Purposeful Stress
America is under stress. The world is. Its inhabitants are. But everytime I look around, I see the good rising up out of the mud, the lotus clean and vibrant, rising at its proper time. Good stress is hard to imagine, but we experience it all the time. If you have ever felt in control while doing something that challenged you, pushing yourself, working your edge and living your best experience of it, you felt good stress. Stress when purposefully used is one of the beautifully challenging things about living. It encourages you. It motivates you to do more, to rise up, or reach out, and be apart of your life. And, after the stress: the class, the conversation, the friction, the dis-ease, you reap more. Good stress when met and embraced brings a good dose of good feeling hormones, happiness, and relaxation. You are more than your stress, and undoubtedly, knowing how to relieve unwanted stress is necessary. Still, can we observe that which feels unwanted, create a practice of stres