STRESS

Stress Management Through 8 Health Laws

1. NUTRITION: Eat balance diet and change in diet is need to help restore a sickly immune system. Fresh fruit and vegetables especially raw vegetable. Eating a diet of 60-70% raw fruits and raw vegetables will really help you.

Do not eat high carbohydrates like white floor and sugar products and saturated fats. Avoid coffee, chocolate, artificial sweeteners, MSG, strong spices, tobacco and liquor.

2. EXERCISE: 

It improves your mood. Regular exercise can increase self-confidence, improve your mood, help you relax, and lower symptoms of mild depression and anxiety. 

Over thinking causes head congestion, the blood are stagnant that leads to headache, brain fog. Exercise will bring uniform blood circulation throughout the body.

Stretching your muscles can help move a circulation made sluggish by the situation. And you can think better.

3. WATER: Water reduces stress. Studies have shown that dehydration leads to higher cortisol levels—the stress hormone—making it harder to deal with everyday issues. Dehydration makes body exhausted, and resulting in lower electrolyte levels. Drinking sufficient water can help reduce the negative psychological and physiological impacts of stress

4. SUNLIGHT: Sunlight increases the brain's release of serotonin, a hormone that is associated with mood-boosting and helping a person feel calm and alert, and helps you stave off Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and sun exposure can also help people with anxiety and depression, especially in combination with other treatments

5. TEMPERANCE: Avoid unhealthy ways of managing your stress, such as using alcohol, tobacco, drugs or excess food. 

6. AIR: Deep breathing whenever you can refreshes the mind and helps you through a crisis. Go outside and walk in the open air. Hold your head up breathe deeply and relax. Stress can make the effects of air pollution worse

7. REST: Needs extra physical and spiritual rest. It can help strengthen your mind and nerves to handle the problems you must deal with

Many time we need to God and ask forgiveness, obey His Ten Commandment Law and start living a clean life. Make things right with those you have wronged.

Jesus says, "Abide in Me." These words convey the idea of rest, stability, confidence. Again He invites, "Come unto Me, . . . and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28. The words of the psalmist express the same thought: "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him." And Isaiah gives the assurance, "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength." Psalm 37:7; Isaiah 30:15. This rest is not found in inactivity; for in the Saviour's invitation the promise of rest is united with the call to labor: "Take My yoke upon you: . . . and ye shall find rest." Matthew 11:29. The heart that rests most fully upon Christ will be most earnest and active in labor for Him. SC

8. TRUST IN GOD:

Believe that with God's help the situation can be dealt with keep trusting Him as a little child trusts his parent to lead him by the hand across the busy road. Try following the 5 steps.

1. Turn to God in Prayer.

2. Meditate on the Word of God.

3. Spend Time Giving Thanks and Praise

4. Remember all the good things God gave.

5. Memorize Gods promises and claim back to Him.

HOW DO WE TRUST GOD DURING OUR STRESS

We can only trust someone, when we know them personally, how personally are you attach with God, to that extent you can trust Him?

Recall the Bible stories:

Good Examples in the Bible like Jesus, Daniel, Joseph, David, Paul, Jonah, etc.

Bad Examples in the Bible: Judas Iscariot, king Saul, lots wife, etc.

Wonderful Bible promise:

I. 2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James 1:2-4

II. 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights. Psalms 119:143

III. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:34

IV. 14 The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. Exo14:14

V. 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. Phil 4:6

VI. 28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Math 11:28-30

When the mind dwells upon self, it is turned away from Christ, the source of strength and life. Hence it is Satan's constant effort to keep the attention diverted from the Saviour and thus prevent the union and communion of the soul with Christ. The pleasures of the world, life's cares and perplexities and sorrows, the faults of others, or your own faults and imperfections—to any or all of these he will seek to divert the mind. Do not be misled by his devices. Many who are really conscientious, and who desire to live for God, he too often leads to dwell upon their own faults and weaknesses, and thus by separating them from Christ he hopes to [p. 72] gain the victory. 

We should not make self the center and indulge anxiety and fear as to whether we shall be saved. All this turns the soul away from the Source of our strength. Commit the keeping of your soul to God, and trust in Him. Talk and think of Jesus. Let self be lost in Him. Put away all doubt; dismiss your fears. Say with the apostle Paul, "I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20. Rest in God. He is able to keep that which you have committed to Him. If you will leave yourself in His hands, He will bring you off more than conqueror through Him that has loved you. SC 71-73

Basic:

* 1. Recognize the Problem and try to solve it: Problems are like a wall you can not go through them, go over or go around them. you go through them a problem when you eliminate it.

* 2. Think positive in every situation: see a good side to this and learn to make the best of it.

* 3. Stop think and try to think about something else

* 4. Avoid situations which bring tension

* 5. Learn to laugh 

* 6. Taking time for hobbies, such as reading, listening to music, or watching sermons, nature things 

* 7. Writing about your thoughts or what you're grateful for in your life, writing down testimonies, sermons, nature talks.

* 8. Fostering healthy friendships and talking with friends and family

* 9. Organizing and prioritizing what you need to accomplish at home and work and removing tasks that aren't necessary

* 10. Volunteering in your community

* 11. Prioritize getting a good night’s rest

* 12. Give Yourself a Break and Get Help.

The rewards for learning to manage stress:        

* Can include peace of mind,

* Less stress and anxiety,

* A better quality of life

* Improve work productivity

* Improvement in health conditions such as high blood pressure, Insomnia, thyroid, diabetes etc. 

* Better self-control and focus, 

* And better relationships 

* And it might even lead to a longer, healthier life

* Improves both physical & spiritual life

ELLEN WHITE QUOTES ON ANXIETY

"It is not work that kills; it is worry. The only way to avoid worry is to take every trouble to Christ. Let us not look on the dark side. Let us cultivate cheerfulness of spirit” Ellen G. White, Letter 209, 1903 in Mind

 “Do not worry.  By looking at appearances and complaining when difficulty and pressure come, you reveal a sickly, enfeebled faith.  By your words and your works show that your faith is invincible.  The Lord is rich in resources.  He owns the world.  Look to Him who has light, and power, and efficiency.  He will bless everyone who is seeking to communicate light and love”  Testimonies for the Church Vol. 7, p 212 in Mind Character,

It’s one thing to be faced with stress and it’s another thing to drown in it by worrying.

Dwelling Upon the Difficulties—Some are always fearing and borrowing trouble. Every day they are surrounded with the tokens of God's love; every day they are enjoying the bounties of His providence; 

but they overlook these present blessings. Their minds are continually dwelling upon something disagreeable which they fear may come; or some difficulty may really exist which, though small, blinds their eyes to the many things that demand gratitude. 

The difficulties they encounter, instead of driving them to God, the only source of their help, separate them from him because they awaken unrest and repining.—Steps to Christ, 121, 122 (1892)

 Stress touches everyone. Demands at work, family crises, guilt, uncertainty about the future, dissatisfaction with the past—these all are hard enough. All this, along with the general events of life, can put enough pressure on people that it affects their physical and mental health.

Moderate amounts of stress are necessary to increase performance, but beyond a point stress becomes a health hazard.

Jesus shows by precept and example that seeking God at a quiet time and place is the best remedy for life’s stresses (Mark 6:31). If we will allow Him to, the Lord will help us deal with the pressures that are such an inevitable part of life here.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28, NIV).

Anxiety Tends to Sickness and Disease:

When wrongs have been righted, we may present the needs of the sick to the Lord in calm faith, as His Spirit may indicate.

He knows each individual by name and cares for each as if there were not another upon the earth for whom He gave His beloved Son. Because God's love is so great and so unfailing, the sick should be encouraged to trust in Him and be cheerful. 

To be anxious about themselves tends to cause weakness and disease. 

If they will rise above depression and gloom, their prospect of recovery will be better; for “the eye of the Lord is upon them” “that hope in His mercy” (Psalm 33:18).—The Ministry of Healing, 229 (1905).

 Worry Makes the Burden Heavy:

I greatly fear that we are in danger, by worrying, of manufacturing yokes for our necks. Let us not worry; for thus we make the yoke severe and the burden heavy. Let us do all we can without worrying, trusting in Christ.

Study His words, “All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive” (Matthew 21:22). These words are the pledge that all that an omnipotent Saviour can bestow will be given to those who trust in Him.

As stewards of the grace of heaven, we are to ask in faith and then wait trustingly for the salvation of God. 

We are not to step in before Him, trying in our own strength to bring about that which we desire. In His name we are to ask, and then we are to act as if we believed in His efficiency.—Letter 123, 1904.

No other life was ever so crowded with labor and responsibility as was that of Jesus, yet how often He was found in prayer! How constant was His communion with God! ... 

As one with us, a sharer in our needs and weaknesses, He was wholly dependent upon God, and in the secret place of prayer He sought divine strength that He might go forth braced for duty and trial. 

In a world of sin Jesus endured struggles and torture of soul. In communion with God He could unburden the sorrows that were crushing Him....

In Christ the cry of humanity reached the Father of infinite pity. As a man He supplicated the throne of God till His humanity was charged with a heavenly current that should connect humanity with divinity. 

Through continual communion He received life from God, that He might impart life to the world. 

His experience is to be ours. “Come ye yourselves apart” (Mark 6:31), He bids us. If we would give heed to His Word we should be stronger and more useful.... 

If today we would take time to go to Jesus and tell Him our needs we should not be disappointed; He would be at our right hand to help us....