How to Thrive in a Stressful Life

How to transform life’s chaos into lasting peace

Each one of us faces a storm of chaos in our lives. Depression, anxiety, heartbreak, disappointment. Chaos is a death in the family, a loss of a job, a heated divorce. Chaos is being in debt, being born into a poor family, spending more money than you earn. Chaos is suffering from health problems, weight problems, eating problems. Chaos is not knowing what’s next, not knowing your purpose, not knowing why traumatic things happened to you.

How we respond to chaos is everything. People become successful when they can expertly respond to the chaos in their lives and organize it to suit their own purposes. Likewise, people become miserable when they can’t live with the chaos in their life and let it break them.

Chaos is the enemy of peace because, at its core, chaos sows uncertainty. When we experience chaos, we cannot find a resolution. We can’t suss out a meaning, so we suffer.

While chaos is a negative experience, it’s not a negative aspect of our lives. Chaos is a painful teacher of wisdom and test of our strength. Chaos is the heavy barbell in the gym of life. When chaos rolls up to our feet, we can learn the proper technique to lift it up and grow our strength.

There is a way to organize chaos and transform it into peace. It’s systematic but difficult. And it starts, with acceptance.

What’s the first step to reducing the chaos in your life? You accept that it’s there.

You’re not built to accept chaos. The human mind likes to craft stories around anything it can get its hands on. We all buy into a narrative fallacy that our lives are supposed to be a seamless story arc that gently glides in a single direction from a perfect childhood to a peaceful passing on. But if you’ve lived a day of life, you know that things are rarely smooth nor hardly ever goes in a straight direction.

While your head might know that life is chaotic, you have to feel this knowledge in your body. You have to live this knowledge in your life. If you’re reading this for an intellectual understanding of how chaos and peace play out in people’s lives, you’re going to lose the game of life…

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