Daily writing prompt
What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life?
Part of answering today's prompt is to define what one might mean by "increasing comforts in your daily life?" A first glance at it could lead someone to ponder about physical comforts, but the word "strategies" doesn't in my estimation suggest anything physical in nature like a comfy chair.
Strategies suggest that a person has a plan or set of plans intended to achieve something in this case "comfort in their daily life", especially over a long period.
I have no idea at all how many WordPress bloggers will write and post a response to "strategies in increasing comforts in their daily life." But, I suspect that if someone were to read and go through each one, some recurring themes or strategies would emerge.
Strategies to: decrease stress; consistent exercise; improved diet; personal care and the list would likely go on and be quite extensive. And these strategies would be personal to each individual as what works for you, might not work as well for someone else.
For myself one of the biggest issues I deal with as I suspect others as well is dealing with stress. Stress as we know can come barreling out of just about any situation and give us a smack upside the head at any time. That shouldn't come as a big surprise.
I try to deal with stress in a variety of ways, including exercise(walking for an hour or more); anticipating what the issues might be and dealing with them before they become bigger and more stressful issues; dealing with issues promptly and not letting them simmer and become a rolling boil over a longer period.
In addition, I find that simply taking time for myself - me time if you will. It may be sitting on our back deck with my eyes closed just being quiet and sort of dropping into a semi-meditative state.
One of the biggest strategies that I employ is making how I feel or how something or a situation is affecting me known. It relates back to not letting issues simmer and becoming a rolling boil, thus a bigger issue than perhaps it needs to be.
Situations and problems have an effect on us, whether we admit it or not. It is when you suppress or bury how you're feeling or how issues bother you, when those feelings of hurt, anger, frustration or disappointment fester, simmer and grow inside and eat away often making the hurt, anger and frustration like a ticking time bomb ready to explode a usually at some unopportune time.
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For example, I've written a little about our upcoming trip back to Ontario. Circumstances unfortunately and through no fault of really anyone, led to us not being able to connect with Lynn's dad this time.
He understands(he says he does) and we understand that stuff and circumstances happen - deal with it and move on. Stop harping away on it.
Others unfortunately who are part of the play/drama - not so much. So they play the passive-aggressive guilt card towards Lynn and me. We should change our travel plans; we should cancel and re-book medical appointments that took months to get; we should come back to Ontario twice. And so on.
Yesterday, I told Lynn how all of this, and especially one person was making me feel and that this "vacation" felt like now, it really didn't have much in it for me, other than going to a ball game. Getting out how I was feeling in a way allows those negative feelings to hopefully change or morph into at least neutral feelings at worst and somewhat more positive feelings at best.
Comfort in our daily lives can likely take many forms. Employing strategies in our lives that can help in reducing stress will go such a long way in making our daily living that much more enriched and yes - just plain better and healthier all around.
--as always with love--
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