This week’s QUOTE FOR STRESS
“It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” Sally Kempton
During war, enemy planes can be expected to fly overhead but no country in their right mind would give landing rights to an enemy plane. That would be plain stupid! But isn’t that what we do much of the time. When a person is battling with stress, battling with burnout, enemy thoughts are flying around shouting “you’re stupid, you’re worthless, you’re guilty, you’re unlovable”. And as each enemy thought attacks, we give it landing rights when we accept and believe these thoughts to represent the truth. These enemy thoughts then establish themselves in our minds. They set up ‘outposts in our heads’, waiting to attack, very efficiently, from behind the front-lines! Having been given landing rights, we no longer recognize them as the enemy.
The trick is to not to give these enemy thoughts landing rights in the first place. When these negative enemy thoughts enter your head, tell them what to do! Give them marching orders and never, ever believe that you are stupid or useless. It is just the stress that is causing your thinking to go a bit hay-wire!
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