Almost everyone I talk to these days is struggling with news-overload syndrome.
I recently read an article about over 100 ways to fight back about what is happening in the US right now. Essentially, how to take care of yourself when there is much more coming at you than you can manage.
These activities try to help you avoid reacting to the daily trauma. They also may help avoid freezing your energy to protect yourself, becoming numb, and later suffering from PTSD.
I am protecting myself by limiting my own consumption of news to limit my exposure to events I can’t control. However, I’m still experiencing repeated reactions when I hear about the damage being inflicted on innocent people.
If I didn’t have the tools I teach in this book, I would be struggling with trying to let go of the stress with those 100+ ideas that only distract me for as long as I am doing them.
When I use the 3 sentences in this process to reclaim my energy from the images I create of what is happening now or might happen in the future, I truly relax. I stay relaxed until I react to something new, create new images and feel stress again. Then I repeat the sentences about the new trigger.
Fortunately, it is simple to do and only takes a few minutes each time. Get the book, learn about the process, and use it to help yourself relax.
This post is a comment I wrote about a passage on Page 74 revised edition, Page 82 original of Letting It Go: Relieve Anxiety and Toxic Stress in Just a Few Minutes Using Only Words (Rapid Relief with Logosynthesis®). You can see the passage in the book. You can also see the excerpt here. This link will take you to Bublish.com, where I regularly publish comments on parts of this book. This is a site where authors share of their work. You can subscribe to my musings, there, as well as to the musings of many other authors. It’s a great place to learn about new books and I recommend that you visit.