5 Quick Tips to De-stress

1. De-Clutter

Start a process of eliminating anything in your home that does not bring you joy. De-cluttering is often touted as an important step in de-stressing, and in fact, it is a huge part of facilitating a greater sense of inner peace. Make a commitment to yourself that over the course of several months – give yourself time but also a deadline – you will get rid of all that “stuff” in your home that doesn’t add joy to your life. I have found that it is so easy to just rent a large bin or dumpster, have it delivered to your driveway or the front of your house, and just start tossing stuff in! You’ll be amazed at how fast it fills up and also how much of a difference there is in your sense of calmness and inner peace.

I highly recommend a book entitled,The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo.

2. Meditation

Who has time to meditate?! Meditation is one of those things that we know would be good to do, maybe we even recommend it to our patients, but it will always hold the lowest position on our list of priorities. Why is that? Well, we just don’t have the time, of course! That’s the funny thing about meditating. It takes time and that’s exactly what we don’t have enough of! You know what they say, “You should meditate for 30 minutes every day. Unless you don’t have time. Then you should do an hour.”

Let me share a little story of my own: Years ago I joined a gym and took advantage of the “free consultation” with a personal trainer. She asked me what my fitness goals were. I thought about how uncomfortable it was to do Cardio and so I said, “I’d like to be more cardiovascularly fit.”. She said, “OK, add 20 more minutes of cardio training to every workout.”. I was silently aghast! I didn’t say I wanted to DO more cardio! I just said I wanted to be betterat it! And so, I learned a very poignant lesson. The only way to become better or more comfortable at doing something is to do more of it! Yikes! There was no easy way out! (I subsequently became more cardiovascularly fit than I had ever been!) So if you would like to have more inner peace in your life, more quiet time, guess what? You have to bring more inner peace and quiet time into your life!

Start with just 5 or 10 minutes a day of meditation. Ok, 5. Find a time that works best for you. For me it’s first thing in the morning before I’m even really awake. For others, it’s at night before sleep. And for some, it’s both. You choose. Just set the timer on your phone and sit quietly with your eyes closed, focusing on your breath and relaxing your body with each breath. Bring your attention to your body inwardly. You may find that this is the best part of your day!

I invite you to join me for Max Meditation System TM classes.

3. Love yourself more

We take care of others, but how good are we at taking care of ourselves? How much do we really love ourselves? Pay attention to the inner dialogue within your mind as you go about your day. Do you talk nicely to yourself? Often, we speak quite harshly to ourselves and aren’t even aware of it! Take moments during the day to be aware of your inner dialogue and then redirect the way you speak to yourself in your mind. Re-train yourself to talk lovingly and supportive to yourself. Realize that the most important person to give and show your love to is yourself. From there, you will have so much more love to share with others! Physician, love thyself!

4. Bring Spirituality back into your life

What does this really mean? Are we talking about God? Or religion? Or a Higher Power? Don’t we often think of spirituality as something for mystics and philosophy buffs to ponder? I mean, it doesn’t really have a direct bearing on our day to day life, does it? Spirituality gets lumped into those areas of our life that we’d love to pay more attention to at some point – when we have more time. When is that?? No doubt, life is busy. But the truth about spirituality is that it’s part of who we are. It’s not about worshiping a God in the sky or giving our power away to any “religious figure”. Maybe it’s something we’ve allocated only to one day a week. And, of course, as physicians, we often work on that day, so we get a pass from spirituality, right?

I suggest starting to explore what spirituality means to you. There’s no right answer and in fact, the answers are infinite! Because we are infinite!

I highly recommend receiving a stress-reducing modality called a Life Activation, where you will receive a greater connection to your own spirit within.

5. “Know Thyself”

Physician, Know Thyself! Knowledge is power. And the best knowledge we can obtain is self knowledge. We can ask ourselves questions like, “Who am I?” and “Why am I here?”. And in seeking answers to these questions, I have found that opening myself to ancient wisdom teachings was the most accelerated way to do that. By far, the most reliable place to find exposure to these ancient wisdom teachings is within a true lineage mystery school. Well, where is that?! The reality is that The Modern Mystery Schoolis exactly that and has allowed these ancient teachings, held within the lineage of King Salomon, to be available to the public since 1997. And the most efficient way to receive them is by attending a program called Empower Thyself. Through this program, anyone in the world can find advanced placement along the path to knowing thyself. And from my perspective as a physician, the field of medicine, and therefore humanity at large, would be greatly served by having more physicians who are exploring this path.

So my dear fellow physicians, let us all learn how to truly heal ourselves, from the inside out. The more we can focus on our own healing, the more we can truly serve humanity. And isn’t that what we’ve been trying to do all along?

With love and blessings,

Carla Weis, MD