I recently had the experience of noticing first hand how conditioning yourself to have less stress really does work. It happened early one morning. My wife had just got out of bed and turned off the alarm clock. The clock had awakened me from my slumber and then I quickly drifted back off to sleep. Fifteen minutes later the dreaded..BEEP BEEP BEEP starts again, this time 10 times louder. Apparently she hit snooze instead of the off button and hit the increase volume button as well. Normally that would have irritated me and possibly caused a slight bit of rage. Instead, this time, I calmly reached over to her side of the bed, fumbled around at the radio until I hit the right button, and then went right back to sleep.
It wasn't until later in the day that I realized what had happened. All this time spent conditioning myself to be less stressful had paid off. My past reactions to life really had changed.
Now its your turn to create your own Alarm Clock Test. What is it in your environment that constantly causes a stressful reaction in you? Start practicing some of the techniques in this blog over the next few weeks. Notice how your reaction to that situation starts to change. You might be pleasantly or sleepily surprised!
Til next time.
Sending you the best,
Dr. John Zipp
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