How to Deal with Stress

How to relieve stress? That's a question I've asked myself a thousand times it seems in my twenty-eight years, maybe not so much the first fourteen or so. I tried meditation, reading, taking a relaxing bath or shower and nothing worked for a long period of time. They were all sort of like drugs, my mind built up a tolerance and the stressful thoughts found a way to sneak their way in. I'd always kept a journal or diary to log my lifetime events, troubles or happy moments. The problem was that when I went back to read some things the feelings I had during the time I wrote about those stressful moments came back and I felt myself frustrated or depressed due to the memories. After a while I just stopped writing in a journal. It wasn't that I outgrew it, it was nice to have an unbiased confidant, however I just didn't like how that confidant remembered everything in detail.

So I came up with this idea, I'd write my thoughts down, my good ones, my happy memories, no problem there because I'd like to remember those some day and I would type my bad ones. All the thoughts, events, or words that made me stressed I would type them up and when I had vented out all my frustrations, sadness, or anger I would simply delete it and erase those moments from my life. I know sounds to simple but it did happen. After releasing all those feelings through my fingers and having a good cry here and there the delete option became the symbol of closing a book on that chapter of my life. I had in fact always been the author of my own biography so I figured it was my right to edit as I saw fit. Sometimes I would slowly highlight the entire entry then delete it or I would delete it letter by letter using the deletion button.

It doesn't matter how you do it, you can just delete it or before you delete it print it out and in a therapeutic way rip the printed copy to tiny pieces and burn it or flush it down the toilet, in anyways you want to just remember to delete it. As long as you delete it years from now you won't have to remember the storm of emotions and rip open any old wound when you read back in your own journal or diary. This method isn't for everyone, there are some who don't mind being reminded about the bad days but in my honest opinion I'd rather get everything off my chest and erased from my eyes so I can move on.