How to Beat Stress and Optimize Your Mental Health for Lasting Happiness
When will we ever learn? Why, with all we now know, do stress levels continue to skyrocket? Why do the majority ignore early warning signs and wait until there’s shit sprayed literally everywhere before taking action?
And why do the words of the Dalai Lama ring more true today than they did back whenever he supposedly said them? Those words? When asked what surprised him most about humanity, he answered:
“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
Are we now more confused than ever? I suspect. Addicted to cheap pleasures, screens and dopamine? Hard to argue. Fixated on quick fixes that don’t work? Perhaps. Or do the majority simply have no interest in putting in the time or effort required to alleviate their stress?
These are questions I’m not going to even try to answer. But because mental health is like chess — complex- I will offer up a framework I use to help clients — and now, hopefully, you — arrive at check, time and again. Why not checkmate…
