In 2023, I went from being stressed all the time to being stress-free for life.
It’s that time of the year when I look back and make a note of the things I achieved, mistakes I made, and lessons I learned.
As I am working through them, I realize there are several stories hidden in them that could help my readers.
For the next few days, I am going to share them here.
The first one that stands out is how I got rid of stress from my life forever.
I remember, back in November 2022, I was flat out trying to finish several projects before the end of the year that it was affecting me not only mentally, but physically.
My eyes were so tired and dried that I couldn’t keep them open. I hadn’t gone to the gym for most of the year and quit walking for months.
I thought if I could just finish this project and this project and this project… I will be fine.
But I wasn’t.
The more I did, the more work piled up.
And the irony was, I was retired and supposedly pursuing my hobbies.
Then one day, I came across an advertisement on Instagram. It was Vishen Lakhiani talking about the De Silva Meditation Method.
On an impulse, I bought the course.
In fact, I bought Mindvalley membership which had the De Silva Meditation course and hundreds of other courses by top coaches in the world.
For the next 28 days, I religiously meditated twice a day using De Silva’s techniques taught by Vishen Lakhiani.
I also started a journal to record my progress and insights. The image below shows what I wrote on the first day of starting the program.
By Day 9, I was much more relaxed. All the unnecessary fears and anxieties were gone. I was performing in a much-relaxed state. This is what I wrote in my journal:
“I have eliminated the word stress from my vocabulary and replaced it with relax. Relax is my default state from now on. There is no rush. Only calm. ‘Calm’ is positive, while ‘rush’ is negative. I am getting the same amount of work done, if not more, by being in a relaxed state of mind.”
By the end of the program, I was a new person.
What surprised me was that the transformation was permanent.
It’s almost a year, and not even once I felt rushed or stressed.
I think you can achieve the same, by whatever meditation practice you use. Just instill the message in you that you are replacing the word ‘stress’ with ‘relax’ in your dictionary. And you can get more work done by being in a relaxed state of mind.
