Finding stillness, believing in yourself and taking conscious action are qualities worth cultivating—for both the great and the mundane challenges life throws at us.

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Try these simple, short ways to take small time outs from the overload of stress.

In a long, slow moving grocery line, exchange impatience with putting a little smile on your face and breathing deeply into your belly. Allow a feeling of peacefulness to spread throughout your body. 

You may be surprised.

Back away from that ringing phone and do not answer.

How does that choice feel? You can call back later, but for now you have given yourself moment of freedom.

Turn off the bad news generators

and look for something good in your life.

Lie down for a few minutes each day and enjoy the purposeful rest. This needn’t be long.

You can do it.

When you feel stressed, take a minute to look out the window at the blue sky or fierce winds or whatever your eye lands on. Enjoy the beauty you see, breathe and rest in that moment.

Notice what you feel afterward.

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Happiness is an inside job and you are in charge.

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