Sometimes life gets overwhelming. Get biblical insights to help you minimize stress on this episode of Enjoying Everyday Life with Joyce Meyer.
today i am excited to share the word of
god with you so let’s get started
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five ways to de-stress
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learn to practice shrug therapy
we’re all going to learn today how to do
shrug therapy
my son bought me a new coffee pot and
it pretty much does everything for you
except
put the pot
under where the coffee’s coming out
it doesn’t do that
and it doesn’t put the filter
now there’s a filter that you can just
leave in there all the time but i don’t
like that one so if you’re going to use
paper filters you got to put it in but i
mean it grinds the coffee it just it
does everything
so i recently made a pot of coffee but
somehow another i didn’t get the pot all
the way under
and i left the room and went somewhere
else and it’s a big pot so needless to
say when i came back i had this
and no i didn’t have time that morning
to mess with it
i looked at it i can honestly tell you
that i did not feel one thing i just
went
that is shrug therapy
amen
now
i cleaned it up
i didn’t like it
but i’ve wasted enough of my life
getting in a full-on fit
does anybody know what a full-on female
fit is
all right
i mean getting in a full-on fit over
something that i couldn’t do anything
about
don’t try to control things that are out
of your control
my daughter says a lot
it is what it is
and usually when she says it she’ll go
like this
hey this is going to help you come on
let’s practice
you guys look cute
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oh well
dave does it a different way he says i’m
not impressed
he always says if you’re not impressed
you can’t get oppressed but
see even when he says that there’s a
body language i’m not impressed it’s
shrug therapy
it’s like
not taking that on
now that doesn’t mean that you don’t
care
but what it means is that you’re casting
your care
and guess what
god cannot and will not take care of us
until we cast our care
cast all of your care all of your
concerns upon me once and for all for i
care about
you
the second thing that you can practice
is
staying in your comfort zone five ways
to de-stress practice shrug therapy
number two stay in your comfort zone
now that doesn’t mean that we never do
anything difficult
but it does mean that we recognize our
limits and we respect them
in other words
stop trying to do stuff
that you’re lousy at
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amen
you just don’t know what a mess we would
have if i went home and tried to
make a piece of clothes or
or bake some real fancy
dessert
you know
i got this itch on me a couple of years
ago and i thought okay i’m gonna i’m
gonna do some regular stuff
i get like that sometimes if i’ve just
like
done too many meetings or something in a
row you know it’s like and see even that
it’s like
it’s not even good for me to just be in
a spiritual zone all the time i need to
be in a normal zone too
and uh so when i get like that if i get
really tired
and i just overdosed on spirituality
then
sometimes i want to get domestic which
is a joke because i’m not like
that’s just like not kind of like my
thing
and uh
so i i got cookbooks
and i went out and i bought you don’t
even want to know how much money i spent
on spices
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i mean i got every kind of spice that
you could possibly imagine and my
daughter’s like what are you going to do
with that
i’m going to start cooking it’ll be good
for me to cook i’m going to enjoy this
it’ll be good so i decided i was going
to make dave and i a tuna casserole
because we used to really like tuna
casserole
and that’s pretty easy you know like
noodles soup
tuna
cheese it’s not hard to make and somehow
another thing turned out like glue
i mean it was bad
well you know what the spices are all
still in the rack
and i’ve returned to my comfort zone
and my strength because i can do this
i mean i need a break from it but this
is where i’m comfortable i’m not
uncomfortable up here you guys don’t
make me nervous i mean this is fine for
me but i would be stressed out
if i was having a bake of cake and make
dave a pair of shorts or something that
would just be
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nightmare
but stay in your comfort zone and don’t
think you have to compare yourself with
somebody else my gosh that creates so
much stress when we think we have to do
what everybody else is doing and let me
tell you something no matter what
somebody else is doing if they like it
they’re going to think the whole world
should do it
and if you don’t stand up for yourself
you’re going to spend your life doing a
bunch of stuff that you hate and despise
and then feel bad because you’re not
good at it when it’s not even what
you’re supposed to be doing
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amen
number three eliminate everything from
your schedule is not bearing good fruit
that’ll take another half an hour of
time for you to spend with yourself
eliminate everything from your schedule
that’s not bearing good fruit are you
sitting on a committee that does nothing
but argue and never makes a decision
lord have mercy
i remember a church committee i was on
one time
and they would argue and discuss
what color to repaint the front door
boring
how much time do you spend gossiping or
listening to gossip
how much time do you spend listening to
other people complain about their
problems that they have no intention of
doing anything about
they don’t want they don’t want your
help
they don’t want an answer if you gave
them an answer they still wouldn’t do it
how much time do you spend watching
really stupid stuff on tv
i may be just flipping through the
channels for two hours never watching
anything
now you know i know some of you probably
really like reality tv
but
i don’t like it i have enough of reality
thank you
when i watch television i want some
fantasy
give me a fairy tale
i want something like that is not
connected to the earth
i don’t want to sit and watch another
family fight and almost kill each other
it took me 40 years to come out of that
why do i want to do that
number four
i’m just turn the person next to you and
tell them you’re not gonna like number
four
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i’m just letting you know ahead of time
you’re not going to like this
because
the number four thing that you can do to
relieve stress is to exercise
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exercise is one of the best stress
relievers in the whole world
now listen we have these little things
called endorphins in our body
and they’re the feel-good hormones
and they are increased when we exercise
endorphins make us feel happy
and we worry less
exercise improves your sleep
and that counteracts
stress if you exercise hard enough to
sweat
it removes toxic poisons from your
system
it can lower blood pressure
your resting heart rate
and cholesterol and it improves your
mood
i started working out at the gym almost
10 years ago now i work out at home
we’ve got a trainer
five of us work out at home
two of our kids dave me
one of my daughter-in-laws and
and uh
but i recently in the spring added
walking
and so i now walk four miles every day
in addition to the working out now
listen
my cholesterol is the lowest that it’s
been in probably 15 years
and i i’m just telling you the truth and
i’m not trying to push off on you what i
do but well yeah i am so i just
i mean truthfully i am you know
but honestly i’m just going to tell you
just look at me and i’m going to tell
you something
i cannot believe the energy that i have
gotten from walking
i mean it just shocks me the amount of
energy that i have gotten
from walking and it’s not easy
i’m doing hills and
it’s not easy to do but
i love it
and i’m just telling you
do what you want to with it i’m your
teacher so i’m going to tell you what i
believe
is going to help you and
there is a lot of stress in the world
today
and we’ve got more coming at us than any
other time in history just all the
little devices that we have to carry
around with us
you know we don’t even want to go to the
toilet without our phone
come on if any of you went back and got
your phone taken to the toilet with you
in case you missed a call
well i have to so
and the world is not going to change
it’s just ramping up for more and more
and more and one of the ways that you
can really help yourself is regular
exercise so do what you want to with it
there it is
and number five
take time to relax and do things that
you enjoy
take time to do things you
enjoy
take little mini vacations even if it’s
a 10 minute vacation
take a little vacation
if you enjoy a cup of coffee in the
afternoon then take time to
sit down get away from everything go
somewhere where it’s quiet
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have a cup of coffee
if you enjoy getting a pedicure then
schedule where you can get one once a
month just get away from everybody and
go get one come on you’re worth 30 bucks
or 35 or whatever it is to do that
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look at things that are beautiful
get out in nature and take the time to
look at something pretty breathe
and actually relax
on purpose
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