How to get rid of stress: A new perspective for healthy living.
Stress management techniques help you cope with stress. But are you struggling with how to get rid of stress?
You’re not alone.
We’re human, and stress reactions are a normal part of everyday life. The well-known “fight, flight, and freeze” responses occur automatically in response to perceived threats. They’re meant to protect us. But when these reactions get stuck and activate after the danger has passed, they harm our health and limit our potential.
Most people aren’t trying to eliminate stress. They’re prepared to accept it as part of doing important, meaningful work. What they want is to let go of the stress that keeps repeating, the issues that don’t go away. They want stress relief that lasts.
You don’t need to stay stuck in these stressful, reactive patterns.
By ‘stuck,’ I mean patterns like:
– losing your cool every time someone challenges you
– feeling a surge of panic every time you have a deadline
– freezing in conversations where you want to speak confidently
– avoiding situations because you feel unease without knowing why
– carrying tension in your body even when things seem fine
Stress becomes a problem when it shows up long after the original trigger is gone. It’s not the present moment causing the reaction—it’s the memory of a past experience.
This is why stress doesn’t go away just because you meditate, breathe deeply, or take a walk. These are excellent tools, but they don’t address the memories, beliefs, and fantasies that keep your system reacting. You can visualize “positive” imagery but without shifting the underlying “negative” memories, your body will continue to experience automatic stress responses.
Why we get stuck in stress
Most people don’t realize that stress isn’t simply an issue that resides in your body and mind. Stress reactions are energetic in nature, and new medical research shows that mental imagery plays a role. You can recognize this as images, sounds and other sensory perceptions in the space around you, in the form of memories, beliefs and fantasies.
Memories become part of your conditioning, for the most part allowing you to run on autopilot. That’s why you may still react intensely, even when you know better and even when you desperately want to respond differently.
You’re not broken. Your system is simply responding to outdated information.
So, how do you get rid of stress?
Here’s the part most approaches miss. To get rid of stress, you need to resolve the underlying stressors – that is, mental imagery in the form of memories that trigger your reactions. It’s not enough to just manage the symptoms.
This is where my work with The Healthy Living Plan® comes in.
Rather than focusing on coping, I use Logosynthesis® to guide you in spotting and shifting these memories – the stress triggers. Doing so creates space for calm, focus, clarity, confidence, and better decision-making.
A different approach: Logosynthesis®
Logosynthesis® offers a simple, guided process to identify the specific memories and beliefs that trigger your stress reactions. Once identified, a sequence of precise sentences helps release the frozen energy.
When that energy shifts, something powerful happens. You notice that your body relaxes, your thoughts feel calmer, and your reactions soften. You don’t have to force yourself to calm down, avoid the situation or continue to push so hard.
When the underlying trigger dissolves, stress naturally fades.
A personal example
Because this model offers a new approach to stress relief, I am often asked to explain how it works. I offer the video below to guide you to experience what can shift. Also, I share some of my personal story and professional experience in two books. For me, Logosynthesis® helped me first to recognize stress patterns and an intriguing way to shift these patterns.
I often share that I was raised in a large family on a busy farm. We worked hard and played hard, developing traits related to being strong, resilient and hard working. While these traits are very beneficial, it wasn’t easy for me to recognize stress reactions in my corporate work when others weren’t working fast enough or spending too much time talking about things rather than getting the work done. This led to impatience and frustration that I felt in my body. And knowing the importance of healthy lifestyle practices, I added pressure to my busy routines by needing to make healthy meals for my family, find time to head to the gym or go for a run and get enough sleep. And then, the hardest part was that I easily lost my cool with my family.
It wasn’t until I started using Logosynthesis® that I could start to shift some of these patterns. I committed to paying attention to the things that bothered me during my day and applying the Logosynthesis® Basic Procedure (as offered in the video below). Bit by bit, memories shifted, and I felt calmer. I realized I didn’t have to work on everything, but I felt empowered to get rid of stress rather than being constantly sabotaged by my reactions.
Stress is normal, but you don’t need to stay stuck.
You’re not meant to eliminate stress. Life brings challenges, deadlines, emotions, and responsibilities. Your system will respond.
But you can get rid of the chronic patterns – the stress that keeps repeating. You can stop reliving old patterns as if they’re happening right now.
Healthy living is not about perfection but learning to notice when you feel stressed and knowing how to shift these patterns.
Creating space for Calm Focus
Through The Healthy Living Plan® and Logosynthesis®, you can learn how to get rid of stress patterns in everyday life. You feel calmer in your daily life and respond with intention rather than react.
It starts with recognizing that stress is normal, and that staying stuck in it is optional. If you’d like guidance to apply this in your own life, feel free to get in touch and explore how to shift stress and unlock your potential.