Self-Created Stress

Do you ever notice that with the major events, or the life altering experiences, we show amazing courage and grace? We ask for help and reach out to our support systems, and most of the time we get that support and we persevere. But what makes our day-to-day lives less fulfilling than they can be, and eats away at us and the quality of our lives is making big things out of things that really are small and creating stress out of ordinary life events.
If we want to reduce our self-created stress, we need to focus our efforts on our minds and thoughts. We are used to thinking of stress as originating from outside of us, from external sources. In reality, it’s not the events or stimuli in life that cause us stress it’s our response to those stimuli and how we internalize them.