A lack of stress is sometimes interpreted to mean that you don’t care.
People may think there is something wrong with you unless you are worried and stressed. People may think you are cold and indifferent to the concerns of others when you are not worried and stressed-out.
You don’t have to be stressed to care. You only think you have to be stressed-out to care because of societal conditioning. You can care deeply about what happens to others while being calm and relaxed. You can feel sympathy for or be empathetic over another’s misfortune and you can be greatly concerned about someone’s safety without being worried and stressed-out. Worry and stress have nothing to do with caring. They have to do with negative thinking. In this context, to be sure, stress is overrated!
Show another that you care deeply without being stressed. What is your experience?
Bad days, like stress, are a result of your thinking. What is real is that you have a day. It is just a day and is neither good nor bad. It is your thinking that makes it good or bad. The same logic applies: If it was a fact that the day was truly bad, it would have to be a bad day for everyone on the planet. Everyone would be having a bad day at the same time and there would be no way to avoid it. Since not everyone is having a bad day at the same time, it must be follow that the day is not bad. So it must be something else that is making you have a bad day. Well, it is something else. It is your thinking that makes it bad.
A bad day starts with a single negative stress-producing thought and spirals downhill from there. This same concept applies to having a good day. A good day starts with a single positive thought and spirals upward from there. You have a choice. What kind of day would you rather think yourself into having?
