Based on your answers to the quiz questions, your best path through work stress is the:
Based on your answers to the quiz questions, your best path through work stress is the Spirit Path.
Women walking the Spirit Path benefit from stress relief approaches that involve the healing power of connection. This connection takes many forms. It might be connection to:
· Yourself
· Others
· A higher purpose or power
· Nature
· Art or music
When women walking the Spirit Path are faced with work stress, they notice it showing up a whole lot outside of work. One way it often shows up is as irritability that makes enjoying yourself outside of work really hard.
It can also show up as problems in important relationships. This can involve snapping at loved ones, words you know in your soul you never would have uttered were you not so stressed out from work. Work stress is turning you into someone you hardly even recognize and sometimes struggle to like.
Women on this path feel like work stress is responsible for a loss of inner peace. Self-care, hobbies, and other fulfilling activities often suffer and are no longer prioritized when a woman on the Spirit Path is drowning in work stress. Once these helpful practices start falling off, you lose the beneficial buffer they were giving you against work stress. You’re left feeling even more vulnerable to the negative impact of work stress and become further disengaged. It can really get a vicious cycle going.
Here’s some good news: just as loss of connection is felt deeply by those on the Spirit Path when experiencing work stress, so too can the power of connection be used to reclaim once’s peace. Women on the Spirit Path benefit from harnessing the power of connection with stress relief techniques like visualizations and practicing gratitude.
Visualization is a powerful method that involves using your imagination to help you ease the negative impact work stress is having on your spirit. The relaxation technique of visualization, sometimes called imagery, involves using our minds to picture better scenes or experiences. Visualization for relief from work stress can be thought of as intentional daydreaming for the purpose of tolerating an overwhelming situation or improving our feelings of well-being.
The practice of gratitude is incorporated into many social traditions and is a significant teaching in all major religions of the world. And, as we’ve learned from the past 2 decades of scientific research, gratitude has some amazing health benefits, including reducing stress. Gratitude helps us feel reconnected after a day of work stress tearing us down by acknowledging that there is indeed still good in the world.
