Unloading head junk may be the most important and lasting way to lower your daily stress load.

Head junk includes all the negative and constant draining thoughts, emotions, and beliefs you carry around in your head on a regular basis.  All the past doubts, harsh criticisms, and “could have”/“should haves”.  It is this undercurrent of troubling self-talk that keeps your worry, upset, discouragement, frustration, and self-directed anger perpetually bubbling just under the surface.

If you permit self-defeating, negative thoughts and feelings to build up, consciously or unconsciously, your mental distress storage will fill to the brim.  Then, when other annoyances, fears or threats arise, your storage overflows.  It is difficult to cope with much when you feel under the gun, stressed out, and overwhelmed. If your storage is always to this point then you may struggle with feeling depressed, anxious, angry or on constant edge in anticipation of another setback.

This is when the mind and body can shutdown, only to protect you.  The circuit breaker trips.

To take charge of your emotional state, let the negative feelings get reduced or eliminated, allowing everyday stressors to become easier to handle.  By reducing emotional and sensory overload, more energy and mental reserves are available to dream and go for what you want in life.  You become more resilient and better able to cope with challenging times.

Perhaps the following metaphor provides another perspective.  Imagine  you are standing in an elevator and the buttons on the panel are stress buttons. What if you had total control over the buttons.  What if you decide one or more buttons leading to certain floors are out of order and no matter who or what were to push these buttons, it’ll make no difference.  It’s not coming on, thus, this elevator is not going there.  Simply, it makes no difference to you.  Just as if you are immune to the stressors until you, and only you, turn them back on. You take control of situations until you are ready to react or respond accordingly, and in a healthier way.   Become the operator of your own elevator!

It’s a wonderful feeling to confront face to face with someone or perceive something that once controlled you, triggering mental or physical distress, yet now you face it calmly with little or no reaction or effort. You have the power to progress, heal, and evolve!  With practice it becomes easier to control which “floors”  your elevator travels to.  People and circumstances that induced stress will become things of the past—distant memories.

These metaphors and techniques are lifetime tools that help you shift your thinking, release old patterns, and eliminate sources of mental drain, and to immediately upon implementation–HealWithin!