Sunday Story…Stress Kills

In this particular time, you are under more and more insidious stress than ever before. It may not feel like the kind of stress you have had in the past…the stress of a deadline or the stress of performance. This stress is the stress of uncertainty.
We don’t know what things are going to look like.
We don’t know what is expected of us moving forward.
We don’t know what the new normal is.

In many ways, we are like Rip Van Winkle except instead of going to sleep and waking years later we are living through our sleep. At some point, we are going to “wake up” and look around and the world won’t be like the way it was. In this twilight time of not knowing our bodies are receiving internalized stress. We all need to combat that stress.

Be kind to yourself…you don’t have to do all those projects that are waiting for you.
Relax some of your strictest regimens…keep working out but take it down a notch or two.
Eat healthy flavorful food prepared with love.
And most importantly…Express Gratitude in your words, actions, and thoughts. When you are grateful stress falls away. Gratitude is the great stress reducer!

John Mariotti
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