Do you have too much to do, not enough time to do it, unexpected confusion and too much frustration?
Do you chalk it up as "par for the course" and just push through?
Do confusion and frustration seem to happen at particularly inconvenient times? Do difficult periods seem to last too long? Does it seem like life is saying, "Just suck it up?"
As a professional serving people with stress-related disorders, I've seen a lot of the symptoms of stress. Like anyone else, I've experienced my share of stress, so I know about it from the inside, out. A lot of people "suck it up" -- and nobody likes it.
As someone with thirty-five years teaching people to eliminate stress and pain, I've seen a pattern, what I call "the basic recipe for stress": overloaded attention, overloaded memory, impaired intention and stalled imagination. Put 'em together and what have you got? Common stress.
That's a clue, and I recognized it.
UNDERSTANDING the PATTERN
Once I understood that clue, I was able to design an efficient way to disarm stress, a self-reset -- like Control, Alt, Delete -- for your mind. It's called The Pattern-Release Reset: The Gold Key Release.
This kind of self-reset is completely different from time-management or setting priorities, hypnosis, breathing techniques, visualization or positive thinking. As a reset, it works "upstream" of where those other approaches operate. Instead of counteracting downstream effects, The Pattern-Release Reset dissolves hidden underpinnings of stress: unconsciously-held stress triggers. To dissolve them "upstream" removes the sense of being entangled and compelled by "downstream" circumstances -- the need to fight anything, to give in, or to maintain appearances or some kind of attitude. It resets us to an even keel, at balance, even though the circumstances are still what they were. Can you see how that would be to our advantage?
Since I developed it, I've found the Pattern-Release Reset to be very useful. Here's why:
- IT'S VERSATILE. Awkward situations, dire predicaments, stage fright, embarrassment, apprehensions about the future and other stressors lose their bite.
- INCREASED RESERVE CAPACITY. When we're feeling overloaded, we're able to clear ourselves to handle more information more quickly and easily than before.
- ENHANCES COHERENCE. Higher coherence gives rise to better thinking, better problem-solving, and the mental space for the emergence of workable ideas with the "ring" of ingenuity.
- MAKES COPING IRRELEVANT. Once an issue is handled, it's handled, not because you're coping successfully, but coping no longer applies. That area of life has been cleaned up. If similar issues arise, you don't experience them the way you used to (if at all). Either you keep your composure or you recover it, quickly.
- CONVENIENT. It's do-it-yourself and always available. Do it whenever you're feeling fried after a long meeting or tired during a long day; at home before dinner or before bed, for better sleep.
A reset session is refreshment on-demand -- both of your drive to get things done and of your capacity to do it.
When COVID hit, I got clobbered with the same difficulties as everyone else -- and more. I was given notice to vacate the house I rented so that the owner could have it for his family. My entire life was disrupted. The housing market was tight and my housing search was unproductive. With my elevated stress level, I was losing mental coherence. I had to do something besides more of the same.
I did the reset process, myself, in what afterward I regarded as, "an acid test". It rescued me from being overwhelmed by a harrowing situation and convinced me that what I had was life-changing enough to help a lot of people -- particularly during the tidal wave of world-change in which we are all involved.
Go from stressed out to composed, master of your powers of intelligence (instead of struggling to maintain control).
Does stress simmer in you and sometimes boil over? Do you seem to have to cope with more and more? Does the "overwhelm waterline" come up to your nose too often? Here's a life-preserver -- and a breath of fresh air.
If The Pattern-Release Reset sounds like exactly what you need, click below for complementary, introductory conversation, to get a closer look.
PS: Which do you feel is better: to reset yourself when you recognize approaching overwhelm or when you're already feeling overwhelmed?
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Lawrence Gold is a certified clinical somatic educator with more than three decades of experience helping people transform stress and pain into clarity and comfort. His methods turn recurring reactions into quick recovery of emotional ease, mental clarity, and creative intelligence -- with nothing having to change, first. He teaches leaders, educators, and professionals how to shift from overwhelm to clear, grounded presence, in minutes.