don't have the nutrients to be able to
think through things and be able to control and stop emotions from
escalating and blowing up all over people. That stress comes from the inside
not having the right kind of fuel. So if you don't got fruits and vegetables
inside of you, you're struggling on the inside having the strength and the
clarity of self-control. That's what's happening to you.
It's not out here because there's all this does it's going on around you. You
could be a totally different person with the interaction with those things if you
had the power inside through eating healthy. Now do I still have
some work to work on eating healthy? Absolutely.
Am I still learning how to manage my stress? Absolutely but least I'm doing it.
Ah yeah, you got to start doing this. Water, oh you know drinking of water. Milk
is not water, pop is not water, juice is not water. Water. Your body may even be
struggling with that much water to come in. You might like, oh man
get sick stomach but you got to retrain your body to flush. Literally have that
water move through your system and your drinking water so you literally can
flush out all the toxins and flush out help your digestive process. Help you
literally be hydrated. Your brain needs water to think clearly. If you're low on
water, you're not thinking clearly. You're low on water, you're struggling with your
energy. So, water and veggies. That take a look at this, bump it up. So, what you know
the good you know, you know six, what is it six cups? it's not 600
gallons a day. That's too much water to drink right? That's too much
water to drink. So, we're talking like, you know, you type in how much water should I
drink? I weigh this amount. How much water should I drink? Type it in. The Google will
tell you exactly how much water for you per... I'm not your nutritional guide or
instructor. I'm just telling you need it. Now, you need someone to like tell you
exactly how much you need. But get some. It helps you on the inside because stress is
an inside problem not an outside problem. Okay next. A level 10 sleeping. Level 10
not 10 hours. Not 10 hours, that's not what I'm saying. But a level 10 sleep
experience. Which means you really got relaxed. You went to sleep in a room that
was pitch black. You could calm down the noises. You were nice. You prepared
yourself to go to sleep. So let's lay this all out. You know you're going to go to
sleep tonight, right? So you're just going to go down. You're going to go to sleep. How do you
prepare for sleep? Do you even prepare? But how do you
prepare? This is what you do. You know that well sometime today I'm going to go to
sleep. When? Are you just going to go to sleep? When you pass out? Are you going to go
to sleep when you're caught sitting in your chair and drools coming out of your
mouth and your neck goes all strain? Or are you going to fall asleep in front of
the TV again? You're going to fall asleep in front of your computer? You're going to fall
asleep put the phone still in your hand? That's not going to
to sleep. That's called passing out. And you, if you're stressed, you've been
passing out at the end of the day from complete exhaustion. If you want to know
how to calm down, you decide, "I'm going to bed."
And so, literally, you're picking a bed time. To get a level 10 experience on
sleep, you pick a time and then you gear down so that you can hit that time and
go to sleep. So, really when's the best time to go to
sleep? Well, what time do you want to get up? You want to backtrack about a good 7
hours? 7 hours from the time you want to get up is the time you want to go to bed.
I know, I'm saying 7 hours. Be great if you could get 8. But right now you're
barely getting 5. So, 7 hours is 2 more hours than what you've been used to. And
you're literally picking the time to go to sleep. Now, everything in the world is
going to stop you from getting to bed at that time. Kids are still going to be awake,
dishes aren't going to be done, house isn't going to be totally clean. But you're going to
stress out more if you hurry and get all that stuff done. And then you pass out
and go to sleep. You're not going to get quality sleep. So, you go to sleep. So that
you can calm down. And then you wake up the next morning more calm. Because you
went to bed when you said you're going to go to bed. You got up when you said
you're going to get up and now you're starting to take charge of your life. If
you can't take charge of your sleeping, you don't have charge of your life.
Sleeping is the other half of your life. And when you lose control of sleeping
time, you lose control of half of your life. It's why you're stressed. Because
you're not controlling the natural destresser. A natural destresser is
sleep. It's where your body repairs itself. It's where it takes all the day's
activities and tries to make sense of them, is tries to file all the thoughts
and experiences into the filing cabinet in your brain.
And when you don't file away your thoughts and experiences for the day and
you don't give your body a chance to repair, you're waking up the next morning
fragmented, damaged and behind. Because you didn't repair. Half of your life is
sleeping. Half of your life is repair time, repair mode. And people who stress
are fragmented and damaged and behind in the night nighttime activities. It's part
of life. Boy, I ruined myself before I figured
this one out. And so, if you can't manage half of your life through sleep which is
pretty easy just lay there. If you can't do that, how are you supposed to manage
yourself while you're awake? That's not going to happen.
But a level-10 sleep is, you pick the time you get 7 hours. All the little
lights in your room are blocked off with little black tape and your windows are
ways that you can close them. So, it's pitch, pitch, pitch dark in
there. Get away from electronics at least 30 minutes before. An hour is best.
Get away from electronics before you go to sleep and if you can play some calm
quiet music with no lyrics. Calm quiet music with no lyrics before you go to
sleep and just help put your body into harmony. Harmony with music is harmony
with your body. So, harmony helps create harmony. So that your organs and all your
functioning parts of who you are on the inside kind of are following that nice
calm music with no lyrics. And it helps put you into a nice lullaby before you
go to sleep. You know when you're holding the baby and you sing a lullaby, you're
helping put that baby into a nice harmony before it goes to sleep.
So, it'll sleep good. So, you literally are treating yourself like you're a little
kid. So, pick your time, 7 hours, nice quiet music, black off all the room and
make sure you can get as quiet as possible. If you need to where those one
thing, so it's like pitch black or if you need to wear earplugs, get them. Shut
down the sound, shut down the light, so your body can shut down.
Now, if you're super high active thinker and you need to get a pad of paper and
write down all your thoughts and all your worries and everything on pad of
paper before you go to sleep, that's another good practice. Unload your brains
on paper, on your laptop, close it put it to the side then go to sleep. And then
while you're sleeping, something I do. I don't know if it's for you or not but I
love to tell people this one. Get some kind of meditation CD that you can play
quietly they like tells you about your body relaxing and you know, all the
muscles in your face and your body, your back and your shoulders, your neck. That
really works for me. But a level-10 sleep. Remember, sleep is half of your life. It
literally is half of your life. Can't manage your sleep, you're not managing
your recovery. That's why you're stressed. Okay, the last one, soak. I know, I've got to
soak you. If I could come over to your house every day, I just like either stick
you in the shower and soak you with hot water, throw you in a tub and just get
you to soak in liquid. Now, this... I'm going to go out on an edge with this one
but I really think that, I know, this is going to sound weird but just go with me on
this one. The tub and the shower, when we get nice warm cozy water all over us, I
think what it does is it triggers our mind to put us back in the womb where
we're literally in the amniotic fluid before we were born. And that feels safe
and nurturing and comfortable and healing. And so, when we soak in the tub
or soak in the shower, we literally are triggering our subconscious to say, "I'm
safe. I'm okay. There's enough, there's people who love me, there's
people who take care of me." We literally trigger our subconscious to
go back there. But you, if you're stressed out, you need to go soak in the shower or
soak in the tub. And then of course add some extra stuff, you know, like good
smelling shampoo or essential oils, you know, if you're sitting in the tub. But
don't use things like oregano or 'cimmanon, 'cimmanon? Cinnamon? Cinnamon,
right? Yeah, don't do that. But you want to do like the
nice smelly stuff. Barge you undo bubbles like in a tub.
I learned this though. You don't put the whole bottle in. It makes a mess. There is
bubbles everywhere for like days. But soak. Get yourself in liquid. We're
outside right now and right over here is my hot tub and literally I didn't get a
hot tub for fun. I got a hot tub for literally recovery purposes. And I know
people like, "Oh, this is really fun to have a hot tub." It's like, "No, it's not fun,
it's a lifesaver." It's just a big bathtub. That's all it is.
But I don't put bubbles in my hot tub. But I just soak in the warm water to
literally calm me down. And that you can do in your tub or in a shower. But soak.
Get yourself with warm water all around you and trigger your subconscious to
feel safe and calm and relaxed. Just look at this. Super simple. Get some greenery from
the grocery store. Get some vegetables, get some fruits. Water, do it. Got it? Got
it. Okay, you don't have to stress anymore, you really don't. Make it a priority that
is something you are taking care of or it's going to be unhealthy for you. I don't
think you want to ruin your life just because you didn't take care of yourself.
I think your life is something that's worth doing something about. Do
one of these today. Which one? I'm going to say the easiest one. The easiest one,
drink some more water today. Eat some carrot sticks, soaked tonight or
tomorrow and get some good sleep. That's which one I would suggest to you.
Alright, get her done. And take care of yourself. You're important to a lot of
people. Really take care of yourself. You don't have to stress. I hope you loved
what you just learned here. I love a life of feeling calm and you're only a few
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